"A History of Violence" star, Viggo Mortensen new Movie, "Eastern Promises" is doing well in early release. I will post a review as soon as "Dirty Harry" puts one up. Viggo is now on my "must see" list of Actors. If you haven't seen "Violence," get the DVD. Terrific movie.
Viggo is in pre-production on "Appaloosa," from a 2005 Western Novel by Robert Parker that I read last month and really enjoyed. Here is the Amazon review:
It's been years since Parker has won a major literary award for a novel (he did collect a Grand Master trophy from MWA in 2002), but that may change with this stunning western, a serious contender for a Spur. This is only Parker's second western, after the Wyatt Earp story Gunman's Rhapsody (or third if you count the Spenser PI quasi-western Potshot), but he takes command of the genre, telling an indelible story of two Old West lawmen. The chief one is Virgil Cole, new marshal of the mining/ranching town of Appaloosa (probably in Colorado); his deputy is Everett Hitch, and it's Hitch who tells the tale, playing Watson to Cole's Holmes. The novel's outline is classic western: Cole and Hitch take on the corrupt rancher, Randall Bragg, who ordered the killing of the previous marshal and his deputy.
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