Word: cowboyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. LASH LARUE, 78, character actor best remembered for his bullwhip-cracking, black-outfitted cowboy roles in B westerns of the 1940s; in Burbank, California. His films include Song of Old Wyoming, Law of the Lash and King of the Bullwhip...
...quiet ways. A few weeks ago he performed in the Cabot House musical, Gershwin's "Crazy for You." He had agreed to play in the orchestra--as he has for the past three years--but he had been badgered into taking a speaking role. Dressed and drawling like a cowboy, he walked on stage in his characteristically shy way, and delivered his lines blushing on center stage. A double-bass was put into his hands, and as the orchestra started up and John played the number "Slap That Bass," his shyness fell away--he closed his eyes and his wrists...
...already has the jewels, the Lamborghini and the capes (yes, capes), so it seems logical that Deion ("Prime Time") Sanders' next career move will be Hollywood-ward. The Dallas Cowboy has signed a $2 million deal to star in an action pic, Variety reports. Maybe he should change his nickname to "Big Box Office...
...Salt Lake County Sheriff Aaron Kennard yesterday on 15-year-old Justin Allgood, a ninth-grade student who, wearing a cowboy hat and carrying a .357 Magnum revolver, hijacked his school bus yesterday, shot the driver, then led police on a high-speed chase before killing himself...
...most likely what put off Franklin's opponents was simple culture clash. "You're dealing with people who have been in this organization a long time and remember the day I was born and might still view me as a kid compared to them," he says. His preferred wardrobe--cowboy boots, jeans, black snap-button shirt and leather jacket--could be seen as a provocation. Even after forswearing wine in 1989, he maintains that "alcohol can be good if it is used in moderation," an unusual stance in the strictly teetotal world of his father's generation of Evangelicals...