Word: cowboyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seen way too much of Michael Jordan and Princess Di in the media, but when cowboy actor Roy Rogers died, all we got was a small tribute [NOTEBOOK, July 20]. He should have been on your cover. Boy, are you out of touch! LINDA CRULL Conifer, Colo...
Buffalo Bob Smith -- born Robert E. Smith -- died at his North Carolina home Thursday of lung cancer. He was 80. But to millions of baby boomers, the genial cowboy-suited host of "The Howdy Doody Show" will never pass away. Even though the NBC show went off the air in 1960 after 13 seasons and more than 2,500 shows, Buffalo Bob and the redheaded, freckle-faced marionette who loved to tease him remain an indelible memory from the Golden Age of TV. "No one knows how hard we worked all those years," Smith told PEOPLE in 1987. "Live...
...premise that journalism provides good fodder for movies is not an altogether well-tested one. There have been some notable examples, from Saturday Night Fever and Urban Cowboy to, more recently, Con Air and The Peacemaker. In fact, optioning magazine and newspaper articles has been a growing trend in Hollywood the past few years. Susan Lyne, a former executive editor of Premiere who pursued magazine-based movie projects for Disney and now works for ABC, cites economics: "You're no longer able to buy high-end books for under seven figures, while magazine options for the most part are still...
DIED. ROY ROGERS, 86, iconic singing cowboy who wore a white hat in more than 90 westerns. Rogers was an uncomplicated hero and one of the most beloved public figures in the decades following World War II. A canny businessman, he also founded the chain of Roy Rogers fast-food outlets. (See EULOGY, below...
...know and easier to like, so after about two minutes, I was asking questions, and he was answering everything about Trigger, Gabby Hayes, Nelly Belle and his wife Dale Evans. As my wife and I listened to his stories, I saw that the Roy Rogers we saw onscreen--cowboy outfit, white hat, high morals--was the same in person...