buddly larsen
2007-11-13 06:33:26
Great essay and comments. Pretty easy to frame the fraudulence just by imagining an actual relationship between the real Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid and their myth-makers, Redford & Newman.
I know–hard to imagine a terrorist gang–even a 19th century model–even getting past the stars’ security people. But a telling mental exercise nonetheless.
Wot a laff–imagine Bonnie and Clyde blowing a few heads off with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway standing there in the bank lobby agape in the blood-spatter.





