The Texas woman who inspired Jacy Farrow in Larry McMurtry’s ‘The Last Picture Show’ dies at 85
Ceil Cleveland Footlick once wrote a memoir titled “Whatever Happened to Jacy Farrow?” She should know the answer, since she was the real-life woman behind the character, played by Cybill Shepherd in the movie.
Cybill Shepherd, as she appeared in the 1971 movie, The Last Picture Show. (Columbia Pictures)
The name Ceil Cleveland Footlick may not register with most, but as it turns out, we’re betting you know a whole lot more about her than you thought you did. Footlick, who died four days after her 85th birthday in mid-January in Durham, N.C., inspired a character in a famous novel and movie. She was, her friends say, the real-life Jacy Farrow, as depicted in Larry McMurtry’s 1966 novel,
Famous ‘Tango Frogs’ moving to new home on Lowest Greenville in Dallas
The restaurateur who commissioned the art some 40 years ago, Shannon Wynne, shares stories about the frogs’ wild history.
Three of the original Six Frogs Over Tango sculptures will be moved from Taco Cabana to Truck Yard in Dallas. The frogs, a source of fascination and legend, once graced the roof of a nightclub in the 1980s named Tango.(Michael Ainsworth / Staff Photographer)
Dallas Morning News readers was, “Where are the ‘Tango Frogs’ going?”
They’re referring to a sculpture of six dancing frogs created by artist Bob “Daddy-O” Wade. They’d been atop the building at 1827 Greenville Ave. starting in the early ‘80s, when it was once a nightclub called Tango. Three of the frogs were re-installed at Taco Cabana in 2014 and remained there throughout 2020, while Taco Cabana sat vacant.