![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You're constantly going by these antiquated systems like phrenology, which basically meant saying, 'OK, we're going to take a look at the shape of someone's head and decide if they're a criminal or not. Says Hower, “We thought it would be fun to be watch somebody put together how one solves a crime when you don't have the elements that we have today. The result is what Hower calls essentially CSI: Dodge City: Lehr plays Sheriff John Henry Hoyle, who leaves Harvard to fight crime in a small Kansas town circa 1875. ![]() Together, they guide the actors through each scene, building the story. Since it's improv, they keep the dialogue loose, opting instead for a system in which the plot points are “beated out.” (The actors have to hit those points, then move on.) Lehr runs the “front of the house,” in a sense, managing the actors as they ad lib the scenes, and Hower runs production. Now, they write and produce together, most recently on TBS' 10 Items Or Less.īut the process for writing Quick Draw, for which they're both executive producers, runs a bit differently than their scripted series. “We used to party a lot,” Lehr says, smiling widely. club scene back when Hower fronted the alternative rock band Wench. Quick Draw is the lovechild of Lehr and director Nancy Hower, who met long ago in the L.A. In the next take it's “commode,” in another, “mop” - all wacky innuendo for sexual orifices. “We call her bucket,” one faux prostitute says of another. In a scene they're filming on a cloudy March day in Malibu, the characters are in disguise, engaging in a Trojan Horse-like attempt to infiltrate their enemy's camp. Lehr is dressed in drag, as are his fellow cast mates in Quick Draw, a comedic Spaghetti Western series for Hulu premiering today. He's yelled some version of that same phrase about half a dozen times in the last hour or so. Hoyle’s deputy (Nick Brown) has seen them all come and go, which understandably gives the new lawman pause - as does a pool among the locals on when he’s going to join the ranks of the deceased.“We're whores, and we love to fornicate!” John Lehr shouts, once again. Lehr plays John Henry Hoyle, the new sheriff in a Kansas town where his five predecessors all met a violent end. Lehr shares writing and exec producing credit with director Nancy Hower, with whom he collaborated on TBS’ “10 Items or Less.” Still, the “Destry”-like premise is mostly obscured by the lead’s Jerry Lewis antics and a been-there quality to the gags. John Lehr and Nancy Hower didn't know a lot about Westerns when they embarked on writing their new Hulu comedy, 'Quick Draw.' But they dug up comedy gold while researching the Old West. The red dots represent Garmin Quickdraw Contours maps that have been shared for that area. Use the map and search features to locate an area to download. Whatever the goal, this ought to have been sent back to the drawing board. From the STRIKER Cast app on your mobile device, select Chart > Quickdraw > Download from Community. Starring and co-written by John Lehr, who plays an Eastern tenderfoot who brags about his Harvard background, it’s an awfully slim construct, played at a level somewhere between desert-dry and teeth-gnashing irritation. After the so-so “Moone Boy” and uninspired “The Awesomes” comes “ Quick Draw,” a western spoof seemingly devised - given the form’s current low profile - for no one in particular. It’s perhaps appropriate that Hulu has access to “Saturday Night Live,” because in terms of original series, the digital service is starting to look like a not-ready-for-primetime player. ![]()
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