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LATEST ARTICLE Driving the DukeFinding family and a hero while serving as John Wayne’s chauffeur during the production of The Green Berets. In the fall of 1967, I went to work for Batjac Productions. It was a Monday-to-Friday job from around 3:30 in the afternoon—when I wasn’t in detention—until 6:30 or 7. The company had this 16-year-old Loyola High School senior photocopying scripts, answering fan mail, matching canceled checks to bank statements, running messages and film cans between Batjac’s offices at Paramount in Hollywood and Warner Bros. in Burbank, and, from time to time, driving John Wayne. The actor (and Batjac cofounder) always sat in the front passenger seat of his big, green Pontiac station wagon with the roof raised high to take all six foot four of him. That work finished when I graduated, but in early August, I encountered Mr. Wayne in Miami during the Republican National Convention. The young woman from the airport rental car agency whom I was courting was impressed when she saw him stop and speak to me: “Charlie, what the hell are you doing here?” He didn’t wait for me to remind him that he had reprimanded me for putting a Nixon for President bumper sticker on the Pontiac without his permission. I wanted to tell him that this was my second convention as a party stalwart. Four years earlier, at the age of 13, I had been at the Cow Palace in Daly City when nominee Barry Goldwater declared, “I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!” Let’s face it. I was a weird kid… NEW TO WATCH In a series of interviews with leading historians on the History of Resistance, Charles Glass and his history students at the American University of Beirut probe deep into the heart of guerrilla warfare and resistance to foreign occupation. Watch more interviews, documentaries and films by Charles Glass here |
Charles Glass
Charles Glass is a writer, journalist and, broadcaster, who has written on conflict in the Middle East, Africa and Europe for the past fifty years. Subscribe to receive details of new books, articles and upcoming events.
LATEST ARTICLE Letter from Beirut: A Stubborn Indifference to War This city keeps you on your toes, as long as you hang on to them. When you walk across a one-way street, look both ways. No driver—on a motorcycle or in an SUV—hesitates to charge the wrong way up a road clearly signed for traffic to go in the opposite direction. When two cars meet head-on, the driver going the wrong way shouts abuse at the innocent one obeying the rules. Welcome to Beirut. This insouciant behavior reflects the...
OUT NOW Over nearly a half century, David Hirst was The Guardian newspaper’s indispensable voice from the Middle East A landmark collection of David Hirst's finest reporting THE PEN AND THE OLIVE BRANCH Reporting the Middle East DAVID HIRSTEdited by JANICK GOLD and CHARLES GLASSIntroduction by JONATHAN DIMBLEBY read more > PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NEW TO WATCH In a series of interviews with leading historians on the History of Resistance, Charles Glass and his history students at the American...
LATEST ARTICLE 1970s Postcard showing the two bays of Zaytouni and Saint Georges Beirut, Now and Then On Wednesday , 8 April, Israel expanded its kill zone beyond what had been known as the ‘safe’ areas north of Beirut’s suburban south. I talked to a doctor at the American University Hospital who told me his emergency room was treating four hundred patients wounded in the bombing. Four had died. I passed the hospital, where families outside were waiting for the medical staff’s reports. By the...