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By  PETER BOGDANOVICH MARCH 28, 2014 Photo John Wayne as a gunfighter for hire in “El Dorado,” released in 1966. Credit Photograph from Paramount Pictures Continue reading the main story Share This Page The first time I met John Wayne was in 1965 in Old Tucson, Ariz.,  where he was shooting Howard Hawks’s “El Dorado.”  They were doing a night scene so the lighting took a long time  and, happily, gave me a solid two hours to sit on the set,  not in his trailer, and to speak with the Duke about  nothing except pictures. I hadn’t directed a movie yet,  but I had been approved as a journalist by John Ford  and endorsed by Hawks — the two most important directors  in Wayne’s career — so he quickly became outgoing and pretty  candid. When he was finally called away, he said to me,  enthusiastically: “Geez, it was great talkin’ about . . . pictures!  Nobody ever talks to me about anything but politics and cancer!” Of course, he wasn’t