Steve Elliot
Thousand Oaks, CA
USA
18 Jan 2003
64.12.96.237
We started watching the 10:30 showing of Monte Walsh just to see what it might be like. I had no intention of staying up till 1 am to see the whole, thing, but once we started, we enjoyed it so much we couldn't go to sleep without finishing. Tom Selleck fits the role to a "t", and truly rides tall in the saddle. Keith Carradine did a nice job in his supporting role, and the casting was excellent overall. I would have liked seeing Sam Elliott in there too, but maybe next time. My wife generally doesn't care much for "westerns", but found this movie to be great. I'm sure looking at Tom for 2 and a half hours didn't hurt either. Keep up the good work, and keep this kind of entertainment coming. Thanks for this page and forum.

Cathy
Ft. Walton Beach, FL
USA
18 Jan 2003
68.1.27.165
Thanks for the [interview] with Tom Selleck as "Monte Walsh". If you missed it last night, be sure to see it !!! Tom Selleck is perfect in the part, as is the rest of this absolutely stellar cast. I laughed a lot and cried a lot. Fabulous film-making; the kind I've been missing !!

Bonnie
Mariposa, CA
USA
18 Jan 2003
64.118.106.88
My husband & I were really looking forward to the Monte Walsh movie and I'm sorry to say we were disappointed. We both love Westerns and we both think Tom Selleck is a wonderful actor and a fine person. Maybe we were expecting too much, but it seemed to be very slow going and I didn't feel much empathy for the characters. ...maybe we are way off base, but I'm wondering if anyone else felt the same way.

Vicki Matney
Prineville, OR
USA
18 Jan 2003
216.239.179.111
My husband and I have just finished watching Monte Walsh and Tom Selleck and his fine crew have done it again. Maybe even better. We hope that he continues to produce and star in westerns. They have all but faded away and it's so sad. We have always been Tom Selleck fans. He just gets better and better. His pairing with Keith Carradine was just the ticket.

"Doc" Hudson
Moorhead, MS
USA
18 Jan 2003
216.220.157.188
I have not read the rest of the guestbook, so I don't know what other folks thing of Mr. Selleck. And I have not yet had a chance to see Monte Walsh, but I do look forward to experiencing it. I do want to say that I think Tom Selleck is the finest Western actor still active and living. I also consider him to be the actor most interested in historical accuracy of the background of his movies. Furthermore, I consider Mr. Selleck to be a true gentleman. In his public and private life, I've never heard anyone other than rosie o'donnell who had anything bad to say about him. I'd very much like to make his acquaintance, he strikes me as a man who'd be a good companion in camp, field, or parlor.

Jodi B
Aurora, MN
USA
18 Jan 2003
67.1.241.229
What a great way to spend an evening watching a movie-I wish there were more Westerns to watch! Tom Selleck is not only sexy, he's a superb actor!

Alison Hiltabidle
Dayton, MD
USA
18 Jan 2003
64.24.94.94
I believe that continuing to make western movies is extremely important, especially with movies being made that are a much more accurate account of a very important part of American history. I also think that there should be more coverage of the Buffalo Soldiers, and the Native American and black cowboys. Only by remembering the past do we stand a chance of not repeating mistakes in the future.

Jim Thompson
Topeka, KS
USA
18 Jan 2003
68.102.180.191
Refreshing to see an authentic western movie. We need more of it and a hell of a lot less movies about drugs and unrealistic fire arms that shoot 50 times without reloading and every other word being the "F" word and cusring continuously.

Joy Dolan
Saugerties, NY
USA
18 Jan 2003
24.164.169.165
Mr. Selleck, If you want to do another weekly series... Why not a remake of Gunsmoke..I believe you would have a hit... we are all tired of the usual sitcoms.. Give it a try.

Delbert Gilbow
Santa Rosa, CA
USA
18 Jan 2003
208.201.230.32
That way of life is almost gone but the romance lives forever. I'm tired of murder, sex and mayhem in the movies. A good story is always welcome.

Helen McAlister
Huntsville, AL
USA
18 Jan 2003
204.30.236.38
...I don't like seeing bedroom scenes or cursing in ANYTHING and I especially am disappointed to see/hear that garbage in a highly touted TV program. "Monte Walsh" was no better. I was very disappointed to hear the language, but that was probably the way life really was back then which makes me so glad I didn't live then or especially there. ...Tom Selleck is my favorite--he has stature, presence, and magic... I flipped to something else every time there was something offensive in "Monte Walsh," but I really wanted to see Tom Selleck, so I watched a lot of it.

