Word: ranches
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...Salazar, 53, grew up with seven siblings on a Colorado ranch that lacked electricity and a telephone...
...isn’t a very good one.The story of “Australia” is essentially a series of clichés. Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman), an upper-class Brit, gets wrapped up in a caper when she treks to her husband’s cattle ranch Down Under on the eve of World War II only to find him dead. Powerful cattle mogul King Carney (Bryan Brown) and his villainous lackey Fletcher (David Wenham) have consolidated a monopoly on the Australian beef industry just in time to win exclusive rights to feed Australian troops.Luckily for Lady...
...proud, aristocratic and essentially clueless woman (Nicole Kidman) inherits a failing cattle ranch in Australia's outback. She meets a roughneck drover (Hugh Jackman) with whom she falls into that mutual dislike which, in movies like Australia, is always True Love's necessary precursor. They begin sparking on the adventurous cattle drive that is required to save the old homestead from their rich and avaricious neighbors. She also inherits Nullah (Brandon Walters), an adorable child of mixed white and aboriginal blood, who needs her love but also needs the mystical wisdom of his grandfather (David Gulpilil), a sort of shaman...
...History suggests otherwise. Last week, Jackson defaulted on the $23.5 million he owes for Neverland, the ranch he bought in 1988 and named after the mythical realm of Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up. Jackson has said the ranch was intended to recreate the magical childhood experiences that stardom denied him. "It's like stepping into Oz," he once said. "Once you come in the gates, the outside world does not exist...
...really wanted to see what the Harvard polo team could do if we put our foot on the gas.” Jones has been one of the team’s strongest supporters and invited the team to his Texas ranch in early September. A polo player himself, Jones said he was impressed with the team’s overall performance. “The players have a variety of talent, but they are all highly motivated,” he said. “I can see that their thinking is improving, and I am very happy with...