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...Cowboy Redux. Winchesters are shaped, packaged and sold 20 to a pack exactly like cigarettes. They contain shredded tobacco and have tan paper-like wrappers made from tobacco. Tipped with cellulose-acetate filters like cigarettes, their light smoke can be comfortably inhaled, and they are sold in some cigarette-vending machines and displayed among the cigarettes at some retail stores. The Internal Revenue Service, which classifies all tobacco products for tax purposes, initially declared that Winchesters were not little cigars. The IRS reversed itself later when Reynolds made some changes in the product's tobacco...
Reynolds has been able to promote Winchesters in a brassy television ad campaign in test markets, including Boston, Dayton, New York City, Sacramento, Calif., and Sioux City, Iowa. The commercials feature a tall, lean cowboy who looks like a refugee from Marlboro country. He pops out of nowhere and steals another man's girl at the beach, on a lonely road or at a sidewalk café. Each time, the silent, saturnine cowboy offers the girl a Winchester; the two take a few puffs, exchange febrile glances and go off together as the announcer chants...
Cardinals: "We're not going to give another damn cent. And if they want to strike, let them strike." Gene Autry, the former cowboy film star who now owns the California Angels, said: "If I have to, I can still back that horse out of the barn and make it that...
WILL ROGERS held a special place in the hearts of Americans in the 1920's and 30's. He was a phenomenally popular American entertainer: humorist, cowboy, actor, lecturer of sorts, radio broadcaster, and syndicated columnist. Now James Whitmore brings Will back to life in a delightful performance of his jokes and stories, Will Rogers' U.S.A...
...called Intimate Lighting--seems able to get what he wants out of actors and settings, including a new side to George Segal--but he hasn't done enough yet to know what he should want. Where Milos (Taking Off) Forman maintains comedy almost consistently, and John Schlesinger in Midnight Cowboy--another New York film by a non-American--invests even his comedy with mournfulness. Passer switches erratically from the theatrical, wisecracking comedy when Segal performs so well to genuine gutwrenching--to say nothing of a few misguided "lyrical" beach scenes...