Word: cowboy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father. As the plot progresses to its ironic denouement, Joe courts his teenage sweetheart, rekindles a love affair with the land and comes to terms with some family ghosts -- both dead and alive. Like most McGuane protagonists, Starling is at a gallop between his past and future, an existential cowboy with good intentions and bad habits, determined to take his spiritual malaise by the horns and shake some meaning out of it. He is, in other words, a lot like Thomas McGuane...
...when he received a critical licking for Panama, a caustically humorous novel that limned the dark side of fame. The same year, actress Elizabeth Ashley threw fat on the media fire by sparing few details of her romance with McGuane in her autobiography, which described him as a "psychedelic cowboy" and "aging juvenile delinquent." Meanwhile, the deaths of both his parents and his sister took a heavy toll. "I come from a family that has a lot of alcoholism," McGuane confides. "I became really kind of an unpleasant drinker...
PROFILE: Literary cowboy Tom McGuane...
Greg Schaffer gives another of the production's most powerful performances. As the Cowboy in one scene from Welcome to the Moon, even Schaffer's simplest declarations ("Yes, I've killed a man.") are hilarious. In The Zoo Story, his passionate portrayal of Jerry, the embittered New Yorker who believes that "God turned his back on the whole thing some time ago," leaves the audience as fascinated by his theories as it is disgusted by their substance. Schaffer's mimed battles with the landlady's dog are especially superb. He bites off his words and takes pleasure in the revulsion...
THREE of Hoss' buddies give terrific back-up performances. David " 'Vid" Buttaro and Randal Jean Baptiste provide moments of refreshing comic relief as astrologer and general space cadet Starman and hip deejay Galactic Jack. In addition, Glenn Kiser's clever portrayal of Hoss' doctor, a cowboy-boot-wearing drug supplier, leaves the audience wishing Shepard had given this character more lines...