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Shellback Squid

(10,173 posts)
Thu May 21, 2026, 03:10 AM May 21

'Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern' Review:

https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/dernsie-the-amazing-life-of-bruce-dern-review-1235195070/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us



Before Bruce Dern was an actor, he was a runner. Once he became an actor, he remained a runner. If you base your analysis on the amount of time he spent doing each activity, he was much more of a runner than an actor for the majority of his 89 years on this earth. He didn’t even slow down his running regiment until doctors ordered him to in his mid-eighties, and even then he kept running more than they advised.
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'Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern' Review: (Original Post) Shellback Squid May 21 OP
He shot John Wayne in the back in "The Cowboys"--- lastlib May 21 #1
perhaps if he had gone to war............. HAB911 May 21 #2
yeah---I know what both of those guys were IRL....... lastlib May 21 #3

lastlib

(28,695 posts)
1. He shot John Wayne in the back in "The Cowboys"---
Thu May 21, 2026, 07:38 AM
May 21

I have never forgiven him for that. But I guess it wasn't really his "fault".......

lastlib

(28,695 posts)
3. yeah---I know what both of those guys were IRL.......
Thu May 21, 2026, 08:08 AM
May 21

...and I'd take Bruce over Dustybritches any day of the week, twice on Sunday. John Wayne was a right-wing douchebag off-screen (and on, too, really)---I just liked a good number of his movies, "The Cowboys" being one, along with "True Grit," "El Dorado," and "The Shootist"

No accounting for taste, right?

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