However, there were a couple of his movies I loved. The Quiet Man was one. The fact that it supposedly took place in Ireland, a fiesty red-head costarred in it...Perhaps I enjoyed it in spite of John Wayne.
True Grit is the other one. I saw it as soon as it came to the theaters, and even though my mother was next to me, enthralled with John Wayne, I was there to see one of the costars.
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I know, go figure. I had graduated from Bobby Sherman and David Cassidy to Glen Campbell. Or maybe I have the timeline wrong. Whatever.
For a while, I had a huge crush on him, and when he died in the movie, I was crushed. (When he married Tanya Tucker in real life, I was pissed.) There is an incredible scene where Wayne is against several gunmen and he takes the reins in his mouth, shouts a great phrase and gallops towards them, with a gun in each hand. Kim Darby is wonderful in it, and Robert Duvall plays a great villain.
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Recently I've gotten excited about the Coen Brothers' most recent movie--True Grit--which will be released this holiday season. They have made some of my favorite movies, and I'm intrigued.
Apparently Joel and Ethan have an "if-it-ain't-broke, don't-fix-it" philosophy, which is encouraging. They have changed some of the scenes so it is more consistently from Mattie's perspective but reportedly have not strayed but instead stayed true.
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I will be going to the theater in the next two weeks, but I am also interested...
Who did you have a crush on when you were a kid? Perhaps it's a crush you'd like to shove under the rug?
My sister and I used to kiss the TV when The Monkeys came on. She loved Peter and I loved Davy. Now I love Coen Brothers, too, but I will try to restrain myself from kissing the movie screen. I hadn't heard about this one--thanks for the heads-up!
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