Larry McMurtry
Actor and Author
Anarene, Texas..." in Larry McMurtry's novel. The film was actually made some 8 miles to the north of Anarene, in McMurtry's hometown of Archer City , which is widely believed to have been the model for McMurtry's "Thalia". Director Peter Bogdanovich... In this article: Larry McMurtry, Coal, The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich, American Civil War, Southern Railroad, Texas, and Howard Hawks |
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Wikipedia | August 06, 2009
Texasville
Texasville is a 1990 American film directed by Peter Bogdanovich. It is a sequel to The Last Picture Show, and is based on the book of the same name by Larry McMurtry. The story focuses on Duane Jackson (Jeff Bridges), now in his forties...
In this article: Texasville, Annie Potts, Peter Bogdanovich, Randy Quaid, William McNamara, Cybill Shepherd, and Cloris Leachman
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Washington Times | August 02, 2009
VAULTS: Duvall shines in 'Dove'
...Ron Howard's misbegotten "Far and Away" and Lawrence Kasdan's estimable "Wyatt Earp.") Although Mr. McMurtry and Mr. Bogdanovich were never reunited as collaborators on a big traditional Western, they did get together for another sort of...
In this article: Lonesome Dove, Robert Duvall, Streets of Laredo, John Wayne, Woodrow Call, James Stewart, Texas, and Peter Bogdanovich
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Times Online | December 19, 2008
Sam Bottoms: played the acid-dropping surfer in Apocalypse Now
...Sam was acting in youth theatre by the time he was 10. Bogdanovich's adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel The Last Picture Show was to prove the big breakthrough for both brothers. Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman won Oscars for their...
In this article: Sam Bottoms, Apocalypse Now, The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich, Francis Ford Coppola, and Ben Johnson
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Streets of Laredo
...ballad of the same name. The title was originally used by Larry McMurtry for a screenplay that he wrote with Peter Bogdanovich, but which never materialized as a movie, so he rewrote as the original Lonesome Dove. Between ''Lonesome Dove''...
In this article: Woodrow F. Call, Streets of Laredo, Lonesome Dove, and Texas
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Texas Monthly - Texas Monthly | August 16, 2008
I Wish I Knew How To Depict You
...written out. In his 1966 novel The Last Picture Show, Larry McMurtry deftly considered the plight of a small-town married football coach who struggles, not entirely successfully, to suppress his desire for one of his male students. Yet in Peter...
In this article: Texas, Jonathan Caouette, Del Shores, Brokeback Mountain, Houston, Jack Twist, Hollywood, Tammy Wynette, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Logo
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The Last Picture Show
...was born in a small North Texas town called Archer City. In writing about his home town he renamed it "Thalia" and in order to film "Thalia" Bogdanovich went back to Archer City. But for the film he renamed it Anarene, a name chosen to...
In this article: Peter Bogdanovich, The Last Picture Show, Drive, He Said, Jeff Bridges, Donn Cambern, and Randy Quaid
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Larry Jeff McMurtry (born June 3, 1936) is an American novelist, screenwriter, essayist and bookseller. He is known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1985 novel Lonesome Dove, a sweeping historical epic that follows ex-Texas Rangers as they drive their cattle from the Rio Grande to a new home in the frontier of Montana. It was adapted into a hit television miniseries. Much of his other fiction is also set in the "old west" or contemporary Texas.
- Name At Birth:
- Larry Jeff McMurtry
- Birth Date:
- June 03, 1936
- Birthplace:
- Wichita Falls, Texas
- Occupation:
- Novelist, screenwriter, essayist
- Years Active:
- 1963-present
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