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...graduated from Harvard. But it’s pretentious to drop the H-bomb with everyone you meet by slamming a fat “Veritas” ring down on the table. Modesty is a virtue, and it’s not modest to wear 18 carats of gold that scream: “I went to Harvard.” Most people will ask you where you went to college pretty quickly. If they don’t care, you don’t need to tell them...
Sorry, pardner. In the opening minutes of the series, about a true-life gold rush town, a prospector says he's "f___ed up [his] life flatter 'n hammered s___," while the legendary Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert) calls her associates "ignorant f___in' c__ts." Land o' Goshen! Has nobody in this burg heard of "consarnit" or "tarnation...
...write a western but to explore a society just starting to form its laws. He first pitched to HBO a series about cops in Rome during Nero's reign. After that project fizzled, he started reading about Deadwood, a town that sprang up when reports of a gold strike were hyped to justify expansion into Indian territory. "It was like time-lapse photography," he says. "Two months before [Deadwood begins], there was nothing. Two years later, they had telephones, before San Francisco did." The settlement had no laws, purposely. "It was a primordial soup," Milch says. "How do people organize...
...starters, by killing one another. In this and other surface ways, Deadwood is like many westerns. There's a bad guy, saloon owner Al Swearengen (Ian McShane), who lives large by relieving the locals of their gold nuggets and having his thugs plant a bowie knife in anyone who gets in his way. But he is threatened when--yes--strangers ride into town. Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) is a former marshal with plans to open a hardware store. He's less a good guy than a control freak. In his last act as marshal, he hangs a horse thief without...
...Gallery in London, and commissions Filippino painted for Savonarola's most powerful follower, Francesco Valori. "Botticelli was personally influenced by Savonarola. There is a change in his style that would reflect his religious convictions," Nelson notes. "His work becomes more austere. The figures lose their pearls and gems and gold-trimmed hems." There is no evidence that Filippino was ever a follower of the hellfire reformer, even though he was a member of one of the strictest flagellant confraternities in Florence for years before he married. "Filippino worked for both followers and enemies of Savonarola," says the curator. Filippino...