In a movie season crowded with westerns, "True Grit" -- the great, unsung novel of the American frontier -- celebrates its 40th anniversary.
By Allen Barra Nov 27, 2007
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A box set for Truffaut lovers, Richard Harris in his greatest roles, John Wayne turns director, "Babylon 5," "Xena" and Japanese swordplay.
April 29, 2003
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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.
By Neal Gabler
April 10, 2003
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New biographies tell of the director who loved Katharine Hepburn, drove John Wayne to tears and made Stalin applaud.
By Allen Barra
July 31, 2001
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Janet Leigh rebuffed Howard Hughes, made movies with Orson Welles and collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock. But don't call her an actor.
By Michael Sragow
June 29, 2000
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"Dear John Wayne"
By Sherman Alexie
October 5, 2000
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Garry Wills talks about the wit of St. Augustine, the necessity for gun control and the arrogant ignorance of the New York Times
By David Bowman
July 29, 1999
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He may be pushing 70, but Clint Eastwood just hit his stride with 'True Crime'.
By Andrew O'Hehir
March 19, 1999
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By bestowing a special honor on the director, who already has won two Oscars, the academy is glossing over history.
By Steve Erickson
March 17, 1999
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Howard Hawks' oddball, indoor western, "Rio Bravo," champions the hidden powers of misfits and losers.
By Charles Taylor
May 5, 1998
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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.
By Jonathan Lethem
August 11, 1997
How the West was lost
Pax Schwarzenegger
"Searching for John Ford" by Joseph McBride
This dame was a lady
Glenn Greenwald
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