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...film begins with the end of the 1836 battle: a visual requiem for the dead Americans. Flash back, and then sketch in a trio of heroes: General Sam Houston (Dennis Quaid, his voice dropped an octave into martial mode); rebel warrior Jim Bowie (Jason Patric); and Davy Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton), bar-rasslin' legend, Indian fighter and, in this film, world-class country fiddler. Against them is the Mexican general Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (Emilio Echevarria), who snipes at what he sees as the Americans' ambition: "We want to rule Mexico. They want to rule the whole world...
...Crockett and James Bowie, almost 200 men from all different races and backgrounds fought bravely to the death for Texas’s independence against the Mexican army, led by General Santa Anna (Emilio Echevarria). While there were no survivors, their fight for Texas inspired General Sam Houston (Dennis Quaid) to lead 910 pioneers in the Battle of San Jacinto against Santa Anna’s army with the famous battle cry, “Remember the Alamo.” It took 18 minutes for them to defeat the Mexican army, and in exchange for his life, Santa Anna...
...start, and Pakistan vowed its territory would no longer serve as a terrorist base. For some, the portents have never been so good. "You could not have a better configuration of domestic politics in both countries," says Rifaat Hussain of the defense and strategic studies department at Islamabad's Quaid-I-Azam University. "Vajpayee is looking strong, and I've never seen such support for Musharraf...
...been considering rapprochement with India for some time, his decision to drop support for Kashmiri militancy was cemented by the Christmas Day attempt on his life?the second in two weeks?which was apparently made by graduates of Pakistani-sponsored militant training camps in Kashmir and Afghanistan. Quaid-I-Azam University's Hussain notes: "Musharraf was saying, 'Look, these guys are going to oppose me in any case, and I am forgoing all the benefits of normalized relations with India, so let's take them...
...Dennis Quaid remembers the Alamo. "I used to play the Battle of San Jacinto as a kid," says the Houston-born star, above center, with Spanish actor JORDI MOLLA, right. Quaid, with the aid of some happenin' muttonchops and the largest standing movie set in North America (50-plus acres), plays General Sam Houston in The Alamo, due out Christmas Day. Directed by fellow Texan John Lee Hancock, who teamed up with Quaid in 2002's The Rookie, this account of the Lone Star State's battle for independence from Mexico shares little with the 1960 John Wayne film...