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...Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Bob Ford (Casey Affleck) is a soulful young punk who wants to join up with Jesse (Brad Pitt) and his outlaw gang, whose exploits have made them notorious throughout the burgeoning West of the 1870s. Bob has read all the dime novels about Jesse and wants to rob his way into infamy. But the gang is breaking down from envy and exhaustion--and from the natural rancor of ornery, armed men. Bob is too late for the party; he's just in time for the funeral...
Perhaps this is in part because when Americans try their hand at the genre, they hit obstacles the old western directors never had to consider. "John Ford could just run amuck," says Mangold, "carving out trails between sacred burial grounds and monuments. Now the environment is so protected in these national parks that we had 350 rangers watching every move if we step on one indigenous plant." Hollywood has also lost its teeming cavalry of saddle-up stars and stuntmen. Peter Fonda, who directed the fine western The Hired Hand in the 1970s and appears in the new Yuma, recalls...
...Robert Altman's 1971 McCabe & Mrs. Miller, is elegiac in tone, for both the soon-to-be-late Jesse James and the genre he occupies. The silky cloud of steam from a train the boys are to rob instantly locates the movie in the mists of legend. Like Ford's 1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Dominik's movie says, "Print the legend," but adds, see that the legend...
Could this deal save the U.S. auto industry? It would certainly help. Once GM sets up a VEBA, Ford will probably follow. Chrysler, which became a privately held company in August and has far fewer retirees, has so far balked. "It's not our issue," says a Chrysler official. The companies can use the freed-up cash to spend on developing and selling better cars to take on Toyota, which this year surpassed GM in sales. But that's in the long run. In the short run, funding the trust could put carmakers in a tighter cash squeeze unless they...
Dorm Crew’s head captains, Rosa E. Beltran ’08 and Jordan C. Ford ’08, did not immediately return telephone messages yesterday requesting comment. But Paul T. Mumma ’09, a Dorm Crew captain, said the organization “doesn’t have anything to do” with students losing items in storage. “It’s entirely the responsibility of the House superintendents,” said Mumma, who is also a member of the Crimson editorial board...