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It is an often that a writer or any man is given an opportunity to destroy a figure he's

always hated.

The character that all his life has covered his landscape like a slum.

And he'll be able to do so and get paid for a taboo, is to be doubly blessed.

The co-creator of the greatest television western of all time was a man named John Meston.

My needed figure is the western hero who arrives along, fumping his guitar, nasally singing

a synthetic ballad, and looking for all the world like a fugitive from a cheap circus.

I spit in his milk, and he'll have to go elsewhere to find somebody to pour the lead for his

gold and bullets.

Now, the best way to destroy something bad is to write it down with something better.

And I've got a guy I think outclasses any of these phony big heads.

Meston gave the world Gunsmoke, which ran on CBS for an astounding 20 seasons, from 1955

to 1975.

One of the most widely watched TV shows ever.

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