Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WAGON. This standard western has style and gusto, thanks to Old Pros John Wayne and Kirk Douglas and the taut direction of Burt Kennedy...
...buys photographic equipment with a passion ("This gear really turns me on"), has already sunk $40,000 into a self-produced, partially completed western in which he stars as a frontier preacher. Its title: God, Guns and Guts. Richards himself is no longer active as a minister, but he remains a religious man who believes that "you have to have faith to achieve." How does that square with his role as a breakfast-food pitchman? Describing his work as "just straight selling of good food," Richards says he has made it clear to General Mills that "I would never...
...nitroglycerin and a band of Kiowas, the villains are killed, the wagon pillaged-and the loot lost when runaway horses spill barrels of it over the landscape. At film's end, Wayne salvages sacks worth $100,000 -enough, presumably, to keep him going until his next western...
Derivative as it is, War Wagon moves with surprising force and pace, thanks to Burt Kennedy's taut direction and his cast of old pros. Wayne at 60, and Douglas at 50, can still invest any screenplay with style and gusto. This time they flesh out a standard western with too much gristle and cartilage-but, happily, without an ounce...
...strangest shapes may some day emerge from the confrontation between Buddhism and science; the Vietnamese Buddhists hope eventually to create a Buddhist university whose curriculum would include engineering, mathematics and medicine, but today that prospect seems close to fantasy. At present, Buddhism is less concerned with adopting Western ways than with providing a kind of "cultural defense" against them. Part of that defense rests on an identification with the forces of Asian nationalism...