It is a rare day indeed when an author admits, “They were very faithful to my book.” Ron Hansen is one of those happy writers. Hansen tells us five things Hollywood got right when it adapted his 1983 book, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: • Everything in the house on the hill in St. Joseph, Missouri, is exact, right down to the floor plan. A slight ding for the master shot that shows the town of St. Joe in the distance, when the actual city was around the hill
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