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Oct 8, 2011 · She and Wayne had first met in 1943 when he was a cowboy in a black-and-white two-reeler and she was a nine-year-old kid on a sun-baked air base where movies were the only entertainment. She described their meeting for the Post in “John Wayne: A Love Song.”
Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a 1968 collection of essays by Joan Didion that mainly describes her experiences in California during the 1960s. It takes its title from the poem "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats. [1]
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Jul 12, 2021 · Joan Didion opens her 1965 essay “John Wayne: A Love Song,” featured in the collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem, by recounting her introduction to and subsequent infatuation with Wayne at the age of eight, courtesy of a particularly hot, particularly dull summer spent at Peterson Air Force Base and a Quonset hut serving as a makeshift ...
Aug 6, 2023 · In 1965, the American journalist and novelist met her childhood idol, then battling cancer. She was not yet a star, but she had already earned herself a flattering reputation. In 1965, at just...
May 26, 2020 · It’s not just an essay about who he was as an actor, or his biography – although it is that, too, but it’s a Didion mix of personal recollections (“What John Wayne Means To Me”), as well as her visit to the crazy set in Mexico of The Sons of Katie Elderin 1965.
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America—particularly California—in the sixties. It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California ...
In the essay "John Wayne: A Love Song", Joan Didion recalls the first time she saw Wayne in a movie: "it was there, that summer of 1943 while the hot wind blew outside, that I first saw John Wayne. Saw the walk, heard the voice.
