How I Got to Call the Shots

An interview with esteemed screenwriter/director Burt Kennedy By Jeremy Arnold In 1956, a 78-minute western called Seven Men From Now, starring an aging Randolph Scott and directed by Budd Boetticher, became a surprise hit. Six more collaborations followed over the next four years, revitalizing Scott’s career and securing Boetticher’s place in film history. These spare […]

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John Ford, Filmmaker

A much-lauded career is given a fresh look By Robin Dougherty Here are three things you might want to know about director John Ford: He once pissed in the bed of an actor he had caught drinking on his set; he was rarely seen working without a dirty, chewed-up handkerchief in one corner of his […]

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“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 […]

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John 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 […]

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Iron 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, […]

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