"It never made any sense to put me in Westerns, because I never lost my ‘dem doity boids!’” Larry Tierney punched the end of his New Yorker-accented statement with a pull on his drink. We were sitting in a bar in Hollywood, nursing tall scotches and mulling Badman’s Territory, which he’d made in 1946, costarring with Randolph Scott. I knew Tierney for more than 20 years, and we had great times, and rough ones, before his passing in 2002. A true tough guy, he made his first headlines


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