The Good News, Bad News No Country
An interview with star Tommy Lee Jones.
Categories: Westerns
By: Henry Cabot Beck 01/02/2008
Sometimes, but I don’t much mind studying on it. After all, there are some who put Star Wars in the genre and others who get off the train at Hopalong Cassidy.
Oh, I loved Hopalong Cassidy when I was a kid! One of the proudest days of my life was when ... my dad took me to town and it was in Rotan, Texas, a very small town, and we went into a store and [he] asked if there was anything I wanted. And there was a little sleeveless sweater that was woven, and it had Hopalong Cassidy on the front of it. And it was one of the proudest days of my life that my dad decided to buy me a Hopalong Cassidy sweater.
When I was a little kid, I thought Hopalong Cassidy was a hero. And he was.
He was.
And still is.
And that was all William Boyd. He made that happen. He was very shrewd.
I can’t imagine anybody doing a remake of Hopalong Cassidy because the audience is no longer there.
There are those who still see Hopalong Cassidy and Gene Autry as the template for what they feel Westerns ought to still be.
The fact is, life is not like that. It’s even less like that today than it was then.
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super super movie..much more engrossing than the original..kinda like it has been fleshed out and filled in..keeps you on the edge of your chair...