John Wayne

How the West was lost How the West was lost

In a movie season crowded with westerns, "True Grit" -- the great, unsung novel of the American frontier -- celebrates its 40th anniversary.
  • This week on DVD

    A box set for Truffaut lovers, Richard Harris in his greatest roles, John Wayne turns director, "Babylon 5," "Xena" and Japanese swordplay.
  • Pax Schwarzenegger

    He's got the boots and the twang, but Bush is no cowboy when it comes to foreign policy. Instead, he's the Terminator, a cyborg lumbering through a very long revenge movie.
  • "Searching for John Ford" by Joseph McBride

    New biographies tell of the director who loved Katharine Hepburn, drove John Wayne to tears and made Stalin applaud.
  • This dame was a lady

    Janet Leigh rebuffed Howard Hughes, made movies with Orson Welles and collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock. But don't call her an actor.
  • Sherman Alexie

    "Dear John Wayne"
  • An impatient man

    Garry Wills talks about the wit of St. Augustine, the necessity for gun control and the arrogant ignorance of the New York Times
  • True prime

    He may be pushing 70, but Clint Eastwood just hit his stride with 'True Crime'.
  • Why Elia Kazan should not receive an Oscar

    By bestowing a special honor on the director, who already has won two Oscars, the academy is glossing over history.
  • Home Movies by Charles Taylor: The great American movie

    Howard Hawks' oddball, indoor western, "Rio Bravo," champions the hidden powers of misfits and losers.
  • The darkest side of John Wayne

    The darkest side of John Wayne. The enduring power of America's favorite icon has nothing to do with politics -- and everything to do with sex, race and loneliness.

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