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. So I met with Roos and I asked him how much money I had.He 21184_ch01.qxd 12/18/03 1:43 PM Page 228228 JOHN WAYNEsaid, Well, there s not a lot of actual cash.It s all invested. Hewas getting mighty nervous and I was smelling a rat, and I said, Just tell me how much I can raise. He said, Give me a couple ofweeks. So a couple of weeks go by and I asked him again: How mucham I worth? He was really squirming.He said, It isn t that simple.I lost my patience then and I slammed my fist on his desk and said, It s a simple question.I ve given you a goddamn fortune over theyears.Millions of dollars! Where is it, goddamn it? Well, I could see him giving up his charade as he slumped intohis chair and said, It s all gone. That did it.I blew my top.I toldhim I was going to sue him for screwing me, and I went to my lawyerwho had his accountants go over Roos s books with a fine-toothcomb.Finally my lawyer came to me and said, The guy isn t a cheat.He hasn t stolen anything from you.It s just a case of completeincompetence. I said, Nobody s that stupid to lose that muchmoney. He said, Bo Roos is. I said, I want to sue the living shit out of that son of a bitch. Themore I looked into things, the more I found out what had beenhappening to my money.It was going into dry oil wells, cheapMexican hotels for which he paid top prices, a shrimp company thatwent bankrupt, and on top of that were his own fees and expenses.Iwas stupid enough to trust him and not ask questions over twentyyears.And I wasn t the only one.A lot of people had trusted him andlost money. Then we found out that many of his expenses were of a dubiousnature.Nothing illegal.But when he came to Japan when I wasmaking that Huston film, he was spending my fortune on geishagirls. In the end it was pointless suing him because he was broke.Besides, my lawyer told me if we went to court, I d be the onelooking like an idiot for letting Roos spend my money withoutasking him where it was going for the past twenty years.So I had tolet it go. But Roos cost me the first twenty years of my career.I d workedfor twenty years for nothing. Wayne began to solve his financial problems by signing a non- 21184_ch01.qxd 12/18/03 1:43 PM Page 229WORKING TWENTY YEARS FOR NOTHING 229exclusive contract with Paramount for ten pictures, guaranteeing hima fee of $600,000 per film.John Ford would direct his first film under this contract, The ManWho Shot Liberty Valance, but first he had a commitment to makea third film for Twentieth Century Fox, which would be TheComancheros.Upon its completion, Wayne would receive a full $2million from Fox as originally agreed upon.Pilar, however, had more on her mind than her husband s obses-sion with making money.Claire Trevor, who remained a close friendof Duke s to the day he died, said, Pilar had become pregnant, butshe lost the baby.She was feeling isolated and she was suffering fromdepression and anxiety, so she went to Peru for a holiday.She didn tstay long, and came home to find Duke was too busy with sorting outhis problems to realize she needed him.He loved her deeply and heshowered affection on her, but affection wasn t what she needed themost.She needed to feel she was more than just Mrs.John Wayne.Soshe pulled herself together and started to help run a charity calledSHARE which raises money for handicapped children.That did theworld of good for her, and she did so much good for others. If North to Alaska provided Wayne with the style of comedy hewould inject into virtually all of his work, The Comancherosestablished Wayne as the mature Western hero who could shootstraight, punch hard, and still deliver a comical quip in the process.He played a Texas ranger on the trail of a Confederate renegade whoplans to establish a new Confederate empire in Mexico.Wayne s director from The Three Mesquiteers series, GeorgeSherman, produced the film with Michael Curtiz directing fromJames Edward Grant s screenplay.Filming began in June 1961, inMoab, Utah.Sherman told me, We actually began filming earlierthan I d planned because John Ford wanted Duke to be in his nextpicture [The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance] which needed to startat the end of the summer.I later wished we d held off until he dfinished Liberty Valance before embarking on The Comancherosbecause Michael Curtiz proved to be too old and ill to take on suchan ambitious project, and I would have probably found anotherdirector or directed it myself. 21184_ch01.qxd 12/18/03 1:43 PM Page 230230 JOHN WAYNEStuart Whitman costarred as a gambler who reluctantly helpsWayne.When I interviewed him at Elstree Studios where he wasmaking The Monster Club in 1980, he told me, Duke Wayne was apure delight to work with.With The Alamo behind him, he was freeto enjoy himself playing a role that came to him as easy as fallingoff a log.And when Michael Curtiz became too ill to direct, Dukekind of unofficially took over, and I think he enjoyed doing itbecause he knew he didn t have the whole film on his shoulders ashe had with The Alamo. He had his family with him and he managed to get his son Pat animportant part, and his little daughter Aissa was also in it, playing hisgranddaughter.In fact, a lot of the people who worked with him onThe Alamo had roles. I liked the comic touches Duke put into his part [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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. So I met with Roos and I asked him how much money I had.He 21184_ch01.qxd 12/18/03 1:43 PM Page 228228 JOHN WAYNEsaid, Well, there s not a lot of actual cash.It s all invested. Hewas getting mighty nervous and I was smelling a rat, and I said, Just tell me how much I can raise. He said, Give me a couple ofweeks. So a couple of weeks go by and I asked him again: How mucham I worth? He was really squirming.He said, It isn t that simple.I lost my patience then and I slammed my fist on his desk and said, It s a simple question.I ve given you a goddamn fortune over theyears.Millions of dollars! Where is it, goddamn it? Well, I could see him giving up his charade as he slumped intohis chair and said, It s all gone. That did it.I blew my top.I toldhim I was going to sue him for screwing me, and I went to my lawyerwho had his accountants go over Roos s books with a fine-toothcomb.Finally my lawyer came to me and said, The guy isn t a cheat.He hasn t stolen anything from you.It s just a case of completeincompetence. I said, Nobody s that stupid to lose that muchmoney. He said, Bo Roos is. I said, I want to sue the living shit out of that son of a bitch. Themore I looked into things, the more I found out what had beenhappening to my money.It was going into dry oil wells, cheapMexican hotels for which he paid top prices, a shrimp company thatwent bankrupt, and on top of that were his own fees and expenses.Iwas stupid enough to trust him and not ask questions over twentyyears.And I wasn t the only one.A lot of people had trusted him andlost money. Then we found out that many of his expenses were of a dubiousnature.Nothing illegal.But when he came to Japan when I wasmaking that Huston film, he was spending my fortune on geishagirls. In the end it was pointless suing him because he was broke.Besides, my lawyer told me if we went to court, I d be the onelooking like an idiot for letting Roos spend my money withoutasking him where it was going for the past twenty years.So I had tolet it go. But Roos cost me the first twenty years of my career.I d workedfor twenty years for nothing. Wayne began to solve his financial problems by signing a non- 21184_ch01.qxd 12/18/03 1:43 PM Page 229WORKING TWENTY YEARS FOR NOTHING 229exclusive contract with Paramount for ten pictures, guaranteeing hima fee of $600,000 per film.John Ford would direct his first film under this contract, The ManWho Shot Liberty Valance, but first he had a commitment to makea third film for Twentieth Century Fox, which would be TheComancheros.Upon its completion, Wayne would receive a full $2million from Fox as originally agreed upon.Pilar, however, had more on her mind than her husband s obses-sion with making money.Claire Trevor, who remained a close friendof Duke s to the day he died, said, Pilar had become pregnant, butshe lost the baby.She was feeling isolated and she was suffering fromdepression and anxiety, so she went to Peru for a holiday.She didn tstay long, and came home to find Duke was too busy with sorting outhis problems to realize she needed him.He loved her deeply and heshowered affection on her, but affection wasn t what she needed themost.She needed to feel she was more than just Mrs.John Wayne.Soshe pulled herself together and started to help run a charity calledSHARE which raises money for handicapped children.That did theworld of good for her, and she did so much good for others. If North to Alaska provided Wayne with the style of comedy hewould inject into virtually all of his work, The Comancherosestablished Wayne as the mature Western hero who could shootstraight, punch hard, and still deliver a comical quip in the process.He played a Texas ranger on the trail of a Confederate renegade whoplans to establish a new Confederate empire in Mexico.Wayne s director from The Three Mesquiteers series, GeorgeSherman, produced the film with Michael Curtiz directing fromJames Edward Grant s screenplay.Filming began in June 1961, inMoab, Utah.Sherman told me, We actually began filming earlierthan I d planned because John Ford wanted Duke to be in his nextpicture [The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance] which needed to startat the end of the summer.I later wished we d held off until he dfinished Liberty Valance before embarking on The Comancherosbecause Michael Curtiz proved to be too old and ill to take on suchan ambitious project, and I would have probably found anotherdirector or directed it myself. 21184_ch01.qxd 12/18/03 1:43 PM Page 230230 JOHN WAYNEStuart Whitman costarred as a gambler who reluctantly helpsWayne.When I interviewed him at Elstree Studios where he wasmaking The Monster Club in 1980, he told me, Duke Wayne was apure delight to work with.With The Alamo behind him, he was freeto enjoy himself playing a role that came to him as easy as fallingoff a log.And when Michael Curtiz became too ill to direct, Dukekind of unofficially took over, and I think he enjoyed doing itbecause he knew he didn t have the whole film on his shoulders ashe had with The Alamo. He had his family with him and he managed to get his son Pat animportant part, and his little daughter Aissa was also in it, playing hisgranddaughter.In fact, a lot of the people who worked with him onThe Alamo had roles. I liked the comic touches Duke put into his part [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]