Stamp honour for film hero Wayne

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From BBC News:
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Late film star John Wayne has been honoured with a commemorative postage stamp by the US postal service.

The stamps, featuring Wayne in a classic cowboy pose, were unveiled at a charity event for the John Wayne Cancer Institute on Saturday in California.

The stamp is part of the postal service's annual Legends of Hollywood series, which has honoured stars such as James Dean and Marilyn Monroe.

Wayne has appeared on a stamp before, as Ringo Kid in Stagecoach in 1990.

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[ablbodyed]

1. As a stamp collector....

though not of modern US, I have no proplem with A JW stamp. He was a very conservative guy, but if others were honored with stamps, then he is just as deserving as James Dean.

[ClintonTyree]

2. Wayne.................

was one of the most over-rated actors ever to grace the silver screen. His tough guy image was a sham, he couldn't act his way out of a paper bag and ranks right up there with Reagan as a screen idol. The fright wingers will be buying up the stamps with abandon I expect, to them he exemplifies the ideal American stereotype.

[Bridget Burke]

3. No problem. The Postal Service has alternatives,

If you don't care to invest in John Wayne.



There's no political "meaning" behind the Cary Grant stamp. But is it necessary to explain why I included him?

[catmandu57]

4. If I deface them

will they still deliver my mail? If I draw a swastika on johnny somewhere will they return my mail?
The best line I ever heard about wayne was "the only uniform he ever put on came from central casting". I don't recall who said it but I like it.

[Bridget Burke]

8. Don't buy them!

There are lots better stamps for sale.

[Art_from_Ark]

9. Any extraneous mark on a stamp makes it "used"

and therefore invalid for postage.

[leesa]

5. Ah great the poster boy for psychotic American machismo

I recently saw one of his trash films and was amazed at one part. He was coming Southwest and decided he wanted a piece of land in ?Texas. A Mexican and his family had lived on it for generations and when the man came out to protest, Wayne shot him dead. And Wayne was a GOOD guy in this film. It was so bigoted and disgusting but this machismo crap is the role model many people in this country think is great. Sick.

[bryant69]

7. What film is that?

Just out of curiousity.

I do know his best role was in the searchers, which a very shallow person could interpret as a classic Indians vs. Settlers story, but was really about how far hatred could twist a man, in this case the John Wayne Character.

From James Kendricks review of the movie.

"When the film begins, Wayne's character, Ethan Edwards, a lonely, complex, and embittered man, first appears on horseback as a small figure, and steadily grows larger as he approaches. At the end of the film, he stands alone, framed by the same doorway, and then slowly walks away, once again becoming the small, distant figure we first saw.

Ethan was Wayne's first anti-heroic role, and his performance is certainly one of the best of his career. "The Searchers" is a landmark Western that is at once a great, rousing adventure story, a fable about the nature of quest and fulfillment, and an exploration of the vicious racism that created such intense violence between Native Americans and encroaching white settlers. Now considered one the greatest Westerns of all time (if not the greatest) and renowned as a strong influence on directors such as Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, "The Searchers" was completely under-appreciated when first released, failing to get a single Oscar nomination."

Bryant
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[UTUSN]

6. I'll Take Lenny Any Day (with a 3-cents add-on)

I keep my sheet and only use one for VERY special birthdays or such.
Hmm, just to add "political" content for GD, wonder why the USPS pictured this stamp leaning LEFT?


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TECHNICAL DETAILS
Issue: Leonard Bernstein
Item Number: 451600
Denomination & Type of Issue: 34-cent commemorative
Format: Pane of 20 (1 design)
Series: N/A
Issue Date & City: July 10, 2001, New York, NY 10199
Photographer: Don Hunstein
Designer: Howard Paine, Delaplane, VA
Engraver: N/A
Art Director: Howard Paine, Delaplane, VA
Typographer: Thomas Mann
Modeler: Joseph Sheeran
Manufacturing Process: Offset/Microprint "USPS"
Printer: Sterling Sommer
Printed at: Tonawanda, NY
Press Type: Akiyama, 628
Stamps per Coil/Pane: 20
Print Quantity: 55 million stamps
Paper Type: Prephosphored,Type I
Gum Type: Water-activated
Processed at: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.
Colors: Black, Cyan, Yellow, Magenta
Stamp Orientation: Vertical
Image Area (w x h): 0.84 x 1.41 in./21.336 x 35.814 mm
Overall Size (w x h): 0.99 x 1.56 in./25.171 x 39.624 mm
Full Pane Size (w x h): 5.94 x 7.24 in./150.876 x 183.896 mm
Plate Size: 180 stamps per revolution
Plate Numbers: "P" followed by four (4) single digits
Marginal Markings: © 2000 USPS • Price • Plate Numbers • Plate Position Diagram • Barcodes • Copyright Text •
Catalog Item Number(s): 451620 Block of 4 — $1.36
451630 Block of 10 — $3.40
451640 Full Pane w/plate no. — $6.80
451661 First Day Cover — $0.55
Postal Retail Store
Item Number(s): 451615 Full Pane — $6.80


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[Wapsie B]

10. Can't find a link

but there's been a rumor floating around for years that he was a cross dresser. Boy what a fake hero.

[librechik]

11. John Wayne is gay

I went to his house one time to install a full length mirror and he came to the door in a dress.


Repo Man always out looking for trouble.