John Wayne News

Johnny Depp has been named America's favorite actor for the second consecutive year. The Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End star beat out movie veteran Clint Eastwood and Denzel Washington t...
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Movie legend John Wayne urged Steven Spielberg to abandon his World War II comedy 1941 - because he felt it was disrespectful to U.S. troops. The True Grit star was initially interested in a came...
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Hollywood icon John Wayne's youngest son has teamed up with auction company Heritage to offload a treasure chest of the famous movie cowboy's memorabilia. Ethan Wayne, who heads up John Wayne Ente...
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Washington political news organization National Journal has named the "The 20 Most Politically Effective Celebrities of All Time." The list, released online and in the April 30 issue of National J...
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Hopefully you have finished most of your Christmas shopping by now, but if you still need to brave the crowds for a few last minute gifts, I wish you the best of luck. If you do not celebrate Chri...
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Up-and-comer Hailee Steinfeld had very little acting experience before landing a role in the much-anticipated film "True Grit" opposite Jeff Bridges and Josh Brolin.
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Sylvester Stallone regrets making comedies like Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot - because they ruined his career. The movie star teamed up with Golden Girls star Estelle Getty in the 1992 film and he n...
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Happy Birthday to: Western legend John Wayne (1907; d. 1979) WWE Diva Ashley Massaro (1979) South Park co-creator Matt Stone (1971) "The Corpse Bride" actress Helena Bonham Carter (1966) Roc...
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Hollywood has always had its share of big-name black talent, from Sidney Poitier to Hattie McDaniel to Louis Gossett, Jr. But looking back, none of those big names owned Hollywood like Clint Eastwo...
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A recent Harris Poll named Clint Eastwood the nation's favorite film star, while Oprah Winfrey has topped a list of television favorites. Clint recently starred in the 2008 film Gran Torino, in ...
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With the release of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds Friday, we're excited about what this often-perverse, slightly deranged and mostly genius mind will do with a movie about World War 2's ...
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If you don't know her as vampire Pam from HBO's "True Blood," you may recognize Kristin Bauer from "Dark Angel", "JAG" or from the classic "Seinfeld" episode where she played Jerry's "Man Hands" gi...
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It seems as though the celestial stars are not the only ones shifting these days. Hollywood's biggest stars seem to be morphing into new and younger ones. Changes in Hollywood, however, are not u...
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Happy Birthday to WWE Diva Ashley Massaro (1979), South Park co-creator Matt Stone (1971), "The Corpse Bride" actress Helena Bonham Carter (1966), rock star Lenny Kravitz (1964), "General Hospital"...
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It's difficult to conceive the Coen Brothers' next big venture, a remake of the classic John Wayne western True Grit, as either a traditional western or a traditional remake. Our blogger friends ar...
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David Chase, multi-award-winning creator of "The Sopranos," is returning to HBO to develop a miniseries about the invention of cinema and subsequent growth of the Hollywood film industry. Enti...
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Denzel Washington has been named America's favorite movie star for the third year in a row. The Oscar winner triumphed over Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood, who came in at two, and the late J...
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Tom Cruise prepared for his role as a Nazi assassin in new movie Valkyrie by studying American movie icon John Wayne. The actor wore an eye patch to play an injured World War II colonel leading a p...
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(HollywoodChicago) – Melissa Leo is a familiar face to admirers of the TV show “Homicide: Life on the Street”. After playing Sgt. Kay Howard for five years on that popular series, she left the show...
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Marilyn Monroe was originally christened Norma Jean. Archibald Leach opted for the more debonair nom de guerre Cary Grant. At the age of 10, musical prodigy Steveland Morris was dubbed (by Motown f...
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With graphic novels becoming widespread with the arrival of big movies such as "300," "Sin City," and "V for Vendetta" that gathered huge audiences, new interest arose in the stylistic hard cover c...
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Billy Idol has recorded two brand new songs for The Very Best Of Billy Idol: Idolize Yourself, a new career-spanning CD, Deluxe Edition CD/DVD and digital collection to be released June 24 by Capit...
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Happy Birthday to WWE Diva Ashley Massaro (1979), South Park co-creator Matt Stone (1971), "The Corpse Bride" actress Helena Bonham Carter (1966), rock star Lenny Kravitz (1964), "General Hospital...
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HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Robin Moore, a nonfiction author best known for writing The French Connection and The Green Berets, has died after a long illness. He was 82. Moore died Thursday night...
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"Snoop Dogg's Father Hood," airing on the E! Channel, is a reality show that gives viewers a glimpse into a day in the life of Snoop Dogg and his family. If you are tuning in hoping to see him get...
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Veteran actor Ernest Borgnine is disappointed the Golden Globe Awards ceremony has been canceled - after he was nominated at the age of 90. Borgnine, who is nominated in the Best Performance ...
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Snoop Dogg has cut ties from more than half of his entourage in a bid to avoid trouble from the law in 2008. The rapper was banned from the U.K. in March because of his drug convictions and had a S...
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Brendan Wayne, the grandson of John Wayne, professional rodeo cowboy Ty Murray, Nicole Sullivan ("The King of Queens") and country music singer Shooter Jennings will guest star on an upcoming episo...
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Matt Damon had big shoes to fill, literally, when he left his footprint in the cement outside Hollywood's famous Chinese Theater this summer after pal George Clooney advised him to upgrade his foot...
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver announced the inductees for the 2007 California Hall of Fame, a landmark destination of The California Museum for History, Women and the ...
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