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Sacheen Littlefeather, activist who declined Brando’s ‘Godfather’ Oscar, dies at 75

LOS ANGELES — Sacheen Littlefeather, the Native American activist Marlon Brando sent to the 1973 Academy Awards to decline the lead actor Oscar he won for “The Godfather,” has died. She was 75.

Los Angeles Times

Sacheen Littlefeather death: Who was the Native American activist booed off stage at the Oscars?

Littlefeather was the first woman of colour to use the Academy Awards platform to make a political statement

Evening Standard

Get a taste of bourbon country, in Kentucky and beyond

J.R. Ewing, the scoundrel oil baron of the prime time melodrama “Dallas,” was known to often enjoy a neat order of bourbon and branch as his tipple of choice. John Wayne fancied Wild Turkey, another bourbon whiskey. For Ol’ Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra, it was Jack Daniels. Mila Kunis likes…

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Gay rodeos and life in rural America

Young queer people growing up in rural areas don't necessarily need to flee their communities to find acceptance

Salon

Michael Hiltzik: Did John Wayne try to assault Sacheen Littlefeather at the 1973 Oscars? Debunking a Hollywood myth

Hollywood loves few things more than retailing myths and legends about itself. Few of these yarns have had a longer life than what happened at the 1973 Academy Awards involving Marlon Brando, John Wayne and a Native American activist named Sacheen Littlefeather.

Los Angeles Times

Sacheen Littlefeather: Actor says John Wayne tried to remove her from Oscars stage after political speech

Actor and activist rejected Marlon Brando’s Oscar on his behalf at the 1973 ceremony, which apparently angered Wayne

The Independent UK

How gay rodeos upend assumptions about life in rural America

The misguided assumption that rural America is hopelessly backward and bigoted erases centuries of same-sex relationships in rural communities. It tells young queer people that they must flee their rural hometowns to far-flung cities in order to find safety and acceptance.

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Sacheen Littlefeather: Actor says John Wayne tried to remove her from Oscars stage after political speech

Actor and activist rejected Marlon Brando’s Oscar on his behalf at the 1973 ceremony, which apparently angered Wayne

The Independent UK

Sacheen Littlefeather: Actor says John Wayne tried to remove her from Oscars stage after political speech

Actor and activist rejected Marlon Brando’s Oscar on his behalf at the 1973 ceremony, which apparently angered Wayne

The Independent UK

Abandoned Scots cottage lies untouched for over a decade with letters from WW2 and moon landing

The property in Fife was uncovered by an urban explorer, Grant Vincent, and has a John Wayne tape and a kilt hanging from the wardrobe.

Daily Record

Iconic The Virginian actor Clu Gulager dies 'surrounded by loving family'

Clu Gulager, 93, was best known for The Virginian but also appeared in The Return of the Living Dead and starred alongside Ronald Reagan, Paul Newman, Lee Marvin and John Wayne

Daily Mirror

From Deadwood to Maverick: The top 12 TV Westerns of all time

There was a time when Westerns ruled the small screen, often taking the form of action-packed weekly morality plays. Now that they are being reinvented for a new audience, Graeme Ross rounds up the genre’s best

The Independent UK

‘Two out of five stories should be hot’: why pre-code cinema was a golden age for women

Prior to the proscriptive Hays Code, films were populated by adulterous, marijuana-smoking gold diggers – wildly entertaining and more modern than the roles that came next

The Guardian - UK

Philomena to Jerry and Marge Go Large: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Judi Dench and Steve Coogan star in a terrifically moving true story, while Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening play a couple who find a loophole in the lottery … and try to win big

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Los Angeles Times

'What have I done?': 'The Boys' boss explains the scene that will have you screaming

When Eric Kripke is afraid of things, he puts them on-screen and blows them up. But the creator of "The Boys," Amazon's irreverent spin on the superhero genre, is not at all scared to tell you that the series at its core is a "dark satire about late-stage capitalism" and…

Sports Illustrated

Inside the 1971 NFL Draft, Where Atlanta Selected...John Wayne?

The 17-round slog was so low-key that Falcons coach Norm Van Brocklin decided to pull a public, now-forgotten prank.

The Guardian - US

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance at 60: the great American western

John Ford’s 1962 masterwork remains a surprisingly downbeat film about the west with never-better performances from James Stewart and John Wayne

The Guardian - US

White outrage about Will Smith’s slap is rooted in anti-Blackness. It’s inequality in plain sight

This kind of performative pearl-clutching is only ever reserved for Black men who mess up, says Guardian US writer Tayo Bero

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Conservative children's book startup releases works on John Wayne, Amy Coney Barrett

Heroes of Liberty's new books come as some parents seek to ban certain books on race and gender amid cultural wars seeping into school districts.

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