Entertainment
Honky-Tonk Days In Arizona
- Published January 01, 2009
- Written by Jeb Rosebrook
Gone are the “bulls messing with the heifers” at Sarg’s Cow Town, Abel Hall, the Matador, Chester’s, Riverside Park Ballroom, JD’s and Mr. Lucky’s.
Boots, Buckles & Spurs
- Published January 01, 2009
- Written by Henry Cabot Beck
McLintock! Memories
- Published April 15, 2013
- Written by Courtney Joyner
It’s the movie people always ask me about. ‘Oh, I love John Wayne, but McLintock! has to be my favorite!’”
Actor Ed Faulkner punctuates this statement with an easy laugh and a degree of earned pride. His role, as the son of Bruce Cabot’s character, Ben Sage, triggers the wild mud brawl, which ranks among the most famous of Wayne’s movie moments. Audiences loved the knockdown comedy of 1963’s McLintock!,
TV Westerns: March/April 2008
- Published February 29, 2008
- Written by Henry Cabot Beck
For some time now, Westerns fans have been promised a vast number of new films being produced directly for television, by AMC, Hallmark and RHI Entertainment, in collaboration with the ION (formerly PAX) cable channel. We’ll be seeing three of these new movies in March and April 2008.
A New Yawk Jesse James
- Published March 18, 2013
- Written by Courtney Joyner
"It never made any sense to put me in Westerns, because I never lost my ‘dem doity boids!’”
Larry Tierney punched the end of his New Yorker-accented statement with a pull on his drink.
Hardin Biopic
- Published May 13, 2013
- Written by Courtney Joyner
Few movie producers can claim to being enshrined on the surface of the moon. Larry Zeug is the exception: “When I worked at Rocketdyne, I was in the experimental department, and we built the LEM that landed on the moon. They had a plaque that we all signed, and it was engraved. So my name’s on the moon.”
Honoring Elmore
- Published February 11, 2013
- Written by Courtney Joyner
The success of FX’s Justified, created by Graham Yost from Elmore Leonard’s short story “Fire in the Hole,” is by now as familiar as Raylan Given’s Cattleman’s-style hat crafted by Baron Hats.
IN THE WORKS
- Published May 13, 2013
- Written by Courtney Joyner
Tommy Lee Jones will be starring, directing and writing an adaptation of Glendon Swarthout’s classic novel The Homesman, costarring Meryl Streep and Hilary Swank.
The Mean-Nice Man
- Published January 08, 2013
- Written by Courtney Joyner
Before his extraordinary career as director of more than 500 hours of television, including 62 episodes of Dallas and 70 of Walker, Texas Ranger, Michael Preece cut his teeth as script supervisor for some of the toughest directors in the business: Anthony Mann, John Ford, Sam Peckinpah and Henry Hathaway.
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