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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queers in cowboy hats. How original.
they used to have that in Times Square too
Lol
His cause of death will be listed as Covid-aids.
From the way the press played it up and proclaimed how “hot” the “girl” was I figured it out without ever having to go see any footage from the film.
LOL, The Boy George Theme song should have been a clue.
He’ll always be remembered for the snake scene in Lonesome Dove . . . shudders!
Wow.. no idea he wrote so many things. I only knew of him through “Lonesome Dove”
Gack! I had no idea the author of Lonesome Dove wrote BBM. Ugh.
He wrote the screenplay, not the original story.
The Dove was a bar of soap waiting for some unfortunate soul to bend down to pick it up.
Has anyone ever written an anti-Eastern?
The rattlesnake under the building......where the girl was hiding during the Indian raid?
I had to read ‘Some Can Whistle’ three times to get it.
I just put a hold on "Dead Man's Walk" (both book and DVD) and the library wrote me today saying that they are in.
Yesterday I watched the clip where Big Foot Wallace describes Comanche tortures in Dead Man's Walk. It's hilarious in a macabre way.
He wrote the screenplay....
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I spent time with him during a conference shortly after Lonesome Dove lit up the literary and (later) mini-series worlds.
Tall fellow, astonishingly smart, yet down to earth. But hardly a tough guy. A friend of mine who knew him well said that "Larry was the kind of guy that when you were kids on the playground you wanted to push him down."
Not a sissy but much more suited to books than broncs.
We sat at the airport waiting for other guests to arrive and Larry talked books...he was quick and sharp in his opinions and, even when I wanted to disagree, I had to acknowledge his keen ear.
He was the only writer I ever knew who spoke generously about his experiences with Hollywood. Every single writer I heard talk about LA-LA Land sneered and sniffed and bitched.
Larry said, "Oh no, they've been wonderful to me. Look at my movies...they've made me rich and famous and and able to do anything I please."
Even in the 80s he said his happiest moment as a writer came when he drifted into his small hometown where filming of Hud had already started; he was looking here and there, not seeing the vehicles or crews, and as he craned about he suddenly saw the tall small town water tower, and realized that Archer, the actual town name, had been painted over and replaced by the name Thalia, which was the name he used in the book.
Women liked him. He was brilliant and kind and loved trade talk, and he addressed them as equals. I thought it was great in one of his non-fiction books (I can't put my hand on it now) he said that with Lonesome Dove he had (perhaps unintentionally) set about writing a "Gone With The Wind for the West'. "But," he said, I guess that's what I did, and I think it worked."
You youngsters might. Those of us of more mature years probably think first of "The Last Picture Show". Lonesome Dove didn't come along until almost two decades later.
Gus and Call were secret homos and Claire was Gus’ beard?
I've had that book on my shelf for 40 years...barely looked at it, I wanted to read the "REAL Larry McMurtry books," you know.
On your word I'll pick it up.
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