A Friendship For the Ages

I stayed up much too late last night watching Tombstone. It's a good movie; not exactly 100% historically accurate, but damn entertaining. It's the cast and characters that make it, really (someone called it "The good Wyatt Earp film", no doubt referring to Kevin Costner's bit of epic-length drudge): Kurt Russell, Sam Elliott, Jason Priestly, Thomas Haden Church, Dana Delaney, a nice cameo by Charlton Heston, and Val Kilmer as a truly memorable Doc Holliday:

Sherman McMasters: Why you doin' this, Doc?
Doc Holliday: Because Wyatt Earp is my friend.
Sherman McMasters: Friend? Hell, I got lots of friends.
Doc Holliday: ...I don't.

The movie probably romanticizes the friendship between Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, but it's the memorable romance of a friendship for the ages:

Doc Holliday: ...Say goodbye to me, go grab that spirited actress and make her your own. Take that and don't look back. Live every second, live right on through the end. Live Wyatt, live for me. Wyatt, if you were ever truly my friend, or if ya ever had just the slightest of feelin' for me, leave now, leave now, please.
Wyatt Earp: Thanks for always being there, Doc.

I hope that someday, at the end of a long life, I'll get the chance to tell my best friends "Thanks for always being there."

Mood: Thoughtful
Music: Badfinger: "Day After Day"