MOVIE, TV BAD GUYS SIDLE INTO TOWN.Byline: DENNIS McCARTHY Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
The bad guys started driftin' into town about high noon High Noon western film in which time is of the essence. [Am. Cinema: Griffith, 396–397] See : Wild West Thursday. Jim Roberts Jim Roberts can refer to
Behind them came black hats Jon Locke, Mike Forest, Morgan Woodard and dozens of other old TV and movie cowboys who spent long careers biting the dust for a living. A few of the good guys who shot them were there, too, but not many. 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. , star of TV's ``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 from 1957 to 1962, got into town a few hours ahead of Roy Rogers' old singing group, the Sons of the Pioneers. The present group of Pioneers are in town to receive the prestigious Golden Boot Golden Boot 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. award Saturday night. It's the equivalent of the Oscar for Western movies, and the Pioneers are getting the first Golden Boot ever awarded for music. It's a big, classy event at the Beverly Hilton and will benefit the Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital in Woodland Hills, so the bad guys have to be on their best behavior. But that won't be the case tonight over at the Sportsmen's Lodge, where they'll be blowing off steam at the annual Jim Roberts Roundup. ``This is where the fun starts,'' said bad guy Locke, who spent a career being killed by just about every good guy on TV. The night is a Western TV and movie lovers dream, a chance to rub elbows and eat buffalo burgers with some of the bad guys we grew up booing in our living rooms and dark movie theaters. Roberts started the event 16 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 Golden 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. The first roundup we had 30 people. Now we're drawing more than 600 people, eating buffalo burgers and enjoying some great entertainment. ``Now, the fans outnumber the cowboys,'' Roberts said. ``They're people who love the old West and want to meet men like Dale Robertson and John Locke, cowboys they grew up with on TV.'' For the bad guys, it's a chance to ``kick back, relax, catch up on old times, and tell some lies,'' Locke says. The roundup starts at 6 p.m., and for $15 you get buffalo burgers and all the lies you can stand. The Sons of the Pioneers are in the County Music, Western Music, and Grammy halls of fame, in addition to being declared a ``national treasure'' by the Smithsonian Institution. They will be at the roundup, but will not perform. At 6 p.m. Sunday, they will give their first concert in Los Angeles in more than 10 years at the Lodge, 12825 Ventura Blvd., Studio City. Tickets are $20 at the door. This year, the western harmony singing group that Roy Rogers started back in 1933 will be celebrating its 70th anniversary with an appearance at Carnegie Hall, a concert at the White House and a return visit to the Grand Ole Opry Grand Ole Opry, weekly American radio program featuring live country and western music. The nation's oldest continuous radio show, it was first broadcast in 1925 on Nashville's WSM as an amateur showcase. . But this weekend, the Valley has them and all those Western bad guys we loved to hate growing up. Stop by the Lodge and meet them, because the Smithsonian Institution is right on the money. They're all national treasures. Dennis McCarthy, (818) 713-3749 dennis.mccarthy(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Any of these faces familiar? As the villains in old Western movies and TV shows, they've been punched, kicked, shot at and otherwise abused by the guys in the white hats. Tom Mendoza/Staff Photographer |
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