Duking it out over John Wayne

New York Daily News ^ | 7/19/03 | Kay Gardella

[lowbridge]

PBS. Figures.

[The Duke]

My favorite line from my favorite actor:

"Fill your hands you son-of-a-bitch!"

[goldstategop]

John Wayne excelled in Westerns. Although "The Quiet Man" is a gem about John Ford's native Ireland.

[HighWheeler]

From John Wayne, aka Marion Morrison:

[185JHP]

I like "Straight up, or over the saddle - makes no diff'rence ta me."

[Miss Marple]

"The Quiet Man" is one of my favorite movies.

My husband and I often quote the squire when we're disgusted with someone:

Put his name on The List and draw a line through it.

[RJCogburn]

The one nick in his armor was putting career above the country he loved during World War II. He shirked a call to arms when other actors such as Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, Henry Fonda and Tyrone Power entered the service.

That is, at best,unclear, and "shirked" is certainly a perjorative term. Other biographies claim he was not accepted due to a prior knee problem, age, family. I do not know what is correct.

[Redleg Duke]

"The one nick in his armor was putting career above the country he loved during World War II. He shirked a call to arms when other actors such as Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, Henry Fonda and Tyrone Power entered the service."

Typical PBS bullshit lies. Wayne tried to enter the service but was rejected on medical reasons due to an old football injury. Of course, the liberal elite at PBS will tell any lie to trash this man's reputation.

[RJCogburn]

My favorite line from my favorite actor: "Fill your hands you son-of-a-bitch!"

Not a bad line....

[Ulysses]

One of my favorites?

"I won't do it. I won't do it.

The hell I won't!"

[ARCADIA]

Typical PBS bullshit lies. Wayne tried to enter the service but was rejected on medical reasons due to an old football injury. Of course, the liberal elite at PBS will tell any lie to trash this man's reputation.

I agree. However, we can also argue that he served his country best in Hollywood then behind a rifle. His WWII era films provided what his country needed most.

[mystery-ak]

Hubby and I are big JW fans...many DVD's and tapes...my fav JW film is *The Searchers* but my fav line is *Apologizing is a sign of weakness* from *She Wore A Yellow Ribbon*...

[aomagrat]

One of my favorite lines...

"I'm looking at a tin star with a drunk pinned to it."

[TAIPAN22001]

The liberal low lifes at pbs can never lower the stature of the great John Wayne, no matter how they try. He's the ultimate symbol of what's good in this country, as well as the greatest movie star this country has ever produced. A giant being slandered by fleas!

[visitor]

...nor does it set out to destroy the heroic image.

if it doesn't "set out to destroy" does this sentence implie that it does just that by the end? ...rto

[Bernard]

And that came in response to, "I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man". Greatest dialouge exchange in Hollywood history.

[BibChr]

"He'll regret it until his dying day... if ever he should live so long!"

[RJCogburn]

my fav JW film is *The Searchers*

That'll be the day.

[Miss Marple]

LOL!