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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Dec 1, 2010 0:59:33 GMT -5
That's finding out like Santa ain't real
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Post by jagilki on Dec 1, 2010 1:01:24 GMT -5
That's finding out like Santa ain't real Santa's not real? That's like finding out The Tooth Fairy is made up. |
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Post by The Tank on Dec 1, 2010 1:02:53 GMT -5
That's finding out like Santa ain't real Santa's not real? That's like finding out The Tooth Fairy is made up. The Tooth Fairy is made up? That's like learning the Easter Bunny is fake. |
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Dec 1, 2010 1:03:48 GMT -5
I remember reading a book about Wayne when I was in high school, and they had a picture of him visiting troops in Vietnam and I had to do the old double take.
Eh. The Duke will always be The Duke.
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Post by Beav on Dec 1, 2010 2:15:30 GMT -5
The Easter Bunny too?!?
Man that's like finding out Uncle Sam isn't real.
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Post by thesam07 on Dec 1, 2010 2:24:51 GMT -5
Uncle Sam isn't real?
Man that's like beating a dead horse.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Dec 1, 2010 2:29:06 GMT -5
Uncle Sam isn't real? Man that's like beating a dead horse. ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2010 2:30:36 GMT -5
The Easter Bunny too?!? Man that's like finding out Uncle Sam isn't real. What the hell? Who did I join the Army for? No wonder they never let me meet him Next thing your gonna do is tell me that Aunt Jemima wasnt real and the ruler of syrup |
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Post by lildude8218 on Dec 1, 2010 2:43:22 GMT -5
and his first name was Marion
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Post by Orange on Dec 1, 2010 2:44:54 GMT -5
and his first name was Marion Marion Mitchell Morrison? Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww  John Wayne is a MUCH better name. Although Marion Morrison sounds like an 80's glam band lead singer ;D |
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Dec 1, 2010 2:45:21 GMT -5
and his first name was Marion "You take that back!" |
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Post by Evil Homer on Dec 1, 2010 3:39:18 GMT -5
The Easter Bunny too?!? Man that's like finding out Uncle Sam isn't real. What the hell? Who did I join the Army for? No wonder they never let me meet him Next thing your gonna do is tell me that Aunt Jemima wasnt real and the ruler of syrup Shes not the ruler of syrup? Next your gonna tell me Trix are not for kids |
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Post by -Lithium- on Dec 1, 2010 3:54:16 GMT -5
He dodged the draft!
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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Dec 1, 2010 8:52:39 GMT -5
Eh. The Duke will always be The Duke. My sentiments exactly! |
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Post by Grendel on Dec 1, 2010 9:41:35 GMT -5
Eh. The Duke will always be The Duke. My sentiments exactly! Damn Right. Some of my favorite memories are when I was a kid and a John Wayne movie would come on and me and my dad would watch. We watched damn near every western we could, but we always loved the John Wayne films. I was so sad when I saw the films he made in his later years after that snorking movie The Conqueror killed him. You knew he was sick in his later years and he was still making movies. I think his last movie was The Shootist where he played a famous gunman who was dying. Oh, I should probably explain that statement I made about The Conqueror. He filmed a movie where he played of all people Ghengis Khan (I think). It was a big overblown Hollywood fiasco and is listed in the book The Golden Turkey Awards because of how bad it is (I've seen it, and just imagine John Wayne playing Ghengis Khan and using his usual acting style. It was even more amusing than Edward G. Robinson playing an Egyptian in The Ten Commandments like he played his gangster roles). Anyway, they don't say for sure whether or not filming in a desert close to where above ground A bomb tests went on earlier ... Of the 220 persons who worked on The Conqueror on location in Utah in 1955, 91 had contracted cancer as of the early 1980s and 46 died of it, including stars John Wayne, Susan Hayward, and Agnes Moorehead, and director Dick Powell. Experts say under ordinary circumstances only 30 people out of a group of that size should have gotten cancer. The cause? No one can say for sure, but many attribute the cancers to radioactive fallout from U.S. atom bomb tests in nearby Nevada. The whole ghastly story is told in The Hollywood Hall of Shame by Harry and Michael Medved. But let's start at the beginning.
