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John Wayne vs. Atticus Finch
News Story October 18, 1996
by Amy Smith
Now & Then: From Frosh to Seniors
Film Review October 29, 1999
by Russell Smith
Description: So it's a quarter to midnight and you're alone in your sepulchral law office, grimly making up the billable-hours deficit you incurred during your biennial vacation. And then it hits...  
by Russell Smith
"...Putative bisexual Nick comes out in slow degrees as unabashedly gay. Inseparable straight buddies Gerardo and Chris, meanwhile, have to deal with meathead dorm mates' suspicions that they're men's men in the Monty Clift rather than the John Wayne sense..."
Only in America
Film Review July 25, 1997
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Only in America fashions a sprawling sense of a tempest-in-a-teacup madness, a madness that might also be described as Only in Dallas. The film employs a mountainfull of touchstones of...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...The majority of screen time is devoted to Only in America's film within a film: Just Say No to Satan. Set in the Plano suburbs, this plotline is rife with fatuous society matrons, vigilant anti-drug enforcers, dope-smoking teens, Robert Tilton-esque televangelists, a reputed psycho/hit man named John Wayne, and a Murdering Cheerleader Mom-ish intrigue about a woman who plans to kill the daughter of her next-door neighbor because it will increase her own property value (it almost, sort of, makes sense within the context of the movie)..."
The Searchers
Film Review October 1, 1993
by Louis Black
Description: Regarded by many as Ford's masterpiece and one of the great films of all time, this John Wayne Western is a meditation on survival, the loss of faith, and the death of heroes.
by Louis Black
"...Directed by: John Ford. Starring: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood, Henry Brandon, Pat Wayne and Harry Carey Jr..."
The Boy Who Cried Bitch
Film Review March 27, 1992
by Marc Savlov
Description: “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer as a Young Child.” “ John Wayne Gacy: The Road to Manhood.” “How to Lose Friends and Kill People.” Any and all of these could...
by Marc Savlov
"...Daniels and Gene Canfield. “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer as a Young Child.” “John Wayne Gacy: The Road to Manhood.” “How to Lose Friends and Kill People.” Any and all of these could have been alternate titles for this harrowing debut film from director Campanella, but I think we'll stick with what we've got..."
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Film Review September 20, 1991
by Marc Savlov
Description: More so than any other type of film, monster movies undoubtedly produce the greatest amount of sequels. From James Whale's Frankenstein to John Carpenter's Halloween, and from Merian Cooper's King...
by Marc Savlov
"...As much an American pop icon as Willard Scott or Stephen King, Freddy Krueger -- Hollywood's resident Sandman From Hell -- has devolved from the horrific, ill-defined phantasm posited in the original film, into a bland and annoyingly predictable boogeyman loved by kids everywhere. (Has everybody forgotten the character's lurid origins as a jovial child molester, a la John Wayne Gacy? Apparently so.) As for Freddy's Dead, there's not much to say that you probably haven't already guessed, except, maybe, that it's even worse than you thought it might be..."
Paul Hanley's Top 10 Crazy-Ass 'Nam Movies
Screens Story January 22, 2010
Description: Viva the Nam's co-creator talks about his inspirations
"...8) No Substitute for Victory (1970): Possibly even less accurate about the war is this "documentary" hosted by John Wayne. An 11th-hour attempt at propaganda that looks like it was shot on Super 8 in Duke's finished basement study..."
Letters at 3AM: My Top 10 of All Top 10s
Columns January 1, 2010
by Michael Ventura
Description: A list of the Top 10 cultural artifacts that have shaped my life
"...I won't survive unhumiliated on the mean streets of home the way my Creator made me. But look at John Wayne in Hondo..."
Fantastic Fest: 'A Town Called Panic'
Screens Blog September 24, 2009
by Kimberley Jones
Description: This French-language stop-motion film journeys all the way to the center of the earth and back.
"...(Think that’s absurd? Ya ain’t seen nothin’ yet.) Some of the voicework irritates (Aubier's Cowboy, especially, is a Gumby-esque squealer), but the delight here is in the details – the threesome’s bathroom is tricked-out to accommodate equine and otherwise – and in the unfailingly decent Horse. He’s John Wayne in the mold of Mr..."
