![]() ![]() There are parallels in her life to the tribulations of her Texasville character. Perhaps, but it seems more likely that Shepherd’s personal odyssey has also occasioned growth and change. They included the dissolution of a marriage and the simultaneous beginning of a romance that lasted eight long, scandalous years before it too ended. But the personal outfalls from those few months of filming went far beyond career advancements. ![]() Similarly, the film’s young actors - Cybill Shepherd, Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, and Randy Quaid - all started their careers off in high gear. Director Bogdanovich, 31, was hailed as the new Orson Welles, and Hollywood moguls started falling all over themselves for the right to fund his every cinematic desire. Their modest $1.3 million effort received eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. And in 1971, local boy Larry McMurtry turned his novel about low-down, real-life town gossip into a screenplay with Peter Bogdanovich, who turned it into a movie called The Last Picture Show. ![]() In 1964, the high-school football team, the Wildcats, won the state championship. Only two notable things have happened in the history of Archer City, Tex. ![]()
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