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For some, nothing beats a classic Western, especially when it is made by a fantastic director with iconic actors. For this reason, the 1950s and the 1960s produced some of the best films in the genre, like High Noon, Rio Bravo, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, and Once Upon a Time in the West.

Despite breakthroughs in technology, many Westerns lack the allure of the classics, but some excellent films have been released in the last decade. So, whether you've always been a huge fan of the Western genre or are just getting started, having a reliable streaming platform can be a game changer. In this regard, Tubi, the ad-supported platform, features a large collection of growing Westerns. In addition to offering some great Westerns, such as Lone Star, Broken Arrow, and The Mercenary, the streaming service adds new ones monthly, which leads us to the main question: What...

Following a 20-year run as an announcing team for Fox, Troy Aikman and Joe Buck have signed multiyear agreements to join ESPN as the new voices for Monday Night Football, as well as contribute content to ESPN+.

Aikman and Buck will make their regular-season Mnf debut on Sept. 12.

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ESPN confirmed Wednesday that it has signed longtime Fox broadcasters Joe Buck and Troy Aikman to multi-year deals, securing their roles as the new voices of the network’s Monday Night Football. The deal takes effect with the upcoming season, which will mark the pair’s 21st season in the booth together — the first 20 years at Fox.

As part of the deals, the network said Buck and Aikman will both contribute content to ESPN+. Contract details were not provided, but the move shores up ESPN’s NFL team as it will boost it coverage over the next few years. It also leaves a hole at Fox Sports, which must find a new No. 1 team for its Sunday coverage as well as a new World Series announcer, a role Buck has held for the network over his 30-plus years at Fox.

Aikman’s departure was first reported last month, while news...

There will be a lot of music in Sunday’s Super Bowl Lvi telecast, and no, we’re not talking about the halftime show — rather, the music at the start of the show and throughout the game itself.

John Williams’ “Sunday Night Football” march is expected to open the broadcast. “That’s our theme,” says Super Bowl executive producer Fred Gaudelli. “There’s a grandeur to it, an importance, that lets you know that a big game is about to begin. And there is no bigger game than the Super Bowl.”

But, Gaudelli adds, a great deal of other music will be heard as the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams take to the field, much of it in the tradition of televised sports themes dating back to the 1960s: appropriately muscular music to accompany modern-day gladiators into the arena for battle.

“It’s all storytelling,” says Adam Taylor, president and CEO of Apm,...

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...

The son of Dallas Cowboys football legend Don Meredith is getting behind the lens to direct a movie about the Army-Navy football game just days after the assassination of JFK. Michael Meredith tells us the project -- "The President's Team" -- will center around the 1963 Naval team and the brotherhood formed between the men on the squad. Roger Staubach, who went on to Qb the Cowboys after Don, is a centerpiece of the film. A...

In today’s film news roundup, a documentary about the 1963 Navy football team takes shape, “Never Heard” gets a release, Tim Tebow is backing “Run the Race,” “Death on the Nile” gets a 2020 release and Martin Scorsese is honored.

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Michael Meredith, son of the late Dallas Cowboy quarterback Don Meredith, has signed on to direct “The President’s Team,” a documentary about the 1963 U.S. Naval Academy football team, Variety has learned exclusively.

The film, based on the 2009 book of the same title by Michael Connelly, follows the story of commitment and camaraderie among a team of young athletes attempting to revive a nation wrought with grief — 10 days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Kennedy, a Navy veteran, was scheduled to initiate the 1963 Army-Navy game with a coin toss. In the days following his assassination, with the status of the major event up in the air,...

The sports and entertainment attorney died late Wednesday at his home in Beverly Hills of natural causes. Edward Gregory Hookstratten was 83. The general counsel for the L.A. Rams for several years, Hookstratten’s 50-year career including repping some of the biggest names in front of the camera and on the field. Johnny Carson, Elvis Presley, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, and Joey Bishop were clients along with newscasters Bryant Gumbel, Tom Brokaw, Tom Snyder and Jessica Savitch. In the world of sports, Hookstratten represented Vin Scully, Pat Reilly, Marcus Allen, Dick Enberg, Merlin Olsen, Dick Stockton, Don Meredith, Jim Hill and Pat Haden. On the big screen, Hookstratten was a producer on the 1996 news drama Up Close & Personal starring Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer. He was also name-dropped in Rob Reiner’s classic rock mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, where Fred Willard’s Air Force colonel was named “Lt.