Day Trips
Columns August 21, 2009
by Gerald E. McLeod
Description: Alamo Village, where John Wayne shot The Alamo, has lost the 93-year-old matriarch who kept the movie set and Western-themed park open for nearly 50 years
"...Alamo Village outside of Brackettville, where John Wayne shot the 1960 movie The Alamo, has lost the 93-year-old matriarch who kept the movie set and Western-themed park open for nearly 50 years...."
Moral Confusion and Intellectual Laziness
Postmarks June 15, 2009
"...You are too old for this childish ideological nonsense. After all, you said in your piece that you were positively moved by the work of John Wayne..."
Page Two: Winning the West
Columns June 12, 2009
by Louis Black
Description: Cowboys, Indians, and the irresolvable contradictions between freedom and order
"..."How can I hate John Wayne upholding Goldwater and yet love him tenderly when he sweeps Natalie Wood into his arms in the last reel of The Searchers?" – Jean-Luc Godard..."
Harry Knowles, Pedazo Chunk, and the Independent Video Store
Screens Blog January 18, 2009
by Marc Savlov
Description: Harry on indie video stores
"...I look at it beyond Austin. When I was growing up in Seymour, Texas, population 3,000, there was one mom and pop store that would have one new release a week and otherwise had an astonishing array of John Wayne titles and Clint Eastwood movies, you know? But because my parents were video geeks, I had 3,000 to 4,000 titles at home..."
Closing Arguments
Screens Blog August 22, 2008
by Josh Rosenblatt
Description: Olivier versus Branagh
"...And secondly, if you had bothered to watch any of John Wayne’s underrated 20th Century Fox silent B-movie pirate classics, like Daredevilry on the High Seas, Hard to Starboard!, The Big Storm, The Big Storm II: Change of Socks, or Jub Jub the Chimpanzee vs. the Barbary Pirates, you’d know that he spent the better part of his early career soaking wet..."
The Sunny Side to Every Situation
Screens Blog August 21, 2008
by Kimberley Jones
Description: Defending Ethan Hawke and the virtues of John Wayne in a wet shirt
"...Also a revelation – then and now: Who knew John Wayne looked so good in a wet shirt?..."
Appreciation Society
Music Story August 15, 2008
by Audra Schroeder
Description: Shapes Have Fangs bite into a Kinks klassic
"...for four years] was just horrible. I read they played a high school in Illinois, and no one showed up except for John Wayne Gacy, who booked the show...."
Film Fight Field Trip ... With One Quick Rejoinder
Screens Blog July 9, 2008
by Josh Rosenblatt
"...John Wayne, by the way, would never have been caught dead in tights...."
Living With 'Monstrosities'
Arts Story June 27, 2008
by Wayne Alan Brenner
Description: Jen Hirt and Scott Webel and their Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata
"...What is it about an object's context, sometimes, or the fame of an object's owner – like John Wayne's Frankenstein Lightbulb or Marilyn Monroe's Last Cigarette Butt – that makes it worthy of displaying, that gives it a sort of aura of enchantment? Even assuming the provenance is authentic, why do people find value in such things?..."
Bloggers in Print
Books Story May 2, 2008
by Wells Dunbar
Description: Political bloggers pick up the pen.
"...His third book, Great American Hypocrites, follows a simple idea, exemplified in the empty flight-suit theatrics of our Vietnam-avoiding president or the values-sermonizing of bathroom-trolling Sen. Larry Craig: "[T]hose who playact as powerful Tough Guys and anti-Terrorist Warriors and Crusaders for the Values Voters have lives filled with weakness, fear, unbridled hedonism, unearned privilege, sheltered insulation, and none of the 'Traditional Masculine Virtues' they endlessly tout." He devotes his opening chapter to deconstructing John Wayne, to whom Greenwald personifies the modern right, albeit not in a fashion they'd prefer: war avoidance, broken marriages, and pill-popping..."
Your Library Wants These Bad
Arts Story May 2, 2008
by Wayne Alan Brenner
Description: How do we recommend these books highly enough? What miracles of precision can be created with pen-and-ink?
"...Say what? Say: It's an alternative history that begins with Davy Crockett surviving the battle of the Alamo, Texas remaining an independent republic, an alien spacecraft crashing in Roswell, and things getting weirder from there. Much, much weirder, with all manner of cameos from celebrities from our reality – e.g., John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, Gene Roddenberry, Marie Curie – figuring strongly, in new guises, in an outlandish narrative that'll appeal to any pop-culture fans who like a bit of conspiracy theory sprinkled on top of their flakes of sci-fi goodness..."
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