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...many of his generation, went West to help settle the land. Ten years later, as a federal lawman in Johnson County, he sides against his own class in the growing war between landed gentry and immigrant farmers. His story incorporates themes of love, class struggle and war. Says Kris Kristofferson, who plays Averill: "The movie ends where The Great Gatsby begins...
...also set up an academy of frontier skills. Hundreds of extras were made to practice skating for weeks. There were also courses in waltzing, horse and buggy handling, bullwhipping, and music for a band using instruments of the time. Kristofferson and Walken took handgun lessons from a former Green Beret weapons specialist. French Actress Isabelle Huppert (The Lacemaker) was installed in Wallace's real-life whorehouse for three days to learn the rituals over which she would preside in the film...
...Rocker Billy Joel the dreary duty calls expected of a visiting VIP in Cuba. Between sets by a star-studded U.S. rock, pop and jazz caravan visiting Havana for the first concert of its kind in 20 years, fellow Performers Kris Kristofferson and Wife Rita Coolidge duly toured socialist showplaces, including a pioneer school. Billy, by contrast, crammed a peaked cap over his swirl of black curls, clamped a cigar in his teeth and settled down on a beach to rap with enthralled young Cubans, who, from tuning in to Miami rock stations, already knew the words to such Joel...
...bringing together Austin's country audience with the rock devotees and college crowd on its fringes. While his post-Nashville LPs began building a national following, he consolidated his local reputation by promoting a series of July 4th outdoor concerts featuring friends like Leon Russell and Kris Kristofferson-and, not incidentally, himself. "When I was in the encyclopedia business," Willie explains, "I learned that whatever you want to sell, first you've got to sell yourself...
...Kris Kristofferson, a fine actor who has worked well with Peckinpah previously, plays the starring role of Rubber Duck, a laconic, independent trucker who leads a convoy of fellow drivers on an endless protest trek across the American Southwest. He is a typical Peckinpah hero, a macho embodiment of oldtime frontier values. Early on he hitches up with a Peckinpah heroine - a bitchy, citified photographer who is hungry for a Real Man. For some reason, Ali MacGraw has emerged from unofficial retirement to play this demeaning role. Peckinpah shows his gratitude by shooting her synthetic facial expressions in humiliating closeup...