(np) interesting stuff about that Larry McMurtry, Mark!

[Mark Kohut]

Yeah, Bogdanovich did a faithful and good job on the movie. I also suggest
reading McMurty
on 'the movies', on Hollywood, about that weekend he went to movies all day
Saturday and Sunday
in Times Square and wrote about it/them.

On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 1:55 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Mark Kohut shared that Larry McMurtry (1936-2021) wrote impressively about
> women.
>
> Requiescat in pace as Dave Monroe (requiescat in pace) used to say…
>
> Saw The Last Picture Show, but haven’t read any of his work. The more fool
> I!
>
>  He had a great big bookstore.
>
> After we watched The Last Picture Show my dorm
> roommate who was Catholic said it was a shame that wife went to bed with
> that kid, “she had a good thing going with her marriage,” and I, a little
> surprised that anyone would think that, said a couple things like it wasn’t
> that great of a marriage though…
>
> What I walked away with in mind was that little kid with the turned around
> cap, the name “Sam the Lion” (cool sobriquet, nicht wahr?) who reminded me
> later of the proprietor of this coffee shop I used to sit in and write
> crappy prose by the hour because of a sweet waitress, and Cybill Shepherd
> saying to the guy who’s making a big deal out of them having gone to a
> motel and done it, “I’ll bet you didn’t even do it right!”
>
> So if the movie was that memorable (3 items held since 1973, 4 if you count
> Ron’s reaction) I imagine the books to be even better.
>
> Good on ya, Mark, for diversifying the stacks!
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