John Wayne.

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that makeup is touching

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 August 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link

Wait Steve Martin and Lionel Barrymore are in that too?

Another Fule Clickin’ In Your POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 August 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Joseph McBride, author of SEARCHING FOR JOHN FORD, posted this on Facebook:

"USC's 'School of Cinematic Arts' dishonors itself and its name by taking down its exhibit about the school's greatest filmmaking alumnus. Wayne doesn't need their tribute. They fail to separate the actor from the flawed man who played so many indelible roles onscreen. Who among us is without character flaws? Let him or her cast the first stone. I interviewed Navajos in Monument Valley about the 1971 Playboy interview two years later, and they said they were disappointed because they always got along well with Wayne and thought he was their friend. All but one of those I spoke with then were more disappointed and philosophical about him than angry, although one young Navajo who had just returned from Vietnam and was wearing his Army flak jacket told me if Wayne ever returned to Monument Valley to make a film, 'He'd better watch out, because I'll be sitting up there in those rocks with my M-1 rifle and I'll pick him off.' I thought what a story that would be: 'INDIAN KILLS JOHN WAYNE.' Until Wayne died I had to wrestle with what I do would do if I heard he was going back there and whether I would warn him or let history happen. But I can appreciate the films of my favorite actor while still deploring and regretting his political stands. I just watched him again tonight in one of John Ford's masterpieces, THEY WERE EXPENDABLE. And the other night I saw Wayne in Ford's FORT APACHE, in which he plays the Army officer who is friendly with the Apaches and honors Cochise, while trying to make peace with him and his people. I wonder if anyone at USC has bothered to watch that great film."

brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 July 2020 14:17 (four years ago) link

No

flappy bird, Sunday, 12 July 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link

Sign of the times ∞ + 1: TCM has cancelled the John Wayne Summer Under the Stars day scheduled for 8/22. They will instead show a Natalie Wood program.

Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Thursday, 16 July 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link

Big leggy.

Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 16 July 2020 14:43 (four years ago) link

Very consistent, while TCM keeps programming films featuring actual Klansmen.

brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 July 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link

lol, Charles Coburn films tonight! look him up

brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 July 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link

Wait until they find out about Stumpy

flappy bird, Thursday, 16 July 2020 16:39 (four years ago) link

not seeing any news about TCM cancellation

but i trust j.lu has her sources

brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 July 2020 16:57 (four years ago) link

http://www.tcm.com/schedule/weekly.html?tz=PST&sdate=2020-08-22

TCM.com hasn't said anything, but the message board regulars noticed.

Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Thursday, 16 July 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link

Moreover, The Searchers is in the prime 8pm slot.

Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Thursday, 16 July 2020 17:36 (four years ago) link

two years pass...

Watching Rio Bravo again (fourth time?), I'm struck by John Wayne's beautiful serenity. He's always observing the other characters, as an actor and as Chance. He's relaxed but wary. His best performance.

the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 April 2023 13:13 (one year ago) link

yes! a very thoughtful performance in a fairly rambunctious movie

Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Saturday, 1 April 2023 13:17 (one year ago) link

I got into a dispute with a friend in the neighborhood yesterday when he told me that he never watches “those kind of Westerns,” because John Wayne was “a cartoon” and “not cool like Clint.”

Little Big Man Yells at Red Cloud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 April 2023 13:25 (one year ago) link

I finally remembered that he had actually gone to film school but seemed to be one of those Film Bros we have talked about.

Little Big Man Yells at Red Cloud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 April 2023 13:26 (one year ago) link

But not after I had already started to go full-on Ethan Edwards on him, saying “Maybe not according to what you believe, but according to what that Comanche believes!”

Little Big Man Yells at Red Cloud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 April 2023 13:28 (one year ago) link

I misquoted it slightly. Time for another rewatch soon I guess.

Little Big Man Yells at Red Cloud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 April 2023 13:36 (one year ago) link


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