Oh my gosh, I didn't know! How terrible for him and his family - we are witnessing the same thing in my husband's family and it is truly a soul-stealer.
Another brilliant writer, Sir Terry Pratchett, the beloved author of the Discworld series of fantasy novels, suffered a rare form of early onset Alzheimer's, called posterior cortical atrophy. Symptoms include difficulty reading, recognising objects and judging distances. Problems with spelling and calculation are common. As you can imagine, for an author it's an absolute disaster. Career ending. Memory loss and confusion come later when the disease spreads to more parts of the brain. It's a crying shame that it happens to people with such brilliant intellect.
Best series ever, bar none. I've watched it from start to finish so many times, the characters like old friends now. Best wishes David Milch and all and deeply felt thanks for a superb show and endless hours of joy watching it...
Hands down one of the top shows EVER! It's phenomenal, it's just phenomenal in every aspect .....the writing ALWAYS leaves me speechless for a while after I've watched and listened to it again and .... again. 👏👏👏👏👌👌👌👌
@gerard sullivan I'm watching it now for the SEVENTH time all the way through and YES, it not only holds up to repeated viewings, but actually gets BETTER. Hands down, Deadwood is the best series ever created.
This man is so intelligently complicated. It just a joy to listen to him. At the same time he draws you in and becomes a teacher of American history. I now know why Deadwood was a amazing show.
On the one hand a cinematic "rebel actor" in the mold of a Harry Dean Stanton or Harvey Keitel, while on the other he has done a ton of television movies and series, Keith has enjoyed quite the wild and eclectic career, from working with some of the finest English-speaking directors (Robert Altman, Ridley Scott, Walter Hill), as well as having done a great deal of foreign movies. Overall, 139 credits so far according to IMDb. Keith is a man of the world and it clearly shows here.
Keith should have his own interview show. He is a superb listener and asks the right questions, and, at the same time,subordinates his ego to focus on his subject.
It occurred to me that Milch barely even mentioned Al Swearengen in that interview. When you can give a compelling synopsis of a TV show and not even discuss the greatest character in television history then that is proof that Deadwood is something special.
@@michaelpanos6297 We did. And I'm grateful. But I swear that they finally let Milch make it out of guilt and shame. They know on some subconscious level that they should have fought harder to save it.
@@michaelpanos6297 We did. And I'm grateful. But I swear that they finally let Milch make it out of guilt and shame. They know on some subconscious level that they didn't fight hard enough to save something beautiful and important.
I use this for my graduate classes in Organizational Communications. I feel it is important for people to understand the concept of having a large repertoire of available language choices.
I would love to sit in on that class. Mr Milch, what a joy your vision was to behold. Truly, better dialogue has never been seen in modern day visual media.
@@jackturner4917 1000% agree. I watched the series and waxed poetic for the rest of the night after each episode. Iambic pentameter is contagious, I think.
Milch's speech is absolutely fascinating. The way he hesitates and slurs almost lures you into thinking he's slow, or has some kind of neurological impairment and then he finishes a sentence and you go "Oh, he's a genius."
There are series that become more than the sum of, Deadwood achieved this,its as if the actors enjoyed there work so much they no matter how short became more than was asked,a true work of genius by all.
Unfortunately, David Milch has just announced that he has Alzheimer’s disease. He was diagnosed following a brain scan done late last year. Very sad news.
My thoughts exactly. But 2006 is a long way off from 2019. We're living in a different world. I pray that the social justice movement and the political correct world we live in won't destroy what this series was and is to the fans. I hope the movie does it justice.
@@jballantyne553 it is a valid point I am making. What the characters say and do in this series by today's standards would be racist, and sexist because that's the way it was back then.
I somehow wasn't ready for this series when I first saw it when it was first shown, but I returned to it in 2016 I have seen it at least once a year since and every time I just prepare for an almost total religious immersion. This amazing interview shows why that is. Very sorry to hear about Mr. Milch. I am very grateful to him for this amazing work of art that he was able to create.
