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	Wilson Brothers Forums - View Single Post - LA Times Article on TWBS
		Baker, Wilson explains, is a dreamer in love with quick-riches schemes, and when he gets busted for selling fake IDs he does a year behind bars, where he becomes an enthusiastic joiner and cheerfully coordinates a schedule of chess and card games with other inmates.
		Still, one of the criticisms the Wilsons heard from agents was that "The Wendell Baker Story" failed to conform to the traditional three-act structure.
		Baker's quest during most of the movie is to reunite with his ex-girlfriend, Doreen, who works at the water and power department and is played by Eva Mendes.
	www.wilson-brothers.com /forum/showpost.php?p=42010&postcount=1 (1203 words)

	Coming Soon! Movie Reviews
		The Wendell Baker Story, a quirky story of one man's strife to become a better person, debuts as the first writing and directorial credit for Luke Wilson working in tandem with older brother Andrew Wilson who was also taking his first spin in the director chair.
		The film focuses on title character Wendell Baker (Luke Wilson) who is a Texas con man with a good heart and lofty dreams.
		Baker's latest scheme lands him in prison for selling fake ids to illegal aliens that just crossed the US border from Mexico.
	articles.world-of-newave.info /arts/performing-arts/acting/actors-and-actresses/w/wilson,-owen/the-wendell-baker-story-20050339083.htm (419 words)

	Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Toby's quirky, yet ultimately rewarding coming of age story will serve as a gentle reminder to teens that sometimes the best way to work through your problems is by helping others with theirs.
		This story is about a group of teenagers as they travel South, in order to score drugs in Mexico.
		It is a coming-of-age story about a shy, young boy sent to spend the summer with his wealthy, eccentric uncles in Texas.
	acvb.newmediagateway.com /mfo_f_films.html (985 words)

	The Wendell Baker Story (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The story itself is indecisive, no matter who wrote directed or starred in it.
		Afterall - it is easy to forget one character in Wendell Baker when the filmmakers are trying to establish a bazillion (no exaggeration) characters in this film with very little time to establish (let alone develop) any of them.
		For instance, one super plot point is that Wendell Baker discovers that the head nurse (Owen Wilson) is up to something evil regarding the elderly patients at the old folks home.
	synge.imdb.com /title/tt0373445 (486 words)

	Movie Review - Wendell Baker Story, The - Hollywood Bitchslap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I mention this mainly because Luke Wilson and his brother Andrew have made a movie of their very own (and of course Owen is along for the ride) and it's pretty clear that Wes Anderson's touch has rubbed off just a little bit.
		Wendell Baker is a dead-end, Texas-fried, ne'er do well.
		Hoping to somehow mature into something resembling a responsible adult, Wendell takes a job at a hole-in-the-wall retirement hospital -- and soon discovers that the kind-hearted old tenants are being exploited by a pair of moronic administrators.
	www.hollywoodbitchslap.com /review.php?movie=11674 (624 words)

	San Antonio Current - front page - 03/17/2005 - Screens:Pacing rooms and parsing words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Unbearable angst descends, of course, but only after Wendell's girlfriend (Eva Mendes) decides to move on with her life, having had enough of his imperturbable and unromantic optimism.
		Wendell's dog is even played by Wilson's own dog Brother, who is pacing around the hotel room with his master as we speak.
		Although he has written short stories in the past, this was his first attempt at screenwriting.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14160625&BRD=2318&PAG=461&dept_id=484045&rfi=6 (1174 words)

	Maui Film Festival -
		With The Wendell Baker Story, the Wilson boys — Luke, Owen and Andrew — may have just established themselves as the funniest brother act since Groucho, Chico and Harpo; certainly they’ve proved themselves a family of overachievers.
		Wendell’s first job back on the outside is at a retirement home where a nefarious head nurse (played to a nicely nasty turn by brother Owen) has been stealing from the residents and threatening them with slave labor.
		In its look and feel, The Wendell Baker Story comes across as a good-natured throwback to the polyester ‘70s, “when intimate comedies could be quirky without pretense,” writes John Defore in The Hollywood Reporter.
	mauifilmfestival.com /tixSYS/filmguide/eventnote.php?EventNumber=0332 (301 words)

