Word: cowboy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agog as U.S. audiences over who ambushed mean J.R. Ewing, played by Actor Larry Hagman, in the season finale of the high-rating Dallas series. A British bookmaker accepted wagers on the identity of J.R.'s assailant; betting $234,000, punters made Wife Sue Ellen's cowboy lover, Dusty, a 6 to 4 favorite even though he is presumed dead in a plane crash. With six other likely suspects, Dallas' producers are filming different versions of the attack. The world must wait until about next season's third episode to learn whodunit...
...URBAN COWBOY Directed by James Bridges Screenplay by James Bridges and Aaron Latham
...Urban Cowboy is one of those movies that are all packaging and no execution. To put the matter more harshly, the elements that must have made it commercially attractive to its producers, and surely built up the public's anticipation of it, have been distorted and attenuated to the point of extinction as the picture developed...
What everyone obviously hoped for was a film that would do for country-and-western music what Saturday Night Fever did for the disco craze-make a lively, gritty comment on it and earn big bucks too. Like Fever, Urban Cowboy is based on a magazine article (by Co-Scenarist Aaron Latham). The same star, John Travolta, has been recruited to play the lead...
Because the commercial is composed of vignettes, extensive auditions are necessary. The search for the right cowboy ends in a compromise: "not too old, not too young, not too cute, not too Sicilian." Two girls have to be found who can talk on the phone while doing yoga headstands. One is rejected as "too Procter & Gamble"; another causes a small problem when she arrives on location without a bra under her skintight leotard. There are also serious research questions: Do Army recruits have telephones near their beds...