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Sunday, March 13, 2005 Deadwood: A Guide for Women I told you how "Million Dollar Baby" wasn't a boxing movie and that you shouldn't be scared off from seeing it. The Oscars bore that out. Now I've got another one for you. Don't be scared off HBO's Deadwood. This is a tremendous series, and the women in it are every bit as integral to the roiling life of the pre-civilized Dakota town as the gun-toting, fist-fighting, astonishingly foul-mouthed and wretched men. In the Old West women were treated terribly, not gallantly, thank you ma'am hat-doffing-like as in sanitized classic westerns. Deadwood is pretty much like it was, where the exploited women struggle to establish and protect themselves with what they've got...power of personality, power of sexual commerce and power of gold in the case of the widow made rich on a mining claim. You will be willing on the beautifully chiseled characters of whores Trixie and Joanie as they try to get out from under, the glacial but fragile widow Alma and the sentimental, boozing sharpshooter Calamity Jane who can curse as good as any man. At the center of the show is the ruthless gambling saloon owner Al Swearengen, who is a breathtaking mix of unbrideled badness, self-loathing and tyranny who somehow gets you on his side as the most honest person in the whole sorry town. He speaks truth like a Shakespearean king. You will love him as my teen daughter and I do. "Oh Al..." she says with sympathy after he's picked himself up from a bloody fistfight and cries out from bandaged broken ribs. I think he's supplanted Tony Soprano in her heart. Buck up gals and go see it. Tonight. 9 p.m. Eastern Time. Then tell me what you think. -RH 10:16:46 AM    comment [] © Copyright 2005 Robin Herman. The Girl in the Locker Room™ name and design are trademarks owned by Robin Herman. Last update: 5/31/2005; 11:25:29 AM. Powered by