By Doug Nye Knight Ridder Newspapers After years locked away in the vaults of the John Wayne estate, the Duke’s 1953 Western “Hondo” suddenly re-surfaced in 1991. John Wayne in “Hondo.” A few years later, another Wayne film, 1963’s “McLintock!,” also came out of hiding. Now you can get both in a boxed collectors edition […]
Read More“Ellen Cooperman Angel” Award awarded to Fergie
“Ellen Cooperman Angel Award” BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) – Sarah Ferguson was honored by a cancer research center’s auxiliary for encouraging a positive lifestyle and healthy living. The John Wayne Cancer Institute Auxiliary’s “Ellen Cooperman Angel Award” was presented to the Duchess of York on Friday. “Every year the award is given to an outstanding […]
Read More“Private Ryan” will win best picture Oscar – poll
LOS ANGELES, March 16, 1999 (Reuters) – Americans think “Saving Private Ryan” is a shoo-in to win the Oscar for best picture on Sunday, and they believe John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn are the greatest film stars of the century, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Tuesday. The poll of 1,181 Americans also found […]
Read More“Spirit of the West Riders” to Perform in Honor of the John Wayne Cancer Institute
SANTA MONICA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 15, 1999 The “Spirit of the West Riders” will perform in honor of the John Wayne Cancer Institute at the Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival. The event takes place in the City of Santa Clarita at Melody Ranch on Saturday afternoon March 27 and Sunday afternoon March 28, 1999. With their […]
Read MoreJohn Wayne makes No. 2 in Poll
WASHINGTON, Jan 5, 1999 (Reuters) – Harrison Ford is America’s favorite movie star, according to a poll released on Tuesday, with the late John Wayne coming in second place. The annual Harris poll, based on interviews with 1,010 adults, found that Ford, the star of blockbusters such as “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, “Witness”, and […]
Read MoreIron Eyes Cody Dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Iron Eyes Cody, the “Crying Indian” whose tearful face in 1970s television commercials became a powerful symbol of the anti-littering campaign, died Monday. He was in his 80s or early 90s. Cody died of natural causes at 1:30 p.m. PST in his home in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, […]
Read MoreSunset in the West
In the not so very long ago I started a talk in a properly sombre way with the single sentence: “Yakima Canutt is dead!” Now don’t think I didn’t calculate the shock value of a line lamenting the death of a man that probably not one listener in 10,000 had ever heard of. It was, […]
Read MoreJohn Wayne Dedication
WASHINGTON, D.C., The Mall – The U.S. Army, along with the U.S.O./Washington Region, dedicated the 2nd prototype of the newest multi-million dollar weapon in our defense arsenal. Or, was it in the billions? The Comanche RAH-66, covered by a white tent lest it get wet before its first flight!, was uncovered last night by Country […]
Read MorePhoenix man buys former John Wayne feedlot
Phoenix man buys former John Wayne feedlot – 1997, The Tucson Citizen STANFIELD – The Red River Feedyard, once owned by John Wayne, has been purchased out of bankruptcy by Phoenix-area cattleman Earl Petznick. Petznick’s Red River Cattle Limited Partnership bought the historic property, 40 miles south of Phoenix, from a creditor of Triple T […]
Read MoreA Tribute to Ben Johnson
An honest-to-goodness Oklahoma cowboy who became an Academy Award winner and World Champion Rodeo Roper (1953). Fate placed him in the film business in 1940, when he delivered horses to Howard Hughes… In 1972, when Ben Johnson walked to the stage to accept an Academy Award for best supporting actor in The Last Picture Show, […]
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