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Obituary: Chuck Wayne
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Musicians on the whole are averse to the banjo. In 1963, in a
move totally out of character for such a sensitive musician, the
guitarist Chuck Wayne tried to bring the banjo into modern jazz,
playing lines that had been used by the influential Charlie
Christian on the guitar. "There's a banjo boom in the offing,"
Wayne said confidently, and recorded a long- vanished album on the
instrument. All those with perfect pitch (the ability to throw a
banjo into a skip without it touching the sides) m...
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When Wayne was seeing prostitutes I'd never even slept with him. After I found out, my head was all over the place. He just kept on saying sorry; COLEEN my story.(Features)
The Mirror (London, England)
; ... who I wanted to tell. I drove straight down there. All these thoughts were racing through my head. How was I going to break the news to my mum and dad? How do you tell them that kind of thing? Then I was thinking I needed to let my nan and grandad know what ...
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When Wayne was seeing prostitutes I'd never been slept with him. After I found out, my head was all over the place. He just kept on saying sorry; COLEEN my story.(News)
The Mirror (London, England)
; ... who I wanted to tell. I drove straight down there. All these thoughts were racing through my head. How was I going to break the news to my mum and dad? How do you tell them that kind of thing? Then I was thinking I needed to let my nan and grandad know what ...
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Mythmaking // Enduring truth behind Wayne's macho image
Chicago Sun-Times
; John Wayne's America The Politics of Celebrity. By Garry Wills. Simon & Schuster. $26. Director Howard Hawks once asked John Wayne to express fear during the filming of a scene for "Red River." Wayne refused. Tom Dunson - the character he played - never would have displayed such an emotion. In
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The Duke was a real gent John Wayne kept his square-jawed sincerity off screen too, says Charles Spencer
The Sunday Telegraph London
; John Wayne: The Man Behind the Myth by Michael Munn Robson Books, pounds 16.95, 407 pp pounds 14.95 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 IN MY DAYS as a young film buff, when I enjoyed nothing better than watching Humphrey Bogart films until dawn at the National Film Theatre and it seemed absolutely
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