John Wayne

 NY Von Brunn was like John Wayne's character in "The Shootist," she said. In the movie, John Wayne plays a gunslinger diagnosed with cancer who, as Von Brunn's ex-wife said, "made sure he wasn't going to go out lying down with cancer. ...

 NY On May 26th, John Wayne would have turned 102. Though he's been gone thirty years, his movies-and his outsize character- refuse to fade. Not surprisingly, the Duke is more popular with seniors over sixty, and he plays best in the West, ...

 NY Played originally by Jeffrey Hunter, who had big roles in a lot of movies, most notably as one of the title characters (with John Wayne) in John Ford's classic The Searchers, Pike is a little older than the Kirk we met in the original TV series. ...

By Susan Brison Don't be fooled: we've seen before that the first women to be let into bastions of male power can serve to reinforce existing gender norms and make things even harder for those who'd follow. Watching John McCain and Sarah Palin on the campaign trail, I'm reminded of Katherine Hepburn sayin...

By Arianna Huffington Back in February 2007, I wrote about the role casting would play in the presidential race, and the American public's readiness to replace the John Wayne take-no-crap-cowboy model of leadership with a Gregory Peck-does-Atticus Finch archetype.

By Alex Remington In earlier days, moviegoers got to see Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, and Toshiro Mifune. We get Chow Yun-Fat. Trust me, we're not getting the short end of the stick. In earlier days, moviegoers got to see Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, and Toshiro Mifune. We get Chow Yun-Fat. Trust me, we're not ge...