John Wayne didn't make too many mistakes in his career, but when he did, they were howlers. Remember when he played Ghengis Khan in The Conqueror, wooing Susan Hayward with "This tartar woman is for me and my blood says 'Take her' and "Yer Beeootiful in yer wrath!" Well, that performance would have undoubtedly been Oscar material compared to the film that almost happened: Steven Seagal in a 2002 big screen version of old Ghengis' life. That's right, the cigar store Indian of emotion playing the conqueror the world. Seagal is to charisma what Vladimir Putin is to slapstick humor. It's all recounted on the web site of Cracked magazine, along with many other Hollywood near-misses that Divine Providence seems to have spared us from. It's a hilarious article, even if writer Steve Clark indulges in the cliched penchant for peppering every sentence with needless obscenities - though none are quite as offensive as picturing Seagal as Ghengis Khan. To read click here