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“The western constantly changes depending on where we are as a society,” Fuqua explained. “What I wanted to do was bring it up to date and show people it’s an exciting genre. It represents who we are, what the promise of the United States is supposed to be.” The 1960 “Magnificent Seven” — itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 epic “Seven Samurai” — had featured white actors in even some of the non-Caucasian roles, with Eli Wallach playing the bandit leader Calvera and Horst Buchholz as a young Mexican gunslinger named Chico. In Fuqua’s remake, by contrast, four of...

As MGM prepares to start production on "RoboCop" and "Carrie" later this year, the studio is going back to the vault again to develop a remake of John Sturges' 1960 Western "The Magnificent Seven" with Tom Cruise attached to star.

I never finished watching the Magnificent Seven and had occasions to watch the ending, even during my high school years and just never had the time to finish it especially the last 30 minutes, so what better way to cover up the puke-a-thon from p-Resident Pinochio's BS OTU than watching a classic. It sucks that Charles bronson, James Coburn and Vaughn kicked the bucket in the end. Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen...when actors were men and now we are stuck with metrosexual pukes like Clooney and Damon who lecture us to be libtards like them. The golden years of Hollywood...

Something you won’t hear or read about as McQueen enters a chic status among the Beautiful Poseurs that would’ve revolted him, is that he was a true iconoclast: a born-again Christian and conservative Republican who backed the Vietnam War. Keep in mind this was during the 60s and 70s when his generation of Hollywood was as liberal and hyper-politicized as today’s generation, only talented.

Steve McQueen and Yul Brynner driving the hearse up the road towards the graveyard.

So I'm surfing around...without cable tv, the only decent, entertaining thing to watch is a rerun of The Drew Carey Show on channel 9. But still I change channels and come upon the all spanish channel (channel 67) on which the movie The Magnificent Seven is playing. I come in right where Yul Brynner hires Robert Vaughn. I've seen this movie dozens of times. (I own it on DVD). But I've seen it only in english. Kinda weird to see all those Mexican villagers speak spanish. Same with Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson. Okay, now we're up to the part...

It's easy to tell if a given whole number is divisible by 2. Just check whether the last digit is even. There are also simple rules to determine whether a number is divisible by 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10. The exception is 7. The known rules for testing for divisibility by 7 are amazingly cumbersome. Here's one such rule. To find out if a number is divisible by 7, double the last digit, then subtract it from the remaining digits of the number. If you get an answer divisible by 7, then the original number is divisible...