	SXSW Baby!: Who Is "Wendell Baker"? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Wendell Baker Story is set to open the SXSW Film Festival on March 11th at the Paramount Theater.
		Written by Luke Wilson over the course of several years, and co-directed by himself and also his brother, Andrew Wilson, the film also stars Luke Wilson, and a third Wilson brother, Owen Wilson.
		The film portrays the story of Wendell Baker, an ex-con gone hero.
	www.sxswbaby.com /archives/2005/01/who_is_wendell.php (325 words)

	MovieMaker Magazine \| HOP Volume 4, Issue #2 \| Steve Mason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As he wrapped up shooting on Luke and Andrew Wilson’s The Wendell Baker Story, Mason took time to rap with MM on his more than two decades behind the camera.
		SM: The Wendell Baker Story was shot in Austin, Texas.
		SM: The Wendell Baker Story was a challenge from the standpoint of schedule.
	www.moviemaker.com /hop/vol4/02/cinema.html (1295 words)

	SXSW on Austin360
		Luke Wilson (the one on the grass) wrote, stars in and co-directs 'The Wendell Baker Story,' a film that was shot in Austin and Wimberley.
		And he counts, like sheep, the days until "The Wendell Baker Story," the movie he wrote, directed and stars in, has its world premiere at the Paramount Theatre.
		Luke took the script for "The Wendell Baker Story" to producer Mark Johnson, who produced the Austin-made movies "The Alamo" and "Home Fries," which starred Luke and Drew Barrymore (and tanked).
	www.austin360.com /sxsw/content/sxsw/articles/10sxswfilm.html (1830 words)

	The Wendell Baker Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wendell finds his first straight job in a retirement home whose head nurse, Neil King (Wilson's brother, Owen), is a mean-spirited version of his old self: King is skimming from the checks sent for his residents, forcing them to do his chores and threatening them with outright slavery.
		It falls to Wendell to set things straight, while the elders in his care help him with his own dilemma, winning back the girl who got away.
		If its aspirations are modest, "The Wendell Baker Story" does embody the dry wit and easy charm that has (along with Luke's looks) won the Wilsons so many fans.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000838712 (391 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wendell (Luke Wilson) comes off as relentlessly ingratiating in his snappy sales patter while selling counterfeit driver's licenses to undocumented migrant workers along the Tex-Mex border.
		Wendell makes the best of his time behind bars, breezing through his sentence with an attitude that suggests frat-house exuberance more than hard-time endurance.
		Proceeding at the amiable pace of a cheery stoner on a Sunday afternoon stroll, "The Wendell Baker Story" is a loose-knit, character-driven comedy that percolates with good-vibe amusement, often earning industrial-strength guffaws with sneaky one-liners and tossed-off non-sequiturs.
	www.variety.com /index.asp?layout=cannes2005&content=review&reviewid=VE1117926512&categoryId=1724 (755 words)

	The Wendell Baker Story - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wendell Baker Story will be the first movie directed by actor Luke Wilson and his eldest brother Andrew Wilson, set to premiere at the 2005 South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas in March, 2005.
		The film will star Luke Wilson, who also wrote the screenplay, as an ex-con working in a retirement home and Luke's other brother, actor Owen Wilson as the home's head nurse.
		The film has been developed through Mobius Entertainment and produced by Mark Johnson of CBS.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Wendell_Baker_Story (156 words)

	Vail Daily News for Vail and Beaver Creek Colorado - Arts and Entertainment
		Besides, the bigger movies, like "Wendell Baker" and David Duchovny's "House of D," will most likely be distributed to a theater near you.
		Wendell Baker was the result, an up-beat con-man with a lot of heart.
		The festival awarded "The Wendell Baker Story" best feature film of the festival Saturday at the ceremony and party, and organizers also paid tribute to rising star Kip Pardue ("Driven," "Remember the Titans," and "Loggerheads") and Rod Slifer honored producer Ed Pressman with the Mayor's Lifetime Achievement Award.
	www.vaildaily.com /article/20050403/AE/104040015 (710 words)

