Pothos in Westerns 2: Pat Garret and Billy the Kid
Sam Peckinpah was 48 when he directed Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. His health was failing after too many years of drug and alcohol abuse; a documentary I saw showed the crew carrying him from one...
View ArticleMcCabe and Mrs. Miller
I had planned to discuss Robert Altman’s McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), in the same vein as my earlier discussion of True Grit and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, but after wrestling with the post for...
View ArticleCamelot and the Wild West
Last Sunday, after the Bears lost, I was working on one of my western movie posts. Mary switched channels and I looked up to catch the conclusion of First Knight, starring Sean Connery as King Arthur...
View ArticleThe Ballad of Jesse James
It’s easy to see why I was drawn to the Ballad of Jesse James as a kid; the song paints Jesse as an American Robin Hood: Jesse James was a lad, he killed many a man, He robbed the Glendale train. He...
View ArticleCowboys and Aliens: A Movie Review
Can you guess what this movie is about? I couldn’t, not with precision. I was expecting something whimsical and set in contemporary times. Instead, we are transported to 19th century New Mexico,...
View ArticleNotes on spies, cowboys, and heroes.
I’ve done some car travel recently, and that is my favorite time to listen to audio books. This time I picked a spy novel by a popular author I hadn’t read before. I’ll discuss the specifics when I...
View ArticleLongmire
Thanks to a tip from our niece, Theresa, we’ve discovered a promising mystery show on A&E. Longmire, based on a series of award winning novels by Chris Johnson, premiered in June, 2012. Now in...
View ArticleThe American Monomyth
In my so far disappointing effort to make sense of Tumblr, I have at least found several intriguing posts, including this one from josephcampbellwasright.tumblr.com called “The American Monomyth.” The...
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