Sad news out of New Mexico this morning: Sonny Jim, a true legend of the Indian rodeo scene, was gunned down during a property dispute. A man of Modoc descent who’d long lived in Navajo country, Sonny Jim was the nation’s top Indian cowboy during the early 1970s, renowned for his long, luxuriant hippie hair […]
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Farewell, Sonny Jim
October 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags:Arizona·cowboys·crime·New Mexico·rodeo·Sonny Jim·sports
The Utter Failure of High Concept
May 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments
For today’s installment of Bad Movie Friday, we’d like to shred a flick that must’ve seemed so great when William Friedkin pitched it: Cruising, a murder mystery that’s several degrees clumsier than the worst Encyclyopedia Brown shortie. Now we can see why this got made. The milieu (the gay leather-bar scene) was ultra-edgy at the […]
Tags:Al Pacino·Bad Movie Friday·cowboys·Cruising·movies·New York City