A picture caption on Page 2 of the front section Thursday should have said the man posed with Bonnie Parker was W.D. Jones, not Clyde Barrow. The Virginia Chapter Buick Club of America's meeting is Jan. 17. The date was incorrect in the Car Calendar on Page 2 of Friday's Drive section.
DALLAS - They robbed banks and mom-and-pop stores, killed police officers - and captivated the nation, but Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, raised in the West Dallas slums, might have been their own biggest fans. Sure, Depression-era America was enamored with the love-struck outlaws, but Hollywood hype, intense media interest and the passage of time have ways of distorting reality.
[Paul Schneider] devotes a good portion of his book to [Clyde Barrow]'s early criminal career, leading up through his early relationship with [Bonnie Parker], a former drama student whose social ambitions had been dashed by family tragedy, and his first trip to prison with a 14-year sentence. Eventually the minutiae piles up in a tangle, and the book begins to feel padded for effect. Schneider strives to create suspense, as when Bonnie's letters to Clyde at Eastham Prison Farm dry up. Has his 19-year-old beau abandoned him? We know better than that; we've all seen the movie. They didn't rob many banks. Mostly it was small stores and gas stations, many not very different from the one Clyde's father ran. Sometimes their owners, not very different from Clyde's father, ended up dead. The pe...
Goulden family lore has my father walking into the bedroom the afternoon of May 23, 1934, to visit my mother, who hours earlier had delivered a son whose name is at the top of this review. Joe Goulden Sr. supposedly tossed the local paper onto the bed and joked, "Well, Lecta, I hope our boy doesn't replace ol' Clyde Barrow!" As the headline screamed, Barrow and his scruffy partner in crime, Bonnie Parker, had died that morning in a fusillade of bullets in a lawmen's ambush in rural Louisiana, several miles over the border from our home in Marshall, Texas.
GIBSLAND, La. - Clyde Barrow is losing his pants one inch at a time. One can buy a swatch of fabric from the blue trousers that the notorious outlaw wore when he and Bonnie Parker met their violent fate here 72 years ago last week.
That's what we're working on, so that when we sit down and talk to them, it won't be a guessing game," [Dennis Whittlesey] said. "It'll be dealing with real numbers, real situations in the development of any project. Tribe spokeswoman Amy Lambiaso said yesterday afternoon the tribe had not yet seen the counteroffer. "We can't comment on a document we can't see," Lambiaso said. "The tribe is continuing to talk to town officials." "That's a thousand-degree improvement over what they had been," [Clyde Barrow] said. "I think it would be a path-breaking agreement in terms of financial demands. It's certainly doable and certainly the casino operators can bear those costs."
GIBSLAND, La. -- When lawmen eager for revenge used a field near this tiny town to set the trap for Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, they wrote Gibsland into a macabre love story that's fascinated generations. Local officials expect visitors to quadruple the population of the town for a festival this weekend marking the 75th anniversary of the bank robbers' bullet-riddled demise. Interest in the couple remains strong here and elsewhere, with two books on them being released this year and actress Hillary Duff signed on for a new movie about their violent, ill-fated romance.
Robert Olen Butler sweeps into Memphis and Oxford this week to sign his new collection of stories, "Intercourse" (Chronicle Books, $23), a series of brief narratives about, well, as the title says, the sexual act, though the arena is not the physical space (and activity) involved but the fictional thoughts of the couples as they sport. Among these pairs (some the stuff of myth, legend and history) are Adam and Eve, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Robert Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, presidential couples that include Abe and Mary Todd Lincoln, Bill and Hillary Clinton and George W. and Laura Bush ("Mission Accomplished!"), Santa Claus and an elf, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker and so on. Butler, who won a Pulitzer in 1993 for his volume of stories, "A Good Scent from a Strange Mou...
The crime spree of Depression-era bandits Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow ended violently 75 years ago. Their story was romanticized in the 1967 film "Bonnie and Clyde." According to movie posters, "They were young ... they were in love ... and they kill people." These words can also describe the couples below who inspired their own true-crime films. Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate Immortalized in the 1973 film "Badlands," the pair terrorized the Midwest for eight days in 1958. By the time Starkweather, 19, and Fugate, 14, gave themselves up, 10 people were dead, including Fugate's mother, stepfather and baby sister. In 1959, Starkweather became the last person executed in Nebraska. His story provided inspiration for the 1982 Bruce Springsteen song "Nebraska.
Seventy years ago, outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were in Topeka stealing their last car as Ken Cowan and three friends played across the street. Cowan, 77, parked his 1936 Ford sedan at that site Wednesday and talked about the day he and his buddies failed to notice as Bonnie and Clyde took Jesse and Ruth Warren's 1934 Ford from their driveway at 2107 S.E. Gabler.
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