A newcomer to the state is looking for a cinematic introduction to his adopted home.
Urban Cowboy
Journalist Aaron Latham donated his daily journals he kept on the set of 'Urban Cowboy,' among other papers, to UT's Harry Ransom Center.
An Austin man is confused by all those new-fangled beer cans at his local grocery store.
A playlist of late-seventies and early-eighties country pop made popular by Urban Cowboy.
It was part musical, part dance movie, and part love story, and in June 1980 it unleashed an unprecedented fervor for country music, Western wear, and, yes, mechanical bulls. More than three decades later, the film’s stars (including John Travolta, Debra Winger, Mickey Gilley, and Johnny Lee) and many Gilley’s regulars recall the movie that made America fall in love with Texas.