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  • Sam Shepard passed away

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/t...pard-dead.html

    RIP

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    well dang. so much talent. he seemed like someone who was absolutely built from the ground up for the business he was in. he had IT all over the place.

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      This one is so sad for me. He was the first playwright that really made me go "THIS. THIS is what I want to do someday." For the first couple of years after I first read him in high school (and then saw him on screen), if people asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up, I'd say, "I want to be the female Sam Shepard." I've drifted in other directions since, writing-wise, but I still think he's brilliant.

      Anyway, rest in peace. It's good to know his work will live on after him, at least.

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        Did anyone see that doc' on Netflix last year about him and another guy trying to get their letters auctioned to the highest bidder ( I guess they had handwritten letters to one another for years)? It was so interesting. It was filmed during a brief period he was financially behind and living in a motor inn or something. His partner seemed to resent him a little as he himself was poverty level. At this point they were barely friends and yet they needed one another to sell these letters. A must for fans of Sam.

        Outside of his writing he also acted in some action movies. I thought he was cool in "Black Hawk Down" playing a guy so vastly different from himself.

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          The doc' was called "Shepherd & Dark."

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          • #6
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            COUNTRY was powerful. The slow, terrible destruction of a farmer. His wife was stronger in the movie.

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            • #7
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              I've been on a Malick kick lately, so I'll give Days of Heaven a re-watch. Really enjoyed him in everything he was in.

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