Word: cowboying
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Monte: How's that gonna work out, you bein' a cowboy...
Chet: Nobody gets to be a cowboy forever...
...stage is almost bare. A few props rivet the playgoer's eye: an ancient desk piled high with books and yesterday's newspapers, a sawhorse with a Western saddle draped over it, a picture of a turn-of-the-century cowboy. Suddenly, a lecturer appears. He wears a coat. As he sheds the coat, he reveals to the audience that he is performing the eternal theatrical ritual, dropping the mask, assuming the myth, becoming the man. He pulls out a bandana and ties it around his neck. He gives his forelock a forward tug. Bowed of leg, lariat...
...tops is remarkably low. A 600-ring vest costs $60, a 1,000-ring stole goes for $100 and a 2,800-ring maxicoat sells for $350. The most recent creation, a picture hat with a raffia band, can be adjusted into shapes that range from a cowboy stetson to a Garbo cloche, and costs $50. At those prices, the pop-tops have become the sensation among Puerto Rico's livelier...
...both screenplay and directing in two pictures-Letter to Three Wives (1949), and All About Eve (1950)-ruefully admitted that big-budget movies, à la his Cleopatra, which cost $40 million, are now out. "What they would like my next four films to be," he said, "are Easy Cowboy, Midnight Rider, Cowboy Rider and Easy Midnight." Mankiewicz has apparently got the message. His latest film is a low-cost western called There Was A Crooked...