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...cult members made news by dying, but they also used the pop culture that shaped them. They testified to their love of The X-Files and Star Wars; counted in their number a brother of Star Trek's Lieutenant Uhura (herself a flack for a psychic hotline); spoke of their imminent voyage in gentle, repetitive sentences, like Mister Rogers explaining electricity to his TV toddlers...
Wills thinks Wayne remains a psychic presence for us because he embodied the frontiersman's virtues, a free man ranging a free and open land, the rot of the cities, the ambiguities of an intricately developed society well lost. But the description is stale and does not suit Wayne the way it does quieter, more mysterious figures like Gary Cooper and Randolph Scott. For the Duke was only intermittently like them--in The Big Trail, his first starring role, or in the starkly iconographic Hondo, which Wills unaccountably fails to mention. Mostly his character was not a man escaping civilization...
...mordant cultural historian looks rather like a second heavy in a Wayne western--rubbing his jaw and spitting dust as the Duke?s shade strides off toward the horizon, as impervious to academic analysis as he was to a bad man?s six-shooter." Wills thinks Wayne remains a psychic presence for us because he embodied the frontiersman?s virtues, a free man ranging a free and open land, the rot of the cities, the ambiguities of an intricately developed society well lost. But the description is stale and does not suit Wayne the way it does quieter, more mysterious...
...citation, just as it may have hurt his early chances for serious roles ("And the Oscar goes to--Billy Bob who?"). But that has been his name since his youth, in Malvern, Arkansas, where Dad was a basketball coach and Mom was a fortune teller with, Thornton says, true psychic powers. The lad was unusual even then, says his boyhood friend Tom Epperson. "My nickname for him was Silly Slob...
DIED. JEANE DIXON, 79, celebrity astrologer, psychic and widely read syndicated columnist; in Washington. Dixon's star (she was a Capricorn) began to rise following her prediction (published in 1956) that a young Democratic President elected in 1960 would die in office. A number of her prophecies came true (the fall of the Berlin Wall), but to skeptics' delight, many did not (Soviets getting to the moon first...