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During some 30 years in the news business, I've come into contact with several actors, singers, and other celebrities who passed through the newsroom, but most really were not that interesting to talk to. There were only 2 who I made a point of shaking hands and speaking to--one was singer Mel Torme who wrote my favorite Christmas song, and the other was Mr. Rogers of TV "Neighborhood" fame, who I thanked for the time my sons and I shared watching his show. The one celebrity I missed interviewing who I would have liked to have talked to was Roy Rogers--wanted to thank him for teaching me, my brothers, and a lot of other boys the meaning of honor and fair play in all those Saturday matinees.
Other than that, I'd love to ask Costner why he changed the Indian tribe to Sioux in his film Dances With Wolves from Comanches in the book. I nearly fell out of my chair when in the movie the Sioux chief pulls out a Spanish helmet that his grandpa supposedly took off some conquistador years before. The Spanish never got up in the Dakotas, but they were all over Texas and New Mexico where the Comanche lived.
I'd also like to ask Clint Eastwood where he came up with that BS in Flags of Our Fathers about how the Iwo Jima flag raisers were needed to raise money in the 7th US bond drive because, according to the promoter, the US was down to its last bullet and the Middle East sheiks were demanding payment in bullion for their oil.
There were no oil supplies from the Middle East in 1945. More than three-quarters of all the world's oil was produced in North and South America back then. Of the 7 billion bbl of oil consumed by the Allies during World War II, 6 billion bbl was produced in the US, where it was also turned into gasoline in the world's largest concentration of refineries along the Gulf Coast. I think it was Churchill who said the Allies floated to victory on a sea of Texas oil. The US continued exporting oil to the rest of the world through the 1940s and into the 1950s before the Middle East began exporting crude on a large scale.
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