Wikio - John Ford

The Spy Who Ladled Me (Plastic: Most Recent)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:27:51 GMT

... and presidential adviser, was a writer on the political staff in London; Oscar-winning director John Ford risked his life and was injured taking film of critical targets; and Lawrence Tisch broke codes before going on to run CBS. Then there was , author of Eight Is Enough, and Sterling Hayden, who later starred in The Godfather and Dr. Strangelove. One of the spies might even have...

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Julia Child the Spy (Dispatches from the Culture Wars)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:02:06 GMT

It's true. AP reports on newly revealed documents that show that the OSS, the agency that became the CIA, recruited a number of well known people including Julia Child, but she apparently was just a clerical person. Among others, though: legendary director John Ford, future Supreme Court justice Arthur Goldberg and Stewart Copeland's father, Miles (which explains why he grew up mostly...

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Theater review: A purple-sky, golden-wheat ode to frontier America (StarTribune.com)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:38:48 GMT

... hits its target in the slightly above-average midsection of America. Breezes of "Oklahoma!" and John Ford westerns sweep across a scenic landscape by Adrianne Lobel. Rachel Portman's celebratory score and Rachel Sheinkin's middling script salute pioneers who turned prairie dirt into amber waves of grain -- evoking historian Frederick Jackson Turner's philosophy that American identity...

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CIA opens personnel files of the past (Denver Post)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:01:44 GMT

... William Donovan, the personnel records show. Some of the others: • Acclaimed movie director John Ford, whose skill as a videographer qualified him to manage wartime spy photography. The records show that Ford left his successful Hollywood life as a movie director to become a secret agent in 1941. He was cited by his superiors for bravery, taking a position to film one mission...

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Cooking up some stories - the famous US WWII spies revealed (BBC News)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:51:35 GMT

Other public figures confirmed as former OSS spies are former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg; Kermit Roosevelt, the son of former President Theodore Roosevelt; John Hemingway, son of the author Ernest Hemingway; the movie director John Ford; and Miles Copeland, the father of Stewart Copeland, the drummer of the rock band The Police.

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US celebrities spied during WWII (BBC News)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:51:35 GMT

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Spy tales: Julia Child, high court justice (StarTribune.com)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:20:16 GMT

... Director William Donovan, the personnel records show.Some of the others:_ Acclaimed movie director John Ford, whose skill as a videographer qualified him to manage wartime spy photography._ Chicago lawyer Goldberg, whose early legal work with labor unions made him an attractive spy candidate to rally European labor unions to help with the war effort, years before President Kennedy...

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POPCORN KERNELS—Anne Bancroft x 4; John Ford x 2 (The Evening Class)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:59:00 GMT

... two of them together in the same film is one of the best duets of the sixties. I also caught two John Ford movies last Wednesday: his last film 7 Women , starring Bancroft, and a revival of The Fugitive (1947) at Pacific Film Archive as part of their ongoing Gabriel Figueroa series. I wasn't wild about either of them, to be honest and for somewhat the same reasons. In both films men...

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Understanding Screenwriting #1 (The House Next Door)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:04:00 GMT

By Tom Stempel I’m Tom Stempel. I write about screenwriting. Yeah, I stole that from John Ford’s famous “I’m John Ford. I make westerns.” But since directors have been stealing from writers for as long as there have been movies, it’s about time we started stealing back. Welcome to my new column on screenwriting at The House Next Door . I’m aware of what directors have stolen...

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Encore Westerns Presents World Television Premiere of Remastered Academy Award(R)-Winning Masterpiece How the West Was Won (PR News Wire )

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:32:00 GMT

Classic Epic Western Directed By John Ford, Henry Hathaway and George Marshall & Stars Henry Fonda, John Wayne, James Stewart, Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark and Debbie Reynolds ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Starz Entertainment's Encore Westerns presents the world television premiere of the restored and newly remastered (from the original Cinerama three-panel print)...

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Each Day Is a Lifetime, 8.11.08 (freedarko.com)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:56:00 GMT

... Macias noted in his book Tokyoscope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion, if Kurosawa is Japan's John Ford, Fukasaku is surely the country's Sam Peckinpah". (BS)-Is a sign of her deep respect for my writing? Ironically, this translation reads a lot like older FD. (BS, from MC Welk)- is getting everywhere already, but we stake our claim out of principle and deepest feeling. In her autobiography,...

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Pilgrimage (Supposed Aura)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:14:00 GMT

(Above, right: Henrietta Crosman as Hannah Jessop in John Ford's Pilgrimage .) "Almost alone among Ford characters, Hannah changes — from virulent, raging intolerance to the sowing of tolerance. If she can surpass her myopia, suggests Ford, there is an alternative to wars and to worlds like Tabu ’s, where lovers are sacrificed to ideas. Hannah epitomizes her world, yet her...

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images of the day (Supposed Aura)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:56:00 GMT

[... from Pilgrimage (John Ford, 1933).]

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AFC off to a flying start (Liverpool Echo.co.uk)

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:00:00 GMT

... Squirrels, but promoted Ashton Athletic beat Nelson 2-1 at home with goals from Steve Bennett and John Ford.Bootle were 3-0 winners at Wigan Robin Park in the First Division, Paul McDonald scoring twice with Paul Hopkins also netting. But Ashton Town crashed 5-1 at Padiham, Paul Veall scoring.

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17:15 Rio Grande (Channel 4)

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:25:23 GMT

(1950) The third of John Ford's commanding triptych of Seventh Cavalry films once again stars John Wayne as Lt Col Kirby Yorke.

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Western Voters Could be Up for Grabs for Obama and McCain (US News)

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:00:00 GMT

... lead.(Jim Lo Scalzo for USN&WR)Related News This lean, Kansas-born rancher seems straight out of a John Ford western but with a twist: A San Francisco lawyer and activist in an earlier life, McDonald, 64, is head of the state's resurgent Democratic Party. And that makes the proprietor of Open Spear Ranch in central Montana the point man for Barack Obama in Big Sky Country. Over the...

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This Was Definitely NOT My Idea (Innocent Bystanders)

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:11:38 GMT

(It looks like I’ll be hooking up the extra DVD player to the old Zenith in the basement so that while we’ve got synchronized ladder climbing on the living room TV, I can watch “The Sons of Katie Elder” or “The Warriors” downstairs. Moses and I watched “Three Godfathers” the other night, and I tried to tell him all about Ward Bond and his important place in the whole John Wayne/John Ford...

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The Lost Patrol - 3:15am (ABC TV)

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:42:15 GMT

The Lost Patrol3:15am Monday, 04 Aug 2008 Repeat G A small British military group lost in the Mesopotamian desert is attacked by Arabs. CAST: Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff DIR: John Ford (1934)

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Kearney lifts title with ease (The Irish Times)

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:11:30 GMT

LOOKING MORE like the hero in a John Ford western than one of Ireland's up-and-coming golf stars, Royal Dublin's Niall Kearney swaggered towards the stunning Lahinch sunset with a look of immense satisfaction on his young face.

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Historic South triumph for Royal Dublin's Kearney (Irish Golf Desk)

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:57:55 GMT

Looking more like the hero in a John Ford western than one of Ireland’s up-and-coming golf stars, Royal Dublin’s Niall Kearney swaggered towards the stunning Lahinch sunset with a look of immense satisfaction on his young face. Standing six feet two and thin as a four-iron, the 20-year-old Dubliner etched his place in the history books when he became the first player from the storied...

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