Three Amigos Three Amigos Three Amigos is a 1986 American western comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Lorne Michaels, Steve Martin, and Randy Newman. Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Short star as the title characters, three silent film stars who are mistaken for real heroes by the suffering people of a small Mexican village and must find a way to live up to their reputation. In 1916, the bandit El Guapo and his gang are collecting protection money from the Mexican village of Santo Poco. Carmen, daughter of the village leader, searches for someone who can come to the
The Other Martin Loring Martin will win his "fight" and one day be able to live a "normal" life. Person or persons unknown leaked the script for "The Other Martin Loring" to gay groups sometime around January 1973. In response, the Gay Activists Alliance sent a letter to ABC's Standards and Practices (S&P) department advising that the script's portrayal of homosexuality was negative; GAA knew that the popularity of the "Welby" series would mean that any negative message would reach an extremely wide audience. GAA media director Ron Gold and other GAA representatives met with ABC executives on February 13, but when negotiations failed