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...Before his retirement in 1958, Lewis returned to making westerns. His last film, "Terror in a Texas Town," is a truly odd affair that, like "Gun Crazy" unfolds with dream-logic. The unforgettable opening, for instance, finds Sterling Hayden striding valiantly toward a classically styled showdown - toting a harpoon on his shoulder. An unseen gunfighter mocks him for his choice of weapon, and the movie proceeds, in one long flashback, to explain how Hayden got into this strange predicament. "Terror" is not Lewis's finest western, but it does stand as a fitting conclusion to his body of work...
Harvard football has been around longer than the Internet, television and even radio. After hundreds of games and thousands of plays, it seems odd that any current Crimson player could perform a feat which had not already been done many times over...
...snowy aftermath of odd Halloween weather, Dartmouth (10-4, 4-1 Ivy) gave Harvard (7-6-1, 1-4) more trick than treat by defeating the Crimson 3-0 on the frozen tundra of Chase Field...
There's still a slim chance that Carnahan may win a posthumous victory. Under Missouri law, Carnahan's name will remain on the ballot despite his death. If he were somehow to defeat Ashcroft--the race had been very close--a series of odd but formidable events would unfold. On Jan. 3, Ashcroft's Senate term would expire. Missouri law would require the seat to be declared "vacant," since the victor in the election would be dead. The state's interim Governor, Roger Wilson, who took office last week upon Carnahan's death, would appoint an interim Senator, who would...
...Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m. ET, starting Nov. 1) - starring "Roseanne"'s John Goodman - which echoes that show's discordant small-town setting, if not nearly as well. Creators Bonnie and Terry Turner ("That '70s Show") conceived it as a buddy comedy between a gay and a straight man ("The Odd Couple" without the subtext) but retooled it; now the gay Butch (Goodman) returns to his small town to reconcile with his unaccepting parents and his grown son. Terry Turner says the creators wanted to base the show on a universal - "Family is one of those things everyone knows" - rather than...