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Seven Sioux reservation councils recently passed resolutions condemning the book. Pickets follow the author around the country with signs saying HILL HAS A TONTO COMPLEX and HILL SPEAK WITH FORKED TONGUE. When Sioux protesters showed up to confront Hill at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln last week, the author angrily canceled her appearance. Said Hill: "We've been shafted by people who don't know what they're talking about...
That is precisely where Hollywood is now, according to Scenarist Josh Greenfeld (Harry and Tonto): "The studio chiefs' idea of an idea is not an idea. Besides, a book shouldn't be a step in the development of a movie. You may get a good feature out of the deal, but you'll never end up with a good book...
DIED. Jay Silverheels, 62, the bass-voiced Mohawk Indian who played the masked man's sidekick Tonto after The Lone Ranger series moved from radio to TV in 1949; of complications from pneumonia; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Born on a reservation in Canada, Silverheels spurred his horse Scout through all 221 of the video episodes made before filming stopped in 1957, helping his Kemo Sabe (commonly translated as "faithful friend") bring law-and-order to the early West. Silverheels never lost his love for horses (he took up harness racing at 56) or for the show, in which...
...funny holdup and a brief subsequent Vegas gambling spree, Going in Style has only dull, homely sequences that alternately patronize and sentimentalize the aged. The mordant humor of Carl Reiner's Where's Poppa? and the fiery compassion of Paul Mazursky's Harry and Tonto are nowhere to be found...
Kush denies the charges. A self-styled tough guy, he was notorious for driving his players to the limit. His training camp in the Tonto National Forest was known as Kush's Koncentration Kamp. But Kush claims that he treated players "like my sons." Says he: "I have slapped kids on the headgear with my hand, and believe me, it hurts my hand a heck of a lot more than it will ever hurt the kids. I want them to look...