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Book Club: Discuss/find out about a Classic Tale Set in Wyoming: The Virginian
Front-Ranger:
I just realized I'm a lot like Em'ly myself, forever rolling a few stones or potatoes together to try to make a nest, only to have an exasperated cowpoke kick them apart again!! ::)
Monika:
I´m reading the "chicken chapter" now and it´s the best so far
Jeff Wrangler:
Kind of OT for the novel itself, but an interesting read about Owen Wister's grandmother, the actress and abolitionist Fanny Kemble Butler:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Kemble
Jane Seymour played her in a TV movie back around the turn of the century.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Tony-Ranger on August 19, 2011, 10:48:32 pm ---"Brokeback Mountain is not a conventional Western. Yet it is a Western to the same extent that Ridley Scott's Thelma and Louise and Wister's The Virginian are -- neither involves battles between cowboys and Indians but both are studies in gender difference within a nationalized landscape, which might be a broad definition of Westerns."
--- End quote ---
Shit, that's deep. ...
Jeff Wrangler:
Tonight Turner Classics is showing a 1946 movie version of The Virginian. Handsome, stalwart Joel McCrea is the Virginian, Sonny Tufts is Steve, Barabara Britton is the schoolmarm, and Brian Donlevy is Trampas.
I saw a preview on TV last night. You know Trampas is the Bad Guy because he's dressed all in black! :laugh:
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