Word: cowboyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gene Autry week in L.A., and the original singing cowboy was back in the saddle again-in reruns of his '40s movies and in a documentary titled Gene Autry: An American Hero, shown on a TV station owned by the millionaire star. The California Museum of Science and Industry was marking the 50th anniversary of Autry's start in show business with an exhibit of the old cowpoke's spurs and guns, a guitar, hit records, including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and uniforms from the Autry-owned California Angels. Appearing there in full ten-gallon regalia...
...Urban Cowboy...
LONG SHOT: Urban Cowboy...
DIED. Bob Nolan, 72, composer of 1,000 western, country and gospel songs, including such classics as Cool Water and Tumbling Tumbleweeds; of a heart attack; in Costa Mesa, Calif. In 1931 he formed a trio with Tim Spencer and a young cowboy singer named Leonard Slye, who later changed his name to Roy Rogers and left the group to make movies. Nolan and Spencer later formed a quartet, the Sons of the Pioneers, and appeared in dozens of films with Rogers in the 1930s...
...star's clout more or less in the service of ideals he believes in. Though he is happy to entertain an audience, it had better be in the context of a story containing a liberal, humane moral. Somehow his roles -whether as investigative reporter or up-the-organization cowboy-suit him in his maturity, as they do not most other leading men, about whom the sweet odors of Bel Air and Rodeo Drive cling. There is something of the authentic knothead about Redford...