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...rider-in-black asks the only man with any life left in him. The man, covered with blood, moans, "Kill me." "Who did it?" the rider insists. "Kill me." The rider hands his gun to his naked son who fires two bullets into the man's stomach...
...rider from nowhere becomes the avenger. This is the super spaghetti Western--the most surreal version of an already surreal type. Even the music sounds as if Sergio Leone had picked...
Almost everyone involved in the spectacular success of Easy Rider-Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson -has won the privilege of making his own film. The latest to do so is Henry Jaglom, a Hollywood unknown who was rumored to have worked miracles on the lengthy Rider footage, trimming it down and making it work. The release of Jaglom's own pretentious and confusing film, however, suggests that the rumors of his expertise were greatly exaggerated, or at least that it does not extend to directing...
...this flint-eyed, wild-talking pothead could do it, the smart money reasoned, why couldn't any flint-eyed, wild-talking pothead do it? The Easy Rider fashion caught on, lank hair and sideburns became Hollywood's uniform of the day, and a new era was proclaimed...
Bonfire and Buddha. The Morris prose style modulates effortlessly between a deadpan Mark Twainish narrative of bizarre situations-Tom Sawyer as Easy Rider-and a grave Hawthornesque moral allegory. In the end there is a great fire, and symbols shoot all over the big Nebraska sky. Hence the title of the book, which comes from the Buddha, courtesy of T.S. Eliot. The original Fire Sermon, preached 2,500 years ago, consigned all the physical nature of man-birth and passion and death-to flames. The one that forms the central panel of The Waste Land tries to burn away...