I had the great opportunity to have a couple of drinks with John Wayne on several occassions and he was one of the finest gentlemen that I have ever met! He was Newport Beach and he owned the place and its people, would buy rounds of drinks for friends and first time acquantances at such watering holes/resturants as The Arches, The Warehouse, Balboa Bay Club and Woody's Warf just to name a couple of places where he would be seen! I have smoked a cigar or two beside his grave in Newport Beach..!!! Rick, you may not understand this but, Duke Wayne was a hero to me and a great man who never looked down on anybody regardless of their race or convictions! We need more "actors" with the same character and morals that John Wayne had and lived by! Charlie