Word: earp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...television image of the U.S. marshal is still the tall, lean figure of Wyatt Earp tossing hot lead in Dodge City...
...proportions." Crabb, in fact, is both, which is just what Berger intended him to be. As relived by Crabb in Berger's telling, the legends and the romanticized history of the West are comically disassembled, like Hamlets seen from backstage. Typical is Crabb's meeting with Wyatt Earp. "You just spoke my name," says the skinny stranger. "I don't know your name," says Jack. "It is Earp," says the stranger. "Oh," says Jack, "what I done was belch...
Died. Stuart Nathaniel Lake, 74, feature writer for the Saturday Evening Post whose 1931 biography of Gunfighter Wyatt Earp, based on interviews with Earp before his death in 1929, sold half a million copies, inspired two movies and the TV series, established its author as an authority on the Old West despite stuffier historians' sniffs that it was "a fictionalized glorification of a tinhorn outlaw"; of a ruptured aorta; in San Diego, Calif...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Brinkley reports on the controversial sale of Southwest desert land and examines the legend of Wyatt Earp. Color...
Died. Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, 60, onetime St. Louis newspaperman who joined Hollywood's stable of screenwriters in 1928, but left in 1955 to put TV's horse opera The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp high on the Trendex trail; by his own hand (pistol); in Oxnard, Calif...