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Urban Cowboy is a 1980 American romantic Western film directed by James Bridges. The plot concerns the love-hate relationship between Buford "Bud" Davis ( John Travolta ) and Sissy ( Debra Winger ). The film's success was credited for spurring a mainstream revival of country music . [ 2 ]
The song was written during the Urban Cowboy fad [7] while living with his wife in Manhattan next to a gay country bar on Christopher Street called Boots and Saddles. He explains, "Gay life in 1981 was very vibrant in those days. It was part of the culture of the city and cowboy imagery is a part of gay iconography." He wrote the song with ...
Bridges was born February 3, 1936, in Little Rock, Arkansas and grew up in Paris, Arkansas. [1] His mother was Celestine Wiggins, his sister was Mary Ann Wiggins, and his life partner from 1958 until his death was actor, librettist, screenwriter, and producer Jack Larson.
Madolyn Smith (born April 21, 1957) is a retired American actress, known for her roles in the films Urban Cowboy (1980), 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), and Funny Farm (1988). Career [ edit ]
Hee Haw Honky Tonk – With the Urban Cowboy craze in full swing in the early 1980s, Hee Haw answered with its very own Urban Cowboy-esque honky-tonk (even Buck Owens developed an Urban Cowboy look by growing a beard and donning a cowboy hat, and kept this image for the next several seasons). The sketch was a spinoff of "Pickin' and Grinnin ...
James Richard Gammon (April 20, 1940 – July 16, 2010) was an American actor, known for playing grizzled "good ol' boy" types in numerous films and television series. . Gammon portrayed Lou Brown, the manager in the movies Major League and Major League II, fictionalized versions of the Cleveland In
The Cowboy and the Frenchman: David Lynch: Harry Dean Stanton, Frederic Golchan, Jack Nance, Tracey Walter, Michael Horse, Rick Guillory, Patrick Houser, Marie Laurin, Eddy Dixon, Leslie Cook, Talisa Soto: United States: Short comedy Western Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge: Richard Compton
Part of the American Film Institute's 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 quotations in American cinema. [1] The American Film Institute revealed the list on June 21, 2005, in a three-hour television program on CBS .