When watching a movie, sometimes it’s easy to forget that those are real people behind the roles.
They bring to their characters their own embittered struggles and feelings of inadequacies, but ultimately, something inside reminds them of their strengths and pushes them to walk the line. Perhaps an Academy Award nomination triggers it.
For anyone, attempting to portray the legendary Man in Black is a difficult endeavor, but it would prove especially hard for 30-year-old Joaquin Pho

September 2005
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
More In This Issue
- Waist Deep in the Blues
- Splashing the (Drink) Pot
- Medicine River Trading Company
- Following Butch and Sundance
- Forgotten Trail of Texas Jack Omohundro
- Appearances Deceive
- Tom Mix or Lonesome Gus?
- Supermen and Women, Not Pygmies
- Anchored in the Land
- I’d like to learn more about outlaw One-Eye Billy Moore, who may be a distant relative of mine.
- Behind the Eight Ball
- In the Old West, was there ever a female peace officer?
- Can you tell me why stagecoaches are always painted red with yellow wheels and frames in the movies and on TV shows?
- Who was the soldier known to the Indians as Bad Hand?
- Deseret Saddlery