{"id":102099,"date":"2021-03-26T18:21:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T23:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=102099"},"modified":"2021-03-26T18:23:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T23:23:11","slug":"legendary-author-larry-mcmurty-dies-at-84-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=102099","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Author Larry McMurty  Dies at 84 &#8211; Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- RSR AD 1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"7759247395\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=102099\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=102099\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-102100 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/larry-mcmurtry-lonesome-dove-writer-dies-at-84-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/larry-mcmurtry-lonesome-dove-writer-dies-at-84-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/larry-mcmurtry-lonesome-dove-writer-dies-at-84-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/larry-mcmurtry-lonesome-dove-writer-dies-at-84-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/larry-mcmurtry-lonesome-dove-writer-dies-at-84.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Geoffrey Huchel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prolific novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurty, who penned novels such as \u201cThe Last Picture Show\u201d and \u201cTerms of Endearment\u201d, died March 25, 2021, of congestive heart failure in Archer City, Texas. He was 84.<\/p>\n<p>McMurty wrote over 30 novels in both fiction and non-fiction; such as \u201cThe Evening Star\u201d, \u201dHud\u201d,\u201d Crazy Horse\u201d, and the \u201cLonesome Dove\u201d series \u201cLonesome Dove\u201d, Streets of Laredo\u201d, \u201cComanche Moon\u201d, \u201dHorseman, Pass by\u201d, \u201cDead Man\u2019s Walk\u201d, and \u201cLeaving Cheyenne.\u201d \u201cLonesome Dove\u201d won McMurty a Pulitzer Prize in 1986. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As a screenwriter McMurty adapted many of his novels into feature films including HUD (1963),starring Paul Newman, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971), starring Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms and Cybil Shepherd, TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (1983), starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger and Jack Nicholson, TEXASVILLE (1990), also starring Bridges and Shepherd, BUFFALO GIRLS (1995), with Angelica Huston and Melanie Griffith, STREETS OF LAREDO (1995) with James Garner and Sissy Spacek, and THE EVENING STAR (1996), with Shirley MacLaine, Bill Paxton and Juliette Lewis. He also penned his \u201cLonesome Dove\u201d novel series into a TV mini-series titled LONESOME DOVE: THE SERIES (1994-1995) and co-wrote the screenplay for the film BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2005), which won McMurty an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.<\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends our condolences to Larry McMurty\u2019s family during their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geoffrey Huchel Prolific novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurty, who penned novels such as \u201cThe Last Picture Show\u201d and \u201cTerms of Endearment\u201d, died March 25, 2021, of congestive heart failure in Archer City, Texas. He was 84. McMurty wrote over 30 novels in both fiction and non-fiction; such as \u201cThe Evening Star\u201d, \u201dHud\u201d,\u201d Crazy Horse\u201d, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17984],"tags":[26025],"class_list":["post-102099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-legendary-author-larry-mcmurty-dies-at-84-entertainment-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102099"}],"version-history":[{"count":-1,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}