By DIANA NOLLEN | The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa | Published: February 6, 2021 (Tribune News Service) George Clooney played him in The Monuments Men feature film in 2014, but his name was changed to Frank Stokes, so George Stout s name continues to fly under the radar. His actions, however, continue to change and preserve history. And now his story can reach a worldwide audience in the documentary
Stout Hearted: George Stout and the Guardians of Art. It s the first project by filmmaker Kevin Kelley, 65, and producer Marie Wilkes, 66, of Iowa City, through the couple s new nonprofit organization, New Mile Media Arts. The 81-minute documentary debuted March 30, 2019, in Stout s hometown of Winterset, then sold out all three screenings the following week at FilmScene in Iowa City. It has since traveled to 20 film festivals around the world, and now anyone anywhere can see it through the Heritage Broadcasting Service, a subscription video-on-demand platform and subsidi
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DES MOINES, Iowa The flood of calls, texts and emails came swiftly and most with the same message. Dave Millage sat by the fireplace in his living room in a quiet Bettendorf neighborhood as he read them.
He had braced for some blowback ever since he’d told a local reporter what he thought about President Donald Trump’s behavior on Jan. 6. Still, one email stung.
“Traitor.”
“These were friends I had made over the years in the Republican Party,” Millage, a longtime conservative activist in eastern Iowa, said in an Associated Press interview days later. “I didn’t expect people to be mad at me. I can see being mad at my comments, or disagreeing. But it turned a little personal.”
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