Burt Reynolds Puts His Pants On...

Burt Reynolds Puts His Pants On...Gila Bend. You pronounce it Heela Bend, and I get annoyed with people who give it a hard G, as in Garbo. It has some meaning to me. The first "serious" story I ever published (see Antioch Review, turn of the century) begins, "High above the desert at Gila Bend...." Ten years after I left the Air Force, my best friend, who stayed in and became a fighter pilot, took a plane into the desert in that area. I went out to get a look at what was left...