Western Writers Series

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre.(Video recording review)
Wild West; 12/1/2009; 694 words; ...61) at a time when Westerns were top gun on the...Powell." When the Western Writers of America recently voted on the top 50 TV Westerns of all time, Dick...inspired the 1957-59 Western series Trackdown (No. 36...1958-63, No. 6). Writer/director Sam Peckinpah...

The National Parks: America's Best Idea.(Video recording review)
Wild West; 12/1/2009; 919 words; ...splendor are the grand Western tracts--Yosemite...Only in his epic 1996 series The West did Burns take...date. In spots the series bogs down in heavy...In one example, the writers justly criticize the...broad brushstrokes. Series writer Duncan Dayton goes so...

Big-screen Gunsmoke?(ROUNDUP)(Brief article)
Wild West; 12/1/2009; 741 words; The classic TV Westerns Gunsmoke and The Big Valley are...and was recently voted top TV Western of all time by the Western Writers of America. (The show first...14 on WWA's list). That series starred Barbara Stanwyk, Richard...

Elton's pedigree; LETTERS.(Letters)
The Daily Mail (London, England); 11/17/2009; 440 words; ...Curtis, Ben Elton's co-writer on most of the Blackadder episodes...the final scene of the last series (in which Blackadder, Baldrick...go 'over the top' on the Western Front) was written at the...The historian believed that a series (albeit a comedy) set in...

Analysis: US low on options in Afghanistan
AP Worldstream; 11/16/2009; 1178 words; ...Hamid Karzai refuses to go along. A series of leaks Wednesday in Washington, expressing...very strong bargaining position. Some Western officials believe Karzai has calculated...The Associated Press. Associated Press writer Sylvia Hui c