I think just like David Chase (The Sopranos) and all involved in creating it... David Milch and all involved in the making of Deadwood is a genius too..
DEADWOOD'S/ MILCH - DIALOGUE IS THE BEST. ..ONLY 3 Seasons ??? WTF? UNFORGIVABLE, UNREASONABLE & AN ACCEPTABLE ... COMPLETELY BRILLIANT ! ... WAY TO SMART FOR THE MUGS AROUND NOW .. Real pity...
TG for the Deadwood Movie; it was brilliant; aged perfectly, but still the same poetic prose by Milch; I was so mesmerized by the incomparable McRaney as Heart--he still psst me off even after all these years...this actor is incredible!!! WTG. Trixie for unleashing on Hearst....brilliant!!!
It took a while for me to get used to the swearing in that show , but after a while it fits exactly into what would have been the cultural language of that hard hard time and place and miners!
For me, this is the best TV series ever written, scripted, produced and acted....yes Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Wire are all brilliant series as well but Deadwood tops the lot......would love to find out if anybody has any other suggestions [just in case there are some gems out there, that I don't know about]
If it wasn't for another HBO gem at the same time called The Sopranos, Deadwood may have gotten the full attention it deserved. This may have been the best written dialogue ever produced, even if folks didn't like the story lines. Nothing even in Hollywood compared, ever.
How awesome would it be to join these men at that table and just kicking around thoughts and takes on society and the human condition…past, present and future. I bet Milch would have some whiskey in his cabinet you couldn’t find anywhere else
If Aristotle was alive today, smoked weed and gave a TV interview, this would be it. I absolutely love Milch, and hope he continues to make great works.
"You can’t think your way into right action, but you can act your way into right thinking.” he let slip that he's in AA. Good for him. Great interview.
David Milch also created NYPD Blue, and wrote a lot of the stories and dialogue for that epic series, my favorite cop show of all time. Sipowicz was loosely and not-so-loosely based on some of Milch's life experiences, as I seem to recall him stating on a making-of extra feature.
David Milch and David Chase have a parallel here, when Tony Soprano always talks about Gary Cooper, "the strong silent type". Never thought it could be possibly a commentary on code, whether morality or Hays
If you have watched this and not seen Titus Welliver - Al Swearengen Auditions Your missing a hilarious video. I would love to spend a year with Milch.
Benjamin Rood actors would often complain about sudden script changes and Milch’s procrastination. Deadwood actors would often receive script in handwriting from Milch. I guess the cast from NYPD Blue didn’t much like it. Given that NYPD Blue was a series that had the ability to continue, indefinitely annoyed the cast. Deadwood, on the other hand, had a clear ending (not that it was ever truly realized) to it. Other than procrastination, I don’t know of anything else that the cast hated. Who cares?
Was there ever an official count how many times the phrase Cock Sucker was used. In the total run of show. My opinion is Calamity Jane played by Robin Weigert. One of the best shows HBO ever did!
I’ve worked with great talent too and I’m so good I improvise most of all my scenes, but I wouldn’t deviate one word from Mr Milch and I’m a great actor and horrible with auditions lol. The dialogue in this picture sends me, and then brings me back and around like a yo yo and it’s so sexy laced with violence and filthy language to I suppose replace words like scoundrel with MF because the impact in 2019, is not the same at all as it was in 1876. No wait it’s words like Cock S. Oh wow!!!
Deadwood was an Outstanding series...Early in the intro is a shot of miner biting a gold nugget with rotten teeth but as great as this series became (and the attention to detail) , I would often be, slightly, distracted by the perfect white teeth of the Cast (Dentalwood)...Someone should have noticed and corrected this obvious incongruity.
