Word: cowboying
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...fiction -- or even which is which. But anyone who has questioned his version, or his scripts, has soon learned that Eszterhas is a scrappy, macho type who stands by his words. "I've always believed in fighting for my work," he says, decked out in his usual patched jeans, cowboy boots and decidedly nondesigner shirt. "I've taken great pride in being a writer, and I demanded a certain kind of treatment. When I haven't been treated that way, I've either fought back very hard or I've walked." Says producer Don Simpson, who worked with...
Unapologetic about his identity today, Mixner appears decidedly conventional. Black cowboy boots are the only modest eccentricity in a wardrobe full of dark suits, crisp white shirts and suspenders to match his muted ties. He stands 6 ft. 1 in., and his weight fluctuates by a hundred pounds or more from year to year. His high-tech apartment-cum-office is decorated with a peace poster from the Eugene McCarthy campaign, which introduced him to Clinton, and framed photos of himself with the President and the First Lady...
...state of Texas during part of my spring break. A popular bill had been introduced in the Texas state legislature which, if passed, would give citizens the right to carry concealed weapons. Such a law appeared ludicrous to me. Such a law could only be the product of the cowboy-redneck which still pervades the small minds of my fellow Texans. I thought with typical Harvard arrogance...
...each experience taught him more about his craft and prepared him for Unforgiven, a lean and provocative antiwestern in which the good guys are not so swell and the bad guys are not entirely deserving of their fate. For Eastwood it was something new, garbed in familiar cowboy clothing. Only after the final gunfight does the director allow his alter ego, the actor, to indulge in a brief valedictory to the satiric excess that characterized the Eastwood of an earlier era. "Any son of a bitch who takes a shot at me," gunman William Munny bellows into the night...
Ticket prices rose to the level of regular season games. And The Cowboy gradually turned over control of the team to his wife Jackie, who, everyone knew, had simply married Gene for his money...