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5 hrs ago | LA Daily News

The wizardry of 1939 films

In 1939, Henry Fonda starred in two John Ford classics - the Technicolor "Drums Along the Mohawk" and "Young Mr.

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Related Topix: Western, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Stagecoach, Drums Along the Mohawk, War Movies, Biography Movies, Adventure, Young Mr. Lincoln, Henry Fonda, Gone with the Wind

Thu Jul 09, 2009

New York Post

Unknown John Wayne Movie on DVD?

John Wayne , who died in 1979, may set the record for a posthumous performances if a sci-fi western he supposedly made an appearance in decades ago turns up as promised on DVD.

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Related Topix: Western, Drama Movies, The Shootist, Movies, Entertainment

Wed Jul 08, 2009

LA Weekly

Hollywood Celebrity Auctions

Attending an auction in Hollywood is only slightly different from loitering in front of Grauman's Chinese.

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Related Topix: Blood Alley, Action Movies, Adventure, Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, The Golden Girls, Estelle Getty, Emmy Awards, Drama Movies, Musical Movies, There's No Business Like Show Business

BBC

US winner of French award exposed as D-Day fraud

An American veteran who said he parachuted into Normandy as part of the D-Day landings in June 1944 has been exposed as a liar.

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Tue Jul 07, 2009

KIII

John Wayne's Alamo

For decades, tourists have been able to visit the movie set where John Wayne held off Mexican soldiers in the movie "The Alamo," but the Alamo Village in Bracketville is now closed.

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Related Topix: Alamo Village, TX

Mon Jul 06, 2009

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Tonight's TV Hot List: Sunday, July 5, 2009

Hannah Montana 8 pm/ET Disney Brooke Shields reprises her role as Miley's late mom in this extended one-hour episode.

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Sun Jul 05, 2009

Kerrville Daily Times

Sci-fi western has appearance by John Wayne

Any fan of old westerns would probably say that the 1976 movie, 'The Shootist,' was John Wayne's last film.

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Related Topix: Western, Drama Movies, The Shootist, Barksdale, TX, Kerrville, TX

Sat Jul 04, 2009

St. Petersburg Times

Review: Despite sameness of Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels, 'Gone Tomorrow' satisfies

"I won't be wronged," says John Wayne's dying gunfighter in The Shootist . "I won't be insulted.

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Related Topix: Western, The Shootist, Drama Movies

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Arkansas Online

on Film: Film clips in brain mostly unreliable

Things are forgotten. Other things get manufactured. Memory is an unreliable narrator.

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Related Topix: Arts, Cinema, Western, Drama Movies, The Shootist, Zabriskie Point, Then Came Bronson, Entertainment, Television

Thu Jul 02, 2009

SeniorJournal.com

John Wayne's Grandson, Brendan Wayne, Joins Cast for Remake of 1943's 'Angel and the Badman'

Stars Luke Perry, Lou Diamond Phillips Star join Wayne to discuss why westerns endure July 2, 2009 - Thirty years after John Wayne - the face the of the American Western - rode off into the sunset for the last time, his grandson, Brendan Wayne, dusts off his grandfather's cowboy hat for a role in 'Angel and the Badman,' a remake of 'The Duke's' ...

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Related Topix: Sands of Iwo Jima, War Movies, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Beverly Hills, 90210, Soap Opera, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Young Guns II, Young Guns, Western

Wed Jul 01, 2009

Victoria Advocate

Another acting generation of Wayne defers to the Duke

What actor wouldn't want to star in a movie? Brendan Wayne. He was content to take a supporting role in "Angel and the Badman," a remake of the 1947 western scheduled to run on the Hallmark Channel on Sunday night.

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Related Topix: Home of the Brave, Drama Movies, Roma, TX

CNET News.com

Arches and canyons and buttes, Oh my

Two years ago, as I made my way through the Southwest on Road Trip 2007 , I traveled through Bryce and Zion National Parks in Utah, as well as the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, and Grand Canyon West, and Canyon de Chelly in Arizona.

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Related Topix: North-Rim, AZ

Mon Jun 29, 2009

Muskogee Phoenix

Dentist lives life of laughter, service

Dr. Walter Davis loves being a dentist and says at age 64 he has no desire to retire.

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Related Topix: Dentistry, Western, Drama Movies, The Searchers

Sun Jun 28, 2009

Mark's Musings

AFI top 100 films: The Searchers

The Searchers is all the way up at number 12 on the top-100 2007 AFI list. Alas, I am not a fan of westerns at all.

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Related Topix: Western, Drama Movies, The Searchers, Pop/Rock, Jeffrey Hunter

Sat Jun 27, 2009

Desert Sun

Pony Express delivers the goods

The Pony Express Trading Post, which has been a part of the Idyllwild community for the past five years, found a second home in downtown Palm Springs in September 2008.

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Related Topix: Idyllwild, CA

Thu Jun 25, 2009

MySanAntonio.com

Ranchwoman Shahan owned Alamo Village compound

Survived by: Two daughters, Jamie Shahan Rains of Brackenridge; Tulisha Shahan Wardlaw of Brackettville; a son, James Tullis Shahan II of Brackettville; eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. Services: A memorial service will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church in Brackettville.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Alamo Village, TX, Brackettville, TX, Kinney County, TX, Baylor University

NewWest

My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad

"I wish I could be just like Ray!" This is a Father's Day piece, but I didn't want to post it on the actual date, because I was afraid that if my father saw me actually pay attention to the calendar, it might give him heart attack.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, North to Alaska, Western

Wed Jun 24, 2009

Lebanon Daily Record

Saddle up, pilgrim

Saddle up, pilgrim, and head out Sunday to Community Baptist Church, 15905 Missouri 64, for the best John Wayne impressionist this side of Rooster Cogburn.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Rooster Cogburn, Western

KSL-TV Salt Lake City

Marlene Dietrich letters sold at auction

A collection of 130 letters and short notes written by the late German actress Marlene Dietrich sold Wednesday for euro3,000 , an auction house said.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Action Movies, Short, Comedy Movies, Thriller, Oldies, Marlene Dietrich

Plymouth Truth

2009 Distinguished Alumni Award

The 28th Plymouth High School Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame Award was presented at the Plymouth High School Alumni Banquet held on Friday, June 19th.

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Related Topix: Photography, Arts, Indiana

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