MONTE WALSH Celebration Week: Bonus Article #4 | Thursday, January 16, 2003
TOM SELLECK stars in
MONTE WALSH, an epic western
directed by Simon Wincer
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.
Tom Selleck
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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 &Internet Rumor Control: Is It True That... by Taylor Fogarty
Aside from the speculation surrounding a Quigley Down Under sequel (as addressed in a previous article), there are two names that almost always surface in any interview with Tom Selleck, those being of his long-time pal Sam Elliott, and Thomas Magnum (Selleck's Magnum PI persona).
Internet Rumor #1:
Is it true you plan to team up again with Sam Elliott and do a western together?
Says Selleck, We started together in the business at 20th Century Fox, we were both under contract there together. Weve done two movies (The Sacketts,The Shadow Riders) and Ive talk to Sam about it, and hes talked to me about it, so were always looking.
Well find something because weve got to do at least three [films together], Selleck insists, and I cant think of anybody Id rather do a western with.
The audience certainly feels the same way. Should Selleck and Elliott partner up again on a Western, there's no doubt the public's response to the project would be B-I-G in a very huge way. But until Selleck's magic of three is realized, it looks like folks will have to settle for watching the Selleck/Elliott team in The Sacketts again, which happens to be part of TNT's western roundup during premier weekend.
Internet Rumor #2:
Theres a movie site in the U.K. that is reporting that a Magnum PI feature film may be released in 2004. You wanna confirm that or quell it?
Taken by surprise, Selleck stammers for a moment. "Uh, well....somebody better call me." He laughs. "Ill probably have to be in it, unless they recast the role, and I dont think theyre going to get very rich doing that.
"Ive heard nothing about it," he confirms. "Id be interested in it if they did [plan a feature film], but its going to have to be a good script. People seem to want to see [Magnum on the big screen] and the studios ought to realize that.
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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 Talk: 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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