March 25th, 2008

It would be so wonderful to get this Roy Rogers Dale Evans film project up and running. There have been so many false starts and stops. As it currently stands Clint Black and Lisa Hartman-Black are set to portray the singing/acting duo. I think it is a good fit. I’ve been on the phone with their agents and managers trying to set up a time when we can meet and discuss packaging the script. I’m just waiting for the people in charge to finish reading the material. At times it seems like such a far off dream and you want to give up. I won’t though. I’m finishing up chapter one of the Buffalo Bill Cody book today. He was an interesting character. His wife catches him kissing a handful of actresses and he is stunned to find out that she is upset by the display. He wrote in his memoirs, “I do not think most wives would have felt a little angry to know and hear her husband in an adjoining room on Sunday morning, drinking beer and kissing theatrical girls of his company. I think they would have been rather proud of a husband who had six or seven months work with a party of people who were in his employ, to know and feel that they were on a kindly footing&. Not one of them got up and kissed papa goodbye, but all four of them rushed up and kissed papa, their old manager, goodbye&.” I don’t Bill was being very realistic. I am amazed at the number of women who threw themselves at him knowing he was married. They didn’t really care about that. They simply wanted the fame and monetary benefits that came from being with Cody. It ultimately led to the demise of his marriage. A famous playwright once wrote that “Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.” I believe that was Cody’s problem exactly.