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- The John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California is named after him.
- Lynn arrived and, seeing a room of bowlegged ruffians shouting at each other, fists clenched, swiping at the air, thought he was witnessing a brawl straight out of a John Wayne film.† (source)
- We saw our first Western together, Rio Bravo with John Wayne, at the Cinema Park, across the street from my favorite bookstore.† (source)
- "HESTER HATES JOHN WAYNE," Owen said, and Hester woke up.† (source)
- He was stupid, believing in John Wayne bravery and codes of Hollywood honor.† (source)
- I have always been a John Wayne fan.† (source)
- I bought a box set of James Bond movies, some Clint Eastwood, John Wayne—I love John Wayne.† (source)
- If not, then he's in the tradition of Gary Cooper and John Wayne and (later) Clint Eastwood.† (source)
- But I remember when you'd see John Wayne or Steve McQueen and you'd say, Wow, those guys are badass.† (source)
- A John Wayne film was on the screen—Adam had forgotten the title.† (source)
- When I got back from New York City that night, Lucas was alone in the living room watching some John Wayne Western where John Wayne was riding horses and climbing over fences and walking that way he walks.† (source)
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- From beyond the grave, dead living legend John Wayne will communicate telepathically with President Reagan to help frame U.s. foreign policy.† (source)
- His John Wayne expression suddenly snapped down.† (source)
- I turned on the TV fast and pretended to watch an old John Wayne movie.† (source)
- John Wayne, for example, made an extraordinary 179 movies in his sixty-year career and still ranks only 116th, at 2.† (source)
- Every time I went to see her and check on the car I felt like John Wayne in that war movie where he buckles down his helmet, takes a swig of bourbon, and charges across the minefield yelling something like "Live Free or Bust!"† (source)
- I remembered the old 1960 movie The Alamo, starring John Wayne as Davy Crockett.† (source)
- I discovered Western movies, especially the John Wayne ones.† (source)
- Lieutenant Pennel had thought to reorient his men with a show of John Wayne–like gallantry.† (source)
- "Name one person John Wayne Gacy killed," I demanded.† (source)
- There, I saw Robert Duvall call John Wayne a one-eyed fat man, saw Big John yell out, "Fill yer hand, you sonofabitch!" and charge down across a wide, beautiful valley, reins in his teeth, shooting a Winchester from one hand and a Peacemaker from the other.† (source)
- If I ever do finish it, though, I give you my word of honor: there won't be a part for Frank Sinatra or John Wayne.† (source)
- He was succeeded in the mid-thirties by John Wayne, as the Western folk hero.† (source)
- Davie's drunker'n Cooter Brown, and he staggers up to this ol' Vietnamese madam and puts his hands on his hips like John Wayne and says, 'How much fer a suckle thar, Miss Slanty Eyes?'† (source)
- I didn't know at the time that the only other man who has had his face on a box of shotgun shells was John Wayne.† (source)
- We children came up off the ground over the melting cones our parents brought home from work and the American movie on New Year's Day-Oh, You Beautiful Doll with Betty Grable one year, and She Wore a Yellou) Ribbon with John Wayne another year.† (source)
- I remember begging Baba to take us to Iran so we could meet John Wayne.† (source)
- John Wayne was in a submarine in World War Two; he was battling the Japanese.† (source)
- John Wayne didn't really speak Farsi and he wasn't Iranian!† (source)
- Imagine—John Wayne and the flagraising!† (source)
- His lips curled into a John Wayne leer that was a little frightened around the edges.† (source)
- John Wayne and John Bradley on the set of The Sands of Iwo Jima, 1949.† (source)
- John Wayne hands Rene Gagnon the flag as Ira Hayes and John Bradley look on.† (source)
- —JOHN WAYNE THEY WERE NO LONGER BOYS NOW; they were postwar men.† (source)
- Adam was reluctant to use a certain word but he went ahead anyway, pulling his eyes away from John Wayne on the screen.† (source)
- Watching John Wayne swagger across the street, gun riding low on his hip, his father said, "Because nobody knows how powerful these organizations— maybe there's more than one—are today.† (source)
- Moon over Miami was over; something called The Late, Late Show had begun in its place—John Wayne, in Operation Pacific.† (source)
- Through some odd form of neurohypnosis, or whatever the term, this woman, who lived in Normal, Illinois—this made her irresistible—showed the symptoms of whatever illness Elizabeth Taylor was suffering at a particular time, or John Wayne, or Jackie Onas-sis, or name your star, from a fluey sort of fatigue to the skin eruptions of herpes simplex and the wasted frame of cancer.† (source)
- Some stars. such as Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, clung to it with enduring success even after that accent lost its prestige, but soon more American-sounding actors, such as John Wayne and Gary Cooper, dominated the screens.† (source)
- The problem is that more than half of John Wayne's movies were Westerns, meaning that he made the same kind of movie with the same kind of actors over and over again.† (source)
- She went over to the TV and turned it off just as John Wayne, in the midst of squiggles, was dying on a bulldozer.† (source)
- 'You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men.† (source)
- He tried to project the image of a lovable John Wayne figure while performing the disciplinary functions that were his main job as Assistant Principal, but did not succeed very well.† (source)
- John Wayne disappeared.† (source)
- But Yates gave his approval—on the condition that the lead role be played by Hollywood's emerging superstar of action films, John Wayne.† (source)
- The two million people who visit Grauman's annually notice that John Wayne's plaque is different from those of the other movie stars.† (source)
- John Wayne also served The Photograph, in Sands of Iwo Jima, the first Hollywood movie to depict the flagraising.† (source)
- Their two scenes—one bunched around John Wayne as they receive orders, the other a quick glimpse of them pushing up a flagpole—required a total of only about thirty minutes of filming.† (source)
- "Who in God's name is John Wayne?"† (source)
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