Steven Deppa
Eagan, MN
USA
18 Jan 2003
66.41.114.7
I love Westerns and hope that the movie studios get back to making them more often. But they need to be well done, with excellent stories and casts. Some of the Westerns of the past few years seem to be "pretty boys" on horses without any credibility or substance. And the stories are poor. I guess I am a bit old fashioned when it comes to the Westerns I like. This is Americana at its best and is a very important part of our heritage. With all that is happening in our country and around the world with regards to America and Americans, I believe that the movie-going audience is looking for something that makes them proud and makes them remember why this country came to be so great. A superb Western could do just that.

Shirley
Westchester, IL
USA
18 Jan 2003
64.12.96.76
Just saw Monte Walsh and loved every minute of it. As a 74 yr old woman who grew up on Westerns, It is so wonderful to see some people who still belive in making Westerns. Kudos to Tom Selleck -- May he keep making the kind of Westerns I love.

David Paul
Pineville, LA
USA
18 Jan 2003
63.102.10.171
More Western Movies need to be made as long as they are true to the period and realistic. I don't like charactors in Westerns that you can't, in some ways, identify with. If the story-line is plausible and the sets and clothing don't have that "Nitty Gritty Western Look" it is hard for me to get really involved in it. Give me something that is historically accurate with a good mix of real life drama and I will watch that Western over and over. Movies like Lonesome Dove, Unforgiven, Quigley Down Under, The Sacketts, and now Monte Walsh are good examples.

Chris C. Childress
Bellevue, NE
USA
18 Jan 2003
12.75.127.47
America needs more Westerns becuase of the values that are portayed in these films. There is an obvious right and wrong to these films. The code of the American Cowboy is one that all Americans should live by and the Western exposes them to it.

Jon Marinetti
Westland, Michigan
USA
18 Jan 2003
209.240.198.60
In these troublesome and dangerous times that we live in, all Americans need to be inspired and uplifted by the moral standards that a Heroic Western Movie can bring to the heart and soul of our nation.We must carry the legacy [others have] left us to teach the next generation. Thank God for Tom Selleck and others for helping keep the Spirit of The Old West alive forever!

Gary B. Sheldon
Grand Junction, CO
USA
18 Jan 2003
12.252.223.15
OKay so I had a problem seeing at end of MOnte Walsh where it was filmed. small print, other things came into view. I like the movie. Anyone figure out where it is filmedmostly. Wyoming, Montana, ?
Editor's note: MONTE WALSH was filmed in Canada.

Greg Forbes
Mobile, AL
USA
18 Jan 2003
12.218.248.85
Need movies that take us back to the roots of our country and what made us great. ...You guys in Hollywood need to get off your high horses and make some decent movies. One with morals and values and not those of today's Hollywood, but those that shaped our country when it was great! The morales and values that if we had stayed the course, this country would not be in the state of affairs that exist today.

Kristine Roades Lindemann
Madera, CA
USA
18 Jan 2003
209.107.147.123
I was raised on John Wayne movies, and those kinds of values. Tom Selleck/Sam Elliott movies are the next best thing to a John Wayne movie--they're comfort food in unsettling times. So guys, when are you going to film another Louis L'Amour? How about a film version of "The Lonesome Gods"??? Need more "cowboy comfort food!!" What's it going to take?

Melinda Jo Gray
Palmdale, Ca
USA
17 Jan 2003
63.93.68.247
I just read your interview with Tom Selleck, and was very impressed. I stumbled on your site from TNT.Tv, and thought I would "join up". I was born in the city but started riding horses at four years of age. So I grew up into a country girl. I was born to late. All things "Cowboy" have interested me from my first memories. I will be back to visit this site often.

Stephanie Holt
Springtown, Texas
USA
17 Jan 2003
65.177.0.231
I grew up on westerns like many have stated before, yet I saw in this movie what many people like to see. Someone believing in themselves and the rules they LIVE by and standing up for them. These rules don't degrade anyone or hurt anyone or force others to follow. We need more of that these days. Also, Tom Selleck can still make a horse look good!!!!!!!!!!!

