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Harvard kicked off head coach Tim Murphy's first season in dramatic fashion Saturday afternoon at Columbia. After watching an 18-point lead dissolve in the solvent of a strong Lion running game, the Crimson mounted a heroic, 12-play fourth quarter drive to win the game...
Larry McMurtry's splendid horse opera Lonesome Dove was a marvel of nostalgic bosh, and that same rare gift for making heroic tales from small-town street sweepings is on view in his new novel. Pretty Boy Floyd (Simon & Schuster; 444 pages; $24), written with McMurtry's screenwriting partner, Diana Ossana, is a lesser story, loosely tethered to the life and death of the renowned badman Charles Arthur Floyd (1904-34). But like Lonesome Dove, it beguiles the reader with a golden haze of lovely lies...
...never good enough, the existential lucidity that came to him from surviving violence again and again -- and the drugs he used to banish that lucidity. If there is a paramount lesson to be drawn from Carter's meteoric rise and fall, it is that tragedy does not always have heroic dimensions. "I have always had it all at my feet," read the last words of his suicide note, "but being me just fit up anyway...
...Scott wanted a thriller, a true-life version of Alien, his 1979 sci-fi horror epic, that was strong on hardware and icky special effects, with maybe an ecological message. Redford, who signed on for $8 million and who had script approval, wanted an ecological message movie about a heroic virologist from the Centers for Disease Control -- his role. Foster ($6 million and script approval) wanted an ecological thriller about a heroic Army pathologist -- her role...
...greatest casualty is soprano Deborah Polaski, playing Brunnhilde, especially in Die Walkure. Tall, handsome, heroic in gesture and carriage, she should make an ideal goddess. But with her bulky breastplate and helmet and huge skirt, she looks like the typical porky Wagnerian. The Rhinemaidens are decked out in biker gear, the dwarf Alberich wears one bright green sneaker. A reference to the Green movement? Who knows...