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Anomie on the range: Pete Dexter goes West
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DeadwoodBy Pete Dexter. Random House. $17.95.
The Old West is in. Lawrence Kasdan's recent film, "Silverado,"
pays stylish homage to the cowboy epics of John Ford and Howard
Hawks; the novelists Cormac McCarthy and Larry McMurtry have lately
transformed Indian wars and cattle drives into the stuff of serious
literature. And Deadwood, the colorful second novel by Pete Dexter,
a columnist for the Philadephi Daily News, proves that frontier life
is still a rich source of fiction.
It is ...
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Anomie on the range: Pete Dexter goes West
Chicago Sun-Times
; ... the stuff of serious literature. And Deadwood, the colorful second novel by Pete Dexter, a columnist for the Philadephi Daily News, proves that frontier life is still a rich source of fiction. It is 1876 in a Dakota town called Deadwood, thrown up overnight ...
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Hill's `Wild Bill': more dead than alive
The Boston Globe
; WILD BILL Directed by: Walter Hill Screenplay by: Hill, based on Thomas Babe's play "Fathers and Sons" and Pete Dexter's novel, "Deadwood" Starring: Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin, John Hurt, Diane Lane, David Arquette, Christina Applegate, Bruce Dern, James Gammon, Marjoe Gortner Playing at: Harvard
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Well, Shoot: Dreary `Wild Bill' Misses Its Mark
Chicago Sun-Times
; WILD BILL (STAR) (STAR) Wild Bill Hickok Jeff Bridges Calamity Jane Ellen Barkin Charley Prince John Hurt Susannah Diane Lane Jack McCall David Arquette Buffalo Bill Keith Carradine Written and directed by Walter Hill. Based on the play "Fathers and Sons" by Thomas Babe and the novel Deadwood by
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Forensic Posse Nails Wild Bill; Team Finds Bones Of Texas Outlaw
The Washington Post
; ... of dubious circumstances. But now the dust has settled. At a news conference at the Museum of Natural History yesterday, the Smithsonian ... rest. Well, almost. His remains made a cameo yesterday at the news conference. The Longleys were out in full force, eager to share ...
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Wild Bill Hickok
Antiques & Collecting Magazine
; ON THE AFTERNOON of August 2, 1876 in Deadwood Gulch, Dakota Territory, saddle tramp Jack McCall wanders into the No. 10 Saloon on Main Street. The taciturn gunslinger, his shooting iron well-oiled, saunters to the bar and orders a shot of whiskey. Leaning on the bar, among others, is Calamity
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BRIDGES SHINES IN WEAK 'WILD BILL'.(LIVING)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
; Byline: Craig Kopp Post movie writer ''Wild Bill'' is an art-house Western that fell off a cliff when it was released months ago. That's probably because few people really want to get near an introspective look at another famous gunslinger after watching Kevin Costner make ''Wyatt Earp'' look
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 "All Things Considered (NPR)")
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Novelist Pete Dexter Discusses his Life and Work
All Things Considered (NPR)
; ... really much of a reporter. I'll tell you about my history as an investigative reporter. I walked into the Philadelphia Daily News one day, before they made me a columnist, and a fella who I did not get along with - which is to say anybody in management there ...
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When fans really mattered; From Section 34, Wild Bill Hagy became Orioles icon.(SPORTS)(THE WAY IT WAS)
The Washington Times
; Byline: Dick Heller, THE WASHINGTON TIMES By the time Wild Bill Hagy died last week at 68, he was a baseball relic - an individual fan who really mattered to the ballclub he loved. He also was a reminder of the sport's good old days before stadiums were gimmicked up with ear-splitting rock music,
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Where Have You Gone, Wild Bill?; A City Turns Its Lonely Eyes to You. A Tale of Baseball, Beer & Blind Faith.
The Washington Post
; October in Baltimore stinks. The smell is sullen and faintly evil, like dried beer on bad linoleum. A long, long time ago it smelled better, when the World Series wasn't always someone else's party and a skinny boy with big ears and a bad haircut watched a fat man dance on the dugout in the
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Review of Pete Dexter's new book `The Paperboy.'
All Things Considered (NPR)
; 00-00-0000 ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: Pete Dexter is a newspaper man, a paperboy, as some of the low-life characters in his new novel of the same name refer to journalists. The Paperboy is his fifth novel. Alan Cheuse has this review. ALAN CHEUSE, Reporter: Dexter sets his book in South Florida, a
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