Ron Jordison
Alexandria, LA
USA
17 Jan 2003
205.188.209.109
Watched Tom Selleck's "Monte Walsh" last night and it was superb. Hollywood needs to relive America's history whether fiction or non-fiction. I personally am sick and tired of lawyer and doctor stories on TV as well. Lets go back to the Old West folks.

Patrick Brody
Everett, WA
USA
17 Jan 2003
209.245.160.127
I've just finished watching Tom Selleck in, "Monte Walsh" back to back on TNT. This is another great Western offering by Mr. Selleck, giving the audience a believable character with a defined message of change, and adapting the best you can while sticking to your beliefs. The message is clear, the support actors are of believable personalities, and I will purchase this movie when offered on video. I already have Quigley Down Under, Last Stand at Saber River, The Shadow Riders, and Conagher. Congratulations to Tom Selleck for keeping the spirit of the Western pioneers alive for generations to admire in the image of, "Monte Walsh".

Chuckie L. Jay
Tamarac, FL
USA
17 Jan 2003
209.240.198.60
Love to see more Westerns please.

Mollie Johnson
Royal Palm Beach, Fl
USA
17 Jan 2003
206.215.145.160
I was as engrossed in Monte Walsh tonight as I was in the Lonesome Dove movies. We need more of this type of movie so that we can go back to our roots. I am so sick of the cops and Robbers and the "Let's bring the bad guy down" type of stuff that we have today. It seems as if each channel is a copy of the one before. Each channel has the good cop, bad cop routine or some over-sexed adults trying to get someone to marry them and the other channel has a family situation and this family has mouths worse that the worst of truck drivers. My point being that we need more quality shows like Monte Walsh, Lonesome Dove, etc. Most of our TV shows stink. Thank God that someone still realizes what a real movie should be and has the decency to make an improvement in the quality of material seen on TV.

Tammy T. Teague
Lenoir, NC
USA
17 Jan 2003
66.190.149.34
I loved MONTE WALSH I hope that Tom Selleck and others continue to do westerns. They are my favorite kind of movie. Just found this site it is very informative. I love things about the west and cowboys and cowgirls. And HORSES!

BARNARDSVILLE, NC
USA
17 Jan 2003
205.188.209.40
I THINK THIS SITE IS GREAT . IT'S ALSO GREAT TALKIN' ABOUT WESTERNS LIKE MONTE WALSH IT'S THE BEST MOVIE . AND TOM SELLECK HAS THE BEST LINES IN THE MOVIE . THE PEOPLE MAKIN' THE MOVIE COULD NOT HAVE FOUND A BETTER ACTOR .
Editor's Reply: Tom Selleck is not only an actor in this movie, but as executive producer of Monte Walsh, he WAS one of  the people making the movie and we're sure he's also delighted with his selection for the lead part.   ;>)

Jack Bassler Sr.
Folcroft, Pa.
USA
17 Jan 2003
68.81.246.29
show the kids today more of how it was for people to trust and work and help each other

Dorothy
Fort Worth, TX
USA
17 Jan 2003
65.56.120.118
Re: The TNT offering of Monte Walsh. I loved it. I think this is better by far than the big screen version some years back starring Lee Marvin...and I liked the original movie very much. My hat's off to Tom Selleck and all who brought this to the screen. Fine acting all the way around. I think this movie will be popular around the world--not just here in Texas. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL INVOLVED! SALUTE!

Marlene Stone
Altoona, PA
USA
17 Jan 2003
64.12.96.237
I grew up on westerns, The Durango Kid, Wild Bill Elliott, Al "Lash" LaRue and Sunset Carson were the first ones I remember, then came John Wayne and my favorite, Gary Cooper. Who can forget him in High Noon. Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott are the western heroes of today. Please, please keep the westerns coming. The movies Hollywood are putting out today are mostly trash.

linda korsiak
santa rosa, ca
USA
17 Jan 2003
209.204.160.103
I love Westerns because they are outdoors, require more that acting ability, tell a great story, and inspire the values that are fast disappearing. It has been my privledge to know some of the western actors of the 1950's and they lived the code. We all need to be reminded of where we came from and take the good things forward into our daily lives. Westerns gave me my ethics and a love of the cowboy way. It's a hard way, but good and fair. The world should honor a handshake.

