Friday, October 01, 2004

A Truly Religious Moment

One Legend Meets another.

This is a truly religious moment. The Duke meets the D.I.

Senior Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman USMC meets Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort USA. If those of you inclined to do so, perform a search on IMDB for The Longest Day, you will find that the film was so star studded, that John Wayne, in IMDB's listing, didn't even get primary billing.

I guess the Duke wasn't fickle about billing, as he had already garnered an Academy Award for his portrayal of Sgt. Stryker USMC in Sands of Iwo Jima thirteen years earlier.

Here is the Coors Light Commercial in which, by means of that computer stuff the egg heads say will end up pressing our clothes and changing our infant's diapers, the two legends, in this kid's mind, come together...

1 Comments:

Blogger Any Clime and Place said...

And if you chuckleheads bring up the fact that the Duke was wearing two stars in the commercial as apposed to the silver oak leaf he should have, and did, wear in the film, It's CGI, folks. All about the story, which sells the beer...

October 1, 2004 at 10:37 PM  

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