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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

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To: nickcarraway

queers in cowboy hats. How original.

they used to have that in Times Square too


41 posted on 03/26/2021 5:50:09 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: nickcarraway

Lol


42 posted on 03/26/2021 5:54:44 PM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalist)
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To: nickcarraway

His cause of death will be listed as Covid-aids.


43 posted on 03/26/2021 5:58:36 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: DesertRhino

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.


44 posted on 03/26/2021 6:09:23 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: DesertRhino

LOL, The Boy George Theme song should have been a clue.


45 posted on 03/26/2021 6:10:40 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Covenantor

He’ll always be remembered for the snake scene in Lonesome Dove . . . shudders!


46 posted on 03/26/2021 6:14:12 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: nickcarraway

Wow.. no idea he wrote so many things. I only knew of him through “Lonesome Dove”


47 posted on 03/26/2021 6:14:37 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: nickcarraway

Gack! I had no idea the author of Lonesome Dove wrote BBM. Ugh.


48 posted on 03/26/2021 6:28:19 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The Weak Never Started, The Cowards fail along the way, Only the Strong Survive)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

He wrote the screenplay, not the original story.


49 posted on 03/26/2021 6:32:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Covenantor

The Dove was a bar of soap waiting for some unfortunate soul to bend down to pick it up.


50 posted on 03/26/2021 6:35:11 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: nickcarraway

Has anyone ever written an anti-Eastern?


51 posted on 03/26/2021 6:36:25 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

The rattlesnake under the building......where the girl was hiding during the Indian raid?


52 posted on 03/26/2021 6:45:01 PM PDT by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

I had to read ‘Some Can Whistle’ three times to get it.


53 posted on 03/26/2021 6:51:06 PM PDT by punchamullah
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To: nickcarraway
Thanks. I saw that many people made that correction to others who made that same mistake.

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.

54 posted on 03/26/2021 6:59:09 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The Weak Never Started, The Cowards fail along the way, Only the Strong Survive)
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To: nickcarraway

He wrote the screenplay....


😱🤢


55 posted on 03/26/2021 7:02:23 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

😱


56 posted on 03/26/2021 7:04:04 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: ncalburt
Yes, he wrote non-fiction and fine novels, screenplays too.

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."

57 posted on 03/26/2021 7:18:07 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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I think when most people hear “Larry McMurtry” they probably think of Lonesome Dove and not Brokeback Mountain.

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.

58 posted on 03/26/2021 7:25:01 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Covenantor

Gus and Call were secret homos and Claire was Gus’ beard?


59 posted on 03/26/2021 7:27:52 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
If I had to pick a favorite, though, it might be “Cadillac Jack”.

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.

60 posted on 03/26/2021 7:28:04 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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