MONTE WALSH Celebration Week: Bonus Article #1 | Monday, January 13, 2003
TOM SELLECK stars in
MONTE WALSH, an epic western
directed by Simon Wincer Premier AIR DATES Friday 1/17/2003 8pm and 10:30pm
Saturday 1/18/2003
8pm
Sunday 1/19/2003 8pm
Plot Summary:
In the final decade of the 1800s, Monte Walsh is the last of a dying breed a genuine cowboy an iconoclastic original, who experiences first hand the seismic changes that the era of a new technology has introduced. Eastern corporations are gobbling up Western land with little regard for the people who live and work there. They are deemed irrelevant and disposable. How one man fights back and the nature of his life-and-death struggle for survival is the story of MONTE WALSH.
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Related Reading Hot Biscuits:
Eighteen Stories from Women and Men of the Ranching West. edited by Max Evans (The Rounders, Hi-Lo Country) and Candy Moulton
"...Hot Biscuits, a serious book with a funny (but significant) title, is every bit as revolutionary and literary as [Owen] Wister's [The Virginian]. It is the first fresh approach to the Western in memory."Dale Walker, Former director of the Texas Western University Press and author of numerous books on the West, including the recent Pacific Destiny.
TOM SELLECK's Ongoing Dedication to the Western by Taylor Fogarty
Since its inception in 1999, the online log book for our Hey, Hollywood! Make More Westerns Internet campaign has been overflowing with daily comments from our readers, many of whom acknowledge and appreciate Tom Selleck's strong dedication to the western.
I recently asked Selleck where that dedication comes from.
You know, I have no idea., says Selleck. It's selfishit's an enlightened self interest.
Selleck didn't grow up on a ranch, but for a guy who was born in Detroit and grew up in a suburb in the San Fernando Valley, he actually makes for a very convincing cowboy on film. But hes quick to point out it wasnt always that way:
You know, I just did an A&E biography and I got some home movies of me at the pony ridesand it's pretty ugly stuff. He laughs.
So when exactly did the transformation from greenhorn to top hand begin?
"When I did a western mini-series, The Sacketts. I had to learn to ride for that movie and had to learn the whole idea of playing a cowboy. I loved it. But they weren't making a lot of [westerns], so subsequently Louie [L'Amour] wrote another book for usSam [Elliott] and Jeff Osterage, myself and Ben Johnsonespecially for us to do another movie, which was The Shadow Riders. So then I was hooked.
The public showers Tom Selleck with praise in our guestbook - read it!
Celebrate MONTE WALSH Week here with American Western Magazine!
Monday, January 13th: Tom Selleck's Ongoing Dedication to the Western Sample Tom Selleck quote: I just did an A&E biography and I got some home movies of me at the pony rides and it's pretty ugly stuff.
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Tuesday, January 14th: The Monte Walsh Miscellaneous Guy-Stuff Discussions: Firearm Props Sample Tom Selleck quote: The carbine Monte carries, the audience won't see it unless they look really close, but that's a very rare 1886 saddle ring carbine Winchester 50-110 Express...
Wednesday, January 15th: Quigley Down Under: The Future of Matthew Quigley Sample Tom Selleck quote about his character Matthew Quigley: I'd rather let the audience find out what went on in the time they've been away because they do love that character...
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