OT but FYI.
Marion Morrison was an EXCELLENT actor who portrayed a number of heroic figures both historical and fictional. For that reason he was given a draft deferment so that he COULD make movies portraying those kind of figures, so as to promote national pride and patriotism. However, once that war came to an end; it left him and his publicist with a problem of "perception" they needed to overcome. Many another actor HAD gone to war and some (like Audie Murphy had been decorated for their valor and heroism in battle). BUT, the publicist came up with a BRILLIANT idea! He developed a "credo", an impossible to live up to in real life list of things that a rugged, he man and big bad tough guy would and would NOT do! AND, he named it after the actors SCREEN NAME! Problem solved! And, thus the "John Wayne Credo" was born. Enjoy, one and all; I'm off to other, lighter threads.
I personally can't watch any porn where the parties involved don't seem to be enjoying it fully, and along with those lines, having the thought in the back of my mind that a person in the video is being tormented by the fact that it is on the internet, absolutely ruins it for me. I can't enjoy it.
So yeah, i don't think it should be out there, and i absolutely feel there should be strong punishments for those that put this out on the internet, or share it with anyone without consent.
DPW- He was nevertheless GIVEN a deferment; was he not? Therefor, just what part of my statement do you contend was "not correct"? incomplete and not correct are NOT the same thing; and I didn't see that it made a difference one way or another, so I saw no reason to include it.
I still maintain that the most important thing is to educate our people.
Of course there should be penalties for those who break the law and inflict injury on others (be that financial, physical, emotional or whatever) but we really have to work together as a society to teach what is and is not acceptable.
I think that we're becoming much more secular and isolated, and the onset of technology only feeds that.
We need to remember that we all have a duty and responsibility as a member of society and that not only means living by example, but getting involved with others to 'do the right thing'.
The things we are talking about in this thread are only becoming more common because we tolerate, condone, ignore or don't do anything about them.
Now, I don't have the answers, but I think that only changes of the type I've referred to will actually bring about change?
Naive, I know...
Granted, given at the end of the day it's all the same. Nor, do the specifics of HOW it came about really matter. What I was talking about was the "damage control" to his image done AFTER the fact.
LOL Once again my point sails right over your head. "Other careers" are ALSO irrelevant, as is whether or not he was "the only one". ALL that IS relevant is the ACTUAL origins of "The John Wayne Credo". And, how utterly meaningless an impossible to live up to in real life LIST of things that "real men" either DO or DON'T DO; truly is. Leaving myself out of it, I have known a great many REAL MEN, who have done several of the things on that list; to include my father, who never served a day in the military inspite of TRYING to enlist in ANY branch of the service that might take him in the wake of Pearl Harbor.
No, I don't know that anyone had any "image" problems as a result of the war. I do know that several actors returned from it and went on to have long active careers in films. Lee Marvin, Eddie Albert, Glenn Ford and Ernest Borgnine among others. The ONLY Hollywood types I know of who had problems involving the military were Walt Disney and Steve McQueen; both of whom were given dishonorable discharges from the Marine Corps. I don't know what the deal was with Disney, but McQueen was stationed at the Delmar area of Camp Pendleton in California, where he was a tank driver. SOOO, one weekend for some crazy reason he drove his TANK through the main gate, nearly ran over the gate guard, parked it in front of a bar and was having a beer when the MP's showed up to arrest him! LOL
Not that I know of but those treads can tear the Hell out pavement!
Really, this is what are congress is doing with their time. No wonder why california has so many dang problems.