	Vail Daily News for Vail and Beaver Creek Colorado - Arts and Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The result: "The Wendell Baker Story," an original screenplay, in which Luke recruited brother Andrew to co-direct and brother Owen to act.
		In the film, Luke plays Wendell Baker, a good-hearted con man whose latest scheme lands him in the slammer for selling fake IDs to illegal aliens crossing the border to the United States from Mexico.
		Wendell unites with his new-found friends to take down the retirement home's evil head nurse, Neil King (Owen Wilson), and accomplice McTeague (Eddie Griffin) and Wendell faces a true test of his character.
	www.vaildaily.com /article/20050331/AE/103310029 (1728 words)

	AIVF \| The Independent \| May 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Wendell Baker Story, which opened Austin’s SXSW Film Festival in March, is written by Luke, co-directed by Luke and Andrew, and stars Luke and Owen.
		One of my favorite stories is about when Owen was at UT, he ran into this kid [we went to school with], and the guy had just kept wearing his uniform from the school, but un-tucked.
		But this guy Wendell’s story is more like a fable or a joke.
	www.aivf.org /independent/current/0505carrollhalf.html (1171 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wendell Baker (Luke Wilson) spends his time scheming his next (read first) fortune, planning all kinds of shady and illegal schemes.
		Baker and his friend (played by Jacob Vargas) get caught providing fake Texas identifications to illegal immigrant farm workers.
		Baker is eventually paroled, and ordered to work at a “retirement hotel.” While little happens at the retirement place, Baker does not learn of an ongoing to scheme to ship seniors to Oklahoma, so that the administrators can collect their pension checks and sell their medicines on the fl market.
	www.johnscouture.com /wendellbaker.htm (389 words)

	Nevada Daily Mail: Story: Craig Wendell Johnson
		Craig Wendell Johnson, 49, Nevada died suddenly Friday, April 23, 2004, at Nevada Regional Medical Center in Nevada.
		He was born Nov. 3, 1954, in Nevada to Horace Wendell Johnson and Joan Louise True Johnson.
		The family suggests that memorials may be made, in his memory, to the D.A.R.E. program in care of Nevada High School or the funeral home.
	www.nevadadailymail.com /story/1067336.html (166 words)

	Billy Joe Shaver
		The Wendell Baker Story is expected to hit theaters in fall 2004.
		The Wendell Baker Story is not Shaver’s only entrée into the film industry this year.
		In addition to the documentary and The Wendell Baker Story, Shaver made a cameo appearance as an airplane salesman this fall in Secondhand Lions, starring Duvall, Haley Joel Osment, and Michael Caine.
	www.billyjoeshaver.com /news.html (1165 words)

	ABC News: Wilson Bros. Film Premieres at Texas Fest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The South by Southwest Film Festival, in the heart of Texas, will celebrate some of the state's native sons with its opening-night premiere of "The Wendell Baker Story," a comedy from brothers Luke, Andrew and Owen Wilson.
		NEW YORK Jan 5, 2005 — The South by Southwest Film Festival, in the heart of Texas, will celebrate some of the state's native sons with its opening-night premiere of "The Wendell Baker Story," a comedy from brothers Luke, Andrew and Owen Wilson.
		The film is scheduled for March 11, the first night of the festival, which runs through March 19 in the capital city of Austin and will feature nearly 200 features and shorts.
	abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=385499 (334 words)

	The Virginia Film Festival :: Press
		The recent Virginia Film Festival benefit screening of their latest collaboration The Wendell Baker Story puts another chapter in their folklore — film-formula perfect with death-defying stunts, unrequited love, and happy endings — and that was all outside the theater.
		The Wendell Baker Story more than compensates for the fluff, since Luke wrote, co-directed and starred in the film, theoretically boosting him from matinee idol to auteur status.
		The Wendell Baker Story is the budgetary equivalent of its leading character’s seersucker suit and, as an indie, has one advantage.
	www.vafilm.com /php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=446 (751 words)

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		Govan, Gilbert E. - A Different Valor; the story of General Joseph E. Johnston, C.S.A., by Gilbert E. Govan and James W. Livingood.
		London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1889 (Not independently verified - it is almost certainly one of the many variant reprints of "From the Tannery to the White House.
		Story of the life of U. Grant," which was published under various titles by various publishers both in Britain and the US).
	www.americancivilwar.org.uk /library/library.htm (1951 words)

