A young Marine named Danny Reyes sat alone at a bus station in Los Angeles, fresh from Vietnam with a shattered leg, a purple heart he didn’t want, and a...
The year was 1964. John Wayne sat in a doctor’s office in Los Angeles, staring at an X-ray that showed a mass the size of a golf ball in his...
45-year-old Robert Martinez stood at the family feud podium with his shoulders slightly hunched, carrying the weight of 3 years of unemployment that had gradually eroded his confidence and sense...
The year was 1958. A drunk at a bar in Phoenix had been insulting John Wayne for 20 minutes, calling him a fake cowboy, a Hollywood fraud, a man who...
It was 1962 in a small Texas town and 12-year-old Miguel Hernandez was standing outside the majestic theater with 37 cents in his pocket. The movie playing was the man...
It was 1974 and John Wayne walked into a small diner in Flagstaff, Arizona, hoping for a quiet meal away from Hollywood. The owner didn’t recognize him or claimed not...
John Wayne noticed it on his way back from wardrobe fitting. He was wearing half his costume for the Sons of Katie Elder boots and jeans, but a plain white...
Jack Morrison had worked as a production assistant on film sets for 11 years and had learned that there are two kinds of crying in Hollywood. There’s movie crying so...
Maria Delgado had worked as a trail maintenance coordinator at Sundance Mountain Resort in Utah for six years and had learned to recognize the specific rhythms of solitude that brought...
14-year-old Tyler Chen stood at the family feud podium wearing a baseball cap that covered the brown wig he had grown accustomed to over the past 5 years. His thin...