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...Sundance Film Festival, which ended Sunday, is the story of Howard Spence, a washed up bad-boy star of Westerns, who makes a last ditch effort to reconnect with the people who genuinely love him. The film, which was shot in small towns in Utah, Nevada and Montana and will be released by Sony Pictures Classics on March 17, reunites German director Wim Wenders and American playwright/actor Sam Shepard, two icons of the independent art world who first teamed up for the acclaimed Paris, Texas (1984). They spoke to TIME about their creative process...
...German in my heart, and a hopeless romantic therefore, I think that maybe enables me to look at some places in America in a way that maybe Americans don?t get to do anymore. I don?t know why a single American director never made a movie in Butte, Montana because that town...
...says Larry Gross, director of the U.S.C. Annenberg School for Communication, "and that Jake has been dating Kirsten Dunst." But then, every macho Hollywood star is straight--or must pretend to be. "The film says it's terrible that you couldn't be openly gay as a sheepherder in Montana in the '60s, but you can't be openly gay as a successful young actor in Hollywood in 2006," says Gross. "When an A-list romantic action lead comes out, that will be a Jackie Robinson moment...
...fact that the scandal is breaking at the beginning of midterm-election season promises that it will be amplified in political ads and coverage around the country. Even though he gave away the contributions he took from Abramoff and his clients, Montana Senator Burns, who heads the subcommittee that controls Interior's budget and is up for re-election, will continue to face questions about every move he made that helped the lobbyist. "I hope he goes to jail and we never see him again," Burns said in yet another interview on the subject with a Montana television station...
...Nations Stabilization Mission (MINUSTAH) took another blow Saturday with the death of its Brazilian commander, 58-year-old Lieutenant General Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar. The shooting - an unconfirmed suicide according to Haitian news radio reports - occurred early Saturday on the patio of his apartment in the luxurious mountainside Montana Hotel, where many connected with the UN mission have taken up part-time residence...