Jack Lichtenstein
Potomac, MD
USA
17 Jan 2003
68.48.158.209
America has welcomed cultures from all over the world. But the Western is our unique story. For decades, it has captured the imagination of peoples abroad. It is dirty, mean and depressing. It is grand, heroic and uplifting. It is us just a century ago. My grandfather, whom I well remember, was born a year before Custer marched to the Little Bighorn. How could I not thrill to stories of life as it was when my father's father was a small boy? I am linked to that past through him. It is that way for almost all of us. Thank you.

Elizabeth J. Landreville
Hessel, MI
USA
17 Jan 2003
65.163.90.98
I have always loved Westerns. I have been collecting them for as long as I can remember. I grew up watching John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, and many more. I would love to see more westerns on TV and on the BIG SCREEN. Tom Selleck has been my favorite actor for many years. I loved him in Magnum, but his westerns have always been my favorite. A few weeks ago I bought "Crossfire Trail" and have watched it again and again. I started looking around for more of his westerns, The Sacketts, The Shadow Riders, Quigley Down Under, and Last Stand at Saber River. Tom is a great actor and his protrayal of the American Cowboy is Great. I have been looking forward to his new movie, Monte Walsh for weeks. Please make more Westerns. I'd love to see a Western TV Series. Keep up the good work Tom. :)

Bobb Cramer
Grand Junction, co
USA
17 Jan 2003
12.252.196.173
what is more American than a good real western. Hollywood needs to produce more good westerns full of good morals and fighting for the right of freedom in this country. I live in the west and a part that still is very true to that ideology. people wearing boots and hats and hard working ranchers and ranch hands are every where. It's where the battle of the elements is very real out where I live. Hollywood needs to produce more westerns showing us what the men and woman of the old west had to endure. I don't think many in this country could live the way they had to. And maybe we need to learn again how to live that way in the view of the way this world is headed maybe the simple things in life need to return and the technology need to dissapear... Long live the West the real West

Gary S. Kyker
Newport, TN
USA
17 Jan 2003
207.65.109.174
We need more Westerns that show the values that made this Country great. Too much super sensationalism, get back to the basic. People like Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott were born to star in Westerns.

Patricia Kendall
Paulden, AZ
USA
17 Jan 2003
12.83.82.211
Excellent articles on Tom Selleck. Excellent online magazine. I thoroughly enjoy it.

W F McLendon
Stone Mountain
USA
17 Jan 2003
205.188.209.40
Just manage somehow to keep this stuff coming - Selleck is in the mold of James Stewart in Winchester 73, in fact he could redo it

David W. Wims
Maryville, Tennessee
USA
17 Jan 2003
66.191.251.158
Most everyone before me has said it all. They have expressed quite well the need and desire for the Western, and the values good Westerns have a way of teaching. I was very fortunate to be a child in Texas during the Golden years of Westerns. I know they have helped shape me in a positive manner. Where would I be now without knowing that I had the advice, encouragement, and belief in my future abilities from heros such as Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart, and John Wayne? Hollywood....Bring Back Good Westerns!!! Thank you for this forum.
Editor's Reply: And Thank YOU, and all others, for becoming an active part of it!

Howard Bogus
Florence, Al
USA
17 Jan 2003
64.12.96.76
What I like about Tom Selleck is his detail to period and the type of tack and guns used. have always love westerns and will love thm until I die. I like Tom and the characters he portrays, he makes them come alive and the story does him justice. People pay more attention to what what an actor wears and everything in the movie. I do civil War reenactments and Cowboy Mounted Shooting and pay attention to what an actor wears. Anyway, Tom, I salute you and all the others who make the WESTERN.

G. EDWARDS
VERO BEACH, FL
USA
17 Jan 2003
205.188.209.74
LOVE WESTERNS -- IT IS THAT SIMPLE. KEEP GOING.

Jim Holmes
Kalamazoo, Mi
USA
17 Jan 2003
67.37.40.10
I love anything that pertains to the old west. Thanks for chance to cry out for more good westerns to be made, hope Hollywood listens. Your online magazine is tops, keep it coming.

Sylvia Parker
Clovis, NM
USA
17 Jan 2003
65.247.158.106
Like the "one-on-one" celebrity interview. Can't get enough westerns on TV much less actors who care enough for that era. "Bring it on" Tom Selleck, it'd be great to see you, Sam Elliott and Wilford Brimley again...keep up the great work...we can tell it's from your heart! New Mexico-it's a great place to live....and a great place to film movies....just ask the Duke! LET'S GET WESTERN!

