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Jul 31, 2017 · Sam Shepard arrived in New York in 1963, at the age of nineteen, and took the city by storm. He was funny, cool, detached. He found his groove early—a cowboy mouth with matinée-idol looks.
Jul 31, 2017 · Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor Sam Shepard died in Kentucky last week following a battle with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, a spokesperson for the family ...
Samuel Shepard Rogers IV was born on November 5, 1943 in Fort Sheridan, Illinois. In the early years, Sam, the eldest of three children, led a rather nomadic life living on several military bases. His father was an army officer and former Air Force bomber during World War II while his mother was a teacher.
Aug 1, 2017 · My Buddy. Sam Shepard and Patti Smith at the Hotel Chelsea in 1971. Photograph by David Gahr/Getty. He would call me late in the night from somewhere on the road, a ghost town in Texas, a rest ...
Jul 31, 2017 · The end of Sam Shepard's life is a disaster for theater and cinema. The 73-year-old playwright and actor, who both embodied and critiqued rough-hewn American frontier ideals of masculinity, died Thursday in Kentucky, surrounded by family, following a long, mostly private struggle with ALS. He was still a present tense force in the American ...
Aug 1, 2017 · Sam Shepard, who portrayed the frayed ends of the American experience - rugged characters, toxic relationships. He wrote more than 40 plays, among them "True West" and "Buried Child," which won a ...
Apr 3, 2023 · When Sam Shepard arrived in Manhattan in 1963, at 19, he went by Steve Rogers, though his full name was Samuel Shepard Rogers III. His father was a B-24 Liberator pilot during World War II.
