New in at Cinema Books: Warren Oates A Wild Life by Susan Compo, $24.95 paper. The new paperback edition of the popular biography of character actor Warren Oates is now available. His collaboration with director Sam Peckinpah inspired some of his greatest roles in Ride the High Country, Major Dundee, The Wild Bunch and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. Introspective and secretive a times, Oates was also outgoing and given to illegal excess. His career influenced a number of younger filmmakers such as Tarantino and Linkletter and actors such as Billy Bob Thornton and Benicio Del Toro.
