A decade before "Heeeeere's Johnny!" and two before "You can't handle the truth!" Jack Nicholson sat in a highway diner in Eugene (a Denny's that's still standing) and teed up his first iconic movie conniption. It was on account of some toast.This standout scene from Five Easy Pieces (1970) was confirmation of Nicholson's new stardom—squirrely, venomous and cutting edge. With neither matinee looks nor polish, he sneered his way through an argument over menu substitutions, eventually ordering a chicken salad sandwich, hold everything but the browned bread. The server can't abide his snarky...…A decade before "Heeeeere's Johnny!" and two before "You can't handle the truth!" Jack Nicholson sat in a highway diner in Eugene (a Denny's that's still standing) and teed up his first iconic movie conniption. It was on account of some toast.This standout scene from Five Easy Pieces (1970) was confirmation of Nicholson's new stardom—squirrely, venomous and cutting edge. With neither matinee looks nor polish, he sneered his way through an argument over menu substitutions, eventually ordering a chicken salad sandwich, hold everything but the browned bread. The server can't abide his snarky...WW…

Browse through any list of Oregon films, and the Western is an undeniable fixture. Before 1970, its presence here was borderline monopolistic, as Hollywood studios churned out dozens of gunfighter and pioneer pictures each year.The legacy of these films is complicated, of course, as they reflect the state's inextricable relationship with frontierism, and do so with regret, romance and revision. That said, when a genre intersects with everyone from John Wayne to Jim Jarmusch, the meaning of a Western can vary widely. Here are the five greatest Oregon Westerns, with a few criteria:•...…Browse through any list of Oregon films, and the Western is an undeniable fixture. Before 1970, its presence here was borderline monopolistic, as Hollywood studios churned out dozens of gunfighter and pioneer pictures each year.The legacy of these films is complicated, of course, as they reflect the state's inextricable relationship with frontierism, and do so with regret, romance and revision. That said, when a genre intersects with everyone from John Wayne to Jim Jarmusch, the meaning of a Western can vary widely. Here are the five greatest Oregon Westerns, with a few criteria:•...WW…