![]() ![]() If you grew up in towns that were, at best, a pass-through on the way to someplace better, this story of sad, fading adults and teenagers wishing they had something to rebel against beyond their failed elders, you could recognize something of your life in theirs.Ĭloris Leachman’s heartbroken forgotten wife, who was all but a widow, Timothy Bottoms as her far too young paramour, the wondrously beautiful (and cruel) Cybill Shepherd, her clueless, handsome boyfriend played by Jeff Bridges, and the broken down cowboy depicted by Ben Johnson were archetypes for the lost. While that film about a dying Texas town may have taken place in the southwest, it has always resonated deeply with this Kentucky-born writer. ![]() ![]() Has any director had a greater three-film run than Peter Bogdanovich had from 1971-1973? After cutting his teeth on the Roger Corman production Targets – a suspense flick about a disturbed Vietnam vet turned mass murdering sniper who comes into contact with an over-the-hill horror actor played by Boris Karloff – Bogdanovich switched modes and tried his hand at documentary, delivering one of the best film docs ever, Directed by John Ford.,covering the career of the venerable filmmaker, John Ford.įrom there, Bogdanovich quickly graduated to masterpiece territory with the landmark film, The Last Picture Show. ![]()
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