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...Wanted: Dead or Alive. He moved to the big screen in The Magnificent Seven, which introduced a new generation of Western stars, including Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson and James Coburn. A good thing, since the previous generation of cowboys, from Wayne, Stewart and Cooper to Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea, were becoming so senior that, s Pauline Kael wrote, the only suspense in their Westerns was to see if they could still mount a horse...
...power is ceded to a central authority in exchange for protection. To consign people to death because of bureaucratic ineptitude is one issue, but speaking as a political scientist, I believe failure to provide security for one of the largest ports in the U.S. is simply unthinkable. Barbara P. McCrea Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S. I am sick and tired of people blaming the Federal Government in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. When did it become the President's responsibility to run the lives of free Americans? Aren't we responsible for ourselves? People were not forced to live in high-risk...
Kobal includes some exuberant memoirs. Producer Arthur Freed reconstructs the difficult casting of Show Boat: "I love Dinah [Shore], and she finally said: 'Why don't you give me the part?' And I said: 'Because you're not a whore . . . Ava is.'" Joel McCrea explains his laconic independence: "I owned 1,000 acres, which I paid very little for, and which I sold for $5 million...
Cake’s offhand cultural awareness and deadpan irony have once again become a theme on Cake’s new album, Pressure Chief, the fifth of their career. In concert at the Orpheum October 7th, McCrea debuted “No Phone,” the second track off the new disc, to an audience filled with adoration for his trademark mordant social rants. “No Phone,” along with various other tracks off the new album, denounce technology and urban culture with a blander-than-usual strain of Cake’s signature...
...orchestra and balcony levels filled with a variety of fans. They ranged from the predominantly college-aged crew to older fans, who might have caught onto the band’s work in the early 90s. There were punks and indie fans. There were very few as old as McCrea, but most seemed to know the words to songs released as early as 1994. While “Pressure Chief” marks a significant turn in the band’s evolution, old fans can still cling to their old work, while a newer audience discovers the band...