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Indeed it is. And Director Ford adds stars, subplots and other furbelows that crucially impede the action. Among them is a hilarious cameo performance by James Stewart, who right around intermission time pops up in Dodge City for an irrelevant but clearly intentional spoof of Wyatt Earp. He guzzles, gambles, wisecracks, finally rides his rig out to drive off the Injuns, cheered on by a wagonload of painted ladies...
...television image of the U.S. marshal is still the tall, lean figure of Wyatt Earp tossing hot lead in Dodge City...
...insane 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...
Married. Gloria Vanderbilt, 39, spotlighted heiress: and Wyatt Emory Cooper, 39, Hollywood scriptwriter (The Chapman Report); she for the fourth time (the others, in order: Actor's Agent Pat di Cicco, Conductor Leopold Stokowski, Director Sidney Lumet), he for the first; in a civil ceremony, in Arlington...