Ed Hookstratten, the legendary sports and entertainment attorney, died Wednesday of natural causes after a long illness at his home in Beverly Hills, publicist Todd Beck reported. He was 83. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Hookstratten was a powerful and iconic force in show business, with clients that included Elvis Presley, Dan Rowan & Dick Martin, Joey Bishop and Johnny Carson (he replaced Henry Bushkin at Carson Productions); news personalities Bryant Gumbel, Tom Brokaw, Tom Snyder and Jessica Savitch; and Vin Scully, Dick Enberg, Phyllis George, Merlin Olsen, Harry Kalas, Dick Stockton, Pat Haden, Marcus Allen and Don Meredith from the world

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Shout! Factory will release the first season of the revered 1970s television show Police Story on September 6 in a six-disc DVD set. It marks the TV series’s home entertainment debut.

The Police Story: Season One DVD will carry the list price of $39.97.

Don Meredith (l.) and Tony Lo Bianco are two of many stars of Police Story.

Created by ex-cop-turned-bestselling-author Joseph Wambaugh (The Onion Field), Police Story was broadcast for five seasons on NBC from 1973 to 1978. An anthology series detailing the lives of Lapd officers via a collection of realistic and drama-filled crime stories, Police Story had no regular cast, with each show featuring different stars each week. There was, however, a rotating acting ensemble of performers who popped up regularly, including James Farentino (Jesus Of Nazareth), Tony Lo Bianco (Kill the Irishman), Don Meredith (TV’s NFL Monday Night Football), Vic Morrow (Combat!), and Laraine Stephens (TV...

Celebrity athlete and legendary broadcaster Don Meredith oozed charm. He first won over the city of Dallas with his play at quarterback, then won over the country with his folksy, down-home broadcasting style. Now, Don Meredith will be remembered as a legend. On Sunday, December 5, Don Meredith died after suffering a massive brain hemorrhage in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the age of 72. Don Meredith first became known to NFL football fans when he was named the starting quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys in 1965, He then led the team to its first-ever winning season, and then led the Cowboys to two consecutive NFL title games, losing in both. Dandy Don turned the Dallas Cowboys into winners, and they eventually went on to become “America’s Team.” In a city that was brand new to professional sports, Don Meredith almost single-handedly put Dallas on the map, and became the first of...

Don Meredith, a former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and a founding father of the "Monday Night Football" franchise as the folksy, good-natured presence in the announcing booth with Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford, has died. He was 72. "Dandy Don," as he was known throughout his NFL career and beyond, died Sunday from a brain hemorrhage with his wife and daughter at his side in Santa Fe, N.M. After unexpectedly retiring from football at age 31, Meredith joined the fledgling Monday Night Football broadcast in 1970 as a color analyst. His wit and charm were...

Dandy Don, rest in peace. Don Meredith, the NFL star-turned-Monday Night Football cut-up, died Sunday at 72. His wife, Susan, told the Associated Press her husband was stricken by a brain hemorrhage at their home in Santa Fe and was taken to a hospital, where he lapsed into a coma. His wife and daughter were at his side when he died. "He was the best there was," Susan told the wire service, describing her husband as kind, warm and funny. "We lost a good one." Meredith, earned the nickname "Dandy Don" as the Dallas Cowboys' starting quarterback when they joined the NFL in 1959, becoming its first genuine star. During his nine seasons there, Meredith threw for 17,199...

Don Meredith, a star quarterback on the football field and a legendary broadcaster off it, died on Sunday in Santa Fe, N.M., after suffering a brain hemorrhage. He was at 72. Meredith played nine seasons for the Dallas Cowboys in the 1960s, and then upstaged himself with a distinguished broadcasting career on ABC's Monday Night Football, where he served two stints - from 1970-73 and 1977-84. He was one of the first players to make the transition to the broadcast booth, and quickly won over viewers with a colorful, folksy, Southern style that included singing the Willie Nelson line "Turn out the lights,...

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Don Meredith, the former 'Monday Night Football' co-host, has died at the age of 72.

Meredith passed away in Santa Fe, Nm of complications from emphysema and a brain hemorrhage he suffered on Sunday. He previously suffered a stroke in 2004.

Meredith was probably unknown to many younger TV viewers, but "Dandy Don" was everywhere in the 1970s and '80s. His trademark while calling games, besides his casual demeanor and humor, was singing 'Turn Out The Lights' when it was obvious that the game was indeed over.

 

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" Monday Night Football " legend Don Meredith -- one of the original members of the "Mnf" broadcasting team -- died yesterday after suffering a brain hemorrhage and lapsing into a coma. Meredith -- who played quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys in the '60s -- joined Keith Jackson and Howard Cosell in the "Mnf" broadcast booth in 1971. He was 72. Don's wife says a private ceremony will be held at the burial site in New Mexico. Read...

