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John Wayne and the Grey, er, Wild Goose: Greg Aragon reports that John Wayne's 1942 yacht, Wild Goose, remains a work horse tour boat for Hornblower Cruises & Events in the area and that the long dead actor's spiritual presence is aboard. (If dying doesn't change bad habits, I presume he's still inhaling cigarettes and liquor while coughing up pro-Nixon platitudes.) Aragon writes that “soon after [Wayne] died [in 1979], his ghostly image was reportedly seen numerous times aboard the vessel.â€
July 15, 2007Comic Con 2007: Real-D
In addition to the Beowulf , more 3-D stuff was demo'ed. Oops, I mean "stereoscopic." That's the term the owners of the Real-D company prefer to "3-D." The CEO and president were there. I didn't bother to take down their names because I doubt you care. Anyway, this is the new 3-D system that was used first on Chicken Little, then Monster House, Meet the Robinsons, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. One day they hope to use it on an actual good movie. (Just kidding, they didn't say that -- bu
July 28, 2007Haunted OC Hotspots
In honor of Halloween the OC Weekly has compiled a list of haunted Orange County locations courtesy the database of haunted places on Shadowlands.net. So take some time and have a read. Even if you don't believe in ghosts, at least you can learn about some local legends and scare yourself silly! Mwahahaha! Anaheim Anaheim Fairfield Inn by the Marriott - This motel is right next to a freeway and is said to be haunted by a couple that died in a car accident. Anaheim High School - A WWII bomb
October 29, 2007John Wayne Threatened with Oblivion Again
The Orange County Register reported yesterday that various lords of Orange County are meeting and spending cash "to cash in on the pop-culture phenomenon that is Orange County." I'll closely examine our constant reinvention in my biography-memoir of la naranja next fall, but one thing bears worth noting at this point. Per the article: "Also being floated – but certainly a long-term idea – is a name change that would add "Orange County" to the name of John Wayne Airport." Oh, Orange County.
December 7, 2007Give the Gift of John Wayne for Free!
Newsmax.com is the Fred Thompson of conservative websites--not as loony as WorldNetDaily, not as shrill as OC's own Hugh Hewitt, but nevertheless wacky. And if you can't tell by the boring stories on their website, just look at what they're offering people who subscribe to Newsmax Magazine: a free copy of John Wayne's infamous America, Why I Love Her. "It was during the dark days of Watergate and the final, unsettling days of the Vietnam War, when actor John Wayne decided to speak out," a Newsm
December 19, 2007Newport Beach Wants More Wayne
As impressive as the statue of John Wayne is at Santa Ana airport, I've always preferred the one of the Duke on horseback in front of the Larry Flynt building in Los Angeles. Some might say that having a conservative icon adorning the building of a notorious libertine is inappropriate; I say they're both American originals, straight-shooters in their own unique fashion. But it turns out the statue being there has nothing to do with Flynt, who, according to the LA Times, thinks a 50-foot penis w
January 4, 2008Petey Callahan Bilks OC Catholics But Good
It's been a rough half-year for Peter Callahan of the Tustin law firm Callahan, McCune & Willis, mostly because of his big mouth. The head lawyer for the Catholic Diocese of Orange sex-abuse scandal unwittingly revealed in September the sealed amount Bishop Tod D. Brown gave to a statutory rapist, barked at a sex-abuse survivor during a press conference, and did enough other wackiness to earn the title of one of our Scariest People late last year. Through it all, diocesan apologists said nothin
February 21, 2008We're Getting Gay Married!
It was about 10:45 this morning when I flipped on KFWB after getting out of my Santa Ana Saturn dealership—the TV wasn't on in their waiting room, but it would've been interesting to see the reaction of the elderly woman with the scrunched-up face engrossed in her Orange County Register when she heard the news that the California Supreme Court decided 4-3 to overturn the state ban on gay marriage, which had been in place since moronic voters approved Proposition 22 in 2000. Naturally, the f
May 15, 2008John Wayne, Robert Burns and the Great Glasgow Airport Debate
Member of the Scottish Parliament Alex Neil played the Duke card as he joined Scottish government officials in pressing for renaming Glasgow Prestwick Airport after Robert Burns in honor of the poet, lyricist and Scotland favorite son's 250th birthday in January. "I remember flying into John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, and the fact it was called John Wayne was a big tourist attraction," Neil said. "I don't see why we shouldn't exploit the Burns brand here in Scotland." Alas, as
July 21, 2008John Wayne vs. Mark Sanchez
University of Southern California quarterback and Mission Viejo High product Mark Sanchez may be OC Weekly's coverboy today, but USC Public Relations is right now propping up another Trojan football player with ties to Orange County. This former Trojan player never scored a touchdown, seeing as how he played tackle ... in the 1920s. He is, of course, John Wayne, American icon, greatest cowboy movie star ever (pardner!) and a longtime resident of Newport Beach, so beloved around here that Newp
August 21, 2008Friday the 13th, the Mailer
November 18, 1999Lonesome Cowboys
February 22, 2001Looking Back at 2008: The Ecstasy and the Irony
This is not a look back at disgraced Sheriff Mike Carona, the Little Sheriff, the Debs, the Little Debbie Snack, the Freeway Complex Fire, Rick Warren, Wiley Drake, any lantern-jawed preacher with the last name of Schuller, pedo-priests, the 241 toll road extension, Proposition 8, fluctuating gasoline prices, the mortgage meltdown or the havoc that phenomenon wreaked. No, these are 15 stories from 2008 that may have fallen through the cracks were it not for the wonders of online archives and sl
December 31, 2008[Trendzilla] Extra! Extra! Suspenders Still Holding Up!
