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UBC: Inventing Wyatt Earp
Apr. 11th, 2010 08:12 pmBarra, Allen. Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends. 1998. Castle Books, 2005.
This is a wildly uneven book. When Barra is on his game, he's very good indeed; when he's off it, like the little girl in the nursery rhyme, he's horrid.
( behind the cut I go into more detail than you probably want )
To end, I want to relay my favorite quote in the book, from an interview Barra had with Val Kilmer about playing Doc Holliday: "Trying to flesh out his character is like trying to put clothes on a ghost" (Barra 286).
This is a wildly uneven book. When Barra is on his game, he's very good indeed; when he's off it, like the little girl in the nursery rhyme, he's horrid.
( behind the cut I go into more detail than you probably want )
To end, I want to relay my favorite quote in the book, from an interview Barra had with Val Kilmer about playing Doc Holliday: "Trying to flesh out his character is like trying to put clothes on a ghost" (Barra 286).
