Word: known
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood's back pasture. This season, while other shows, from quizzes to comedies, were dropping right and left like well-rehearsed Indians, not a single western left the air. Indeed, 14 new ones were launched, and the networks are planning more for next year. Sighs a well-known writer of western scripts: "I don't get it. Why do people want to spend so much time staring at the wrong end of a horse...
...Frank Gruber. once wrote four scripts in four days.) A great many of the shows have shoddy plots, ludicrous situations. They are "shot from the hip," as one director puts it, in three days or less, "take what you get." Studio filmed for the most part, they are ironically known in the trade as "four-wall westerns-as big as all indoors." It hardly seems the sort of climate in which creativity could flourish and the legend grow...
...Talking Horse. Behind the hand that holds the gun is, of course, the hand that strokes the typewriter, and television scriptwriters are frantically trying to find new packages for one of the oldest staples on the shelves of U.S. show business. The new horse operas are generically known as Adult Westerns, a term first used to describe the shambling, down-to-biscuits realism of Gunsmoke, but there are numerous subspecies. First came the Psychological Western, which populated the arroyos with schizophrenic half-breeds, paranoid bluecoats, amnesic prospectors. Then there was the Civil Rights Western, and all the persecuted Piutes, molested...
...flue-scorching "twofer" stogies and forty-rod whisky (known as "red disturbance"), and there were real drinking men to lap it up, e.g., the miner in Bodie who, when he ran out of gold dust, slashed off his ear, slapped it on the bar and demanded credit. Manufacturers of bone combs were paying $1.25 for Indian skulls, and a white man's life was not worth much more...
Clint Walker (6 ft. 6 in.. 235 lbs., 48-32-36), who after a spectacular case of bunkhouse sulks will shortly resume the big hat in Cheyenne, a routine ride-'em-cowboy story, is generally known in Hollywood as "the next John Wayne." At 31 he looks rather like an unweathered Wayne, with a nice, uneventful face and a chest as big as a wardrobe-on producer's orders, he bares it at least once a program. But unfortunately, Clint, according to the people he works with, is "a mighty mixed-up kid." He is a nature...