Jane Got a Gun 11.25pm Film4 Gritty girl power Western, with Natalie Portman playing a
rootin'-tootin' gunslinger.
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Jane Got A Gun Thursday, Film4, 10.40pm Gritty girl-power western with Natalie Portman as a
rootin'-tootin' gunslinger.
FILM CHOICE
The picture she clearly wants to paint of herself--a
rootin'-tootin' Texas gal who strides into her Syracuse seminars sporting a 10-gallon hat and a pet rattlesnake named Lyndon--seems very little less artificially constructed than the tough-guy persona of James Frey or, more recently, the crackhead-with-a-soul-of-gold version of himself Bill Clegg has sold in two successful memoirs" STEVE DONOGHUE
The Art of Memoir
The first wave of CHL holders failed to live up to the warnings of
rootin'-tootin' mayhem that was supposed to erupt when people were packing guns all over Texas.
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It may be a cliche, but she really does light up the stage, her joyful performance as the straight-talkin', gun-totin',
rootin'-tootin' Mid-Western backwoods ingenue simply a delight.
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Sun awareness will get a
rootin'-tootin' ' boost thanks to Virgin Holidays.
News
FITCHBURG -- Foot-stomping, uplifting,
rootin'-tootin' dancin' fun for the whole family is coming to the Fitchburg Public Library when singer and songwriter Alastair Moock comes to town on Feb.
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A guy who owns a couple of hotels is soon to open a
rootin'-tootin' place for the cowhands from Lindy's."
Oy, Gevalt! It's the Borscht Belt!
There's a Chinese man with a Fu Manchu beard (Jay Russell), a
rootin'-tootin' American cowboy (John Keating) and an Indian princess (Lauren Elise McCourt) whom Fogg saves from being burned on a funeral pyre.
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But this is not a
rootin'-tootin' adventure, it is a finely-crafted portrait of a complicated character with a sadistic streak and a growing sense of paranoia.
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A
rootin'-tootin' but ultimately doomed look at the Old West.
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Well, there are a lot of folks who believe that it's not the Fourth of July without some
rootin'-tootin' ropin' and ridin'.
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The 19th-century American West is usually remembered as a region of
rootin'-tootin' desperados brawling in a lawless land.
Mild, mild west
But Minnie and her trusty rifle saved the day: she and Ramerrez strode off into the sunset to the lyrical strains of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, ardently conducted by Oleg Caetani, to conclude a Fanciulla that was a
rootin'-tootin' good time.
La fanciulla del West: Andrea Gruber (Minnie), Richard Margison (Ramerrez, centre) and Greer Grimsley (Jack Rance) in the Seattle Opera production
Real-life
rootin'-tootin' skirt-chaser Jane may love Howard Keel in the movie, but Doris Day still gets to wear those sexy, fringy cowgirl duds.
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