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...unqualified disaster." Cimino has discovered that cameras move, so, unlike The Deer Hunter, his new movie isn't almost entirely composed of long and medium shots with the camera staring. There are some exhilirating, sweeping pans of the vast homestead and interesting tracking through the streets of Casper, Wyo. In two parallel scenes--a waltz in Harvard Yard (it's actually Oxford) at the beginning of the film and a party at the Heaven's Gate Skating Arena in Wyoming--Cimino's camera moves with a lovely, fluid grace, catching you up in the excitement of the event. Cimino captures...
Gerry Spence, 52, of Jackson, Wyo., is part cowboy, part actor and all lawyer. Says one of Spence's victims: "He's so good that he shouldn't be permitted in a courtroom." He has not lost a case before a jury in twelve years, even though he regularly takes on the polished lawyers who represent powerful corporations. The multimillion-dollar losers include the Kerr-McGee energy conglomerate, for allowing Employee Karen Silkwood to be contaminated with plutonium; Squibb, for marketing an inadequately tested pregnancy-detection drug (Gestest) that apparently caused birth defects; and, most recently, Penthouse...
...some of the small energy boomtowns of the West, crime rates are climbing wildly. Rifles hanging from the back windows of pickup trucks have become special targets for thieves. In Douglas, Wyo. (pop. 6,000), a four-year-old girl wandered from her house and was found stabbed and strangled. Said Douglas Police Chief Kyle Sowell: "People realize that murder is now something that just doesn't happen some place else. It was a crime against everyone. It's drawn the whole community together...
...James Gaius Watt, 42, scarcely looks like a stormy petrel. He is a balding, affable attorney with a reputation for being a workaholic dedicated to absorbing every relevant fact in a lawsuit-and then using the facts to devastating effect in the courtroom. Son of a lawyer in Lusk, Wyo., who represented ranchers and farmers, Watt married Leilani Bomgardner while still a student at the University of Wyoming (J.D. '62). He worked as a legislative aide to former Republican Senator Milward Simpson, then became a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior and later, commissioner of the Federal Power Commission...
...that would prevent the Jicarilla Apaches, who like other tribes are overseen by the Department of Interior, from levying taxes on natural gas piped out of their reservation in northern New Mexico. In another case, Watt's law firm in October persuaded a federal district court in Cheyenne, Wyo., to rule that the Departments of Interior and Agriculture could not refuse to consider applications for exploratory oil-and gas-drilling leases on federal land that is being considered for reclassification as wilderness...