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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...
...meetings with the Shah, recalling the monarch's piercing eyes staring suspiciously at him, refusing to believe that no country except Panama would accept him. He dealt covertly for months with the Iranians, and they had their own name for this American who might break the impasse: the Cowboy...
...trouble with Urban Cowboy is that Bridges and Latham have not devised a dramatic structure faithful to the reality Latham reported with spare detachment in his article in Esquire mag azine. Their story is at once too melodramatic, too romantic and sentimental to be believed...
...place and its habitues, which was a downer. He said it offered hardhats from the nearby refineries a chance to escape from their harsh, boring, workaday reality into a fantasy that was simultaneously readymade and hand-me-down. Duding up each night in western duds that no working cowboy would ever wear, the clock punchers also slip into a set of values that are as impractical for modern urban life as a pair of chaps. For a little while each night in Gilley's, they can play at being tough loners who like their whisky rough and their women...
...anxiety to soften that bleak mes sage, Urban Cowboy tries to create a structure and an optimistic mood in a tale about people whose existences have nei ther structure nor much hope. What could have been a hard crust of contemporary life has become a soggy piece of chain-store white bread...