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Robbing banks? Looking for a house? Were they trying to move to Seattle.

Posted by StrangerDanger | May 8, 2007 6:50 AM
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I'm not sure what they were trying to do. They did give us a great collaboration between Galaxie 500 and Stereolab.

Posted by Garrett | May 8, 2007 7:30 AM
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Bonnie was expecting? Does that mean that a fetus died when the FBI machinegunned Bonny and Clyde to death?

Posted by RainMonkey | May 8, 2007 8:53 AM
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@3,

Bonnie's family says she was not pregnant. They maintain she wasn't able to get pregnant.

The rumor about her pregnancy was never confirmed.

p.s. FBI didn't get them. It was a six-man posse: 2 Texas state lawmen, 2 Dallas police officers, and 2 county sheriffs from Louisiana.

Posted by Josh Feit | May 8, 2007 9:11 AM
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Clyde was gay anyway.

Posted by elswinger | May 8, 2007 9:43 AM
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#5 well I could agree with that because back in the 30s I'm sure he was very gay with Bonnie. That word meant happy and pleased with oneself back then, and not a reference to homosexuality and it was used frequently in songs.
He would probably say something like "Hey bonnie I feel particularly gay today, lets rob a bank."

Posted by summertime | May 8, 2007 9:55 AM
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@5,

That's the one central thing about the otherwise mostly accurate movie (some characters are amalgams) that's overplayed.

Clyde likely had some gay experiences in jail, but history books show that he and Bonnie were an inseparable, torrid, het couple.

There are legitimate and lingering questions about the couple's sexual practices because of all the other men in the picture, particularly W.D. Jones and Henry Methvin, who—at separate times—completed the core trio of the Barrow Gang. And they were all sleeping in pretty close quarters.

Hot.

Posted by Josh Feit | May 8, 2007 10:04 AM
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I guess that's what I get from learning history by watching made for TV movies with the words "True Story" in the title.

Posted by elswinger | May 8, 2007 10:32 AM
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