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Skriven 2011-12-20 07:01:37 av Roger Nelson (1:3828/7.0)
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On Tue Dec-20-2011 08:45, Paul Quinn (3:640/384) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 PQ> Hi! Roger,

Hi,

 PQ> On Mon, 19 Dec 11, you wrote to me:

 RN>> "I wish I was a [sic] apple hangin' in a tree And everytime my

 PQ> Not only do I have the DVD but I have .avi clips of both
 PQ> sing-alongs from the flick.  He does actually sing "...an...".

I have that AVI clip as well and yes, he does say "an".  (-:

 PQ>> Are you related to him?  Great movie!  One of my all-time favs!

 RN> Sadly, no.  He's from the rich, tragic Nelsons and all I got was the
 RN> tragic, but there is a story behind that because my great
 RN> grandparents were wealthy.

 PQ> My story all over.  We're not related to Anthony Q~.  =:)  I never
 PQ> knew my (paternal) grandparents but they 'had some money', enough
 PQ> to emigrate from Ireland, have three kids, buy an automobile and
 PQ> get themselves both killed in it back in the late '30s.

Then you know very well how my life is.  Sorry to hear that about your
grandparents.  Both my maternal and paternal grandparents came from wealth, but
they died before I was born.

 RN> It was a great movie, but my all-time favorites of John Wayne are
 RN> Hondo, Rio Grande and The Searchers.  Hondo was in 3-D, but I don't
 RN> have the glasses anymore.  (-:

 PQ> Same, same for me.  I learned my (mid-west) manners and life's
 PQ> values & priorities from watchin' Duke's movies, while growing up
 PQ> without a grandfather or (later) a father.

He was a real life icon and someone whose values we should all cherish (and
have).  I can almost hear him now making a phone call to some company, whose
robot answers with "Press 1 for English and 2 for Espa¤ol."  What do you think
he would do?

 PQ> The movies weren't only just full of fightin' & shootin'.  I well 
 PQ> remember that his wife said once, in words to the effect that 'if 
 PQ> you want to know what he was like to live with then what you see 
 PQ> in the movies was pretty much what he was at home'.

That was my understanding, too.

 PQ> I still reckon his best all-time movie was True Grit; he convinced
 PQ> me that he really was Cogburn, and you could see that he absolutely
 PQ> loved working with Kim Darby, and, that she went the extra while
 PQ> working with him.  The Three Godfathers (best ending for a Duke
 PQ> movie ever!) is a close runner for second with The Searchers.  Just
 PQ> my $0.02 worth.

I don't believe I saw The Three Godfathers, but a search for and reading of the
synopsis should jog my memory.  Yes, I did see that one, but it was so long ago
and I probably only saw it once.

The one film I wish he'd never made was The Barbarian and the Geisha. (UGH!)


Regards,

Roger 
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