What Movies Have You Seen Lately?
April 3rd, 2018 at 9:35:54 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Yeah, no. John Wayne's best movies were The Sands Of Iwa Jima, Green Berets, Back to Bataan, Flying Leathernecks, High and the Mighty, Fighting Seabees, Wake of the Red Witch. He was known for westerns because he did so many, but he was at his best as a kick ass hero in war movies or adventure stories like North to Alaska and Wake of the Red Witch. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
April 3rd, 2018 at 10:42:30 PM permalink | |
Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 |
My condolences on your loss Wizard. However, that is pretty cool. I’m not sure what John Wayne’s connection to Newport was, but it must have been significant since they named an airport after him. His birth name wasn’t John Wayne though, so I guess you can put whatever you want on your tombstone? |
April 3rd, 2018 at 10:47:45 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18629 | Time for your close-up You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
April 4th, 2018 at 3:29:58 AM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
Thanks. I did not know that wasn't his real name. He picked a perfect one for his personality. I think John Wayne didn't like the scene in Hollywood. Rather that partying all night, I think he was probably happier riding horses in what would have been rural Orange County at that time. I don't know exactly where in OC he hung his hat, but it probably wasn't far from this cemetery, Pacific View, in Newport Beach. I read that for many years his grave was unmarked, because his family didn't to fight off tourists to see it. However, they eventually relented and put that modest one, but it's location is supposed to be secret but with smart phones, it's not hard to locate. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
April 4th, 2018 at 4:09:55 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Personality or Personna? He wanted everyone to call him Duke (an early role). Few of his roles were anywhere near historically accurate or else only skirted historical accuracy about as closely as Hollywood ever does. |
April 4th, 2018 at 4:46:46 AM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11786 |
Howard Hughes had a lot to do with John Wayne's death He bought RKO Studios Wanted to make a movie about Genghis Khan John Wayne signed on Hughes insisted it be shot in NV It was filmed in areas with high radiation from the bomb tests Just about everybody that worked on that movie died from cancer Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
April 4th, 2018 at 6:48:49 AM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
I don't claim to know much about the real man, but I've heard his roles were not much of stretch. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
April 4th, 2018 at 6:51:32 AM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
I did not know this. I always thought his heavy smoking habit eventually caught up to him. I wrote about this before, but the cemetery in Parowan NV is just full of kids and young adults, way more than you would expect. I'm told they were "down winders." The atomic test site in Nevada would wait for north-east winds to do a test, so the fallout wouldn't go over Las Vegas. Instead, it went right over Parowan and that part of southern Utah. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
April 4th, 2018 at 9:59:24 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
But that movie was made a decade after the tests.
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April 4th, 2018 at 10:05:30 AM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
But evidently the half life of the fallout was longer than that. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |