Mac Davis, whose music career included recording 20 albums, writing the Elvis Presley hit “In The Ghetto” and starring in films like North Dallas Forty with Nick Nolte and on his own TV show, died Thursday in Nashville. He was 78.
His manager and longtime fried Jim Morey said Davis died after complications from a recent heart surgery.
The Lubbock, Texas-born Davis recorded 20 albums and charted 40 singles and was as prolific a songwriter, with song titles to his credit including “In the Ghetto” and “A Little Less Conversation,” both made famous by Elvis Presley. Other Elvis hits included “Memories” and “Don’t Cry Daddy.” Davis’ songs also included “I Believe in Music,” “Something’s Burning,” “It’s Hard to Be Humble.”
His own singing career took off with another of his own songs, “Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me,” which rose to No. 1 on the pop charts which earned him a...
His manager and longtime fried Jim Morey said Davis died after complications from a recent heart surgery.
The Lubbock, Texas-born Davis recorded 20 albums and charted 40 singles and was as prolific a songwriter, with song titles to his credit including “In the Ghetto” and “A Little Less Conversation,” both made famous by Elvis Presley. Other Elvis hits included “Memories” and “Don’t Cry Daddy.” Davis’ songs also included “I Believe in Music,” “Something’s Burning,” “It’s Hard to Be Humble.”
His own singing career took off with another of his own songs, “Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me,” which rose to No. 1 on the pop charts which earned him a...
- 9/30/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Every Friday, we’re recommending an older movie available to stream or download and worth seeing again through the lens of our current moment. We’re calling the series “Revisiting Hours“— consider this Rolling Stone’s unofficial film club. This week’s special, Super-Bowl-weekend edition: Dan Epstein on the football-movie classic North Dallas Forty.
Rudely awakened by his alarm clock, Phil Elliott (Nick Nolte) fumbles blindly for the prescription drug bottles that line his nightstand. Staggering into the kitchen, he finally locates a couple of precious painkillers, washing them down...
Rudely awakened by his alarm clock, Phil Elliott (Nick Nolte) fumbles blindly for the prescription drug bottles that line his nightstand. Staggering into the kitchen, he finally locates a couple of precious painkillers, washing them down...
- 2/1/2019
- by Dan Epstein
- Rollingstone.com
The Super Bowl closes out an exciting season of NFL football this Sunday with a strong match-up between the Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots. So for fans to bide their time in the many months before another kick-off, it’s time to turn your attentions to the greatest football films of all time. There are all kinds of football-based films out there to enjoy — from dramas to comedies, and even an award-winning documentary — and we’ve collected the top 12 here in our photo gallery, ranked from worst to best.
In paring down the list, we had to answer the question: “Just what is a football movie?” We didn’t include “The Blind Side,” for example, because though its central character plays football, the film is primarily about many other things. And while Act 3 of Robert Altman‘s “M*A*S*H” is made up of what is arguably the...
In paring down the list, we had to answer the question: “Just what is a football movie?” We didn’t include “The Blind Side,” for example, because though its central character plays football, the film is primarily about many other things. And while Act 3 of Robert Altman‘s “M*A*S*H” is made up of what is arguably the...
- 2/3/2018
- by Tom O'Brien and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Better football through chemistry.
This four-word quote from North Dallas Forty says nearly all you need to know about the film. Uttered by aging, battered wide receiver Phil Elliott (Nick Nolte) as he receives a numbing injection in his knee -- thus allowing him to limp through another game -- it's one of many cynical quotes in an entirely cynical movie.
The cynicism about professional football is well deserved, at least if you believe novelist Peter Gent's take on his years as a Dallas Cowboy in the 1960s. Gent was none too charitable toward the Cowboys in his 1973 novel North Dallas Forty, on which the film is based. (Gent also co-wrote the script.) He tells a sordid tale of professional football's win-at-all-costs mentality, with greedy team owners and victory-obsessed coaches doping up players so they can play with crippling injuries. It's also a tale of brutish machismo; the players live in a testosterone-fueled,...
