Two decades ago, my fellow reporters and I were sitting in the Dallas Times Herald offices--or maybe we were in a sleazy bar near the newsroom--debating the casting of the forthcoming miniseries Lonesome Dove. Nobody had any problem with Robert Duvall. “But he should be Woodrow Call, not Gus McCrae,” was the general consensus. “He’s all wrong for Gus.” And Tommy Lee Jones as Call? “Sure, he was excellent in The Executioner’s Song, but he’s way too young. He doesn’t have t


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