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Environmentalists complain that too many snowmobilers ride roughshod over park rules. Rangers concede they are hard-pressed, even with radar guns, to enforce the 45-m.p.h. speed limit or keep hot-doggers from tearing off roads and into the underbrush. "Snowmobiles bring out the youth in people," says district ranger Bob Seibert. "Many of these riders can't seem to resist running up and down the hillsides...
...tree falls in the forest and no one in the media pays attention, did the tree really make a sound? This, roughly put, is the dilemma posed by Walker, Texas Ranger, the square-jawed CBS detective show that stars Chuck Norris. You are unlikely to find much about Walker in the pages of ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY or any other bible of what is, and isn't, hot. And yet, as sure as there are 10-gallon hats filling the Lone Star State, there are Americans forfeiting a good time out on Saturday night to stay in and catch another not very...
Gilchrest's quixotic career includes heroic service in Vietnam--he received a Navy Commendation Medal--17 years teaching high school, and work as a forest ranger and barn builder. Noted for his fiscal conservatism, he has shown independence from the G.O.P. by backing the assault-weapons...
Sure. And writers too, of course, drawing what Hemingway used to call juice from all those ill-fitting depictions. One of the better new novelists, Indian or otherwise, is Sherman Alexie (Reservation Blues, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven). His latest, Indian Killer (Atlantic Monthly Press; 420 pages; $22), is a murderous urban legend not calculated to calm anyone's racial unease. Rage builds slowly in the heart of John Smith, a decent but troubled Native American who was taken--stolen, actually--from his 14-year-old Indian mother and adopted by well-meaning whites. Unreconciled...
George Clooney must look good in a mask too. The ER star's about to sign on to play the Green Hornet, grandnephew of the Lone Ranger, who also runs around fighting crime in disguise. Clooney will get $3 million for the role, according to Variety. Jason Scott Lee is in talks to play sidekick Kato (no relation...