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...really -- because A Perfect World isn't a western Psycho, it's a warped Shane. In that 1953 film, mysterious gunslinger Alan Ladd agrees to protect a homesteader's family against varmints and becomes a reluctant role model for the tenderfoot's young son. Here, Haynes is the bad guy, but he's mainly Shane. When Terry puts the make on Phillip, Butch avenges the assault. He gives Phillip lessons in backwoods manhood: how to smoke, cuss, dance, romance a waitress, drive a car, steal a car, rob a store and, of course, point a loaded gun at people...
...Alan Ladd rides off into the vast Western sky in Shane. Henry Fonda, as Wyatt Earp, kicks up his feet in front of the saloon in My Darling Clementine. Marshal Dillon stares down Dodge City's main street, and the boys of the Ponderosa sit tall in the saddle together. Few images in popular entertainment have the primal resonance of those from the classic westerns. Or at least they used to. The western, a genre that once proliferated on the big screen and small, until quite recently seemed to be one step away from Boot Hill...
Among those whom Ovitz's arrangement with Credit Lyonnais took by surprise was Alan Ladd Jr., the chairman of the bank's MGM studio. "By the time the bank told me about the deal," Ladd says, "it was a fait accompli." He seems tentative about the whole thing. "I don't think MGM is for sale at this time." However, CAA sources confirm that Ovitz is indeed out to find a buyer...
...words of Holly D. Ladd, director of the Boston AIDS Consortium, Congress was "led by fear over rationality" in its recent vote. Health professionals and researchers agree that arguments for the ban, including claims of increased health care costs for HIV-infected immigrants, are particularly specious in a country which already contains within its borders the highest number of HIV-positive individuals in the world...
...Ladd said that as the country with the most HIV-infected individuals in the world, the United States should be more concerned with stopping emigration of those carrying the HIV virus than with limiting immigration...