Double Centennial Coming Up!

[davids]

Katharine Hepburn would have turned 100 today and 12 days from now is another Centennial celebration for a Prop man turned stunt man turned actor named marion morrison who did some westerns! They were even in the same movie together. One born to wealth on the east cost and the other little better than poverty in the nation's heart land.

Two people born in the same year and in the same month. The first a legendary actress. The other an actor who went from movie star to legend and to icon and then to national monument!

A man who has been dead for over 27 years yet is still voted amoung america's top ten favorite actors.

Happy Centennial to them both!;)

[rick]

Actually I'm pretty sure that the Duke capitilized his name when spelling it.

Still, let's hear it for the real king of the west.

[davids]

Died almost thirty years ago and yet to most people he doesn't seem really dead.

This years haris poll for america's favorite movie Star nymber one Denzel washington...two Tom hanks...three John wayne! In fact The duke is the only actor to make the top ten in the poll since the haris poll started.

He has gone from promp man, bit movie actor, movie star, legend and now an Icon.

Today the young people seem to forget the stars of the past, the coopers, Bogarts, Gagney and all the past greats both male and female. But Wayne just keeps going and going. Like the energizer bunny of cinema!;)