Chicago – The 1970s were the golden age for the youthful, angst-ridden style of filmmaking, but it also had its share of fun with James Bond, super bad action films and Burt Reynolds comedies. Richard “Jaws” Kiel, Fred “The Hammer” Williamson and character actor James Hampton experienced that side of the 1970s, and told all at the Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show.

The Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show is a biannual event in Chicago where attendees can meet and greet the stars, collect autographs and find cool collectibles at the comprehensive memorabilia market. The next show in the area is scheduled for September 25th and 26th, 2010.

HollywoodChicago.com was there at the last show in March, and ran into those stars from the 1970s, who sat down and talked about the era. Photographer Joe Arce was also there to capture the moment.

Richard Kiel, “Jaws” from the James Bond Film Series

The mountainously...

Anchor Bay is hitting the road, picking up theatrical and home video rights to Michael Meredith family dramedy "The Open Road."

Wim Wenders exec produced the film, which unfolds over the course of a road trip that a grown son takes with his estranged father, a former baseball star. The pair travel from Ohio to Houston to see the son's mother, from whom the baseball star is also estranged, in the hospital..

Justin Timberlake stars as the son and Jeff Bridges as his father, with Mary Steenburgen playing the mother/wife. Odd Lot Entertainment and Perfect Weekend produced the pic.

Writer-director Meredith found inspiration for the script in his relationship with his own father, the former football star Don Meredith.

Anchor Bay, the Liberty Media division that specializes in DVD as well as limited theatrical releases, has been busy on the acquisitions front lately, scooping up rights to fest titles...

Versatile composer Christopher Lennertz has two new features coming up. He is doing the music for The Open Road, starring Justin Timberlake and a fine ensemble cast with Jeff Bridges, Kate Mara, Mary Steenburgen, Harry Dean Stanton and Lyle Lovett. Bridges plays Timberlake's estranged father, a baseball legend, and the film follows them on a cross country trip. Wim Wenders collaborator Michael Meredith, himself the son of a great football player (Don Meredith), directs. Christopher Lennertz also contributes the score to Max Mayer's drama Adam, starring Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne. This film tells the story of a young man struggling with Aspergers syndrome and how finding love helps him to be free. Christopher Lennertz is best known for his entertaining comedy music heard in films such as Alvin and the Chipmunks, Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans.

NEW YORK -- Turn out the lights, the party's over. After a 36-year run, Monday Night Football will air its last touchdown Monday night on ABC. A change in the broadcast rights will move the second-longest-running primetime series to ESPN, leaving behind a legacy of memorable moments, high drama and well-known characters that will live on in TV history. In its heyday, it seemed like everyone was watching. Not only did it showcase the best of America's most popular sport, it did it with style and drama. MNF revolutionized the way sports were shown on television -- but not just that: MNF revolutionized when sports were shown on television. Long before ESPN, MNF propelled them from weekend afternoons to primetime. And just as important, it was must-see TV for the complex, combustible relationship among superstar commentator Howard Cosell and his two co-stars, former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Don Meredith and New York Giants halfback Frank Gifford. On Tuesday morning, Americans talked about the game, the highlights from the weekend's other matchups and what Meredith and Cosell had said the night before.

NEW YORK -- Turn out the lights, the party's over. After a 36-year run, Monday Night Football will air its last touchdown Monday night on ABC. A change in the broadcast rights will move the second-longest-running primetime series to ESPN, leaving behind a legacy of memorable moments, high drama and well-known characters that will live on in TV history. In its heyday, it seemed like everyone was watching. Not only did it showcase the best of America's most popular sport, it did it with style and drama. MNF revolutionized the way sports were shown on television -- but not just that: MNF revolutionized when sports were shown on television. Long before ESPN, MNF propelled them from weekend afternoons to primetime. And just as important, it was must-see TV for the complex, combustible relationship among superstar commentator Howard Cosell and his two co-stars, former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Don Meredith and New York Giants halfback Frank Gifford. On Tuesday morning, Americans talked about the game, the highlights from the weekend's other matchups and what Meredith and Cosell had said the night before.

NEW YORK -- "Dandy" Don Meredith and Frank Gifford will return to ABC a final time Monday to bid farewell to Monday Night Football in its last game on the broadcast network. Neither Meredith nor Gifford, who were part of a three-man broadcasting team with the late Howard Cosell, will appear live when the New York Jets play host to the New England Patriots at 9 p.m. ET Monday. They will appear in taped segments that will air at the opening of the game. Gifford, the former New York Giants star who appeared on Monday Night Football from 1971-97, appeared in a retrospective on the show's 500th program. But Meredith -- part of the original on-air team with Cosell and Keith Jackson -- has continually declined to come out of retirement.