RARA-AVIS: OT (sort of): Happy Trails
James & Livia Reasoner (liviajames@itexas.net)
Mon, 6 Jul 1998 22:15:00 -0500
Well, I can't let the death of Roy Rogers pass without saying
something
about it. I grew up in the Fifties watching him on television,
and I
watched all the movies again a few years ago and enjoyed them
even more.
Many of the later ones directed by William Witney even approach
hardboiled
status (what villain could be more hardboiled than Roy
Barcroft?) and some
of them were written by John K. Butler, who wrote a lot of
stories for the
mystery pulps. I know there's a Butler story in Goulart's _The
Hardboiled
Dicks_, and there may be some in other anthologies.
I think it says a lot about Roy that he was just about the
only one of the
singing cowboys who was liked and respected by the stuntmen
-- and they
were a pretty hardboiled bunch, too!
Still not really on-topic . . . but damn it, I liked
Roy.
James Reasoner
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