Its that time again.....

[Rick2583]

The 75+ club.....

7-01 - Jamie (Mash) Farr = 80
7-01 - Leslie (Gigi) Caron = 83
7-01 - Olivia DeHaviland = 98
7-04 - Gina Lollabridgida = 87
7-04 - Eva Marie Saint = 90
7-04 - Neil Simon = 87
7-07 - Doc (tonight show) Sevrenson 87
7-08 - Steve Lawrence = 79
7-11 - Tab (damn Yankees) Hunter = 83
7-12 - Bill Cosby = 77
7-17 - Donald Sutherland = 80
7-18 - Dion DiMucci = 75
7-24 - Ruth (laugh in) Buzzi = 78
7-27 - Jerry Van Dyke = 83

July history
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July 18th 1843 Virgil Earp. Was wounded during the famous gunfight at the O.K. coral (October 1881) when he was shot in the leg. 2 months later in December of 1881 in an assination attempt he was seriously wounded when a shotgun blast tore through his left arm. He died of pneumonia in goldfield Nevada on October 19th 1905. He was 62.

July 14th 1881 Henry McCarty AKA William Boney. Better known as Billy the kid was shot & killed by sheriff Pat Garrett. He was 21 years old.

July 22nd 1934 John Dillinger was shot & killed by the FBI while leaving the Biograph theater in Lincoln park Chicago. He was 31 years old.

 

[Mattingly23NY]

Have you ever seen the "Un-Cut" Sam Peckinpah film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kidd?

Not the version shown on TV for 40 years, or released at the theaters.

The original Peckinpah version was torn to shreds by the Producer, who loved nothing more than to take a great Director's film, and body of work, then edit it to his own liking.

Peckinpah was so pissed he did not want his name on the credits, tho' they appeared on the f'kd up version (which went to Theaters)...

The Original non-released version of PG & BTK, was found buried deep in vaults a few years back, and is a totally different and far superior film. It has many scenes not found in the Original. At the time in the mid 70s, the movie due to some frontal nudity would of garnered an X, an easy R rating by today's standards. FXX showed the film for the 1st time 3 summers ago, in its entirety, uncut, uncensored, and with no commercial interruptions, Its a Jewel of a western. A 3 hour long movie.

On top of that, the Movie Theater version had but a few short scenes with Bob Dylan, or the character "Alias" ("Alias who boy? Alias whatever you please Sir"). Dylan not only wrote the great Sound-Track, but appears in the Un-Cut version in a good part of the entire movie.

We played "Knockin On Heaven's Door" at my brothers funeral, (recall he was a Deputy)...as well as Jackson Browne's - "For A Dancer", and of course Sara McLachlan's "Angel"....

I still have to pull over when I'm driving & hear either of these tunes on the radio...!

 

[Rick2583]

Have you ever seen the "Un-Cut" Sam Peckinpah film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kidd?

Not the version shown on TV for 40 years, or released at the theaters.

The original Peckinpah version was torn to shreds by the Producer, who loved nothing more than to take a great Director's film, and body of work, then edit it to his own liking.

Peckinpah was so pissed he did not want his name on the credits, tho' they appeared on the f'kd up version (which went to Theaters)...

The Original non-released version of PG & BTK, was found buried deep in vaults a few years back, and is a totally different and far superior film. It has many scenes not found in the Original. At the time in the mid 70s, the movie due to some frontal nudity would of garnered an X, an easy R rating by today's standards. FXX showed the film for the 1st time 3 summers ago, in its entirety, uncut, uncensored, and with no commercial interruptions, Its a Jewel of a western. A 3 hour long movie.

On top of that, the Movie Theater version had but a few short scenes with Bob Dylan, or the character "Alias" ("Alias who boy? Alias whatever you please Sir"). Dylan not only wrote the great Sound-Track, but appears in the Un-Cut version in a good part of the entire movie.

We played "Knockin On Heaven's Door" at my brothers funeral, (recall he was a Deputy)...as well as Jackson Browne's - "For A Dancer", and of course Sara McLachlan's "Angel"....

I still have to pull over when I'm driving & hear either of these tunes on the radio...!

Yeah I did see it. they said that that was probably the most accurate movie made on the life of Billy the kid.