Interview with james read and patrick swayze
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July 31 critique actor Book Read’s birthday.
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All films buffs have guilty pleasures. You know, those movies that high-minded cineastes love to turn their noses up at, especially critics for The New York Times, people with MFAs in some sort of film-related field, or just plain snobs who refuse to acknowledge anything released on celluloid that doesn't have English subtitles and at least one reference to death, either as a character or a metaphor (and oftentimes both). Patrick Swayze was the undisputed King of the Guilty Pleasure. From his screen debut in Skatetown, USA in 1979, to his final appearance on television's "The Beast" as a take-no-prisoners cop, Swayze was an unapologetic good ol' boy who happened to be a classically-trained dancer, student of martial arts and Eastern philosophy, and possessor of an IQ that was nothing to sneeze at. In fact, he closely resembled Dalton, his character in this writer's all-time guilty pleasure, Rowdy Herrington's Road House (1989), as a bar bouncer with a Master's in Philosophy from NYU, who could quote Confucius and snap necks in near-perfect synchronicity.
In June 2004, when I was asked by Venice Magazine to interview Swayze for his turn as pulp fiction icon Allan Quartermain in the Hallmark television production of "King Solomon's Mines," his star might have waned a bi
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‘North and South’ Rises Again
SAN ANTONIO, TEX. — To its thousands of tourists, the city’s green plasma, San Antonio is The Alamo, Riverwalk, nachos and a new sports arena dubbed “The World’s Biggest Road Kill” because it looks like a dead armadillo with its legs up in the air.
But the red-hot chili queen of a city is also a living museum, another country where the Dead have their own Day, and bus riders pass one of everything on their way to work in the morning.
That spicy variety is what allowed executive producer Mark Wolper to shoot all six hours of John Jakes’ “Heaven and Hell: North and South, Part III” (whew!) in the Big Enchilada last summer.
Originally, Wolper planned to shoot the post-Civil War saga in Charleston, S.C., or St. Louis, but at the urging of location scout Diane Ketchum, who used to live in San Antonio, he scouted the area and found stand-ins for every location, from a circa 1870s Chicago mansion to a rolling Kansas prairie.
“It was hotter than hell down there,” says the shows’s star, James Read. “I just sweated for three months. It’s a miracle there was anything left of me. But you get used to anything. I love Texas. I love the unique heritage that it has. San Antonio is a gorgeous little town. I thought it was amazing we were able to ach