This four-word quote from North Dallas Forty says nearly all you need to know about the film. Uttered by aging, battered wide receiver Phil Elliott (Nick Nolte) as he receives a numbing injection in his knee -- thus allowing him to limp through another game -- it's one of many cynical quotes in an entirely cynical movie.
The cynicism about professional football is well deserved, at least if you believe novelist Peter Gent's take on his years as a Dallas Cowboy in the 1960s. Gent was none too charitable toward the Cowboys in his 1973 novel North Dallas Forty, on which the film is based. (Gent also co-wrote the script.) He tells a sordid tale of professional football's win-at-all-costs mentality, with greedy team owners and victory-obsessed coaches doping up players so they can play with crippling injuries. It's also a tale of brutish machismo; the players live in a testosterone-fueled,...
- 12/11/2012
- by Don Clinchy
- Slackerwood
Peter Gent, the man who penned the novel that inspired cult 1979 sports movie North Dallas Forty, has died of complications from pulmonary disease.
Gent, a sportsman who played football for the Dallas Cowboys in the late 1960s, died on Friday at his home in Bangor, Michigan. He was 69.
He was drafted by basketball team the Baltimore Bullets after college, but instead chose to follow a short-lived football career with the Cowboys.
His experiences inspired his gritty, breakout 1973 novel North Dallas Forty, which drew praise for exposing the locker room world of the sport.
Gent co-wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation, which starred Nick Nolte, Mac Davis and G.D. Spradlin.
It wasn't his only literary success - Gent also wrote the novels Texas Celebrity Turkey Trot, The Franchise and The Last Magic Summer. He also penned a sequel to his literary debut, North Dallas After Forty.
Gent, a sportsman who played football for the Dallas Cowboys in the late 1960s, died on Friday at his home in Bangor, Michigan. He was 69.
He was drafted by basketball team the Baltimore Bullets after college, but instead chose to follow a short-lived football career with the Cowboys.
His experiences inspired his gritty, breakout 1973 novel North Dallas Forty, which drew praise for exposing the locker room world of the sport.
Gent co-wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation, which starred Nick Nolte, Mac Davis and G.D. Spradlin.
It wasn't his only literary success - Gent also wrote the novels Texas Celebrity Turkey Trot, The Franchise and The Last Magic Summer. He also penned a sequel to his literary debut, North Dallas After Forty.
- 10/2/2011
- WENN
Chris Longo Nick Harley Sep 5, 2019
In honor of the NFL season starting anew, we pick out our favorite football movies...
Football is sort of like smoking cigarettes; we know it’s bad for us, but we just can’t quit it. Between the amazing physical feats of strength and finesse, the team camaraderie, the personal storylines that inject theatrics into every matchup, and the ability for an underdog to unseat a favored rival any given Sunday, there’s something primal and inherently dramatic about America’s most-watched sport.
Perhaps that’s why the game makes a great basis for feature films. All of the heart, pain, and glory that can be found in football are also the same ingredients for a memorable movie. The gridiron has been the setting for a ton of Hollywood productions, but we’ve singled out the true MVPs of the genre that will give you...
In honor of the NFL season starting anew, we pick out our favorite football movies...
Football is sort of like smoking cigarettes; we know it’s bad for us, but we just can’t quit it. Between the amazing physical feats of strength and finesse, the team camaraderie, the personal storylines that inject theatrics into every matchup, and the ability for an underdog to unseat a favored rival any given Sunday, there’s something primal and inherently dramatic about America’s most-watched sport.
Perhaps that’s why the game makes a great basis for feature films. All of the heart, pain, and glory that can be found in football are also the same ingredients for a memorable movie. The gridiron has been the setting for a ton of Hollywood productions, but we’ve singled out the true MVPs of the genre that will give you...
- 2/3/2010
- Den of Geek
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