Contributors
John Bloom
When we approached longtime contributor John Bloom about creating a list of the 25 best Texas movies on DVD, his reaction was quite simple: “I was born to do that.” We couldn’t agree more. Bloom’s November 2004 Texas Monthly story about The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was nominated for a National Magazine Award for feature writing (yes, that cult classic made his list; “Home Movies,”), and the Dallas native has been reviewing movies for more than twenty years—often as B-movie lover Joe Bob Briggs, his not-so-secret nom de plume. Bloom’s most recent book, Profoundly Erotic: Sexy Movies That Changed History, came out last year.
Bud Shrake
Austin-based novelist and screenwriter Bud Shrake swears that he’s no bandwagon jumper. “I have been a Mack Brown fan since he first showed up here and invited Darrell Royal and former Longhorn players back into the family,” he told us. “And yes, I did think UT could win the national championship.” This month, Shrake and his lifelong friend (and Texas Monthly senior editor) Gary Cartwright—the two first met as police-beat reporters for competing Dallas newspapers nearly fifty years ago—share their thoughts about the big game, Vince Young, and the history of UT football in an e-mail exchange that’s sure to inspire fans while stirring up old arguments (“Perfect 10,”).
Kurt Markus
Photographer Kurt Markus, a Montana native, has shot some of Hollywood’s most famous actors and documented the lives of cowboys in several photo books, including After Barbed Wire, Cowpuncher, and Buckaroo. He had the perfect pedigree, in other words, for shooting the famously ornery cowboy actor Tommy Lee Jones (“Tommy Lee Jones Is Not Acting,”). “I knew it probably wasn’t going to be a buddy session,” said Markus, ever the diplomat. “I don’t think he thinks of himself as something frozen in time. Making a still picture is something foreign to him, and he probably only sees the blunt reality of the process—and believes it is a waste of his time.”
John Bloom
When we approached longtime contributor John Bloom about creating a list of the 25 best Texas movies on DVD, his reaction was quite simple: “I was born to do that.” We couldn’t agree more. Bloom’s November 2004 Texas Monthly story about The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was nominated for a National Magazine Award for feature writing (yes, that cult classic made his list; “Home Movies,”), and the Dallas native has been reviewing movies for more than twenty years—often as B-movie lover Joe Bob Briggs, his not-so-secret nom de plume. Bloom’s most recent book, Profoundly Erotic: Sexy Movies That Changed History, came out last year.
Bud Shrake
Austin-based novelist and screenwriter Bud Shrake swears that he’s no bandwagon jumper. “I have been a Mack Brown fan since he first showed up here and invited Darrell Royal and former Longhorn players back into the family,” he told us. “And yes, I did think UT could win the national championship.” This month, Shrake and his lifelong friend (and Texas Monthly senior editor) Gary Cartwright—the two first met as police-beat reporters for competing Dallas newspapers nearly fifty years ago—share their thoughts about the big game, Vince Young, and the history of UT football in an e-mail exchange that’s sure to inspire fans while stirring up old arguments (“Perfect 10,”).
Kurt Markus
Photographer Kurt Markus, a Montana native, has shot some of Hollywood’s most famous actors and documented the lives of cowboys in several photo books, including After Barbed Wire, Cowpuncher, and Buckaroo. He had the perfect pedigree, in other words, for shooting the famously ornery cowboy actor Tommy Lee Jones (“Tommy Lee Jones Is Not Acting,”). “I knew it probably wasn’t going to be a buddy session,” said Markus, ever the diplomat. “I don’t think he thinks of himself as something frozen in time. Making a still picture is something foreign to him, and he probably only sees the blunt reality of the process—and believes it is a waste of his time.”
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