	FilmStew.com • Wilsons Open South by Southwest
		The Wendell Baker Story, which marks the feature helming bow of Luke and Andrew Wilson, will open this years SXSW Film Fest.
		The Wendell Baker Story, Luke Wilson and Andrew Wilson's directorial debut, will open the South by Southwest Film Festival in Texas.
		The Wendell Baker Story stars Luke and Owen Wilson, Eva Mendes and Eddie Griffin.
	www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=10527&Pg=1 (266 words)

	Austin Movie Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The project is based on a short story of the same name by David Schickler that originally appeared in the New Yorker.
		He wrote the script for Wendell Baker and also stars in the title role.
		The project, which is before cameras in Austin, Texas, is a Wilson family affair: Andrew Wilson is co-directing with Luke Wilson from a script co-written by the latter and his other brother, Owen Wilson.
	www.austinmovieshow.com /Content/showreview2.php?movieid=49 (875 words)

	The Virginia Film Festival :: Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Luke Wilson and Mark Johnson Premiere "The Wendell Baker Story" to Benefit the Virginia Film Festival on April 3
		Luke Wilson at VFF's Wendell Baker Q&A
		Wilson, Herskowitz, and Johnson at Wendell Baker Q&A
	www.vafilm.com /php-bin/news?PHPSESSID=6c7a0677f73f1544b9b83bbb85877124 (226 words)

	PopMatters Film Feature \| South by Southwest Film 2005: A Field Journal
		As part of his work release program, Baker is sent to work at a corrupt retirement home run by a drug addled sadist (Owen Wilson) and his shiftless accomplice (played by Eddie Griffin).
		If the story sounds horribly formulaic, it is. The film is, at best, a failed attempt at character-driven comedy.
		Not even the presence of Will Ferrell (Baker's romantic rival) and Kris Kristofferson (a mysterious resident who lives at the home) can save the film, as their characters appear and disappear in the story seemingly at random.
	www.popmatters.com /film/features/050315-sxswfilm.shtml (1277 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Screens: Andrew Does the Book of Luke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Wilson boys are back in town with their 'Wendell Baker Story,' which took one an eternity to write and the other a month to shoot
		The free-spirited character of Wendell Baker is also something Luke spent much time molding: "I was driving from Dallas to Austin, and I started thinking of a con-man character, somebody that had qualities I wished I had as a person, someone who always keeps moving forward, doesn't worry about what people say.
		I know the fast-talking hustler type is kind of the standby character in movies, but I've always loved the screw-ups." In turn, The Wendell Baker Story is ripe with screw-ups, shakedowns, and the Wilson brothers' trademark deadpan humor.
	www.austinchronicle.com /2005-03-11/screens_feature8.html (824 words)

	MBR: Internet Bookwatch, July 2004
		He served his duty as general in the War of 1812, commanded U.S. forces in the final campaign of their war with Mexico, and was the general in chief at the beginning of the Civil War.
		From Dale's determination to be a singer despite her position as a teen single mother to Roy's first wife's death and his struggles raising three children alone, Cowboy And The Senorita packs in fl and white photos and high drama to re-create the special challenges and lives of the two.
		Written by a political organizer, strike strategies, and health and safety educator, Divided We Fall: The Story Of The Paperworkers' Union And The Future Of Labor is fascinating and lesson-filled true story of the struggle of the Paperworkers' Union to improve the living and working conditions of its members.
	www.midwestbookreview.com /ibw/jul_04.htm (15858 words)

	Cary Baker's conqueroo - Billy Joe Shaver - Biography
		If an easy path was ever laid out before Billy Joe Shaver, only he and his God know of it, and it’s a sure bet that if it did happen, he either missed the sign or decided he wouldn’t know how to act once he took it.
		Shaver also has a principle role in “The Wendell Baker Story,”; which recently finished filming in Austin.
		“The Wendell Baker Story”; is expected to hit theaters in sometime next year.
	www.conqueroo.com /billyjoeshaverbio.html (1066 words)

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