Newt's John Wayne Site Newsletter

Howdy Pilgrims,

• CLICK HERE for a list of films starring John Wayne on TV showing in the near future. This site is set for my area listings, click the link next to "Local listings for:" (just to the right of the date) and enter your zip code and TV provider for listings in your area.
  

• This month there are ten (10) John Wayne movies showing on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Six of them are on July 16 and 17, so check the list and set your DVRs.
  

• On June 2, 2015 Warner Bros released John Wayne Westerns Film Collection on Blu-Ray. There five films in this collection, two of these have not been released on Blu-Ray until now. These two films are The Train Robbers and Cahill, U.S. Marshal. These films can all be purchased individually at the John Wayne Store Blu-Ray page. You might want to check out non-John Wayne releases on blu-ray on the Others Blu-Ray Page of the John Wayne Store. Considering the Blu-Ray conversation, take the latest poll: BLU-RAY OR NOT! at the Newt's John Wayne Site Polls page.
  

• On May 5, 2015 Media Lab Books and John Wayne Enterprises released The John Wayne Way to Grill, a new cookbook containing more than 200-pages of Duke's favorite meals, from Tex-Mex classics to the best of Western barbecue and everything in between. More than just a collection of recipes, this deluxe publication is chock-full of never-before-seen photos of the actor, along with personal anecdotes and heartwarming stories shared by his son Ethan.
  

• I hope you will visit the John Wayne Store and check out all of the interesting items that we offer. Scroll down the main store page for many specials that are of interest to John Wayne fans and classic movie fans as well. The store has been updated and lots of new items have been added. Check out the DVDs On Demand page for items I produce that may be of interest to some of you. If you are not shopping at the John Wayne Store soon, you're burnin' daylight!
• Here are some interesting links to pages of interest around the Internet.
  

  A review of the new John Wayne museum by Dan Whitney of the Chonicle Times of Cherokee, Iowa. Visit the website of the John Wayne Birthplace and Museum for more information about the museum.
  

  From the Houston Chronicle posting of June 11, 2015 is an article, John Wayne roamed Newport Beach in his Free Time.
  

  An opinion piece about nuclear testing in Utah in the 1950s. For 11 years the government set off over 100 nuclear devices. Did the U.S. government kill John Wayne? This article was by Douglas Perry from The Oregonian/Oregon Live website.
  

  This article is by Courtney Crowder of the Des Moines Register. My 19-hour movie binge to discover John Wayne. She had never watched a John Wayne movie but was spurred on by the opening of the John Wayne museum in Winterset, Iowa. Here's a play-by-play peek into her cinematic journey to discover the Duke.
  

  This article from 2012 is by Cliff Aliperti of Immortal Ephemera movie blog. John Wayne on Football and Movies from a 1933 newspaper interview. This was long before he was to become a star. Source: The Laredo Times, March 26, 1933.
  

  This article is by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky at www.avclub.com, the AV Club is an entertainment website published by The Onion. The article, John Wayne goes to Ireland, is a good review of The Quiet Man (1952).

Later Pilgrim,
Paul Newton