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John Travolta can go to hail. Were goin to Rawhide.
Published on December 12, 2007 at 4:02am
You probably already know this, but Urban Cowboy was a bunch of bull. Englewood, New Jersey's John Travolta on a mechanical mount? Cleveland Heights, Ohio's Debra Winger in ropers? A whole generation grew up believing -- to quote another egregious example of Wild West revisionism by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen -- that The West Was Fun. Fun? Like hail. You try to stick it for eight on the back of a bloodthirsty taurus, as will the pros during Friday Night Bull Riding.
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