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Thor, 34, owns the land here, about 40 acres of it. He has long, sandy hair and a kind, weathered face. "We're not going to take part today, but we'll watch from up there." Thor points to a spot farther up the hill by two tall ponderosa pines. Behind these hills are the Sangre de Cristo mountains...
When John and Donna Pflueger moved from Flagstaff, Ariz., to a remote national forest homestead outside the city last fall, their rustic life amid the ponderosa pine soon took on shades of vintage Hitchcock. "I have lived in remote areas all my life," said John. "But I've never seen anything like this before...
...acre town in northern Michigan (price: $5.9 million). One 420-acre town in northern Michigan (price: $5.9 million). One 420-acre island in the west Caribbean ($2.9 million). The 600-acre Ponderosa ranch in Incline Village, Nev., where part of the 1960s television series Bonanza was filmed ($10 million). An oil refinery in Alberta, Canada, Bob Hope's 10,000 acres of California land and several Learjets. Those were just a few of the big-buck items available last week at the Sales Trade and Purchase International, a two-day event in Reno, described by Orga nizer Brian Lovig...
...film is wonderfully cast and played, right down to the bit player (Ralph Tabakin) who shops suspiciously for a TV set: "I saw Bananzo and it was not for me. The Ponderosa looked faked." Stern and Bacon have refreshingly un-movie faces-the one sweet-souled and long-nosed, the other feral, cheeky and forthrightly Irish-fronting outsize talents. But the prize in this gallery is Mickey Rourke, who made a strong impression in Body Heat and assumes command of Diner whenever he is onscreen. With a face as handsome as it is streetwise, and a smile that manages...
...hand, along with a few valley residents purchasing emergency food supplies at the lodge. Suddenly, in midafternoon, the ridge mass gave way. Propelling 100-m.p.h. winds before it, a wall of snow half a mile wide and 20 ft. high slammed down into the valley snapping off 100-ft ponderosa pines, shattering a utility building and virtually burying the three-story lodge. Then, silence and a deep gash in the mountainside. By nightfall, nearly 100 rescue workers, assisted by dogs, were searching for survivors. Said one rescuer: "It looked like a couple of freight trains had run through that building...