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Agnes de Mille, choreographer and dancer ("Oklahoma!", "Rodeo") will speak on, "The History of Dance in America," Thursday at 8 p.m. in Science Center B. Admission free...
Beecher writes work songs about mill hands who get a "shoeful of steel" when a ladle burns through, and ballads about a "Frankie and Johnny" rodeo team who almost (but not quite) kill each other. He composes a jazzy lyric for "Kid Punch" Miller, who played trumpet with Jelly Roll Morton, and a kind of epitaph for a Pueblo Indian grave robber beset by legal problems and liquor...
...spot to beat you up." For the past six weeks, Tsosie's coalition has sponsored Saturday parades in Farmington to protest the murders and press for more services for Indians. The demonstrations were peaceful until the most recent one, when the Indians collided with the annual sheriffs posse rodeo parade. The drill team was dressed in old cavalry costumes, like the ones worn by the Indians' original oppressors. The resulting fracas left one policeman injured and 31 Indians under arrest. "These people are just trying to stir up trouble," says Councilman Jimmy Drake. "These parades could be caused...
...meaninglessness of Gay's life had he lived in a cowboy heyday and been able to profitably hunt and trap, or shoot Indians and harass settlers, or drive cattle instead? We'll never know. Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable star: Montgomery Clift steals the show as a jelly-brained rodeo rider. The mustang scenes are good action...
What is remarkable about Dirty Little Billy is the fervor with which its director has seized upon each thumping bromide of the anti-western and put them all on review, like a rodeo parade. Dragoti, formerly a director of television commercials, ought to have developed some expertise in manipulating an audience-but Dirty Little Billy, his first movie, is a shambling, enervating exercise...