You’d think a cowboy movie by Jess Franco would attract a little attention. Yet the one quasi-Western he directed — which takes place in Venezuela rather than the Old American West — is practically unknown, even among Franco fans. El Llanero (“The Cowboy”, aka “Jaguar”) opens in...
If you want the feel-good vibes fromConcrete Cowboy, you’re gonna have to be patient. It’s a family drama first and foremost. Caleb McLaughlin (Stranger Thingsseason 5) stars as Cole, a troubled 15-year-old boy who is sent to live with his estranged father, Harp (Idris Elba). As...
“I have dreams that I’m still auditioning forWicked. Last summer while I was playing Elizabeth [onThe Dropout], on the weekends I was auditioning in person to play Glinda in the movie version ofWicked— because I wanted it that much that I was like, ‘You know what? Yeah, I have ...
and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian. Turn three hundred low families of New York into New Jersey, support them for fifty years in vicious idleness, and you will have some idea ...
That’s what the Iron Cowboy found out. How far can you go? In the world of athletics, records are merely goals to be broken. In long-distance running, the marathon has long been the measure against which you pitted yourself. Read Story SEE WHAT YOU CAN DO Read Story PDF DOC JPG ...
1934: Gene Autry stars in his first movie, 'In Old Santa Fe' In less than two years, the young actor appeared in 10 Hollywood B movies. He is largely credited with bringing folk music further into the mainstream by popularizing the "singing cowboy" figure. Autry went on to host "The ...
The last cowboy boot masters of El Paso. (via Nag On The Lake)https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cowboy-boot-makers-el-paso-texas Ukiah, California –“Buy at Home Campaign” (1937) (via Jeff Scherer)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t50HIE8mbEU On the one hand, bleagh. On ...
In old plays of long ago bad characters usually wore black. In cowboy movies the “bad guys( = fellows)”usually wear black hats while the “good guys” wear lighter colors. Something else about their appearance makes an unpleasant impression. In their practical protective clothing they look ...
As will the time when I spotted the soles of cowboy boots sticking out of a clothing donation box. Seriously? That barely even took any imagination at all. The body dump practically wrote itself. And I expect to use it someday. But no, it wasn’t a body. Yes, I checked. Well, on...
The irony, of course, is that Leone filmed his “westerns” in Spain, and the “west” they evoked was the Hollywood myth rather than America’s authentic, historical western experience. Most cowboys in the heyday of the cattle drives were in fact Mexican or black. A cowboy was a prolet...