Playwright-Actor Sam Sheppard Passes At 73

Zack James comment:

If one wanted the perfect image of a man of the modern West (not the Left Coast West but, you know, the Montana, Dakota, Wyoming, and the square states as the writer Thomas Wolfe called them), a long, lanky, good-looking, cowboy good-looking, straight-talking on the screen then for many years the image that came to my mind first was that of Sam Sheppard. Knew his work as a playwright first, a series of plays dealing with the foibles of modern life. But that screen image of a modern Western man for a guy who spent a good part of his youth back in 1970s looking for the great blue-pink American West Night after his oldest brother had hipped him to the hard fact that there was something different about that West than Eastern city boys had to contend with. RIP, Brother Sheppard, RIP