Playwright-Actor Sam
Sheppard Passes At 73
Zack James comment:
If one wanted the
perfect image of a man of the modern West (not the Left Coast West but, you know,
the Montana, Dakota, Wyoming, and the square states as the writer Thomas Wolfe
called them), a long, lanky, good-looking, cowboy good-looking,
straight-talking on the screen then for many years the image that came to my
mind first was that of Sam Sheppard. Knew his work as a playwright first, a
series of plays dealing with the foibles of modern life. But that screen image
of a modern Western man for a guy who spent a good part of his youth back in 1970s
looking for the great blue-pink American West Night after his oldest brother had
hipped him to the hard fact that there was something different about that West
than Eastern city boys had to contend with. RIP, Brother Sheppard, RIP
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