Billy the Kid

Example Sentences

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"These people took the money just as though they were John Dillinger or Billy the Kid," he said.

From BBC

This year also begat “Billy the Kid” from “Vikings” creator Michael Hirst, which failed to hold its storytelling reins as securely as these other titles.

From Salon

A recent recording of Antonín Dvořák’s “New World” symphony and Aaron Copeland’s “Billy the Kid” is as fine a treatment of these works as any I’ve heard.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Texan also starred in the films Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid, Heaven's Gate and - drawing on his musical background - the 1977 remake of A Star Is Born, alongside Barbra Streisand.

From BBC

One artist, many stars: Cate Blanchett plays Jude Quinn, as the fame-averse rocker in sunglasses and polka-dot shirt; Christian Bale portrays civil rights activist-singer Jack Rollins and Pastor John, representing Dylan’s gospel music phase; Ben Whishaw channels Dylan’s surrealistic tendencies as poet Arthur Rimbaud; Richard Gere, bearded and reclusive, portrays Billy the Kid, a nod to Dylan’s cameo in 1973 western “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid”; Heath Ledger is actor Robbie Clark; and Marcus Carl Franklin plays young Black hobo Woody Guthrie, named after Dylan’s folk music hero.

From Los Angeles Times