PHOTO SHOOT AT THE OK CORRAL

Peter Brown, Bruce Boxleitner, Harry Carey Jr. & Marty Kove
NY Times photographer below.  Cheesy statues to the left.

The site of the legendary shoot-out -- the Earps and their supporters v. the Clantons, et. al. -- is now a privately owned tourist attraction.  It features cheesy plaster statues of the shooters and a button you can push to get an amusement park type description of the gunfight over a loudspeaker.  The New York Times Entertainment section wanted some pictures of a few of the celebrities to illustrate the story below.  My friend Kerstin and I were allowed to tag along and take some photos of our own.  Since they cut Peter out of the photo that made it into the Times, we're glad we have our own to post here.  [We included the article at the bottom of the page although its not easily readable.]

While waiting for Harry Carey Jr. to arrive, the guys reminisced about the camaraderie of their Hole in the Wall Gang annual ride/camping trip.  (This is apparently a no-women allowed affair where everyone gets down and very dirty.)  Bruce also shared some of his experiences in filming a Civil War drama with Robert Duvall and others.  He took great joy in the research he did on his character - Bruce had intended to be a history professor prior to taking up acting.  He put his interest in historical research to good use in writing his two western/scifi novels Frontier Earth and Searcher, the first two in what was to be a series of books that take place in Arizona in the second half of the 1800's.  Bruce says he's too distant now from his Babylon 5 fame for the publisher to promote them as being written by the star of that show.  However, there has been some interest from the movie community.  The books are excellent.  The first takes place in Tombstone during the conflict between the Earps and the Clantons and expertly weaves the history of the area into a story in which the main character is an alien trying to save the Earth from evil aliens.  The second book moves some of the action to Tucson.

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