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I had purchased the first season of The High Chaparral when Shout! Factory released it to Region 1 DVD at the end of August. As I sat in front of my desktop computer, hoping for inspiration to strike from the blue…it came to me in a flash.

I distracted him momentarily with the 2011 Ken Burns documentary Prohibition (our local PBS station resurrected this one about a year ago) but he didn’t care for it as much I did.

High chaparral the hostage movie#

But the occasional forays into watching a black-and-white movie Western have been met with stiff resistance (he even vetoed Dakota one night…and that one stars John Wayne!) and since I’ve worked through practically all of the color oaters that are shown on Starz Encore Westerns on a regular basis, I knew I had to think quickly.

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He does make allowances from time to time he’s a big fan of the Have Gun – Will Travel and Maverick reruns that air on MeTV on Saturday mornings, plus I was able to convince him into checking out some of the B&W Gunsmokes after he had exhausted the color episodes that are an afternoon staple on TVLand. My father claims that his vision problems prevent him from enjoying movies in monochrome…an assertion I find highly skeptical, since he bitched about black-and-white movies/TV shows before his eyesight problems. (Hence the urgent request that I take charge of the after-news programming.)

High chaparral the hostage tv#

My mother sweetly explained to him one day that if she had to sit through another hour of Matthews’ bleating, she would have an Elvis-Robert Goulet moment where the TV was concerned. It wasn’t always this way, you understand for a long, long time, he would switch over to MSDNC for Hardball with Chris Matthews, and then after that move onto the second and third tee vee punditry courses of Chris Hayes and (for as much as he was able to stay awake for) Rachel Maddow. Once ginormous-forehead-news-reader Lester Holt has finished with his nightly spiel, I am pressed into service to find something with which to entertain my father until he decides to call it a day. (WSB’s news coverage runs until 7, followed by ABC’s national news…yet the habits of an evening news lifetime are hard to break, so that’s why Dad insists we change the channel at 6:30.) She arranges for us to have supper around 6pm, and we enjoy this repast in front of the TV…where we watch WSB-TV Atlanta’s always riveting local newscast before switching over to WXIA (11Alive!) at 6:30 for NBC’s nightly news. 'Gonzalez faces up to 15 years in prison,' said the press release.In the House of Yesteryear, we adhere to a standard (and arguably, fairly predictable) schedule when it comes to mealtimes-primarily because my father is diabetic and if he doesn’t eat regularly Mom goes into her ZaSu Pitts-number (“Oh, dear…”). The second was secured at a pizza restaurant in El Paso. The first victim's family in Georgia contacted law enforcement, who contacted the FBI and were able to recover the victim at a barbershop in the El Paso area. On April 13, the second victim was also taken and held hostage in the same residence by Gonzalez. The victim was taken to a home on April 4, 2021, where Gonzelez held him hostage and threatened to injure or kill him if no money was received for his release. from Juarez and met with people 'who were part of an alien smuggling organization and paid them to transport him to New York where his family lives,' said the U.S. The first victim, a citizen and national of Georgia, entered the U.S. 'According to the plea agreement and other court records, from April 1, 2021, to April 27, 2021, Gonzalez and his accomplices, Ricardo Arce, 41, of Chaparral, New Mexico, and Vicki Sowell, 36, of El Paso, took two victims hostage in Chaparral,' said the release from a U.S. A 35-year-old West Texas man has pleaded guilty to taking two people hostage as they entered the United States.Īccording to a release, Jonathan Gonzalez pleaded guilty to an indictment that charged him with conspiracy to take a hostage and two counts of hostage-taking.