INTO THE SUNSET ROUNDUP A TRIBUTE TO YESTERDAY'S TELEVISION WESTERNS.Byline: DENNIS McCARTHY Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
STUDIO CITY - No telling for sure just how many times good guy Dale Robertson Dale Robertson (born Dayle Lamoine Robertson on July 14, 1923, in Harrah, Oklahoma, in Oklahoma County near Oklahoma City) is an American actor. Robertson started his career in the late 1940s while he was in the U.S. Army. shot and killed bad guy John Locke back when these two old cowboys rode across our TV screens. ``Dozens, I figure, because I always ended up face down in the dirt,'' Locke said, laughing as he greeted Robertson, the star of ``Tales of Wells Fargo Tales of Wells Fargo was a successful TV western series that ran from 1957 to 1962. It starred Dale Robertson as special agent Jim Hardie, noted at the time as "the lefthanded gun". Jack Nicholson starred in the episode "The Washburn Girl" that aired on Feb. 2, 1961. ,'' which ran on TV from 1957 to 1962. The two men and a few hundred of their partners were over at the Sportsman's Lodge in Verb 1. lodge in - live (in a certain place); "She resides in Princeton"; "he occupies two rooms on the top floor" occupy, reside move in - occupy a place; "The crowds are moving in" stay at - reside temporarily; "I'm staying at the Hilton" Studio City on Friday, getting ready for the annual Jim Roberts Jim Roberts can refer to
An inducement, using maximum incentives and financial benefits, for an older worker to take "voluntary" early retirement. Notes: A golden boot is usually offered by companies planning on downsizing or hiring new employees. Awards Saturday night in Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. , which will benefit the Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital in Woodland Hills. It's the Academy Awards of Westerns, only instead of an Oscar, they hand out a Golden Boot. And since not enough Westerns are being made these days to honor any single performances, the awards are given mainly for a lifetime of work in Westerns. Robertson, who lives in Oklahoma now, was emceeing the awards, but it was the roundup Friday night in the Valley that he was most looking forward to, he said. ``This here's the most fun because you get to see everybody, relax, and have a good time,'' he said, walking with bad guy Locke over to a new Cowboy Wall of Fame outside the Sportsman's Lodge Hotel restaurant, which has become the best place in the Valley - outside of the Autry Museum of Western Heritage - to get a taste of the old TV West. The wall features the exquisite oil paintings and granite engravings of famed Western celebrity artist Katie West, and while it is beautiful to take in, it is also bittersweet bittersweet, name for two unrelated plants, belonging to different families, both fall-fruiting woody vines sometimes cultivated for their decorative scarlet berries. . It makes you stop and realize just how many great, old cowboy stars we grew up with in our living rooms are gone, as is the TV Western itself. It makes men like Robertson, Locke and dozens of others walking around the Sportsman's Lodge on Friday in cowboy hats and boots - men who usually ended up face down in the dirt at the end of the show - almost like national treasures. ``They're the real McCoy Real McCoy, the probably originally McKay, a Scotch whisky; the term now alludes to the “first or best of its kind” or “the actual one.” [Pop. Culture: Payton, 409] See : Genuineness , these guys,'' said Frank Bagio, a Western fan from Arizona, who stood off to the side Friday, snapping Instamatic pictures of old cowboys he grew up cheering and booing on TV. ``They're passing on so fast, I brought my whole family with me for this roundup,'' he said. ``It could be the last one for some of these men.'' You only had to look at the roundup sign to see what he was talking about. It asked for good thoughts in the remembrance of Richard Farnsworth Richard W. Farnsworth (September 1, 1920 – October 6, 2000) was an Academy Award-nominated American actor. Biography Early life Farnsworth was born in Los Angeles, California to a housewife mother and an engineer father. , George Montgomery, Burt Kennedy and Dale Evans, all of whom have passed on since the previous roundup. ``We'll always revere Revere, city (1990 pop. 42,786), Suffolk co., E Mass., a residential suburb of Boston, on Massachusetts Bay; settled c.1630, set off from Chelsea and named for Paul Revere 1871, inc. as a city 1914. and cherish these people because they're our heritage and history,'' said Jim Roberts, who hosts the roundup. He started it about 15 years ago as a favor to his buddy Pat Buttram Emmett Maxwell "Pat" Buttram (June 19, 1915 in Addison, Alabama – January 8, 1994 in Los Angeles, California) was an American actor, famous for playing the sidekick of Gene Autry. He had a distinctive voice which, in his own words, "... never quite made it through puberty. - Gene Autry's old sidekick - who started the Gold Boot Awards in 1982. Buttram died in 1994. ``Pat said he had all these TV and movie cowboys coming in from all over the country for the awards, but they had nothing to do before the ceremonies,'' Roberts said. ``He asked me to put something together for them while they were here, so I started throwing a party the night before the awards, but it isn't affiliated with the Golden Boot in any way,'' he said. ``That first roundup we had 30 people. This one we'll have more than 650 eating buffalo burgers and enjoying some great entertainment,'' he said. These days, the fans outnumber the old cowboys at the roundup. ``They're people who love the old West and have heard about the roundup, word of mouth,'' Roberts said. ``They want to come here and meet men like Dale Robertson and John Locke, cowboys they grew up with on TV.'' A few feet away, Locke is smiling as he watches some fans approach Robertson and ask for his autograph. The good guys always get recognized first, he said, laughing. Just once, in all those years he rode across our TV screens - usually with a posse chasing him - he wishes he could have left the good guy lying face down in the dirt, the bad guy said. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- color) John Locke, a bad-guy actor on television Westerns, sits in front of his portrait Friday at the coffee shop of the Sportsman's Lodge in Studio City. (2 -- color) Katie West, the artist who painted the cowboy portraits at the Sportsman's Lodge, draws her gun in a mock showdown with cowboy Hank Decato. (3) Dale Robertson, left, poses with TV bad guy John Locke on Friday at the Sportsman's Lodge as a prelude to Saturday's Golden Boot Awards in Beverly Hills. Robertson was the star of ``Tales of Wells Fargo,'' which ran from 1957 to 1962. Charlotte Schmid-Maybach/Staff Photographer |
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