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SF Chronicle: Forget the Alamo

San Antonio Express-News editorial:
Web Posted: 04/10/2004 12:00 AM CDT OK, you know how it ends, and the hoopla — around here, anyway — has lasted even longer than the Texas Revolution itself, but at last "The Alamo" has opened. Yet again, Santa Anna's minions are laying siege, Travis is mustering his ragtag men, Bowie is battling mortal illness and Crockett finds himself holed up in a battered church a long, long way from his Tennessee home. Director/co-writer John Lee Hancock's rendering of the old story — the 11th since the first such movie in 1911 — has received mixed reviews. (Our man Larry Ratliff, who bestowed three jalapeños, considers it the best one yet.) Frankly, Hancock's "Alamo" will be worth the multimillion-dollar effort if it manages to replace John Wayne's hackneyed 1960 epic in the public psyche. It's worth remembering, as the Duke didn't, that the heroes of the Alamo were ordinary men behaving admirably in extraordinary circumstances. That's what heroism is.

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