June 5, 2008Golden Arches
Sauces made of velvet and class in Newport Beach
September 27, 2007Diary of a Mad County
December 12, 2002Staying Relevant
M.D.C.
August 30, 2007RedBatesing
October 21, 1999Flying at 30,000 Feet . . .
August 19, 2004I Steel Them From You!
April 29, 2004More Festival Reviews . . .
What's playing at the Newport Beach Film Fest
April 19, 2007Special Screenings
Movie of the Week: The Searchers
April 19, 2007John Wayne Is Orange County
Expanded for the Web! Newport Beach Film Fest honors the icon. Its about time
April 12, 2007Welcome to the Grindhouse
Newport Beach Film Festival is our very own cinematic grab bag
April 12, 2007Weird and Wonderful
Eraserhead, A History of Violence, Star Wars Episode IV and more
January 4, 2007Special Screenings
Movie of the Week: The Searchers
November 9, 2006Special Screenings
Special 'choose your own movie of the week' week!
November 2, 2006Matt Costa
October 19, 2006Commie Girl
May 11, 2006First Person
January 19, 2006Simplifying the Unsimplifiable
December 8, 2005Newport Beach
October 20, 2005Diary of a Mad County
June 17, 2004Listen Here, Pilgrim
June 10, 2004Duking it out
March 25, 2004Episode 16
January 15, 2004Bombs Away
December 12, 2002Diary of a mad county
October 10, 2002Undeserved Self-Abuse!
July 11, 2002What Would John Wayne Do?
October 18, 2001Bleccccccccccch!
September 20, 2001Cab Tab
April 26, 2001Letters
September 21, 2000Welcome to Long Breach Airport
July 20, 2000Weenie Roast
July 20, 2000Disneyland Stops Here
April 8, 1999John Wayne Classic Remade, Now With 100% More Grandson
The patron saint of Orange County aviation and ass-kickery lives! If you think we're going to rely on cowboy clichés to write about John Wayne's grandson starring in a remade John Wayne movie, you're wrong. We're going to let the press release do that for us:Thirty years after John Wayne - the face the of the American Western - rode off into the sunset for the last time, his grandson, Brendan Wayne, dusts off his grandfather's cowboy hat for a role in "Angel and the Badman," a remake of 'The Du
May 18, 2009Taco Truck at John Wayne Airport?
​Just came back from picking up my chica at John Wayne, and I saw the strangest sight: a taco truck serving food! It was around 10:45 in the morning, and I have no idea what they sell or if it's worth it to eat, since TSA would've disappeared my ass if I stopped my car more than 30 seconds. I hate to do these hook-'em types of posts as they reek of comment despair (which, of course, we always have), but has anyone else out there ever seen this truck? Was parked in the baggage claim level, in t
August 10, 2009Maybe John Wayne's Old Yacht Will Produce Wild Goosebumps Now
Duncan McIntosh Co. Inc.Boo! It's the Wild Goose.​John Wayne's onetime yacht the Wild Goose is being trotted out to drum up interest in the 31st annual Lido Yacht Expo in Newport Beach Sept. 24-27.Don't blame organizers for pulling out all the stops. Are there really shoppers for yachts these days? Or catamarans? Or electric Duffy boats?Probably so. Remember, there's always someone making money off everyone else's misery. But even bigger crowds are a lock since tours will be offered on the 136
September 18, 2009John Wayne's Ghost Aboard the Wild Goose REVEALED!!!
Remember John Wayne in this get-up as you look for his ghost in the following photos.​To preview the Lido Boat Show, which brought out John Wayne's old yacht Wild Goose for four days of tours before coming to a close Sunday, Clockwork related a tale from the Weekly's past about "Psychic to the Stars" Kenny Kingston promising an encounter with the Duke's ghost, which was said to haunt the vessel.That post drew a quick response from someone in Golden, Colorado."I have some very interesting
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