Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That would put Anne Robinson at bow, Ginny Smith at two, Connie Cervilla at three, Kathy Sullivan at four, Jenny Getsinger at five, Lillian Hunt at six, Alison Hill at seven, with team captain Charlotte Crane stroking. Nancy Hadley will...
...book is dedicated to Hunt's wife Dorothy ("23 years, three months and one day"), who was killed in a plane crash last December while taking $10,000 in $100 bills to Chicago. Hunt also credits his wife with suggesting the book's ending. On the way to the airport for the fatal flight, he says, "she told me that the original ending was just too pat, that the good guys won too easily. She said. The evildoers of the world are not always punished, sometimes the son of a bitch gets away with it and the good...
...Hunt may be in Danbury prison awaiting final sentencing, but he has suddenly become a fairly hot literary property. Besides the new novel, he has a nonfiction account of the Bay of Pigs -in which he was involved-coming out in the fall, and his publishers are after him to write a book about Watergate as soon as he can. His current literary plans are unknown, but four months ago, not long before he went to prison, he expressed the desire to retire to Tossa, on Spain's Costa Brava, to "do a book about...
...same. Billy rides for Mexico, but then inexplicably turns around. It is never quite clear why Billy goes back. When he does, though, the movie wobbles and goes lame. Peckinpah and Wurlitzer are on much surer ground dealing with the dubious morality of Garrett's decision to hunt Billy. Garrett, unlike Peckinpah's other protagonists in High Country and The Wild Bunch, is no hero. As played-superbly -by Coburn, he is a dead-eyed cynic, a man who can slither neatly from one moral position to another. "It's just a way of staying alive...
There is a severe irony in all of this, because Pat Garrett was killed, some 20 years later, by the same Santa Fe cattle interests that hired him to hunt Billy. This irony frames the film-or at least it framed Peckinpah's original version, which has been altered, shortened and generally abused by MGM. Garrett's killing of the Kid was only a moment on the way to his own death. This dimension is almost entirely lost because MGM decided to remove the scene of Garrett's death, which originally began the film. There have been...