The Conqueror, a putative love story involving Genghis Khan's lust for the beautiful princess Bortai (Hayward), was a classic Hollywood big budget fiasco, one of many financed by would-be movie mogul Howard Hughes. Originally director Powell wanted to get Marlon Brando for the lead, but John Wayne, then at the height of his popularity, happened to see the script one day and decided he and Genghis were meant for each other. Unfortunately, the script was written in a cornball style that was made even more ludicrous by the Duke's wooden line readings. In the following sample, Wayne/Genghis has just been urged by his sidekick Jamuga not to attack the caravan carrying Princess Bortai: "There are moments fer wisdom, Juh-mooga, then I listen to you--and there are moments fer action — then I listen to my blood. I feel this Tartar wuh-man is fer me, and my blood says, 'TAKE HER!'" In the words of one writer, it was the world's "most improbable piece of casting unless Mickey Rooney were to play Jesus in The King of Kings."
The movie was shot in the canyonlands around the Utah town of St. George. Filming was chaotic. The actors suffered in 120 degree heat, a black panther attempted to take a bite out of Susan Hayward, and a flash flood at one point just missed wiping out everybody. But the worst didn't become apparent until long afterward. In 1953, the military had tested 11 atomic bombs at Yucca Flats, Nevada, which resulted in immense clouds of fallout floating downwind. Much of the deadly dust funneled into Snow Canyon, Utah, where a lot of The Conqueror was shot. The actors and crew were exposed to the stuff for 13 weeks, no doubt inhaling a fair amount of it in the process, and Hughes later shipped 60 tons of hot dirt back to Hollywood to use on a set for retakes, thus making things even worse.
Many people involved in the production knew about the radiation (there's a picture of Wayne himself operating a Geiger counter during the filming), but no one took the threat seriously at the time. Thirty years later, however, half the residents of St. George had contracted cancer, and veterans of the production began to realize they were in trouble. Actor Pedro Armendariz developed cancer of the kidney only four years after the movie was completed, and later shot himself when he learned his condition was terminal.
Howard Hughes was said to have felt "guilty as hell" about the whole affair, although as far as I can tell it never occurred to anyone to sue him. For various reasons he withdrew The Conqueror from circulation, and for years thereafter the only person who saw it was Hughes himself, who screened it night after night during his paranoid last years.Credit: The Straight Dope.com I remember watching a news report about it back in the 70's as it was presented that John Wayne was dying, and I remember being shocked and appalled when I heard that one of my heroes was dying ... |
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Post by hassanchop on Dec 1, 2010 9:46:43 GMT -5
That's finding out like Santa ain't real That's like finding out The Tooth Fairy is made up. That's like learning the Easter Bunny is fake. Man that's like finding out Uncle Sam isn't real. Next thing your gonna do is tell me that Aunt Jemima wasnt real and the ruler of syrup F--- you all! You crushed my dreams! I'M FED UP WITH THIS WORLD! *Runs off crying* Why Lisa? Why? |
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Post by Jimmy on Dec 1, 2010 10:44:16 GMT -5
Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Dec 1, 2010 10:45:54 GMT -5
Never cared for Westerns really, so I never really have watched much John Wayne.
Love his appearance on I Love Lucy though.
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Post by bob on Dec 1, 2010 10:48:44 GMT -5
That's finding out like Santa ain't real Next thing your gonna do is tell me that Aunt Jemima wasnt real and the ruler of syrup F--- you all! You crushed my dreams! I'M FED UP WITH THIS WORLD! *Runs off crying* Why Lisa? Why? |
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Post by turkeysandwich on Dec 1, 2010 12:46:24 GMT -5
For anyone who cares Wayne actually didn't wear his hairpiece in a few later scenes in the movie Wings of Eagles. It's not one of the best Wayne pictures, but it is directed by John Ford, and Ward Bond plays John Ford in the movie which is kinda meta for a 1950's picture.
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John Wayne is a MUCH better name.
