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“I’ll wait in this place where the sun never shines, Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves”Rose was a stout woman who carried her privilege with sporadic indifference. As she’d equate her look with that of the film star Jennifer Jones (circa Duel in the Sun and The Man in the Gray

“Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes!”At first I found his relentlessly anti-hip, retro-Mayberry appearance rather creepy. Here we were, squeezing our way out of the back end of the 1970s, the country ablaze in new trends of mediocrity from disco to Star Wars, and he sat there resembl

Click to enlargeI suppose it’s not on the top of anyone’s list of favorite Howard Hawks movies, but Red Line 7000 (1965) offers some of his more interesting female characters — and among the many things he excelled in, his women characters were usually way beyond the Hollywood norm. The picture’s ab

I ain't no cowboy I just look like one And I ain't no prisoner But I'm on the run from these chains And I'm just between trains I ain't no loner I just work alone There ain't no place Where there's a home I could claim And I'm still between trains Still between trains CHORUS I've got to let it roll