ON THIS DAY In 1860, the first Pony Express rider left St. Joseph, Missouri, heading west; the next day, another rider left Sacramento, California, heading east. (You thought postage was expensive today? It cost $5 per ounce to send a letter via the Express.) The Pony Express, its legend notwithstanding, lasted only two years, crowded out by the telegraph, but Kevin Costner seems intent on restarting it in 1997's THE POSTMAN, the postapocalyptic epic in which his donkey-riding drifter appropriates the jacket of a dead U.S. mail carrier for warmth and ends up inspiring hope with this symbol of civilization. [today's movie at IMDb]

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