John Wayne

The Weirdest Portrayals of Asians In Movie History

Hollywood used to have a habit of putting slanty-eye makeup on non-Asian stars and passing them off as from "the Orient." Here are some of the more egregious examples:

What Was John Wayne Really Like?

​ At a reception and preview for Heritage Auctions' The Personal Property of John Wayne the other night, the Duke's son Ethan Wayne said life with Dad was "adventurous, bold, kind, and loving." And when the superstar wanted to read you the riot act, he was nice enough not to do it to your fac ... More >>

The Worst Male Film Performances Of All Time

​You didn't think I'd let the ladies get all the glory to themselves, did you? Your choices are as follows: *Robin Williams in Patch Adams Granted the material was syrupy to the point of vomit-inducing, but he didn't have to go along with it so eagerly, did he?

Michele Bachmann Mixes Up Iowa's John Wayne, Compares Herself to Serial Killer

In what's sure to be a year-and-a-half of high-profile, overanalyzed gaffes, Michele Bachmann, one of the down home candidates attempting to drive the Republican clown car, doesn't really know that much about American pop culture or geography, shouting out Waterloo, Iowa's John Wayne -- "that's the ... More >>

Clubbed Thumb Opens the Lid on Our Lot

A premiere by Kristin Newbom and W. David Hancock at Summerworks

Attack of the Shaky-Cams in Battle: Los Angeles

A premiere by Kristin Newbom and W. David Hancock at Summerworks

Kubrick, Peckinpah, Dirty Harry and John Wayne: 1972 Cinema Awash in Ultra Violence!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 10, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 6 films in focus By Andrew Sarris The subject of violence has been so persistently debated and so pretentiously demonstrated in recent movies that reviewers are beginning to sound more like revivalists ... More >>

Old Souls Get a Second Life in True Grit and The Illusionist

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 10, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 6 films in focus By Andrew Sarris The subject of violence has been so persistently debated and so pretentiously demonstrated in recent movies that reviewers are beginning to sound more like revivalists ... More >>

Richard M. Nixon, Cinephile

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 20, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 34 Film in Focus By Andrew Sarris President Richard M. Nixon may not be quite the cinephile his recent press notices would seem to suggest. Or so we are led to believe by a recent Variety follow-up to the ... More >>

WOMAN’S WORK

Look back at the best female pop artists

Fat Pants Friday: Hill Country Chicken's Cowboy Pie

​Yes, we've been eating a lot of pie at Hill Country Chicken this week. All in the name of research, of course. The pie pictured above was our favorite of the three we tried, and also the most lethal. It's called the Cowboy Pie, and is basically a Magic Bar crammed into a crust.

Bob Hope, John Wayne, Cary Grant -- the 1970 Oscars

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 16, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 16 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris OSCAR GOES TO COLLEGE: You could hardly recognize Oscar this year at the celebration of his 42nd birthday. After years of flaunting his nouveau riche vulgarity and grade s ... More >>

'That's Montgomery Clift, Honey!' at BAM

The accident changed Monty's face, and his life, but not his talent

Albany Makes Kids Stay in Booster Seats Until Age 8; Runnin' Scared Says, "Enough!"

​It's a wonder modern children survive past their teens, overprotected as they are from dirt, walking, etc. Now we have the state demanding parents keep their kids in car booster seats until the age of eight. The old law let children out of the ass-cradles when they reached seven, but the new ... More >>

The Worst Accents in Screen History

​ No, Meryl Streep's name is nowhere near this list. But if you click on this survey, you'll find no fewer than two Brad Pitt performances (one of his accents is described as sounding merely like a sore throat), a legendarily bad Cockney accent by Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins (" 'Allo, Guvn ... More >>

¡Ask a Mexican! March Madness

A call to symbolic arms, and other concerns

Flying Leathernecks

A call to symbolic arms, and other concerns

Infinite Jest, the Book So Beloved/Daunting There's Now a Website/Movement Devoted to Goading People into Spending Their Summer Reading It

If your summer lacks some sort of overarching goal-oriented self-help/artistic-betterment framework, perhaps you'd enjoy moseying over to Infinite Summer, an online community in the National Novel Writing Month vein, except you have three months and all you have to do is read one.Not just any one, t ... More >>

Reunion in France

If your summer lacks some sort of overarching goal-oriented self-help/artistic-betterment framework, perhaps you'd enjoy moseying over to Infinite Summer, an online community in the National Novel Writing Month vein, except you have three months and all you have to do is read one.Not just any one, t ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

Graham Rayman has been following the "Fight Club" cooked up by Rikers Island guards for a couple of years, and the Bronx D.A. has started dishing out charges. Inmates used and rewarded as enforcers, beatings arranged so as not to leave marks, victims intimidated into silence (and a few killed) -- t ... More >>

Clip Job: YAF Goes Wild for Goldwater

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 15, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 21Garden Packed for GoldwaterBy Mary Perot Nichols"I would like to see a liberal journalist come to the Garden tonight and say that we don't exist," said the young Yale man with crew-cut and horn-rim glasses. He was ... More >>

All the King's Men

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 15, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 21Garden Packed for GoldwaterBy Mary Perot Nichols"I would like to see a liberal journalist come to the Garden tonight and say that we don't exist," said the young Yale man with crew-cut and horn-rim glasses. He was ... More >>

Bernie Mac Speaks From the Great Beyond

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 15, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 21Garden Packed for GoldwaterBy Mary Perot Nichols"I would like to see a liberal journalist come to the Garden tonight and say that we don't exist," said the young Yale man with crew-cut and horn-rim glasses. He was ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: What a Pendejo!

The Mexican owns up

At Anthology, Howard Hawks's Twilight

Films from the end of a great career

'Hollywood Chinese' Documentary Won't Make You Hungry an Hour Later

Films from the end of a great career

Happy B-day, John Wayne

The Duke turns 100, plus: Buy this DVD

The Patriot

BAM series celebrates the great American hero John Ford

Built Ford Tough

BAM series celebrates the great American hero John Ford

'Running Scared'

BAM series celebrates the great American hero John Ford

Escape to Baja

Hang like a celebrity in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Campaign Trailers

Recounting election-year movies that attempted to swing the vote

Music

Recounting election-year movies that attempted to swing the vote

How Did Davy Die?

Recounting election-year movies that attempted to swing the vote

Existential Heroism and Mild Revisionism in a 9-11 Alamo

Recounting election-year movies that attempted to swing the vote

Bush-Era Frontier Epics Express Timely Doubts About American Imperialism

All queasy on the western front

Duking It Out

A new John Wayne biography's surprising claims

There's a New Sheriff in Town—and He Brought a Slide Show

A new John Wayne biography's surprising claims

Johnny Cash, 1932—2003

Cowboy and Indian, Sinner and Believer, Patriot and Protester, the Man in Black Walks his Final Line

When Doves Cry

Oscar Declares War on the War

Riot Lit

Oscar Declares War on the War

G.I. Jane

A Hollywood Daughter’s Radical Past Winds up on the Cutting Room Floor

Pretty Snide (For Some Orange Guys)

A Hollywood Daughter’s Radical Past Winds up on the Cutting Room Floor

Go Western, Young Man

A Hollywood Daughter’s Radical Past Winds up on the Cutting Room Floor

Egg Hunt

Fertility Companies Hit the Silver Screen

Return With Honor

Fertility Companies Hit the Silver Screen

Chick Dance

Fertility Companies Hit the Silver Screen

Over the Top

Fertility Companies Hit the Silver Screen

Famous Last Words

Movie Buffs Pick Their Favorite Endings

[Spoilers are in bold]