Word: cowboying
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Neither editor made it past the ninth grade. "I'm black and urban," says Rideau. "Billy's cowboy and conservative." Rideau has written articles for national publications and is under contract to write a book upon his release. His sidekick has won tentative acceptance to law school and hopes to be a legal investigator some day. For the time being they will remain jailhouse journalists; both recently lost bids for clemency. Says Rideau: "We are sitting on a mountain of stories...
...reporters famous for making their subjects look bad. Are they challenged by thinking they're clever enough to be an exception? "The stupidest thing" he did, Kissinger has said, was the 1972 interview he gave Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, attributing his popularity to his being "the cowboy who rides all alone into the town ... and does everything by himself." Fallaci, tough and intelligent, is the best interviewer around, if interviews are judged (as journalists usually judge them) not by whether the subject got across what he wanted to say, but by whether he had been goaded into more interesting...
...marriage, Paddington Bear, diaphragms, Ansel Adams, cone-heel shoes, Meryl Streep, cotton undies, gay waiters, wood-burning stoves, Bruce Springsteen and brown eye shadow. Out: living together, Billy Joel, disco, blue eye shadow, Elvis Costello, the Pill, basketball, Diane Keaton, stiletto heels, Irving Wallace, T shirts, crock pots, Snoopy, cowboy boots, Jane Pauley, nylon undies, open shirts and Mork...
...catchword "Electric," hinting that Fonda and Redford spar and spark together like Hepburn and Grant in the olden days. It's not that the poster meant to lie, they just wouldn't sell many tickets with a slogan like "Blown Fuse." Truth is, Redford makes a cute, loveable cowboy in this pleasant, if pretentious, film. And Fonda makes a cute...bitch...
...dell of the U.S.A. in the shadow of the 1980s echoes them? Doubt and the rage of impotence stalk the land. People worry about whether they can gas up to cross a state, let alone found one. With three trusty assistants -his horse, his saddle and his gun-the cowboy hero of Oklahoma!, Curly (Laurence Guittard), is his own man. Where is the man who would dare or would be permitted to carve out his personal destiny that way today? There is a winning comic figure in Oklahoma!, a lustful Persian peddler (Bruce Adler) who is the butt of much...