Old West gunslingers praised as backshooters by Tim McCoy
Tim McCoy, 85, told a Sun Valley conference on western films that gunslingers were rarely face to face. He described backshooting as cowardly. Yale historian Howard Lamar and UC professor Will Right spoke on how action films shape the West’s myth.
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Meyer on rescuing Holmes and making a career
Nicholas Meyer recalls turning down early offers before accepting a nine figure deal for a new Holmes tale. He then wrote The West End Horror mixing Holmes with Wilde and Shaw amid mixed reviews as he defends his growth as a writer.
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Writer's shift to author life after Guild strike
In 1973 a writer, exhausted by a day of picketing, chose to spend the interruption writing a book. He remembered his tired thoughts and restless mind guiding him toward a new literary path sparked by the strike.
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