A year or so ago I went to a play starting dana Delaney and cowritten by Dana Delaney where she played herself getting catfished by a cancer kid which is apparently a real life thing that really happened to her and was maybe peter Gallagher’s fault. And it was a very weird play but also good too because it was weird!! I as a baby gen x who was familiar with the show catfish figured out almost immediately that it was about being catfished but the mostly boomer audience around me lost their minds at the end of act one when the catfish was revealed (it was coach biest from glee).
I grew up in Tucson and my friend’s mom worked on costuming for Tombstone, which made him a minor celebrity at school. Through him I also learned that Sharon Stone (The Quick and The Dead was also filmed in Tucson) has a giant scar across her neck from an accident when she was a child that required a lot of makeup to cover. This was PRIME information to obtain before the internet.
Like so many others, Tombstone is my favorite movie of all time. You have put into words every single janky moment that I have learned, over dozens of viewings, not to question. Spectacular. Also Dana Delaney is wonderful but this role is NOT IT.
I’m soooo happy to get another Butt News, and especially happy that you did this one! Tombstone is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I was not into western movies as a kid either. DEFINITELY a pure love story between Doc and Wyatt. I watched it at least 50 times from childhood through high school, no joke. Had the VHS. It’s def the reason I was obsessed with Val Kilmer my entire life.
One random thing though, if you go back to the part where Stinky Willy kills the Marshall in the middle of town, I strongly believe he does it on purpose! At the very last second he gets this shitty, purposeful look in his eye, then as he goes to “give the Marshall his guns”, he turns his gun up at an angle and shoots him. Then he starts saying “Fred, Fred” like he did it on accident, so he would be in less trouble. A total shithead! If you decide to go back and watch that part again (I’m fairly sure you neither care about that minor, useless detail, nor do you have the time, but just in case 😂), please let me know if you think I am tripping or if you agree.
Final random side note: although Val Kilmer was OF COURSE the one I rooted for because Doc is perfect, I did have a liiiittle bit of a hard time not also loving Johnny Ringo, due to yet another extreme obsession of mine: Kyle Reese from The Terminator. Sigh.
Okay! I finally read this Butt News and I TOOK NOTES! Go go gadget autism! Thoughts roughly in the order they occurred to me as I read through the post!
- I once lost a bet with my older brother about Billy Bob Thornton being in this movie, because I only initially recognized BBT from after he got reeeeeeeeally skinny.
- I don't think I thought about how gay this movie is before but you're of course absolutely correct.
- My mother wouldn't let me see Mortal Kombat in 1995 because I was only 12 and it was PG-13 but by that time I had easily seen Tombstone like a dozen times, a movie in which dozens of murders happen in-frame.
- All the Deadwood asides are well-deserved, aside from the cast in common, as Deadwood was what if the Sopranos was Tombstone and also written by Shakespeare if he were a chuckwagon cook.
- You can't say someone is "new in town" like Jason Priestly's character and not have John Mulaney say that phrase inside my head.
- I know you called him Stinky Willy and that is very funny, but Curly Bill Brocius is A GREAT NAME.
- Twirling a gun is difficult as guns are not technically built for such a thing. You can only do it with a single-action revolver (those which require you to manually pull back the hammer, then pull the trigger to fire, as opposed to double-action, which can fire only by pulling the trigger). The point of twirling a gun is that it is basically baton twirling for guys who don't want to seem gay. I have an older brother who has dabbled in it. Yes, he's Republican, how did you guess.
- Gives me goosebumps even now to even READ the line "you called down the thunder well now you've got it!"
- Guy who says to Doc, "Hell, I got lotsa friends" is none other than actor and ARTIST Buck Taylor, who has been in stuff since 1961. He was born in 1938 and is still kickin', even has four forthcoming projects! I remember him mostly because every year that I can remember, he always had a booth at the Fort Worth Livestock Show and Exposition where he'd be selling his artwork (originals and prints), and there was always a small television playing his Tombstone reel. Has Buck Taylor been in Yellowstone? Of course he has. Cowboys and Aliens? You bet. The original The Fugitive television series? Also yes. Knots Landing, General Hospital, The Fall Guy? Yep. He's done it all. Best title I spotted in his lengthy resumé? Rodeo and Juliet. Buck Taylor, Hollywood icon, one of the last surviving regulars of Gunsmoke. (his website is charming as hell. I've no idea of his politics but he went to art school in Los Angeles sooooo ????)
I had never seen this movie but fortuitously (which means luckily) my local independent theater happened to be showing it this week! What a weird movie, Val Kilmer definitely is the MVP. I did not care about the love story, at all. Also! According to Wyatt Earps wiki he never divorced his original wife even when she asked for one so she could marry someone else! She ran off with that guy anyway and HE abandoned her. She ended up becoming a prostitute and died of an opium overdose at 37! Justice for this poor woman!
I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder than I laughed when I read “one shared part-time job.” My husband and I couldn’t breathe for ten minutes. I’m not exaggerating. You are the funniest person in history!
Lindy I’ve been saving this one to read at an opportune moment and that moment happened to be on Stephen Lang’s birthday!! Fortuitous! (That means lucky.)
You know, because everyone had that phase as a kid where they learned all about outlaws (criminals) and gunfighters (serial murderers), right? Or is that just me?
Isn't the huckleberry line in there twice? First time when Doc interrupts some Earps and Cowboys having words in the street?
But also yes this movie is such a trip and this recap/review nails it.
Yeah I think that’s right! He also says “you’re a daisy if you do,” which I criminally left out.
A year or so ago I went to a play starting dana Delaney and cowritten by Dana Delaney where she played herself getting catfished by a cancer kid which is apparently a real life thing that really happened to her and was maybe peter Gallagher’s fault. And it was a very weird play but also good too because it was weird!! I as a baby gen x who was familiar with the show catfish figured out almost immediately that it was about being catfished but the mostly boomer audience around me lost their minds at the end of act one when the catfish was revealed (it was coach biest from glee).
