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West Coast automotive analyst Christopher Cedergren read the signs two years ago on Rodeo Drive, at the opening of a shrieks-with-chic Barneys boutique. His epiphany was outside the store, not inside. Instead of Bentley Turbos, Mercedes S-class sedans and the usual Porsches and Lamborghinis, so boring, there was a Lost Safari of Land Rovers, Ford Explorers, Grand Cherokees and GMC Suburbans, all tricked out with steel brush guards, roof racks, off-roading spare-wheel mounts, and black-leather car bras to ward off gravel and grasshoppers on the Paris-Dakar run. Cedergren flashed his perception...
...sweepstakes drawing, who must testify they are smokers over 21, will be flown to the train with their guests and receive $1,000 mad money. They will take side trips on horseback, white-water raft and hot-air balloon. They will see private shows by country singers and rodeo stars and savor a guilty pleasure few trains now offer: smoking catarrhs--sorry, smoking cars--galore. There will also be a few smoke-free areas...
...Bowman is not your run-of-the-mill broncobuster. But he is the winner of this year's All-Around Champion Cowboy title at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Site of the only all-inmate rodeo in the nation, Angola is home to what the event's organizers tout as a "gang of crazy convict cowboys." Among them: all-around runner-up Johnny Brooks, right, who owes his title to skillful bull riding and a botched grocery-store robbery; and Terry Hawkins, a former butcher-shop employee who killed his supervisor with a hammer and went...
Some audience members no doubt attend in hopes of seeing the rodeo animals dish out a little cruel-and-unusual punishment. "They think if a prisoner falls off a horse and gets stepped on, maybe that's what he deserves," says Bowman. The risk of injury at Angola is actually higher than at a non-inmate rodeo because many of the men have no experience with bulls and bucking broncos. "Some of these prisoners are from the big city and have never been on an animal before," notes Dan Klein Jr., one of the rodeo's producers. "The bad ones...
...indicate that the majority are rooting for the cons not to get trampled. Warden Burl Cain hopes his men, with their sometimes accomplished bull wrestling and barrel jumping, are leaving a lasting impression. "These inmates don't have horns and a fork and a tail," says Cain. "The rodeo shows that they can be rehabilitated--that they're real people...