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Back when variety television shows were all the rage, few came out of central casting quite like Glen Campbell. His musical appeal and down-home personality crossed genre and generation gaps without compromise, pleasing fans of such varied talents as Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Andy Williams. Toss in the success of the Grammy-winning album Wichita Lineman and Campbell’s film debut alongside John Wayne in True Grit, and an Arkansas farm boy made fiscal sense in 1969 as a prime-time television...

The Train (1964) John Frankenheimer had quite the run in the early 1960s. Like Sidney Lumet, he was one of those modernising forces for American film who had come up through television. In films like The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Seven Days in May (1964) and Seconds (1966), his work played lightning rod for the political and social anxieties of the Cold War’s most volatile period. Coming in the middle of these, 1964’s The Train, which BBC2 is dusting down this weekend, is a less pa...

President Obama Blames Bush at His Own Portrait Unveiling June 1, 2012 President Obama can’t stop blaming George Bush. Even George Bush’s portrait unveiling was occasion to insult him yet again. This is what the very cynical President Obama said – “The months before I took the oath of office were a chaotic time,” Obama told a crowd of mostly former Bush administration officials and members of the Bush family, including Bush’s parents, former President George H.W. Bush and former fi...

Westerns had John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda. Space westerns were the domain of Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill. Now, Kevin Costner stakes his claim to to the “modern”

Newport Beach City Council approves 4400 Von Karman housing development A rendering of the proposed Residences at 4400 Von Karman development. (Courtesy of city of Newport Beach) By Matt SzaboStaff Writer  Print The Newport Beach City Council on Tuesday night voted unanimously to approve a development agreement of a planned residential project near John Wayne Airport. Known as Residences at 4400 Von Karman, the 13-acre project was approved 6-0 following a public hearing. Councilman W...

Southern California Cruising: All You Need To Know &nbsp Coastal Cruise Highlights for Boaters SoCal boaters usually make a beeline for Catalina Island given a free week. But if you’re a new boater and a shakedown cruise across 30 miles of open Pacific doesn’t sound enticing, consider coastal hopping and checking out several highlight harbors in relatively compact cruising grounds. People Watch At Venice Beach Manhattan Beach Pier at sunset, Los Angeles, California. Image credit: Luxury Lin...

Its a Jason Witten re-retirement. Time to re-tell a story ... FRISCO - Theres a classic old Western, 1962s "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, that perfectly elevates the actor John Wayne to his everlasting pedestal. Wayne is Tom Doniphon ... but yet hes also John Wayne. The bad guy, Liberty Valance, is terrorizing the town of Shinbone, and particularly tenderfoot Eastern brainiac Ransom Stoddard, played by Jimmy Stewart (and yes, Stewart, too, is playing a familiar version of himself: a sweet,...

Big Sky Adds Michael Raymond-James, Michelle Forbes and 3 Others TVLine 28/01/2021 The Montana sky is as vast as the Michael Raymond-James, Michelle Forbes, Britt Robertson, Ryan Dorsey and Omar Metwally are all set to recur on ABC’s freshman drama — with all but one of them populating a new family that promises to loom large later this season. More from TVLine As previously reported, Ted Levine ( The Bridge) will show up this season as Horst “I Promise We Didn’t Make This Name Up”...

Sun Country adds 9 new cities in 16-route expansion Jan 26, 2021 This post contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. We may receive compensation when you click on links to those products. Terms apply to the offers listed on this page. For an explanation of our Advertising Policy, visit this page. Leisure carrier Sun Country is adding nine new cities to its map as part of a 16-route expansion announced on Monday. Sun Country’s new destinations span the country, rangi...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA The final hours of Kobe Bryant’s life: An oral history, 1 year later [Los Angeles Times :: BC-BRYANT-DEATH-EEDITION:MCT] A year ago, Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others boarded a Sikorsky S-76B helicopter at John Wayne Airport in Orange County. They were headed to a youth basketball tournament at the Mamba Sports Academy (“Mamba” was later removed from the name) in Thousand Oaks. Kobe was coaching Gianna’s team. What happened on tha...