Your John Wayne incident strikes a familiar chord...you should make them sit and watch Rio Bravo.

I got my daughter to sit and watch It Happened One Night (thanx Netflix!) and she was blown away by what a great movie it was and how fantastic Clark Gable was. One of the only compensations is the seeing the rush that the kids get when they discover something that's "old" and that they were totally unaware of...you can just see their minds expanding to take it in. And I don't want to make it seem like this is limited to movies...books and art work too.

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