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THE FILM THAT KILLED JOHN WAYNE!


They should advertise it that way.

Choose your signature quotes carefully…. They could be misinterpreted (you moron).- drwho

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Then again, maybe it was the 4 packs of Lucky Strikes a day that did him in.

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He beat the smoking cancer... then all of a sudden he was hit by a different type of cancer one that isn;t normally caused by smoking.

Choose your signature quotes carefully…. They could be misinterpreted (you moron).- drwho

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That's sad. and just when he gotten better.

Gerard Way is cute

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Check this out: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_016.html

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excerpted from the above link:

"Of the 220 persons who worked on The Conqueror on location in Utah in 1955, 91 had contracted cancer as of the early 1980s and 46 died of it, including stars John Wayne, Susan Hayward, and Agnes Moorehead, and director Dick Powell. Experts say under ordinary circumstances only 30 people out of a group of that size should have gotten cancer. The cause? No one can say for sure, but many attribute the cancers to radioactive fallout from U.S. atom bomb tests in nearby Nevada."


"The value of an idea has nothing to do with the honesty of the man expressing it."--Oscar Wilde

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I wouldn't say it killed him, since he made 40 movies after this one. But I will concede that from that point on the only way he rode a horse was as a cowboy.

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Anyone who wishes harm on someone, or who takes satisfaction in someone's death is a moron.


"The value of an idea has nothing to do with the honesty of the man expressing it."--Oscar Wilde

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Learn to spell, bi-tch. It's "riddance".

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