Word: sagebrush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proven ability to hog the spotlight were put to their most severe test. For sheer incompatibility, the volatile cast of Myra is rivaled only by the Burton-Lyon-Gardner gallimaufry of Night of the Iguana. There is crustaceous Veteran Director John Huston portraying Uncle Buck Loner, the sagebrush sybarite. Huston, an inveterate cigar smoker, has been unhappy with a no-smoking clause that Mae West had written into her contract. There is the epicene Rex Reed, who eats peaches, scribbles notes for his book (about the making of Myra, naturally) and regularly breaks up the crew with his lavender drawl...
...Outcasts (Monday, 9-10 p.m.). Something new gallops across the TV sagebrush: a pair of racially integrated bounty hunters. In this post-Civil War oater, Don Murray is a penniless former slave owner and Otis Young is a quick-witted former slave. No Uncle Tom, Young can barely stand the sight of his erstwhile oppressor. Since straight-shooting hands are hard to find, he takes Murray on as a temporary sidekick. Whitey does not cotton to the setup either, and the two bristle at each other even as they foil a gold heist. A mutually respectful, but hostile, black-white...
...keep it up, Mike," radioed Knight. "Let's keep it up." But he heard no more from the X-15. Nobody saw it slam into the sparse Mojave Desert sagebrush 60 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Adams was aboard-the first man to die in an X-15. He did not-or could not-use the ejection device that might have parachuted him to safety...
Such is the surefire formula of Italian Director Sergio Leone, 38, whose "macaroni westerns" are the fastest draw in theaters from Youngstown to Yokohama. A veteran of spear-and-sandal epics, he converted to shoot-'em-ups three years ago. To lend a scent of sagebrush to his first western, Leone changed his name to Bob Robertson and imported Clint Eastwood, a lanky, rawboned drover on TV's Rawhide. Eastwood's image was too clean-cut for an antihero, so Leone added the necessary smudges-slouch hat, black cheroot, stubble beard and a ratty-looking scrape...
Glorified Shacks. They could have made a better living doing almost anything else. They seldom stayed long in one place, toting their ramshackle presses from one cluster of shacks in the sagebrush to the next. In their papers, they glorified each new stopping place as the seed of a surging city, though in fact they often went bankrupt, and some of the towns themselves disappeared. Two San Francisco papers, the California Star and the Californian, folded overnight when the city was emptied by the 1848 gold rush. William J. Forbes, who published the Virginia City (Nev.) Daily Trespass, gave...