I was late to Deadwood, having never been a huge western guy. But my future wife suggested it after I had a back injury and was couch bound. Let me say percocet and Deadwood.... 👌. There us a story that Ed O'Neal tells where the legendary John Milius was low on funds to cover his son's law school. Milius approaches Milch for a job. Milch says, "fuck you John, if I saw you sitting at the table, grinding out copy with these youngsters... it would break my fucking heart". So Milch covers John's son's law school and shortly after... Milius lands lead writer for ROME. Up until G O T, I was shouting from the mountaintop about Deadwood and Rome. I just want this to be known.
Milch.. For such a brilliant and talented mind to be now afflicted with Alzheimers disease is beyond comprehension. May you go gently, dear soul.
Oh my gosh, I didn't know! How terrible for him and his family - we are witnessing the same thing in my husband's family and it is truly a soul-stealer.
Saddens me to hear.
Dementia is terrifying me as I get older with short term memory loss.
What a tragedy. Just rewatched his Dinner for 5 episode. The best story teller. 🙏🏻
Another brilliant writer, Sir Terry Pratchett, the beloved author of the Discworld series of fantasy novels, suffered a rare form of early onset Alzheimer's, called posterior cortical atrophy. Symptoms include difficulty reading, recognising objects and judging distances. Problems with spelling and calculation are common. As you can imagine, for an author it's an absolute disaster. Career ending. Memory loss and confusion come later when the disease spreads to more parts of the brain. It's a crying shame that it happens to people with such brilliant intellect.
Best series ever, bar none. I've watched it from start to finish so many times, the characters like old friends now. Best wishes David Milch and all and deeply felt thanks for a superb show and endless hours of joy watching it...
Hands down one of the top shows EVER! It's phenomenal, it's just phenomenal in every aspect .....the writing ALWAYS leaves me speechless for a while after I've watched and listened to it again and .... again. 👏👏👏👏👌👌👌👌
@gerard sullivan I'm watching it now for the SEVENTH time all the way through and YES, it not only holds up to repeated viewings, but actually gets BETTER. Hands down, Deadwood is the best series ever created.
This man is so intelligently complicated. It just a joy to listen to him. At the same time he draws you in and becomes a teacher of American history. I now know why Deadwood was a amazing show.
Anyone else very impressed with Keith Carradine here?
Always
He was a fantastic Wild Bill.
@@Brace67 yeah. just like I would've expected him to be .the script didn't allow him to live any longer than DEADWOOD did.
On the one hand a cinematic "rebel actor" in the mold of a Harry Dean Stanton or Harvey Keitel, while on the other he has done a ton of television movies and series, Keith has enjoyed quite the wild and eclectic career, from working with some of the finest English-speaking directors (Robert Altman, Ridley Scott, Walter Hill), as well as having done a great deal of foreign movies. Overall, 139 credits so far according to IMDb. Keith is a man of the world and it clearly shows here.
@@mbolduc Fargo, Deadwood, Nashville, even Dexter. He is an American treasure.
Keith should have his own interview show. He is a superb listener and asks the right questions, and, at the same time,subordinates his ego to focus on his subject.
man, he's done some great things like 'thieves like us 'w/ the adorable Shelley Duvall.(so damn cute).
@@tonym994 I heard Diane was a diva nearly impossible to work with lol.. she was cute but obnoxious lol
Thank you Milch for making this series possible. I've watched it so many times I' beginning to feel like some of the characters are my family.
It occurred to me that Milch barely even mentioned Al Swearengen in that interview. When you can give a compelling synopsis of a TV show and not even discuss the greatest character in television history then that is proof that Deadwood is something special.
I see your point so great a character what else could you say???
milch milch milch revolting
@@michaelcollins237 Please explain.
Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant.
One of the great works of art of this century. It’s cancellation was a tragedy.
Fucking love this interview... I cant imagine being around someone so intimidatingly brilliant and knowledgeable as David Milch.
Must have been fun
Such a great show. I can never get over the cutting after season 3.
Yes sad. Masterpiece. But at least we didnt have to see it degrade into something lesser like Game of Thrones.
I consider the lack of a 4th and final season one of the great artistic losses suffered by humanity. I mean that with no attempt at exaggeration.
