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Alan Ladd rides off into the vast Western sky in Shane. Henry Fonda, as Wyatt Earp, kicks up his feet in front of the saloon in My Darling Clementine. Marshal Dillon stares down Dodge City's main street, and the boys of the Ponderosa sit tall in the saddle together. Few images in popular entertainment have the primal resonance of those from the classic westerns. Or at least they used to. The western, a genre that once proliferated on the big screen and small, until quite recently seemed to be one step away from Boot Hill...
...stalling the nation's progress. But the story is, sorry to say, more complicated than that. Part of it has to do with the influx of nearly 9 million immigrants into this country in the past decade -- folks for whom sweat means something different from working out to Jane Fonda's mellifluous commands. Another factor is poverty: a jog in some neighborhoods is more dangerous to your health than staying behind a barricaded door. Earlier this year the government reported that the health gap between affluent, well-educated people and poor and poorly educated people had widened greatly over...
Last week Ted Turner and Jane Fonda bought 25,000 acres of ranchland in western Montana (adding to the 100,000-plus acres they already own). Meanwhile the Tom Berenger character in Sliver says he owns a ranch in Montana too. He, Ted and Jane aren't alone...
THERE'S PERHAPS NO POINT TO POINT OF NO RETURN. It's a remake of an unimprovably stylish, very entertaining thriller -- La Femme Nikita -- that was released just two years ago. But hey, that was in French. Why not let people who hate subtitles in on the fun? Bridget Fonda is a sort of Dirty Harriet, a reprieved murderer turned into an elegant assassin by a mysterious government agency. She and her handler (Gabriel Byrne) fall into unconsummated love. She sublimates with gunplay while growing wistful for normality. John Badham's film seems to have more firepower and slightly softer...
...stars of Cameron Crowe's movie are nubile twentysomethings Bridget Fonda and Matt Dillon. The substance revolves around the relationship between these central players. Dillon sings in a band and Fonda runs a cafe that serves as the pack's home base and a focal point for the film, a la the Bensonhurst coffee shop in "Jungle Fever." "Singles" is an intelligent film that delivers an apolitical portrayal of contemporary urbanities. It does little by way of metaphysical beef that we might digest, but it does resolve that handsome, white, comfortable, post-college Seattlites can cultivate healthy heterosexual friendships both...