Few movie producers can claim to being enshrined on the surface of the moon. Larry Zeug is the exception: “When I worked at Rocketdyne, I was in the...
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IN THE WORKS
Tommy Lee Jones will be starring, directing and writing an adaptation of Glendon Swarthout’s classic novel The Homesman, costarring Meryl Streep and...
Heaven’s Gate
Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate is more than a movie; since its release in 1980, the title and legendary extravagances of the writer/director have...
McLintock! Memories
It’s the movie people always ask me about. ‘Oh, I love John Wayne, but McLintock! has to be my favorite!’” Actor Ed Faulkner punctuates this...
Monogram Cowboy Collection, Vol. 2
When Monogram Pictures was formed in 1931, new Poverty Row studios were opening their doors on an almost weekly basis. Everyone was scrambling for...
A New Yawk Jesse James
"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...
Something Big
Imagine charming outlaw Dean Martin kidnapping gorgeous Honor Blackman in a battle of the sexes that includes low comedy, fights (gun, fist and...
Honoring Elmore
The success of FX’s Justified, created by Graham Yost from Elmore Leonard’s short story “Fire in the Hole,” is by now as familiar as Raylan Given’s...
Fifty Years of The Virginian
On September 19, 1962, The Virginian made its debut on NBC, and 50 years later, this seminal series was honored at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles,...
The Mean-Nice Man
Before his extraordinary career as director of more than 500 hours of television, including 62 episodes of Dallas and 70 of Walker, Texas Ranger,...
The 5-Man Army
When the stunning Italian horror film Suspiria was released in 1977, audiences and critics cheered the arrival of a new genre stylist in...
The Soul of Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino has called his upcoming film Django Unchained a “Southern,” as it takes place in the South, moments before the first shots were...