MERLIN FOUGHT THE BATTLE OF ‘JERICHO’ and the distribution walls don’t come tumblin’ down

This year’s American Outlaws turned out to be as big a blunder as the James-Younger gang’s Northfield, Minnesota bank robbery. The film’s wretched reviews and quick box-office demise won’t help Texas Rangers— in the can but on perpetual hold— ever see a theater screen. On the other hand, TNT’s poorly reviewed Crossfire Trail drew a ton of viewers in January, which must mean audiences are interested in seeing horses, shoot-outs and Western vistas—or maybe just Tom Selleck in ch