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...kitchen magician. It is said that she cried even in her mother's womb and that the salt from her tears at birth filled a 40-lb. sack that spiced the family meals for years. She has so much love to give -- especially to Pedro (Marco Leonardi), a handsome rancher -- but upper-class convention would strangle it. Her tyrannical mother Elena (Regina Torne) decreed that as her youngest daughter, Tita must care for her and never marry...
Watching from one of the club's three bars, Mike Levi, a horse rancher from the nearby San Fernando Valley, spits chewing tobacco into a Styrofoam cup and shakes his head. "To me this is fun, but it's not good," he gripes. "Most of the people here are really what country people would call city slickers...
...Sheep rancher Nick Theos, all of his 72 years in the rugged rangeland of Colorado and Utah written on his face, was not as restrained. "If that fee goes up to $2 or $3 we are broke, out of business," he said with the sweep of a giant, scarred hand. By the weekend, Theos was back out in his sheep camps and Dickinson was in a wind chill near zero with his two sisters, brother and parents, all getting ready for the new calves that will begin arriving in a couple of weeks. "That's one of the problems...
...Babbitt wants grazing fees raised across 16 Western states, which would affect 29,000 ranchers whose cattle and sheep graze on about 280 million federal acres. The current fee, $1.86 per month to graze one cow and her calf, is well below market value. But any raise is tempered by concern for small ranchers. An estimated 45% of ranchers using federal lands have fewer than 100 cattle. Babbitt's idea: a two-tier fee structure that charges the small rancher less and offers a credit to those who improve the land. In May he will hold hearings on the issue...
Casey Siemaszko, who portrays the tyrannical rancher's son Curly, contrasts well with John Terry in the part of the generous foreman Slim; their antagonism symbolizes the power differences between the haves and have-nots. Sherilyn Fenn's performance as Curly's wife subtly alters the book's version of the character, allowing her more sympathy and greater development as the sole woman in the story. Here, Sinise modernizes the original, transforming the role of the wife Jezebel into a modern-day victim of circumstance...