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Howdy
by Montie Montana, Jr.
Just before the WWAC Convention this year, I got to go back to
Branson, Missouri to teach the Shoji Tabuchi dancers how to trick
rope. This is my sixth trip and it’s amazing how quick these folks
learn. In a week some of ‘em are doing the Texas skip, butterflyin’,
spoke hoppin’, and more. Shoji Tabuchi has a theater show in Branson
that is sold out all season long. He’s a Japanese Classical
Violinist who saw Roy Acuff in Japan years ago and got inspired to
move up in the world and be a country fiddler.
The Fourth of July, while I was Emceeing the celebration in Santa
Ynez, California they asked me to conduct the local orchestra just
before the fireworks, so I conducted ‘em while they played “The
Stars and Stripes Forever” which is the only song I know how to
conduct. That song plays during the grand entry of Buffalo Bill’s
Wild West Show, and I must have heard it thousands of times...
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The Whip In The Movies
by Alex Green
I thought you might like to look up a few of my old favorite late
night videos to catch the whip in action. Like the knife, the whip
is a dubious weapon. It is mostly used by the bad guys, however when
“Indiana Jones” & “Zorro” are wielding it, it’s all for good and
justice!! Showing not brutality but exoticism, as we all sit out
there in the dark! A couple of B Westerns - Lash La Rue and Whip
Wilson chose to name themselves after the bullwhip.
Look out for some of these “oldies”! Watch all the “Zorro”s -
Douglas Fairbanks, Tyrone Power, Guy Williams, Anthony Hopkins and
Antonio Banderas to name just a few. Lee Marvin “The Man Who Shot
Liberty Valance” – 1962, Ted De Corsia in “Showdown At Abilene” and
Clint Eastwood’s “High Plains Drifter” - 1972. Whip-wielding Spencer
Tracy in “Broken Lance” – 1954 (I own this very whip; it’s in my
collection and is a real prize! I got it at the 20th Century Fox
auction over 25 years ago!)
Sometimes employed as an instrument...
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Legendary Montie Montana, Jr.
and Sir Anthony Hopkins take
a break on the set of the
movie "Hearts in Atlantis"
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Movie Stuntman, Whip Coach
of the Stars Alex Green
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