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   Re: Deadwood Returns Sunday Evening Marc   
   24 Aug 05 16:26:20   
   
   From: bocarsm@hotmail.com   
      
   I'm no prude, but the show is too vulgar! It's a shame, because I would   
   watch it. There's NO reason foot it to be so obscene! Don't tell me that   
   reality. It makes hip-hop sound like choir music!   
   "Bob Tiernan"  wrote in message   
   news:Pine.GSO.4.63.0508201138100.9645@shell1.pacifier.net...   
   > RaG wrote:   
   >   
   >> I just picked up the season one box set last night.   
   >> Well worth the money.   
   >   
   >   
   > I've been checking these out of the library.  The   
   > script writer, in his narration (which I listened   
   > to after first watching w/o it of course) stated   
   > that Calamity Jane was so obscene and vulgar that   
   > drunks would leave the scene when she came in.   
   > So, he then proceded to supply half the characters   
   > with the same vocabulary, thus causing her to   
   > not stand out at all.   
   >   
   > This was my only real complaint so far, that   
   > the writer, eager to show off his knowledge   
   > of four-letter words so people can say, "Gosh,   
   > what an adult, realistic, mature western",   
   > exaggerrated their presence.   
   >   
   > I would have never been able to imagine   
   > Carradine as Hickock, but he's great in the   
   > part.  He'd even make an excellent Custer.   
   >   
   > Bob T   
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