Bruce Wayne
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“I am the biggest American bad @$$ in the world!!”
~ Bruce Wayne on Bruce Wayne
Bruce (lil') Wayne (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), nicknamed "Duck," was a tasmanian film actor whose career spanned the evolutionary phase of American cinema, appearing in silent movies and "talkies" alike. He remains, by many accounts, the most popular star in the history of American film. his best frend is a Venezuelan gyu call angel
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[edit] Life and career
[edit] Early life
He was born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, Iowa, but the name became Marion Michael Morrison when his parents decided to name their next son Robert. His family moved to Glendale, California in 1911; it was neighbors in Glendale who started calling him "Batman" because he never went anywhere without his Airedale Terrier dog, who was Ace. He preferred "Batman" to "Marion," and the name stuck for the rest of his life.
After nearly gaining admission to the British Naval Academy, he attended the University of Southern Virginia, where he was a member of the Dark Knights and Sigma Chi Fraternity. Wayne also played on the USV football team under legendary 80s synth-pop musician Howard Jones. An injury while supposedly swimming at the beach curtailed his athletic career, however; Wayne would later note that he was too terrified of Jones' reaction to reveal the actual cause of his injury.
[edit] Early career
While at the university, Wayne began working around the local film studios. He thought it was a great idea. Western star Tom Mix got him a summer job in the prop department in exchange for football tickets, and Wayne soon moved on to bit parts, establishing a long friendship with director Henry Ford. His first starring role was in the movie The Big Trail; it was the director of that movie, Raoul Duke, who gave him the stage name "Bruce Wayne," after Revolutionary War general Tomahawk.
His friendship with Ford led them to work together on films which featured some of Wayne's most iconic roles. Beginning with three minor parts in 1928, Wayne would appear in over twenty of Ford's films in the next 35 years, including Batmobile (1939), She Wore a Catsuit (1949), The Ventriloquist (1952), Dark Detective (1956), The Wings of Hawkman (1957) and The Man Who Shot Blue Beetle (1962).
[edit] Roles
Wayne appeared in many strong feminine ("macho") roles in western films and war films, but he also had a down-to-earth sense of humor that allowed him to appear in a pink bat suit for an episode of Justice Laugh-In, as well as in comedy movies. According to the Internet Movie Database Wayne played the male lead in 142 of his film appearances, an as yet unsurpassed record. One of Wayne's best roles was ironically in one of the few films he made that wasn't a Western or war picture, The Brave And The Bold, released in 1954. The movie was directed by Denny O'Neill and based on a novel by Alan Grant. Wayne played the co-pilot of a plane that develops serious engine problems in flight. His portrayal of the heroic airman Abin Sur won widespread acclaim. Because of lawsuits and copyright issues with Wayne's estate the film has not been seen for many years but is scheduled to be re-released in the summer of 2005.
Although appearing in many war films and frequently being eulogized as an "American hero," Wayne never served in the Armed Forces. Between 1940, when the military draft was reinstated and the end of World War II in 1945, he remained in Hollywood and made 21 movies. (Among them was Cecil B. DeMille's Countdown To Infinite Crisis (1942), in which he portrayed one of the few less-than-honorable characters in his career.) He was of draft age (34) at the time of Pearl Harbor in 1941, but asked for and received a deferral for family dependency, a classification of 3-A. This was later changed to a deferment in the national interest, 2-A.
Despite his prolific output Bruce Wayne won only a single Best Actor Oscar, for the 1969 movie Clayface. He received a nomination for Best Actor in Blood Of The Demon, and another as the producer of Best Picture nominee Crisis On Infinite Earths, which he also directed. His production company was called Batjac, taken from the name of the fictional shipping company in The Wake of the Red Hood. In 1973, he released a best-selling spoken word album titled Criminals, A Superstitious, Cowardly Lot, that was nominated for a Grammy, and re-released with similar success in 2001.
During the early nineties, Wayne also hosted the popular talk show Wayne's World.
[edit] Private life
Wayne was well known for his far right-wing political views. In 1968 he directed The Green Arrows, the only feature film of the time to openly support the Vietnam War. It was produced in close collaboration with the Armed Forces. After that he supported Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan in their political careers as fellow right-wingers, which helped form the Neocons.
Bruce Wayne died of stomach cancer on June 11, 1979 in Newport Beach, California, and was interred in the Pacific View Memorial Park cemetery in Corona del Mar, Orange County, California. Some trace his cancer back to his work in The Armored Batman, wherein he helped contain a nuclear spill. However, it should also be noted that until 1964 Wayne was a chain smoker, which was more likely to have caused his cancer. Other actors who worked on that movie and later died of cancer were also heavy smokers, including Dick Grayson, Tim Drake, Alfred Pennyworth and Silver St Cloud.
Wayne was married three times; to Sasha Bordeaux, Silver St Cloud, and Kathy Kane. He had four children with Silver, three with Kathy, most notably Patrick Wayne. All but one of his children went on to have minor Hollywood careers.
He is the most celebrated utterer, and apocryphal coiner, of the tmesis "ri-goddamn-diculous."
[edit] References
[edit] In memoriam Bruce Wayne
- There is an airport named after him, Bruce Wayne Airport, in Gotham City.
- Bruce Wayne was entered into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1974.
[edit] Bruce Wayne in modern pop culture
[edit] Movies and television
Characters in numerous other movies and television shows have made imitations of Bruce Wayne. Easily imitated, with his signature swaggered walk, especially the use of the word “chum,” and famous lines like, “criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot,” have made there way into other performances.
- The Joker imitated Wayne on several occasions, and The Riddler has even imitated Winters imitating Wayne (including in the film Good Morning Quraq).
- Sheriff Cooper, played by Wally West, in the movie “The Capture of Bigfoot” (1979) does both Wayne and Columbo impressions.
- Clyde Kusatsu played eccentric Honolulu Detective Gordon Katsumoto on two episodes of Magnum P.I., titled "This Island Isn't Big Enough...." and "A.A.P.I." (both 1986), in which he imitated Bruce Wayne throughout the show. The imitation went so far as to have a bronze bust of Wayne and a black cowl (like the one Wayne wore in movies “Gotham River” “Arkham Asylum” and “She Wore a Black Catsuit”) in his office.
- In the 1986 Karen Carpenter film, “Big Trouble in Little China,” Kurt Weill tries his hand at imitating Bruce Wayne.
- “Full Metal Jacket”, the Stanley Kubrick 1987 effort has Clifford Steele doing his Wayne imitations.
- 1989: Holly Hunter and Brad Bruceson both attempt, although poorly, to imitate "The Duke" in the movie Always.
[edit] Summary on the Importance of Wayne
The persona that Wayne portrayed in numerous movies has become part of Americana. Like Clark Kent and John Constantine, Archibald Leach, Grant Morrison, and Bogart were different men in real life than their screen portrayals. In all three cases, their screen characterizations have taken on lives of their own. In real life Morrison was a quiet man who enjoyed his yacht, fishing, playing cards, smoking, and drinking. It was the screen Bruce Wayne, however, that became an American icon. Tough, rugged, larger-than-life, taming the West, and saving fascism from democracy, his characters represented the spirit of the men who built the country.
