Dallas

I don't like Sam Rockwell, is it? I don't know.

Dallas, played by Tom Skerritt.

The captain.

The captain.

Good screen presence on him.

Exactly.

He was also a close run thing for Dallas, the captain.

I can totally see that.

Yeah.

And in Stagecoach, Claire Trevor's character's name is Dallas, and here the girl's name is Denver.

Yep.

And they're both, like Ford, no, not Ford, Wayne and Ben Johnson's characters are both kind of have an innocence to them.

Joe Andrew, of course, is Denver.

And then there's a third woman named.

uh that is kind of quieter and more in the background but uh the interesting thing yeah they uh in the published screenplay introduction that i talked about andrew sinclair goes on and on about these connections that you mentioned between this film and Stagecoach, including the women's names being named after towns, Dallas and Denver, and that they're both women of ill repute, a difference being that in Stagecoach, 1939 film, Claire Trevor's character, Dallas, is very much ashamed of her past and keeps telling herself that a guy like Ringo wouldn't have her once he knows the truth about her.

Right.

Everyone's entitled to two good scares.

This just in, Tom Skarek, who played Captain Dallas in Alien, has passed on to the other side.

He was 93 years young.

So after two years of waiting...

We have Sigourney Weaver playing Ripley, who's the third in command.

We have Tom Skerritt as the captain, Dallas.

We have Veronica Cartwright who's Lambert.

She's the navigator.

And then finally, we have Ian Holm as Ash, and he is the science officer on the ship.

So there's a little discussion that's brought up by Brett and by Parker about how they want to make sure they get their bonus and proper shares from the mission.

And at this point, Dallas gets summoned by Mother, Mother being the control computer of the ship, and he ends up walking into a room in order to interface with Mother using a keyboard.

So when Dallas enters the room where he can communicate with mother, he sits down and the room has this interesting vibe of this breathing sound of the air in the room inhaling, it sounds like.

and he would also corner the rom-com vote demographic.

As for Tallarico himself, he has garnered some endorsements from multiple members of the dyed-in-the-wool GOP Bush clan, and an endorsement from the Dallas Morning News, which is not exactly a left-leaning rag.

I'm not sure which of these things surprises me more.

Elsewhere in Texas, the wet-lipped incumbent that is Senator Ted Cruz accused Democratic voters of being transgender witches and lunatics in an interview with Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan this week.

Here's a send-off to actor Tom Skerritt, who died this week at the age of 93.

Skerritt played commanding characters in a long career.

I know him best as Captain Dallas in Alien from 1979.

His character in Robert Altman's movie M.A.S.H. was one of the few to not make the jump to the TV version of the show.