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   From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   "Paul Duca (tomservo56954@comcast.net)"  writes:   
      
   >     I ask this question, since we are well aware of the highly public   
   >cancer battle being waged by its star, Patrick Swayze--in the wake of   
   >the passing of musician Jeff Healy, whose group portrayed the bar band   
   >that needed to be caged for their own safety before Patrick arrived.   
   >     For those who don't know, THE CONQUERER was a Howard Hughes   
   >produced epic from the 1950's, starring John Wayne as...Genghis Khan.   
   >It was filmed in Utah, downwind from the site of numerous A-bomb   
   >tests. In subsequent years, a large number of the cast and crew   
   >developed cancers of various types.   
   >     So...was there something in the air--or the water or the soil or   
   >the food--at the ROAD HOUSE locations?   
      
   	Well, two instances is unfortunate, certainly, but what's the   
   overall pattern?  The Conquerer has its infamous reputation not just   
   because of John Wayne, but because of the apparently [1] greater than   
   expected number of cancer cases from it.   
      
      
   	[1] One of those ``history tested out by elaborate computer   
   simulation'' shows studied soil samples from the filming locations and   
   found that fallout levels were not so high as would be expected for the   
   movie shooting to be a common cancer link.  I don't know if that result   
   has held up, but it's an interesting data point.   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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