Ohhh, and worth mentioning, too...I'll always be grateful that The Duke's final picture, and a fitting way to say goodbye, was "The Shootist", a near classic Western, directed by the great Don Siegel. In the movie, Wayne's character, a legendary gunfighter with terminal cancer(told him by Dr.Jimmy Stewart), goes 'out' in a bar room shootout in a scene orchestrated by himself. Wonderful.

Mr.Karnick gives way too short-shrift to "The Searchers", arguably the Greatest Western ever made. I can remember my folks eagerly reading the serialized version of Alan LeMay's novel in The Saturday Evening Post. They awaited the movie with grand impatience. But, it didn't disappoint. The classic collaboration of John Ford and his favorite actor, John Wayne. Only criticism I can think of, having seen it at least 2-dozen times, is that the
Navajos, whom Ford used as his fearsome Texas Comanches, were getting noticeably long in the tooth by this time. He'd used them all in his great 'Cavalry Trilogy' with The Duke, "Fort Apache", "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon" and the fantastic, "Rio Grande". Mr.Karnick didn't--if I'm reading correctly--mention these movies. YIKES ! Ummm, another little fact worth noting: Zinneman's, "High Noon", was made in 1952, with several Oscars garnered, including Gary Cooper's second Best Actor award. As a tasty follow-up to that success, Fred Zinneman released, "From Here to Eternity", the very following year ! Them was the days, my friend.

The gorgeous and nimble Michelle Malkin has a withering piece at Townhall today on the sleazy Letterman and his dead-a**ed sewer jokes. Greg, you go on down there, Gen'rul, and "FEEL sad" for this piece of phlegm if you choose. As for me, I'll analyze his sorry-cheap self as not worth one drop of sweat from that beautiful Downs baby that the classy Sarah and her stand-up husband are raising. David is a PIG. Period. Other than that, I have no opinion on him. :-)

DTOM...I, cyber-doofus guy, figured out how to get signed up here ! Thanks for the help, Friend.