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John Everingham
John Everingham (born 1949) is an Australian journalist residing in Thailand, best known as the subject of the film Love Is Forever (1982 film), ''Love is Forever'' and as the father of Thai actor Ananda Everingham. Everingham was in high school in 1966 when the urge to travel overcame the desire to study. He dropped out of school and left home at 16 years old, and left Australia to journey through London by motorcycle. Everingham began his career in photojournalism in the mid-1960s, as a teenager trekking through Indochina and learning languages. He originally worked as a translator for TV crews covering the Vietnam War. During the Vietnam War he received acclaim from the mainstream media, and disdain from the United States, American military, for his reporting on and photos of the effects of American bombing of hill tribe villages in the remote mountains of Laos. Some of the planes were based in Udon Thani, Udon Thani, Thailand. Laos became the most heavily bombed country in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Is Forever (1982 Film)
''Love Is Forever'' (also known as ''Comeback'') is a 1982 adventure film, adventure drama (film and television), drama film based on the experiences of Australian journalist John Everingham in Laos and Thailand. It was written, directed and co-produced by Hall Bartlett and co-produced by Michael Landon, who played the lead role in the film. Filmed in Thailand, it was released outside the United States in cinemas under the titles ''Comeback'' and ''Passion and Valor'' and shown first in America on television. This film was the last one Bartlett directed before his death in 1993. Plot Following the Pathet Lao takeover of Laos, Australian journalist John Everingham is originally sympathetic but then feels the nation is turning into a police state. General Siegfried Kaplan, an East Germany, East German advisor to the Pathet Lao secret police, has noticed that Western news agencies are receiving revealing news stories that could only have been provided by insiders in the government. K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |