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To: Rte66

Marfa is also where they filmed "Giant" with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean


13 posted on 01/29/2006 9:12:54 PM PST by woofie
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To: woofie

I know! One of my all-time faves. Shall I run some lines of it for you? LOL

Bick and Leslie and Luz and Jordy and Jett Rink. Bick meeting Leslie in Maryland and their beautiful showplace of a horse farm. The train ride to Texas.

The Shamrock Hotel opening was one of my favorite scenes, I think. No, wait, the part where Liz Taylor is given the honor of scooping the brains out of the calf skull at the BBQ on the Reata. No, maybe when Jett hit the first gusher. Or, no, when Sal Mineo came home in the flag-draped coffin on the train after the war. Or when the little diner (probably in Marfa) refused to serve Bick because of Jordy's little babies and grandaddy Bick decked somebody.

Maybe not a great movie to everyone else, but I love it.


19 posted on 01/29/2006 9:33:01 PM PST by Rte66
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To: woofie

Marfa was also a racehorse of the 80s, opr was it the 70s/


24 posted on 01/30/2006 12:49:33 AM PST by willyboyishere (""The unlived life is not worth examining" ---willyboyishere)
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30 posted on 01/30/2006 10:29:20 AM PST by Clemenza (Check out my profile and give me some suggestions)
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To: woofie

I admit to liking 3, 4, and 9. At least I like the photographs of them.


42 posted on 01/30/2006 7:59:33 PM PST by Sam Cree (absolute reality) - ("Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein)
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