Woodruff used the fight to coach the actors in True West. Goes to rodeos with a partner named Slim. Cowboys a more authentic way of life. Visits Warren Beatty to get advice on his film career. Secret retiring personality.
Men are more interesting.
October 1980 Raggedy Man begins shooting in Texas. Turns down O'Neill in Reds and Urban Cowboy and Brubaker to be in Raggedy Man with Spacek and Eric Roberts written by William Wittliff who will write Country and Coal Miner's Daughter and directed by Jack Fisk, her husband coming home and not being recognized. Like the Kurosawa films where characters are like apparitions. They don't speak but they have this whole physical thing. Creates a character bio with bugs collected from his radiator.