Texas Lawmaker Focus Of Criminal Investigation Nov 8, 2008
The family owns a Budweiser distributorship in South Texas and is developing a horse racetrack in Hidalgo County. Flores heads the House committee that oversees gambling legislation. (KWTX.com, TX)
Viggo Has Good Horse Sense00004000 Sep 11, 2008
After filming "Hidalgo" (2004), about a grueling race across the Arabian desert, the actor purchased his co-star, a mustang, and brought the steed to his ranch in Idaho. After finishing the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, he kept the big bay he rode to battle against the Orks in Middle Earth. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Clinton-picked horse dies at Derby! May 5, 2008
Wonder when Hilary is going to claim Hidalgo. Actually am already sick and tired of the political horserace across the board - put them all out to pasture. (The Drudge Report)
Viggo Mortensen: My painful decision to fight in the nude Oct 19, 2007
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 19/10/2007Page 1 of 2. Viggo Mortensen, the dashing Aragorn in 'Lord of the Rings', has filmed the most talked-about fight scene of the decade in his latest film, David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Viggo's High Expectations Sep 21, 2007
Each experience usually results in a book of his photography published by Perceval, although after he did "Hidalgo," the 2004 horse-riding action flick, he acquired an equine ... It's a quality Mortensen seems to specialize in, as he showed in "Hidalgo" and both Cronenberg movies ... It seems clear that Mortensen has declined the career of a blockbuster movie star, which was available to him after "Rings" and "Hidalgo.". (CBS News)
Television movies for the week of Sept. 2 Sep 2, 2007
TV Movies: Sept. 2-8. G = General audiences PG = Parental Guidance PG-13 = Not recommended for preteens R = Restricted audience. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
In brief: Mortensen and Zellweger sign for Harris western Aug 7, 2007
Viggo Mortensen in a previous western-themed outing, Hidalgo. Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris and Ren;e Zellweger are to appear in a western entitled Appaloosa, the story of two friends who are hired to protect a lawless town suffering at the hands of a renegade rancher. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
President Bush doing a great job Jul 30, 2007
in the Real World wrote on Jul 20, 2007 11:23 PM:" Free Market Radical. You confuse me a bunch. You say that Mexico, previously New Spain, was owned by the French. Gee I wonder why the French decided to call it New Spain. Perhaps you are remembering that itty bitty fight the Mexicans celebrate on Cinco De Mayo (Fifth of May). Yes I also recall Santa Anna beating up some French Foreign Legionaries. Trivial stuff. Are you sure you want to make out that the Columbus sailed for the queen of France... (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Creating an almighty flood Jun 22, 2007
Mark Forbes, one of the top animal handlers in showbiz, has done films stocked with plenty of creatures before, including corralling 500 steeds for the 2004 Arabian horse opera Hidalgo. But he has never been asked to gather such a variety of species, from common squirrels and pigeons to exotic lions and zebras. (USA Today)
Dances’ tops list of online poll of state’s best films Apr 25, 2007
Dances With Wolves defeated Hidalgo, Starship Troopers and A Man Called Horse ... ac wrote on April 24, 2007 10:49 PM:"IMHO, North by Northwest beats out Dances with Wolves by a long shot. Hidalgo was better, too. Starship Troopers was absolutely terrible.". (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Onto the big screen Apr 6, 2007
All the filmmakers need is to get Brego (Aragorns horse from Lord of the Rings); the horses that starred in The Horse Whisperer, Seabiscuit and Hidalgo; and other assorted horses from LOTR; and then paint them in rainbow colours. Box-office potential: Hey, if movies with talking pigs, dogs, sheep, rats and spiders can make it, why not a movie full of talking horses. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Santa Fe will be starting-off point for endurance horse race Feb 8, 2007
"This isn't 'Hidalgo,'" he quipped, referring to the 2004 movie by that name, in which an American cowboy heads to the Arabian desert to run his horse, "Hidalgo," in the "Ocean of Fire," a 3,000-mile survival. For more information on the Great Santa Fe Trail event, visit www. (Rio Rancho Observer, NM)
