Urban Cowboy
John Travolta
['jack pickford', 'sally eilers', 'zvonimir rogoz', 'edythe chapman', 'jeff chandler', 'grace slick', 'amber benson', 'frank caliendo', 'william castle', 'robert reed', 'lauren bacall', 'tobe hooper', 'mark dacascos', 'terence stamp', 'david suchet', 'sabu', 'gary sinise', 'matt moore', 'robert benchley', 'peter jackson', 'luc besson', 'giuliano gemma', 'the polish brothers', 'chris hardwick', 'brando', 'cecil kellaway', 'river phoenix', 'margot kidder', 'wanda hendrix', 'billy dee williams', 'andrews sisters', 'kristine hermosa', 'anita hassanandani', 'faye dunaway', 'makarand anaspure', 'andy griffith', 'ramarajan', 'karen allen', 'udo kier', 'martin landau', 'ari folman', 'jon hamm', 'bill engvall', 'jason lee', 'leslie banks', 'michel blanc', 'arjun rampal', 'bea benaderet', 'kim richards', 'lake bell', 'wilt chamberlain', 'carlos bernard', 'karin viard', 'russell crowe', 'gemini ganesan', 'uri zohar', 'john agar', 'miley', 'jane wyatt', 'jason biggs', 'chyler leigh', 'bradley whitford', 'sadie frost', 'kota srinivasa rao', 'marilyn monroe', 'david boreanaz', 'kaya scodelario', 'humphrey bogart', 'jason mewes', 'adam mckay', 'bradford dillman', 'alberto ammann', 'brett kelly', 'madeleine stowe', 'sylva koscina', 'shantaram', 'anna sten', 'may mcavoy', 'jack trevor', 'tak sakaguchi', 'thomas meighan', 'jeremy piven', 'willard parker', 'adam carolla', 'mark rydell', 'david byrne', 'phillips smalley', 'roma', 'nick nolte', 'rishi', 'christopher meloni', 'eric thompson', 'james kirkwood', 'wendy barrie', 'prabhu', 'rusty cundieff', 'steve oedekerk', 'fann wong', 'john amos']
Texas Prison Rodeo
The Texas Prison Rodeo was a rodeo and an annual celebration event for inmates in the Texas Prison System, held in a stadium in Huntsville, Texas. The stadium was located at the Huntsville Unit. The events included bareback basketball, bronco riding, bull riding, calf roping, and wild cow milking. Marshall Lee Simmons, the general manager of the prison system, started the rodeo in 1931. The rodeo originated in the Eastham Unit. Women participated in the rodeo until 1981, when they were moved from the Goree Unit in Huntsville to the prisons in Gatesville. In 1986 structural problems with the rodeo arena caused the facility to close. The rodeo ended because the State began getting money from the federal government for educational and recreational programs for the inmates. Texas no longer needed to raise money to buy educational and recreational materials. The state had been suffering from an economic recession, and the Texas Legislature was not willing to spend $500,000 to repair the prison rodeo stadium. Several unsuccessful attempts to restart the rodeo occurred in the 1990s. The rodeo became part of the history of the US space program when, during the training for the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz mission, NASA brought the cosmonauts in training, along with other Soviet personnel, to the Huntsville rodeo.[citation needed] The rodeo was featured in the 1980 film Urban Cowboy starring John Travolta, Debra Winger, and Scott Glenn.