Archive for May, 2011
They Went Thataway, Tom: On Tom Wolfe
In the 1985 Western film Silverado, in an unusual bit of casting, the British comic actor John Cleese played a small-town sheriff who takes a philosophical approach to his job. The townspeople value him, the sheriff tells the movie’s good guys, because he maintains peace and order, even if that means placing them above fairness [...]