@@onlythequestion at least we finally got the movie
@@michaelpanos6297 We did. And I'm grateful. But I swear that they finally let Milch make it out of guilt and shame. They know on some subconscious level that they should have fought harder to save it.
@@michaelpanos6297 We did. And I'm grateful. But I swear that they finally let Milch make it out of guilt and shame. They know on some subconscious level that they didn't fight hard enough to save something beautiful and important.
Actually very Shakespearean, in that the script was written in iambic pentameter. Best series ever !
I use this for my graduate classes in Organizational Communications. I feel it is important for people to understand the concept of having a large repertoire of available language choices.
I would love to sit in on that class. Mr Milch, what a joy your vision was to behold. Truly, better dialogue has never been seen in modern day visual media.
@@jackturner4917 1000% agree. I watched the series and waxed poetic for the rest of the night after each episode. Iambic pentameter is contagious, I think.
Milch's speech is absolutely fascinating. The way he hesitates and slurs almost lures you into thinking he's slow, or has some kind of neurological impairment and then he finishes a sentence and you go "Oh, he's a genius."
You know he now suffers alzheimers? It seems so unfair.
Absolutely brilliant. Imagine if he "wrote" a government for us.
Deadwood is one of the greatest series ever. Only 3 seasons. Big Bang Theory? 12 seasons. WTF indeed.
Think of Deadwood as "Townes Van Zandt" and Big Bang Theory as Kelly Clarkson. Enough said.. ;-)
@@@eclecticmusica - I was just thinking about Townes Van Zandt this morning (although I wasn't comparing him to Kelly Clarkson) - legendary!
There are series that become more than the sum of, Deadwood achieved this,its as if the actors enjoyed there work so much they no matter how short became more than was asked,a true work of genius by all.
Unfortunately, David Milch has just announced that he has Alzheimer’s disease. He was diagnosed following a brain scan done late last year. Very sad news.
Cruel fate for us all if this is true. A genius is being slowly stolen from us.
I pray to god that the forthcoming Deadwood movie do justice to the amazing series.
I dont think Ian Mcshane has fought tooth and nails all these years for the movie to get made to let it be a shitty movie.
My thoughts exactly. But 2006 is a long way off from 2019. We're living in a different world. I pray that the social justice movement and the political correct world we live in won't destroy what this series was and is to the fans. I hope the movie does it justice.
@@patricksullivan2816 Oh please...
@@jballantyne553 it is a valid point I am making. What the characters say and do in this series by today's standards would be racist, and sexist because that's the way it was back then.
They didn't give a damn about if what they said hurt somebody's feelings because people had thicker skins then.
The use of language in that show was like nothing else out there before during and after.
My favourite was when Farnum would just branch out in a rant, or when Al started talking to the severed head in the box. Really great writing.
Day saw advances. None miraculous.
I somehow wasn't ready for this series when I first saw it when it was first shown, but I returned to it in 2016 I have seen it at least once a year since and every time I just prepare for an almost total religious immersion. This amazing interview shows why that is. Very sorry to hear about Mr. Milch. I am very grateful to him for this amazing work of art that he was able to create.
I would do it for nothing, says it all. Great work Mr. Milch
really sad of the news of Mr. Milch diagnosed with ALZ. Great storyteller.
I think just like David Chase (The Sopranos) and all involved in creating it... David Milch and all involved in the making of Deadwood is a genius too..
DEADWOOD'S/ MILCH - DIALOGUE IS THE BEST.
..ONLY 3 Seasons ??? WTF?
UNFORGIVABLE, UNREASONABLE & AN ACCEPTABLE ...
COMPLETELY BRILLIANT !
... WAY TO SMART FOR THE MUGS AROUND NOW ..
Real pity...
Wow I can't help but think about how his original idea would have been. Deadwood is the best show I've ever watched in my 44 years.
best series ever! hands down!!!…………… RIP CY TOLIVER.
try John From Cincinnati,if you haven't already seen it.
