Waking in the living room at 3 in the morning with the TV still on isn’t so bad when the screenplay is by A.B. Guthrie Jr., from a book by Jack Schaefer, and the scenery includes the Tetons and the Snake River. Two of my favorite actors, Ben Johnson and Jack Palance, are in the …
I have run across more evidence of long-simmering Texas-New Mexico tensions, once again involving Billy the Kid — and this time Roy Rogers, too. After a photo of Billy allegedly playing croquet emerged in 2015 — or a photo of someone wearing a cockeyed hat like The Kid — the Fort Worth-Star Telegram sniffed in …
I choose to ride with Walt Longmire instead of John Wayne because Longmire said, “You never know if you’re right.” Wayne as Capt. Nathan Brittles said, “Never apologize, mister: It’s a sign of weakness.” Longmire delivered his line in a well-written discussion of moral issues in “Miss Cheyenne,” Season 3, Episode 3. It was Walt’s …
I woke up feeling like a half-sawn log and realized that what had been grating on my brain was the stupid American action comedy I stayed up too late watching last night. The movie was “2 Guns,” but the title really doesn’t matter. Any movie of its ilk leaves me feeling the same way. For …