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I grew up in Tucson and my friend’s mom worked on costuming for Tombstone, which made him a minor celebrity at school. Through him I also learned that Sharon Stone (The Quick and The Dead was also filmed in Tucson) has a giant scar across her neck from an accident when she was a child that required a lot of makeup to cover. This was PRIME information to obtain before the internet.
I lived in Tucson for 5 years as an adult and drove down to Tombstone a suspicious number times due to my obsesh with this movie!
Like so many others, Tombstone is my favorite movie of all time. You have put into words every single janky moment that I have learned, over dozens of viewings, not to question. Spectacular. Also Dana Delaney is wonderful but this role is NOT IT.
I’m soooo happy to get another Butt News, and especially happy that you did this one! Tombstone is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I was not into western movies as a kid either. DEFINITELY a pure love story between Doc and Wyatt. I watched it at least 50 times from childhood through high school, no joke. Had the VHS. It’s def the reason I was obsessed with Val Kilmer my entire life.
One random thing though, if you go back to the part where Stinky Willy kills the Marshall in the middle of town, I strongly believe he does it on purpose! At the very last second he gets this shitty, purposeful look in his eye, then as he goes to “give the Marshall his guns”, he turns his gun up at an angle and shoots him. Then he starts saying “Fred, Fred” like he did it on accident, so he would be in less trouble. A total shithead! If you decide to go back and watch that part again (I’m fairly sure you neither care about that minor, useless detail, nor do you have the time, but just in case 😂), please let me know if you think I am tripping or if you agree.
Final random side note: although Val Kilmer was OF COURSE the one I rooted for because Doc is perfect, I did have a liiiittle bit of a hard time not also loving Johnny Ringo, due to yet another extreme obsession of mine: Kyle Reese from The Terminator. Sigh.
This movie makes no sense and I love every last thing about it
…and the baby looked at me. *snort*
Okay! I finally read this Butt News and I TOOK NOTES! Go go gadget autism! Thoughts roughly in the order they occurred to me as I read through the post!
- I once lost a bet with my older brother about Billy Bob Thornton being in this movie, because I only initially recognized BBT from after he got reeeeeeeeally skinny.
- I don't think I thought about how gay this movie is before but you're of course absolutely correct.
- My mother wouldn't let me see Mortal Kombat in 1995 because I was only 12 and it was PG-13 but by that time I had easily seen Tombstone like a dozen times, a movie in which dozens of murders happen in-frame.
- All the Deadwood asides are well-deserved, aside from the cast in common, as Deadwood was what if the Sopranos was Tombstone and also written by Shakespeare if he were a chuckwagon cook.
- You can't say someone is "new in town" like Jason Priestly's character and not have John Mulaney say that phrase inside my head.
- I know you called him Stinky Willy and that is very funny, but Curly Bill Brocius is A GREAT NAME.
- Twirling a gun is difficult as guns are not technically built for such a thing. You can only do it with a single-action revolver (those which require you to manually pull back the hammer, then pull the trigger to fire, as opposed to double-action, which can fire only by pulling the trigger). The point of twirling a gun is that it is basically baton twirling for guys who don't want to seem gay. I have an older brother who has dabbled in it. Yes, he's Republican, how did you guess.
- Gives me goosebumps even now to even READ the line "you called down the thunder well now you've got it!"
- Guy who says to Doc, "Hell, I got lotsa friends" is none other than actor and ARTIST Buck Taylor, who has been in stuff since 1961. He was born in 1938 and is still kickin', even has four forthcoming projects! I remember him mostly because every year that I can remember, he always had a booth at the Fort Worth Livestock Show and Exposition where he'd be selling his artwork (originals and prints), and there was always a small television playing his Tombstone reel. Has Buck Taylor been in Yellowstone? Of course he has. Cowboys and Aliens? You bet. The original The Fugitive television series? Also yes. Knots Landing, General Hospital, The Fall Guy? Yep. He's done it all. Best title I spotted in his lengthy resumé? Rodeo and Juliet. Buck Taylor, Hollywood icon, one of the last surviving regulars of Gunsmoke. (his website is charming as hell. I've no idea of his politics but he went to art school in Los Angeles sooooo ????)
I had never seen this movie but fortuitously (which means luckily) my local independent theater happened to be showing it this week! What a weird movie, Val Kilmer definitely is the MVP. I did not care about the love story, at all. Also! According to Wyatt Earps wiki he never divorced his original wife even when she asked for one so she could marry someone else! She ran off with that guy anyway and HE abandoned her. She ended up becoming a prostitute and died of an opium overdose at 37! Justice for this poor woman!
This is a MAGA movie! No due process in sight! Dudes supposed to be on the good side just because they have badges! Insane! I loved it
I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder than I laughed when I read “one shared part-time job.” My husband and I couldn’t breathe for ten minutes. I’m not exaggerating. You are the funniest person in history!
thank you for making Double D's role in this film palatable because it's always been the worst thing about it IMO!!!
Lindy I’ve been saving this one to read at an opportune moment and that moment happened to be on Stephen Lang’s birthday!! Fortuitous! (That means lucky.)
LINDY, I found your soap dispenser on eBay: https://ebay.us/m/sRb8Dw and there’s a bunch more of them if you search “Boraxo soap dispenser”!!!
I have to get going with my day but I am gonna read the hell outta this because LINDY DO I HAVE SOME THOUGHTS OF MY OWN 😂
You know, because everyone had that phase as a kid where they learned all about outlaws (criminals) and gunfighters (serial murderers), right? Or is that just me?
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