Watch it and then watch(the link)
czcams.com/video/rF1yijiT7Fo/video.html
enjoy!.
RIP CY T.....
you can tell he truly cares about which he speaks.. its no surprise the show is amazing!
Milch is a stone-cold genius.
Thank you, this is brilliant. Would that there were more writers of this calibre capable of getting their projects produced.
Shame that Milch & Mann's "Luck" didn't get another season, such potential and amazing cast.
Why am I hearing Milch, but thinking Titus Welliver??
Milch is the best scholar of his own work. Just a brilliant and talented mind. Let's see the movie.
Miss this show. Even went to Deadwood bcz of this series!
You can tell his brain is operating on a higher frequency than most, he has trouble translating it into primitive conversation.
Excellent interview.
Thank you
This is one of the finest interviews I have ever seen. Well done!
TG for the Deadwood Movie; it was brilliant; aged perfectly, but still the same poetic prose by Milch; I was so mesmerized by the incomparable McRaney as Heart--he still psst me off even after all these years...this actor is incredible!!! WTG. Trixie for unleashing on Hearst....brilliant!!!
Al dying made me cry.
I loved this Deadwood film and even when they came out with the Deadwood the movie. I will admit that I had watched in binges over and over.
Ok..Now I'm going back to Red Dead Redemption 2.
I'm playing it right now. I tried to call my horse jewell but apparently that profanity to rockstar.
David Milch was a Genius! Deadwood is one of my favorite shows!
It took a while for me to get used to the swearing in that show , but after a while it fits exactly into what would have been the cultural language of that hard hard time and place and miners!
For me, this is the best TV series ever written, scripted, produced and acted....yes Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Wire are all brilliant series as well but Deadwood tops the lot......would love to find out if anybody has any other suggestions [just in case there are some gems out there, that I don't know about]
If it wasn't for another HBO gem at the same time called The Sopranos, Deadwood may have gotten the full attention it deserved. This may have been the best written dialogue ever produced, even if folks didn't like the story lines. Nothing even in Hollywood compared, ever.
Excellent. Thanks for uploading.
I really do love Rome, but Jesus, imagine it with Milch’s writing...
Fascinating interview.
This guy is like a philosophical Lewis Black
How awesome would it be to join these men at that table and just kicking around thoughts and takes on society and the human condition…past, present and future. I bet Milch would have some whiskey in his cabinet you couldn’t find anywhere else
Amazing video. Thank you.
If Aristotle was alive today, smoked weed and gave a TV interview, this would be it. I absolutely love Milch, and hope he continues to make great works.
Unfortunately that doesn't seem likely, as he recently revealed his struggles with Alzheimer's.
@@bumbledouche3323 So tragic! Aaagh!
"You can’t think your way into right action, but you can act your way into right thinking.” he let slip that he's in AA. Good for him. Great interview.
Never heard that saying before.
@@showpro1178 its apparently an AA thing, at least in modern times. i had to search for it. cya.
Rome and Deadwood were the best TV shows ever made at the time, and are still in the top 5 or 10
i love this show . bought the box set now need the movie
Brilliant mind, brilliant man.
And cruelly David is suffering from dementia now, a brilliant mind slowly taken!
Such as a genius. Is there a video about the music of the show? - the songs during the credits.
Fuckin beautiful. Hadn't seen this one before. Thank you.
Best ever show
David Milch also created NYPD Blue, and wrote a lot of the stories and dialogue for that epic series, my favorite cop show of all time. Sipowicz was loosely and not-so-loosely based on some of Milch's life experiences, as I seem to recall him stating on a making-of extra feature.
Shame on HBO for cancelling perhaps the best and greatest series ever, double shame on them for waiting so long to produce the series finale.
Keith Carradine is wearing the shirt version of Al's suit.
Modern day Shakespeare.
A complete genius!!!!!!!!!! What a joy!
Please bring back Deadwood
Your wish was HBO's command! Watched it last night. Excellent!
@@rick-hm3ji AAaaaaagh! I don't have HBO!
