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The enduring legacy of actor John Wayne, America’s ultimate cowboy, will be celebrated this month, fittingly enough, by the Cowboy Channel in association with the John Wayne: An American Experience museum in Fort Worth, Texas. The “Duketober” celebration is a month-long airing of classic John Wayne movies via…

The USC School of Cinematic Arts will remove an exhibit devoted to actor John Wayne, a USC student and football player in the 1920s, after months of insistence from students denouncing the Hollywood star’s on-the-record racism and the portrayal of Indigenous Americans in many of his films. The removal was announced…

Could Walt Disney be next? Really? Let me explain: Most industry people I know were drawn to Hollywood by the prospect of creating things, not cancelling things. Now the dialogue has shifted, whether about airports (John Wayne), statues (Teddy Roosevelt) or movies (Gone With the Wind). Could logos be next? Walt Disney…

Following movements across the country calling for the removal of all remembrances of perceived racist iconography and honors, the Democratic Party of Orange County (DPOC) has issued a resolution to remove John Wayne from his namesake airport. The Democrats want to revert the airport to its original designation…

Looking for some good movies to keep you occupied while self-quarantining at home these days? How about watching some certified classics like Lawrence Of Arabia, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Miracle Worker, The Manchurian Candidate, Sweet Bird Of Youth, The Longest Day, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? , The Music Man…

A longstanding exhibit honoring former University of Southern California student John Wayne should be taken down, according to student activists at the school. The legendary Hollywood actor, who attended the school in the late 1920s under his birth name, Marion Morrison, has had a collection of movie posters…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has set Chap Taylor to script a drama inspired by the 1962 John Ford-directed Western classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, which starred John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Lee Marvin. In the original, Stewart played an idealistic lawyer who tries to bring the rule of law to a lawless…

"I've heard from a lot of men who say, 'I'm so embarrassed being a man.' " So says Anita Hill, thereby touching a lot of nerves. The prominent activist, herself a victim of sexual abuse, has now been anointed to lead an elite group studying Hollywood's contagion of sexual misconduct. Kathleen Kennedy, president of…

Ty Hardin, who starred in early TV Westerns Cheyenne and its spinoff, Bronco, has died. He was 87, and his widow Carolyn Pampu Hardin told the Associated Press he had been in failing health. According to a biography on his personal website, Hardin was born Orison Whipple Hungerford Jr.on New Year’s Day, 1930, in New…

Veteran actor and cowboy stuntman Bill Hart, who worked with John Wayne on The Alamo and was blown off his horse in a daring stunt on Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, has died. He was 80. "He was a real cowboy," his longtime pal and fellow stuntman Roydon Clark told Deadline today. "He cowboyed in this business with…