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New Kenny Rogers movie kicked off with Indian sweat

Author

Windspeaker Staff

Volume

5

Issue

12

Year

1987

Page 2

New Mexico Indians working on the set of Gambler III insisted that a traditional sweat be held to get the picture off to a good start.

A makeshift sweatlodge was constructed on location. When the temperature inside the lodge reached 110 degrees Kenny Rogers, co-star Bruce Boxleitner and the Indians crawled in and sweated for more than an hour.