I raised my kids on John Wayne. There is always an underlying moral lesson in each of his movies. Besides that there are great movies to watch.
There is no better role model, aside from a father, than John Wayne.
I had a boss out in Denver who was a big John Wayne fan (me too). He was also very conscious of how he looked.
One evening his back locked up on him in the Columbine Lounge and the paramedics hauled him out of the place on a board to the hospital (I think it was Swedish). He was in a lot of pain.
I went to visit him in the hospital and took him flowers as a joke. He was still out on his back, and I just stood there staring at him with my handful of flowers without saying anything. Finally he says, “OK! Whats on your mind!” I replied that looking at him I knew I’d seen that look before. He says, “Out with it!” I replied, “It seems to me John Wayne had a stubble of beard like yours right before he died.”
The next day, I went back to see him, and the nurse stopped me in the hall and said, “I don’t know what you said to him yesterday, but after you left, he got up off that board and shaved.”