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‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

The Rewatchables

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The Importance of Pat Riley in Kurt Russell's Career

Kurt Russell was not red hot heading into Tombstone where it's like here, can you take over the $60 million movie we were making? But somehow he did it and he had little, little renaissance after that. This movie is the perfect microcosm of both of their careers. You know, Kurt should always be the lead guy who isn't necessarily who is charismatic, but isn't like funny or fun. He just he's the necessary hero. And Val Kilmer has always been the heat check guy in every movie he's in. The effort to make him like a big time leading man was kind of pointless because he's a character actor.

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