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...influence in Europe and Asia, Django got no Stateside release that I know about. In fact, few spaghetti Westerns beyond the Leones were released here. Americans stuck with the Duke through True Grit and patronized the anti-Westerns of Sam Peckinpah (notably The Wild Bunch) and Robert Altman (McCabe & Mrs. Miller, another snowy oater). And then, bang, the genre was dead. The setting, the pace, the moral stakes all seemed so very 19th century. When the Western is periodically revived, it's not from popular demand but from the antique obsessions of powerful filmmakers...
...they're often as remote from our shores as the Italians. The stars of the new 3:10 to Yuma are the Australian Russell Crow and the Brit Christian Bale. The writer-director of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is the New Zealand-born Andrew Dominick. Today, as in the 60s, the Western holds more fascination for outsiders than for Americans. But if the genre is to rise from the dead one more time, the grandsons of the pioneers - the descendants of those millions of viewers who made the Western a unique contribution to popular...
...hell should we quit the war in Iraq now? We have at least as much to lose there, maybe more given the Islamic militants' goal of world dominance. If the media and Democratic Congress force a withdrawal from Iraq they are going to cost millions of Americans their lives. Robert M. Moon, Fort Worth, Texas...
...only child of Robert and Beverly Galanter, he says he grew up in idyllic circumstances in the Philadelphia suburb of Cherry Hill, N.J. He speaks proudly of the work his father and paternal grandparents did in the area. "My dad's mother was the first female optometrist in the U.S.," he says. "My dad worked for his mom as an optometrist. He's still working...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down