Already TNT is promoting its summer miniseries Into the West as a historically accurate saga that will tell both sides of the American frontier. Of course, it’s easy to be cynical in this day and age, and I can’t help but remember talking to a movie producer back in 1982 during the running of NASCAR’s Southern 500. There have been so many bad films about NASCAR, the producer told me while shooting footage for the movie he was backing, but his flick was going to go deeper, tell the tru


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