{"id":831,"date":"2004-10-02T11:52:13","date_gmt":"2004-10-02T18:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/10\/john_waynes_lesson\/"},"modified":"2004-10-02T11:52:13","modified_gmt":"2004-10-02T18:52:13","slug":"john_waynes_lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/10\/john_waynes_lesson.html","title":{"rendered":"JOHN WAYNE&#8217;S LESSON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Have a look at the face that launched a thousand slings and arrows. <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A1574-2004Oct1.html\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>Ain&#8217;t it purty?<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> (Scroll to photo.)<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a reaction shot of the prevaricatin&#8217; prez at the first debate in his&nbsp;real-life role as<br \/>\nan&nbsp;Alfred E. Newman lookalike. He appears not to have been separated at birth.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>John Wayne, <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/books\/sho-sunday-bogdanovich1.html\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>talking about his movie career<\/FONT><\/B><\/A><br \/>\nwith Peter Bogdanovich,&#8221; once said &#8220;a reaction [shot] is the most valuable thing you can have on<br \/>\na picture.&#8221; Reaction shots &#8220;build your part. They always say I&#8217;m in action pictures, but it&#8217;s in<br \/>\n<I><STRONG>re<\/STRONG><\/I>action pictures that they remember me.&#8221; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Karl Rove &#038; Co. &#8220;shoulda took a lesson&#8221; from Wayne when they prepped their candidate.<br \/>\nRoughly <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/02\/politics\/campaign\/02rating.html?oref=login\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>62.5 million people watched<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> the<br \/>\ndebate Thursday night, a third more than the nearly 47 million people who watched the first<br \/>\ndebate four years ago. Good news for John Kerry, presuming his <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A1637-2004Oct1.html\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>positive notices<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> will translate<br \/>\ninto votes.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have a look at the face that launched a thousand slings and arrows. Ain&#8217;t it purty? (Scroll to photo.) It&#8217;s a reaction shot of the prevaricatin&#8217; prez at the first debate in his&nbsp;real-life role as an&nbsp;Alfred E. Newman lookalike. He appears not to have been separated at birth. John Wayne, talking about his movie career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-dp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}