John Wayne
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Democrats in Orange county, California, call for change in light of ‘racist and bigoted statements’ actor made in 1971 interview
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I’ve always imagined John Wayne as the epitome of gun-toting American racism. And I didn’t expect this white-supremacy parable to change my mind …
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'He didn't even pretend to let us win'… Growing up with the world's biggest stars, by their children
The sons and daughters of John Wayne, John Lennon, Caitlyn Jenner and others tell us what it was like to grow up with a world-famous dad
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The actor had secured a firm spot in American history until a controversial interview surfaced revealing his troubling views
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Released in the same year as The Wild Bunch and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Henry Hathaway’s western was defiantly old-fashioned in comparison
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The online commentary about a Playboy interview unearthed from 1971 shows a lack of education about the western actor, his times and even American history
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The horror master, releasing a new album of film scores, talks John Wayne, why he never watches his movies, and having his work co-opted by neo-Nazis
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It’s July 1974, and the Duke is in town to shoot a film, suffering from lung cancer, effing and blinding and cheerfully laying into everything and everyone. By Quentin Falk
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Legislators defeat official ode to actor after several Democrats described statements he made about racial minorities
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Reel history Scrap accuracy – give me Ringo Starr as the pope: the 10 quirkiest historical films
Alex von TunzelmannFrom John Wayne as Genghis Khan to 1776’s catchy showtunes about dysentery … here’s my favourite examples of movies which have played fast and loose with historical truth
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The writer and film-maker on mesmerising Beckett, John Wayne and the curious story of Uwe Johnson
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The US turned swathes of desert radioactive during the cold war and denied it, bequeathing a medical mystery that still haunts Hollywood and rural Mormon communities and raises the question: how much do you trust the government?
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The Searchers radically reinvented every wild west trope, the critics said. Trouble is, no one told John Wayne or John Ford, writes Xan Brooks
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Film director whose collaboration with John Wayne extended the life of the western
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Alex von Tunzelmann: Patriot John Wayne made a film about the Vietnam war and gave the Pentagon carte blanche to rewrite the plot. The result was a propaganda flick with dodgy Vietnamese accents
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John Wayne's heirs to sue Duke University in Northern Carolina over their attempts to scotch plans for branded bourbon, which are currently on ice
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From Jack leching over Jennifer to John Wayne's farewell and Brando's no-show, these are just some of the greatest moments at the Oscars ceremonies ever
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance at 60: the great American western