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Oscar-winning ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Screenwriter Larry McMurtry Dead at 84
New York Post ^ | March 26, 2021 | Zachary Kussin VIEW AUTHOR ARCHIVE FOLLOW ON TWITTER GET AUTHOR RSS FEED March 26, 2021 | 1:15pm | U

Posted on 03/26/2021 3:59:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Larry McMurtry, the prolific novelist and screenwriter who won a Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award for his work, died Thursday at 84.

Amanda Lundberg, a spokesperson for the family, confirmed McMurtry’s death in an obituary published Friday by the New York Times. Lundberg did not respond to The Post’s request for confirmation.

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McMurtry was best known for his anti-Western work, or stories that focused on demythologizing the romanticism of the American West.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: books; larrymcmurtry; westerns
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To: nickcarraway

Well, I never saw “Brokeback Mountain”, but I think I’ve read all of McMurtry’s novels, and I probably own at least half of them. Great writer, even if his characters in later books seemed to spend all their time bickering.

RIP, Larry.


21 posted on 03/26/2021 4:33:52 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: pnut22

I think that was the first McMurtry novel I ever read, nearly 50 years ago. If I had to pick a favorite, though, it might be “Cadillac Jack”.


22 posted on 03/26/2021 4:37:01 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: nickcarraway

I had to read “Horseman, Pass By” in college. It was made into the movie Hud. RIP.


23 posted on 03/26/2021 4:40:05 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: nickcarraway

FWIW, Annie Proulx wrote “Brokeback Mountain”, which McMurtry adapted for his screenplay.


24 posted on 03/26/2021 4:42:47 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: cdcdawg

The worst thing about Brokeback was that it glorified a deserter, not the homosexuality thing. I heard that and I never wanted to read it.


25 posted on 03/26/2021 4:43:21 PM PDT by firebrand (Women never want to go back to live in a place where they lived before. --McMurtry)
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To: nickcarraway

My mother taught me not to speak ill of the dead, so I will not say what I am thinking.


26 posted on 03/26/2021 4:47:21 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Guenevere
I didn’t know he wrote Brokeback Mountain.......I find that disappointing.

He didn’t write the book, but he wrote the screenplay for the movie.

27 posted on 03/26/2021 4:48:33 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: firebrand

I remember there were some Brokeback Mountain Posters that showed one of the characters with his wife and baby, giving no clue about what the movie really was about, to trick people into going to see it.


28 posted on 03/26/2021 4:52:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Well, since Brokeback became a major symbolic work to push homosexuality, that’s what they want to remember about him.


29 posted on 03/26/2021 4:56:27 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: nickcarraway; Impy; BillyBoy; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; ...

I liked “The Last Picture Show.” I thought “Brokeback Mountain” was a comedy.

RIP.


30 posted on 03/26/2021 5:03:55 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: dfwgator

That wasn’t a problem here at FR. We all knew about it and those of us who wished to avoid it did so.


31 posted on 03/26/2021 5:04:27 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Covenantor

Excellent.

He wrote wonderfully about the true grit and courage of cowboys and the cowboy heritage.

Virtue and determination of those men and tough times, gawd, so accurately depicted in Lonesome Dove. My university has a Lonesome Dove western historical display, with all sorts of memorabilia from the movie, from weapons to the wood door where the body of Gus was carried. Many items donated by Robert Duval and McMurtry.

He did NOT demystify the West.


32 posted on 03/26/2021 5:12:57 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: dfwgator

Hell you think that was bad. I thought the Crying Game was about the IRA. They caught me flat footed when they deviant turned around. Yikes.


33 posted on 03/26/2021 5:22:01 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: Guenevere
He did not write that short story .
He cowrote a screenplay based on the short story by a WY writer .

He write fine novels Terms of Endearment, Last Picture Show , Hud ,

34 posted on 03/26/2021 5:22:15 PM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalist)
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To: nickcarraway

Yeah cuz that’s what he is best known for /s


35 posted on 03/26/2021 5:34:18 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: cdcdawg

Lonesome Dove....most people thank God never saw the queer movie.....I guess every writer thinks they need to do a queer book to get his street “cred”.


36 posted on 03/26/2021 5:36:26 PM PDT by cherry (we are the Remnant)
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To: Guenevere

I didn’t know he wrote Brokeback Mountain..

He didn’t.


37 posted on 03/26/2021 5:37:41 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: ncalburt
Annie Proulx, who wrote The Shipping News, wrote the short story the movie was based on. I guess "Write what you know," doesn't apply here.
38 posted on 03/26/2021 5:42:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: pnut22

“The Last Picture Show was great.”

Yes, it was.


39 posted on 03/26/2021 5:46:31 PM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: pnut22

The Last Picture Show was great.

AMEN, a great movie. In the book the town was Thalia, my mothers hometown. She picked cotton from age 4-16. Dad loved to garden and all us boys still do, she hated plants.


40 posted on 03/26/2021 5:46:57 PM PDT by Jolla
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