Its so weird seeing Ellsworth early on 😅
Game of Thrones just ended and now I'm rewatching Deadwood to get ready for the movie...........HBO''s biggest mistake was cutting this show.
Brilliant!
Geez. That's a lot of learning for a half hour.
*Awww, the incomparable Keith Carradine, I adore him...*
David Milch and David Chase have a parallel here, when Tony Soprano always talks about Gary Cooper, "the strong silent type". Never thought it could be possibly a commentary on code, whether morality or Hays
Watch Keith Carradine interview David Milch....amazing
great interview
Deadwood is modern Shakespeare set in the Old West.
This interview was phenomenal
Holy Fuck , it all makes sense now.
Fascinating
If you have watched this and not seen Titus Welliver - Al Swearengen Auditions Your missing a hilarious video. I would love to spend a year with Milch.
So sad that the movie will never be made.
I truly hope that Milch and David Mamet are friends.
Amazing writer.
Excuse my French.
It's ok. I speak French.
Season 3 ends perfectly. They civilized. They kicked out Hearst without resorting to violence.
They had no choice.
Genius was Milch.
GENIOUS!!!!
I can’t believe the cast of NYPD Blue would always bitch about Milch. The cast of Deadwood were like a family and loved him, dearly.
Benjamin Rood actors would often complain about sudden script changes and Milch’s procrastination. Deadwood actors would often receive script in handwriting from Milch. I guess the cast from NYPD Blue didn’t much like it.
Given that NYPD Blue was a series that had the ability to continue, indefinitely annoyed the cast.
Deadwood, on the other hand, had a clear ending (not that it was ever truly realized) to it.
Other than procrastination, I don’t know of anything else that the cast hated. Who cares?
A modern genius, deadwood will live forever.
I really want to visit the gem and Bella one day. Who knows if it still would exist.
Deadwood was burned down a long time ago.
SS Starscream - The Gem Saloon and Deadwood ND are alive and well.
Swedgin! Hu San Francisco Hearst.
1000th like!
i want someone to make a movie that has mix of deadwood and unforgiven! hands down please someone make it happen HBO or Warner Bros. please!!!!
Was cancelled too soon!
The cowboy was a man of few words and “FUCK YOU” was two of em’
Special agent lundy always be pressin people
Was there ever an official count how many times the phrase Cock Sucker was used. In the total run of show. My opinion is Calamity Jane played by Robin Weigert. One of the best shows HBO ever did!
12:04, Ghostbusters!
Nero era Rome and HBO refused that? What the actual fuck HBO?
Shakespeare + American West = Deadwood
I’ve worked with great talent too and I’m so good I improvise most of all my scenes, but I wouldn’t deviate one word from Mr Milch and I’m a great actor and horrible with auditions lol. The dialogue in this picture sends me, and then brings me back and around like a yo yo and it’s so sexy laced with violence and filthy language to I suppose replace words like scoundrel with MF because the impact in 2019, is not the same at all as it was in 1876. No wait it’s words like Cock S. Oh wow!!!
Deadwood was an Outstanding series...Early in the intro is a shot of miner biting a gold nugget with rotten teeth but as great as this series became (and the attention to detail) , I would often be, slightly, distracted by the perfect white teeth of the Cast (Dentalwood)...Someone should have noticed and corrected this obvious incongruity.
Miltch speaks as if he's always suffering from bad indigestion.
I was late to Deadwood, having never been a huge western guy. But my future wife suggested it after I had a back injury and was couch bound. Let me say percocet and Deadwood.... 👌. There us a story that Ed O'Neal tells where the legendary John Milius was low on funds to cover his son's law school. Milius approaches Milch for a job. Milch says, "fuck you John, if I saw you sitting at the table, grinding out copy with these youngsters... it would break my fucking heart". So Milch covers John's son's law school and shortly after... Milius lands lead writer for ROME. Up until G O T, I was shouting from the mountaintop about Deadwood and Rome. I just want this to be known.