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As a teen, Wayne worked in an ice cream shop for a person who shoed horses for local Hollywood studios. He was ... active as a member of the Order of DeMolay, a youth organization associated with the Freemasons, that he joined when he came of age. He attended Wilson Middle School in Glendale. He played football for the 1924 champion Glendale High School team.
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Wayne's Westerns were full of action but usually not excessively violent. "Fights with too much violence are dull," claimed Wayne, insisting that the straight-shooting, two-fisted vilence in his movies have been "sort of tongue-in-cheek." He described the violence in his films as "lusty and a little humorous," based on his belief that "humor nullifies violence." His conservative taste deplored the increasing latitude given to violence (and sex) in Hollywood. In the 1960s, he launched a campaign against what he termed "Hollywood's bloodstream polluted with perversion, and immoral and amoral nuances."
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Casa Kimberley, Zaragoza 445, telephone and fax (52-3) 222-1336, Ms. Taylor and Mr. Burton’s love nest, was the scene of epic drinking and brawling in those days, a guest house to Hollywood luminaries from John Wayne to Rock Hudson. The casa is still a temple of cinematic high camp on a quiet bend of road in the neighborhood known as Gringo Gulch, five minutes from the center of town and its beaches, Playa Olas Altas and Playa de los Muertos. The Cleopatra suite, with a commanding view of the ocean and a pink whirlpool bath, is the most expensive of the nine bedrooms, $100 off season, $200 in high season..
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Paramount Home Entertainment and Paramount's television distribution entities have entered into an agreement with Batjac Productions, the production company founded by John Wayne, for worldwide DVD and television distribution. The agreement was announced today by Thomas Lesinski, President, Paramount Pictures, Worldwide Home Entertainment, Joel Berman, President, Paramount Worldwide Television Distribution and Gretchen Wayne, president of Batjac and wife of the actor's late son, Michael, who owned the company for over 30 years.
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