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Saddle up your finances. A ranch owned by John Wayne has hit the market for $12 million

That’s a lot of money, Pilgrim…

Fortune

Nick Canepa: Situation with Ravens QB Lamar Jackson has a whiff of collusion

SAN DIEGO — Lamar Jackson isn't Colin Kaepernick any more than Don Knotts was John Wayne.

Tribune News Service

LZ Granderson: Hip-hop is turning 50, and its work is not yet done

Dear hip-hop,

Los Angeles Times

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"True Grit" is a Christmas movie for me

Our last Christmas matinee as a family was the perfect final movie with my dad — the one that launched his career

Salon

Robert Duvall’s 20 best performances – ranked!

From the horse’s head in The Godfather to the smell of napalm in Apocalypse Now, no one does chilling menace like the 91-year-old Oscar-winner. With the release this month of his new film, we rate his greatest roles

The Guardian - UK

John Wayne’s ‘The Cowboys’ rides into Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS — It shocked her, to see her father take a bullet on the big screen.

Tribune News Service

‘Tulsa King’ review: Sylvester Stallone is a New York gangster starting over in ... Oklahoma?

As the creator of the “Yellowstone” franchise, Taylor Sheridan’s notions of masculinity are not what you’d call expansive, but instead sit comfortably within the same mold that produced John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. A similar but distinctive brand of masculinity exists in stories about the mob. With “Tulsa King” on…

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Sacheen Littlefeather: Native American activist who declined Brando’s Oscar

The actor ushered in an era in which the film industry increasingly used awards speeches to call out injustice

The Independent UK

The Northman to Detroit: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Alexander Skarsgård is the Icelandic prince out to avenge his father’s murder in Robert Eggers’ bloodthirsty tale, while John Boyega is caught up with racist cops in Kathryn Bigelow’s 1967 reenactment of the Algiers Motel incident

The Guardian - UK

Sacheen Littlefeather, Actor Who Declined Brando Oscar, Dies

Sacheen Littlefeather, the actor and activist who declined Marlon Brando’s 1973 Academy Award for "The Godfather" on his behalf in an indelible protest of Hollywood's portrayal of Native Americans, has died. She was 75. Littlefeather's niece, Calina Lawrence, confirmed that she died peacefully Sunday, surrounded by loved ones at her…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Sacheen Littlefeather, activist who declined Brando’s ‘Godfather’ Oscar, dies at 75

LOS ANGELES — Sacheen Littlefeather, the Native American activist Marlon Brando sent to the 1973 Academy Awards to decline the lead actor Oscar he won for “The Godfather,” has died. She was 75.

Los Angeles Times

Sacheen Littlefeather death: Who was the Native American activist booed off stage at the Oscars?

Littlefeather was the first woman of colour to use the Academy Awards platform to make a political statement

Evening Standard

Get a taste of bourbon country, in Kentucky and beyond

J.R. Ewing, the scoundrel oil baron of the prime time melodrama “Dallas,” was known to often enjoy a neat order of bourbon and branch as his tipple of choice. John Wayne fancied Wild Turkey, another bourbon whiskey. For Ol’ Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra, it was Jack Daniels. Mila Kunis likes…

Tribune News Service

Gay rodeos and life in rural America

Young queer people growing up in rural areas don't necessarily need to flee their communities to find acceptance

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Michael Hiltzik: Did John Wayne try to assault Sacheen Littlefeather at the 1973 Oscars? Debunking a Hollywood myth

Hollywood loves few things more than retailing myths and legends about itself. Few of these yarns have had a longer life than what happened at the 1973 Academy Awards involving Marlon Brando, John Wayne and a Native American activist named Sacheen Littlefeather.

The Independent UK

Sacheen Littlefeather: Actor says John Wayne tried to remove her from Oscars stage after political speech

Actor and activist rejected Marlon Brando’s Oscar on his behalf at the 1973 ceremony, which apparently angered Wayne

The Conversation

How gay rodeos upend assumptions about life in rural America

The misguided assumption that rural America is hopelessly backward and bigoted erases centuries of same-sex relationships in rural communities. It tells young queer people that they must flee their rural hometowns to far-flung cities in order to find safety and acceptance.

The Independent UK

Sacheen Littlefeather: Actor says John Wayne tried to remove her from Oscars stage after political speech

Actor and activist rejected Marlon Brando’s Oscar on his behalf at the 1973 ceremony, which apparently angered Wayne

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The Independent UK

Sacheen Littlefeather: Actor says John Wayne tried to remove her from Oscars stage after political speech

Actor and activist rejected Marlon Brando’s Oscar on his behalf at the 1973 ceremony, which apparently angered Wayne

Daily Record

Abandoned Scots cottage lies untouched for over a decade with letters from WW2 and moon landing

The property in Fife was uncovered by an urban explorer, Grant Vincent, and has a John Wayne tape and a kilt hanging from the wardrobe.

Daily Mirror

Iconic The Virginian actor Clu Gulager dies 'surrounded by loving family'

Clu Gulager, 93, was best known for The Virginian but also appeared in The Return of the Living Dead and starred alongside Ronald Reagan, Paul Newman, Lee Marvin and John Wayne

The Independent UK

From Deadwood to Maverick: The top 12 TV Westerns of all time

There was a time when Westerns ruled the small screen, often taking the form of action-packed weekly morality plays. Now that they are being reinvented for a new audience, Graeme Ross rounds up the genre’s best

The Guardian - UK

‘Two out of five stories should be hot’: why pre-code cinema was a golden age for women

Prior to the proscriptive Hays Code, films were populated by adulterous, marijuana-smoking gold diggers – wildly entertaining and more modern than the roles that came next

The Guardian - UK

Philomena to Jerry and Marge Go Large: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Judi Dench and Steve Coogan star in a terrifically moving true story, while Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening play a couple who find a loophole in the lottery … and try to win big

Los Angeles Times

'What have I done?': 'The Boys' boss explains the scene that will have you screaming

When Eric Kripke is afraid of things, he puts them on-screen and blows them up. But the creator of "The Boys," Amazon's irreverent spin on the superhero genre, is not at all scared to tell you that the series at its core is a "dark satire about late-stage capitalism" and…

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