SC - John Wayne (now how the heck did we get here?)

[Philip & Susan Troy]

"Michael F. Gunter" wrote:
> 
> > To be quite honest, 99% of the Duke's entire career output is better
> > qualified to be called "B movie" than "Repo Man", and I think both Mssrs
> > Wayne and Ford would have agreed. Which is not to say they weren't good,
> > they just tended to be considered secondary features.
> >
> > G. Tacitus (Many of My Best Friends Are John  Wayne) Adamantius
> 
> Just be careful how you word any criticism on The Duke (ahhhhh, SCA content)
> when a big fan and Texan runs this list.

Well, I thought that was pretty carefully worded. Back when there was
such a thing as a B movie (and John Wayne made a lot of them, back in
his eye-makeup days in the 1930's) there was no stigma as to quality.
Many of them (overall, not specifically Dukesterns) were bad, but many
of them were excellent in spite of smaller budgets than were awarded to
A features.
> 
> You have been warned.

Besides, _I_ never said John Wayne used to come to the door for the UPS
guy wearing a dress, Tracy Walters did! Of course, John Wayne, even if
he were so attired, was probably more masculine than Tracy Walters no
matter how dressed. (Now I'm gonna find out that Tracy Walters'
brother-in-law is on this list, and takes exception...)   
 
> Gunthar Joe-Bob
> (And I really do like John Wayne movies)

Me too, mostly. And don't I get points for reading the two-fisted
Texas-set pulp fiction of Joe R. Lansdale, author of sentences like,
"And then he hit me so hard the coins in my pants pockets changed
denomination,"? 

Adamantius, who is opposed to th' gratuitous degradation of movie actors
unless it's necessary for th' plot, a.k.a. an avid reader of Joe Bob
Briggs, for all his recent embrace of "indoor bullstuff"

And who has no idea either how we got to this topic
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com