ROBERT DUVALL (1931 – ) [Robert Duvall says the work he is most proud of (by far) is his role as the former Texas Ranger Augustus McCrae in the outstanding 1989 mini-series Lonesome Dove]: ‘Everybody likes to win’. One of the biggest disappointments was when I didn’t get an […]
LONESOME DOVE (1989) – A Mini-Series masterpiece. Larry McMurtry wrote Lonesome Dove in 1971 as a movie script. His intention was for John Wayne to play Woodrow Call, James Stewart to portray Gus McCrae, and Henry Fonda to hold down the Jake Spoon role. Hot director Peter Bogdanovich was to […]
Robert Duvall & Tommy Lee Jones as Gus & Woodrow There have been a number of very good mini-series on television over the years. Band of Brothers (2001) was one of the better ones, albeit a bit too violent for my taste. Sort of like Saving Private Ryan (1998), quite […]
They say that movie ‘chemistry’ strikes every now and then, and when it does it lights up the screen. The people that make these kinds of decisions are forever mixing and matching, trying to find a combination that just ‘clicks’ with audiences. And it does not always have to […]
As a follow-up to the Nielsen Ratings of the very top TV shows year by year in the USA, I thought I might take a crack at listing MY favourite programs down the decades. Not one of them reached the top, by the way. I have also highlighted the […]
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