A good friend is reading Robert Parker’s Appaloosa right now, and he won’t put it down long enough for me to check out more than a couple of chapters. From the pages I’ve seen, it’s pretty terrific. The dialogue between the characters Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen portray reminds me a lot of Gus and Woodrow from Lonesome Dove, but with a darker air of Unforgiven doom hanging heavy and overcast in the sky. Best news of all: Rene Zellweger’s character might not be entirely as pure as the prim first poster seemed to suggest. I’ll see about getting an excerpt online later this afternoon. (Another pair of these nice Wanted Poster one-sheets after the cut.)