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Texas Theatre, Where Oswald Was Caught, Re-Opens
Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy », Fandom », Exhibition »
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When I first stepped foot onto Dealey Plaza in Dallas years ago, I had an instant feeling of deja vu, similar to what most of us feel when we visit a place in person that we've previously seen only in photographs, on film or on television. It was a beautiful, sunny day; I walked around the plaza for a long, long time, picturing in my mind the motorcade that carried President John F. Kennedy on his fateful trip, checking out all the angles, tromping around the grassy knoll, staring up at the former Texas School Book Depository. That building has been converted into The Sixth Floor Museum, where you can gaze down through the window where Lee Harvey Oswald reportedly fired his assassin's rifle at 12:30 p.m. on November 22, 1963.
The Warren Commission concluded that Oswald escaped from the building, rode a city bus for two blocks, traveled several miles by taxi, stopped by the rooming house where he was staying, and then shot and killed a police officer about half a mile away. He slipped into the nearby Texas Theatre without paying, and briefly watched War is Hell (second billed to Van Heflin in Cry of Battle). He was apprehended by a flock of police officers at approximately 1:45 p.m.
I'd never thought of the Texas Theatre except as an anonymous footnote to a tragedy. I ended up attending the re-opening of the building last week as a result of my assignment to review Robert Stone's documentary Oswald's Ghost, which opens in New York on Friday, November 30, and discovered quite accidentally that the Texas Theatre has a fascinating history of its own.
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Mangold to remake 3:10 to Yuma, damn him.
Filed under: Drama », Thrillers », Newsstand », Remakes and Sequels »
3:10
to Yuma is a fantastically tight little western about honor and duty, starring Van Heflin and a frighteningly charismatic Glenn Ford. It's a perfect example of the the great things that can be
done in film when you've got about $6, 90 minutes, a solid story (written by Elmore Leonard), and a pair of great actors. But, because Hollywood a)
is out of ideas, and b) can't leave well enough alone, James Mangold
has decided to follow up Walk the Line
by remaking a movie that's been pretty much perfect for almost 50 years. Oh, and he's going to kick it up a notch,
don't you worry. Apparently, you see, "There are a lot of good-bad themes that were only touched on in the
original...This is a total struggle culminating in a showdown, which has the potential to be one of the great movie
gunfights." So, let me get this straight: a movie that's all about acting, honor, and subtly is going to be turned
into a huge shootout? Fan-freaking-tastic.Mangold and his wife Cathy Konrad will also produce the film, which is expected to begin shooting this summer.
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