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Anyone see the documentary of Urban Cowboy that was on June 13th 2015?


It was a 2 hour special on the making of the movie, it was on CMT channel. The only person missing and interviewed was Debra Winger. I wonder why she wasn't included?
I thought it was an interesting documentary of what it was like making the film.
Mickey Gilley looks just like David Cassidy.

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Yes, I saw it.

I thought the same thing! (About Mickey Gilley looking just like David Cassidy.)

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ha!I thought Mickey Gilley was actually Edd Byrnes -- the actor who played Vince Fontaine in Grease... who admittedly I mistook as David Cassidy until just now.

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I watched it yesterday and I am watching it again right now 

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Good stuff! I guess Debra Winger was too busy doing other things to appear in an interview (rolls eyes)

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Sometimes people are.......
You can fill in the blank with a couple of reasons why Debra Winger is absent from said interview.
Up to you to believe it or not.
Either way, she probably won't be hurt or care.

Sometimes people make assumptions based on information from supermarket magazines, take it as gospel, and then spill their emotions(good or bad) towards an individual
they don't even know personally.

That'll be 300 bucks, thanks you.

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I wanted to see Madolyn Smith too.

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it was pretty good. Had no idea there were so much politics behind the scenes of Gilley's. It's a shame that Gilley's never had the success that Billy Bob's had.

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After seeing how much she enjoyed grinding on the bull maybe Debra Winger was too busy still riding to make an appearance in this documentary.

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Well i don't know why she didn't want to be in the doc. But i know she quit acting in the 90s...so i assume she didn't want to be in it because she is done with that part of her life.

I also know Rosanna Arquette did a documentary a few years back called "Searching for debra winger" that debra herself participated in...explaining why she quit and all that.

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I love the movie. Saw it in the theatre back then. Travolta rules and so does Winger. Soundtrack is unreal if you like classic country. CMT film is a great study--never knew the history of Gilley's, kind of like Studio 54 with different music.

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