John Wayne News

You don't have to be John Wayne or Annie Oakley to appreciate the thrill of the Old West.

I've beensick with the swine flu for the past few days,hence the sparse number of postings on the blog.

I was a kid during the release of the great epics of the 1950s and 1960s. I still enjoy watching them on occasion and I own most of these which I consider to be the top 10 epic movies of the 1960s.

In the heyday of Westerns, you could always spot the good guys. They usually wore white hats, and they always rode off into the sunset a ' alive and well after whatever gunfights might have occurred.

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Miss Iowa, Anne Michael Langguth ofA Iowa City, was a guest violinist at the "2009 Kids-Symphony" in Ottumwa's BridgeA View Center on SaturdayA morning.

Directors Joel and Ethan Coen are delivering their take on the classic western, 'True Grit.' The Coen brothers , Joel and Ethan, mixed business and pleasure Tuesday night when they hosted Josh Brolin and Robert Iler at Intermezzo on Eighth Ave.

The Aviation Heritage Center of Sheboygan County will show the movie, 'The High and the Mighty' at 7 p.m., Friday, Nov.

In looking for the "Most Romantic Films for Audiences Over 50," I couldn't narrow it down to just 10, so here's the list of 25 , in chronological order of release.

Phil Riddle editor@weatherforddemocrat.com Producers of a remake of the John Wayne western classic movie "True Grit" are coming to North Texas in search of a budding starlet.

John Ford established Arizona's Monument Valley as the western movie outdoor set in his John Wayne triology, Fort Apace, Rio Grande, and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.

Hoping they'd be discovered for a role in a Hollywood movie, about 200 girls converged in Lubbock to show they had "True Grit." An open call for casting Saturday at Lubbock's Homewood Suites attracted girls ages 12-16 who were hopeful they'd play the role of Mattie Ross in a remake of the 1969 film and novel, "True Grit." Among girls trying out for ...

Merrimack Hall will continue its Classic Sunday Film series with the John Wayne epic classic "The Searchers." Directed by John Ford and released in 1956, "The Searchers"tells the saga of Ethan Edwards and his five-year quest through the dusty Arizona desert to avenge the death of his family and find his kidnapped niece,. The film has been called ...

The good, the bad and the ugly of the western film genre has left its mark on a new exhibition... WALK down Edinburgh's Market Street after dusk next month and you might just have a face to face encounter with John Wayne.

Nov 03, 2009 "A rip-snorting Western, as brashly entertaining as they come." So said New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther in his May 31, 1956, review of The Searchers .

By Barbara Manson As travelers drive along Highway 180 from Weatherford to Mineral Wells, few realize they have entered the true west that is steeped in history and legend.

So it is fitting, if not downright appropriate, to seize upon the equineosity of the season and turn our collective mind to the marvellous contribution horses have made to the cinematic arts.

Paramount Pictures and the Academy Award-winning Coen brothers are remaking the John Wayne classic True Grit and will be holding auditions for the lead role of Mattie at Billy Boba s Texas on Sat., Nov.

Tonight I caught up with a new-to-me John Wayne movie, BIG JIM McLAIN. Wayne plays the title character, a HUAC investigator hunting Communists in Hawaii along with James Arness.

Matt Damon is in discussions to star in writer-director Ethan and Joel Coen's remake of "True Grit." He would take on the role Glen Campbell played in the 1969 original, a Texas Ranger tracking an outlaw along with a gruff U.S. marshal.