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...dankest and most claustrophobic westerns ever made--a movie that deliberately shuts itself off from the clean, redeeming beauty of prairie, mountain and desert--takes the celebrity metaphor into new realms of darkness and hysteria. Written and directed by Walter Hill (48 HRS.), it presents Wild Bill Hickok (Jeff Bridges) as a moron with a fetish: if anyone touches his hat, he will shoot him. Not that he really requires an excuse to ventilate any and all comers. It is just that this is what the man does when he's not repairing to an opium den and losing himself...
Writer/director Walter Hill ("48 Hours") presents Wild Bill Hickok (Jeff Bridges) as a moron with a fetish: he'll shoot anyone who touches his hat. Not that he really requires an excuse to ventilate any and all comers. It is just that this is what the man does when he's not repairing to an opium den and losing himself in bad pipe dreams. Or drinking too much. Or resisting the advances of Calamity Jane (Ellen Barkin). "'Wild Bill' is one of the dankest and most claustrophobic westerns ever made," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "It's a movie that...
...with Marian Anderson to watch Ike integrate Little Rock, Arkansas; an eerie dream song in which a secretary to the Kennedys envisioned, on her way to the fateful motorcade in Dallas, the events about to unfold; and a wing-walking scene in which Eleanor Roosevelt's alleged lover, Lorena Hickok, bemoaned her paramour's flirtation with Amelia Earhart...
After Jack McCall shot Wild Bill Hickok in the back during an afternoon poker game in the Saloon Number 10 a century ago, gambling became a part of the rugged Wild West image prized by Deadwood, S. Dak. But in the 1960s the tiny town (pop. 1,900) nestled in the Black Hills outlawed gambling. And when the town's four brothels were shut down as public nuisances by a posse of federal, state and local law-enforcement personnel in 1980, Deadwood's tourist trade began to fade. "When we had open gambling here, when we had the cathouses...
James Butler ("Wild Bill") Hickok was holding aces and eights when Jack McCall shot him point-blank during a poker game in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. The fatal date was Aug. 2, 1876. Hickok did not have a chance to draw for either a full house or his life. The bullet went in the left side of his head and came out through his right cheek, leaving a crosslike exit mark. Pete Dexter's novel is packed with grisly details (the severed head of an outlaw, the emergency treatment of gunshot wounds and syphilis), although not all agree with history. McCall...