Ray Bowman
Frankfort, KY
USA
17 Jan 2003
162.114.211.143
From my first viewing of "Phar Lap" and "The Man From Snowy River," I realized that no one could film horses like Simon Wincer. At the risk of pidgeon-holing these two fine talents, I feel Wincer and Tom Selleck are the contemporary John Ford and Duke Wayne. "Crossfire Trail" certainly underscored that. I look forward to "Monte Walsh" and hope that this dynamic duo has more tricks up their sleeves. Western films are a classic genre that have proven themselves time and time again. Climb out of the gutter, Hollywood, and give the public what it really wants and needs...quality westerns that just might help this country reset its moral and ethical compass. Saddle Up!

Jackie Wisherd
La Mesa, CA
USA
17 Jan 2003
198.81.27.7
I grew up going to the Saturday movies and watching what in today's standards would be "C" movies but they instilled in me a love of western movies that has lasted my lifetime. Will our young people of today be able to say this-I think not.They will tire of the drugs, sex, violence and blow'em ups that are produced today. Bring back the Westerns, give out youngsters a chance to see how people carved out the great country we have today.

Everett Blix
Sacramento, CA
USA
17 Jan 2003
66.81.58.221
I am an Old West reenactor for fun and also a casting director for a living. From my experience I find that people love westerns in particular when they have a good story and human drama attached. Life is complicated today and many wish for a less complicated lifestyle. The Old West is a most important part of our history. Westerns not only give the public an escape into a simpler way of life but educate the public as to how this country evolved. Perhaps some of the old fashion values, once commonplace, may reappear with positive results.

Les McCullin
Pryor, Ok
USA
17 Jan 2003
205.240.136.191
I love the magazine, and especially the stories about Tom Selleck. He is the ultimate Cowboy! Thanks!!

Steve Grice
Youngstown , Fl
USA
17 Jan 2003
150.176.68.24
Hey Hollywood,  please make more quality Westerns. Lonesome Dove was probably one of the best films ever made. I wish a film like this could come to the big screen. Remember the success of Dances with Wolves and Unforgiven. People will watch a good Western. Don't blame the genre, blame the movie itself for the recent unsuccessful westerns that have hit the big screen. I can guarantee you that if a western is made of the same quality as Lonesome Dove it will be a smash hit. People are thirsting for this.

Adrienne Johnson
W. Babylon, NY
USA
17 Jan 2003
155.104.248.12
What does Hollywood know? They put out go much junk, I rarely bother to even go to the movies. They think if it has drugs, sex, nudity, cursing, extra loud music, its good. I think most people are tired of paying money for garbage. Thank God for Tom Selleck, he makes good movies and he is really nice to watch.

Tony Gascho
Battle Ground, In
USA
17 Jan 2003
205.156.215.9
I think the kids today still need the values that westerns gave us growing up. I am 55 and a member of the Single Action Shooting Society so I can still play cowboys any weekend. Make us more westerns please!

The Jones Family
Mount Vernon, OH
USA
17 Jan 2003
209.115.44.103
Please give us movies with real heroes, beautiful vistas of the American West, working horses, and romance (not just sex). Nothing ties these great themes together like a good old-fashioned Western.

Martha Adams
Morristown, Tn
USA
17 Jan 2003
152.163.189.234
Hey out there! Just what could be more AMERICAN than a good Western? Right? Give us more quality flicks about some of our first American heros! The American Cowboy was for some of us our first taste of what freedom of will and adventure was all about. From our prarie idols we learned the meaning of friendship and honor. We saw that our dreams could come true if we worked hard and believed in our selves! Lets give our youngest viewers a look at what America used to stand for!

Betty Lynch
Guilford, Maine
USA
17 Jan 2003
66.252.37.76
It would be really nice to see something besides freak and si-fi.How about some real old down home stuff--like westerns.

Joanne Anderson
Shell, WY
USA
17 Jan 2003
216.166.161.192
MORE WESTERNS!! I love the classic westerns - and never tire of them! Kind of like Louis L'Amour books - you can read them or watch them over and over again - but would love some more of the Sackett movies or the L'Amour series... Leave off all the BS from the "weird" movies and programs you have put on the air with the attitudes & foul language. Just give me a good western!!!

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