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  • There is, for example, a script of mine called Honkytonk Sue—it surely rests in some archive somewhere.

    HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010

  • Now is this a Honkytonk, nope it's a real nice place to eat that people can also drink at.

    On Guns In Bars 2009

  • Now is this a Honkytonk, nope it's a real nice place to eat that people can also drink at.

    On Guns In Bars 2009

  • In our climax Honkytonk Sue would occupy London Bridge and then beat the Army Corps of Engineers, who were about to flood the Havasupai, by challenging them to a massive game of bingo, in which Goldie plays about sixty competitors, among them a famous bingo fanatic from Las Vegas.

    HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010

  • Leslie Silko and I wrote two scripts together, the unmade Honkytonk Sue for Goldie Hawn, and the equally unmade Dance Me Outside, an adaptation done for Norman Jewison from a W. P. Kinsella story; made by others, not Norman Jewison.

    HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010

  • Honkytonk Sue was a feminist cowgirl who goes around beating up cowboys in country and western bars.

    HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010

  • Honkytonk Sue was initially a comic strip by the brilliant Arizona cartoonist Bob Boze Bell; he has even done a graphic novel version of Lonesome Dove.

    HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010

  • That question remains unanswered, and Honkytonk Sue remains unmade.

    HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010

  • Toby Keith ` s "Honkytonk University" is number four.

    CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2005 2005

  • They'll write fine songs like Billy Joe s "Honkytonk Heroes" or "Black Rose" or "Old Five and Dimers" or like Lee's "Ladies Love Outlaws," but it s usually somebody else who cuts the record and makes the money It's always been fashionable for the record companies to find a good songwriter and sign him to a contract for his songs.

    Willie Nelson, Willie & Shrake, Edwin Bud 1992

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