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Deadwood kidney stone scene
Back in 2005 I posted a link to a clip from the HBO series, Deadwood. In this episode Al Swearengen (Ian McShane) is sick as a dog from a kidney stone. So sick he cannot speak. Doc Cochran is about to surgically remove the stone (which could kill Al) but at the last minute, they opt to let Al try to pass the stone, with help from Johnny, Dan and Trixie.
Bonus clip: I’m thinking of putting this on my answering machine (6 seconds)
Excellent interview with David Milch (The New Language of the Old West)
(Almost) End of Deadwood
Since the beginning of this season of Deadwood, I’ve been wondering if this is the end. Scott points us to the answer at TVseriesFinale.com.
When it was announced that HBO would we cutting the series short after three seasons, fans signed petitions, took out an ad in Variety, sent letters and made calls indicating that they would cancel their HBO subscriptions at the end of Deadwood’s third season (next week). http://www.savedeadwood.net/
As a result, Deadwood will return next season, but instead of a full-blown 12-episode season to complete the series, HBO and (creator) Milch will instead produce a pair of two-hour movies.
Milch has said that he wasn’t in favor of doing a six-episode season because each episode of Deadwood has typically represented one day in the lives of the characters and South Dakota area. Shifting to two-hour movies will allow him to break that format and to be able to complete the storytelling he had for the final season.
More Deadwood trivia.
Darin explained why the actor playing George Hurst on the final episode of Deadwood looked familiar. It was Gerald McRaney who older readers will remember was one of the Simon’s on Simon and Simon which aired on CBS for eight seasons and then went on to star in and produce Major Dad. My favorite Gerald McRaney triva is that he was the last guest star to meet Matt Dillon in a gunfight on Gunsmoke (1955).
And if you happened to catch CSI on Thursday, you saw Robin Weigert who did such an amazing job as Calamity Jane on Deadwood. And a month or so back, Swearengen’s right-hand-man, Dan (W.Earl Brown), showed up in a small part on CSI: Miami.