{"id":626,"date":"2006-06-16T03:12:53","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T07:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2006\/06\/profane\/"},"modified":"2006-06-16T03:12:53","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T07:12:53","slug":"profane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2006\/06\/profane\/","title":{"rendered":"PROFANE"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSCARED YOU’LL GET A WOODY?
\n<\/B>

I mean really: you call
\nthis<\/A> a LEAD?!?–<\/p>\n

\nIt has been many years since Westerns were essentially black-and-white, cut-and-dried stories of good versus evil: morality tales with lots o horses and guns and one of everything else\u2014a sheriff, an outlaw, an embattled hero, a town drunk, a whore with a heart of gold, a honky-ton piano, and a schoolteacher from Illinois, who found out shortly after arriving in town that, for worse and for better, there was more to life tha book learnin\u2019…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since the past 12 months have seen Gary Giddins, Sasha Frere-Jones, Alex Ross, and former Voicer Vince Aletti<\/A> in the critics section, perhaps we should give them a pass on their TV critic…? I mean, we happen to know TOM CARSON<\/A> IS AVAILABLE, and has won something like three feature-of-the-year awards in a row. Isn’t this when an arts editor PICKS UP THE PHONE AND MAKES THE CALL?
\n


\nIn Franklin’s entire rave, she DOESN’T MENTION lead player Timothy Olyphant<\/A> as Seth Bullock, Swear-engine’s mirror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCARED YOU’LL GET A WOODY? I mean really: you call this a LEAD?!?– It has been many years since Westerns were essentially black-and-white, cut-and-dried stories of good versus evil: morality tales with lots o horses and guns and one of everything else\u2014a sheriff, an outlaw, an embattled hero, a town drunk, a whore with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}