Word: playing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wayne never did jump from the treadmill. He was lifted off by John Ford, who had become a poker-playing buddy. "I had been friendly with Ford for ten years," recalls Wayne, "and I wanted to get outa these quickie westerns, but I was damned if I was gonna climb on a friend to do it. He came to me with the script of Stagecoach and said, 'Who the hell can play the Ringo Kid?' " It was a part that called for a strong, inarticulate frontiersman vengefully seeking his father's killers. "I said there's only one guy: Lloyd...
...matter. In the province of the Old West, truth is a dude. The good and bad men who belong are necessary fantasies of the national mind. The public pays to see the Wayne western as a native morality play. The greatest good vanquishes the deepest evil and walks into the gaudiest sunset. The difference between Wayne and his audience is that they leave the illusion behind when they exit from the theater. The Duke has always taken it home with...
This time Wayne was rescued by Screenwriter Borden Chase, who created a role that Wayne could play, he predicted, "for the next 20 years." The movie was Red River, a western version of Mutiny on the Bounty with the range as the ocean and John Wayne as a pistoled and Stetsoned Captain Bligh. Wayne was at last allowed to play his age (41). Like a man loosening his belt and taking off his tie after a day in the office, the Duke was relaxed, secure and solid. The kid had gone respectable and become a father. Red River...
...home, playing grandpaterfamilias to the world, he watches his country in motion, hoping it will move into the sunlight where the contrasts are clear. He will never fill up another ashtray, but he still manages to empty a few bottles. "Getting out with my comrades," he says, "and talking revolution, jeez, I'll hit it pretty good." Forever the superpatriot, he once refused to let a bandleader play his favorite tune because "everybody would've had to stand up." Yet beyond the self-parody, beyond the fifth-face-at-Mount-Rushmore pose, there is a heroic essence that Wayne manages...
...found that he could no longer groove along those rails. After precocious turns at turning on, dropping out, shipping out and even bugging out (into a mental asylum for eight months), Ginsberg drifted to San Francisco's North Beach in 1953. There he abandoned all vestigial attempts to play it straight. Instead, he decided to "cultivate my perceptions, cultivate the visionary thing in me. And to keep living with someone-maybe even a man -and explore relationships that way." At Christmastime in 1954, he began to explore the relationship of love with Fellow Poet Peter Orlovskv. "It was very...