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...starters, by killing one another. In this and other surface ways, Deadwood is like many westerns. There's a bad guy, saloon owner Al Swearengen (Ian McShane), who lives large by relieving the locals of their gold nuggets and having his thugs plant a bowie knife in anyone who gets in his way. But he is threatened when--yes--strangers ride into town. Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) is a former marshal with plans to open a hardware store. He's less a good guy than a control freak. In his last act as marshal, he hangs a horse thief without...
...Hickok, to drink and gamble his way into oblivion. "Hickok was acutely aware of his time having passed," says Carradine. "He had outlived his usefulness." Throw in abused prostitute Trixie (Paula Malcomson); Alma Garret, a laudanum-addicted lady from back East (Molly Parker); and E.B. Farnum, a hotel owner and Swearengen's beaten-cur sycophant (William Sanderson, Newhart's Larry), and you have a typical--if dysfunctional--horse-opera cast...
DIED. JOHN WILLIAMS, 35, son of Boston Red Sox Hall of Famer Ted Williams; of leukemia; in Los Angeles. A former minor-league ballplayer and owner of sports-related businesses, he helped turn his father into a posthumous punch line when he had the elder Williams' body frozen at an Arizona cryonics laboratory...
...INDICATORS Lining Up The Soldiers Aircraftmaker Groupe Dassault will boost its stake in Socpresse, owner of periodicals such as Le Figaro, from 30% to 80%. The move strengthens ties between the French media and defense industry; Lagardère, owner of magazine powerhouse Hachette, has a 15% stake in defense concern EADS...
Along with the suspension, which has not yet taken effect, owner Cheng-San Chen will be required to participate in a training course to prevent alcohol sales to minors and will be ineligible to apply for a Sunday liquor license for a year...