Edward
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Gutted about Peter Tork's death. I am of a generation who grew up watching repeats of the Monkees in the early eighties, neither knowing nor caring that the show was already "old" at the time. Davy got all the girls (we couldn't identify with that when I was six!), Mike was the quiet one, Mickey the trickster.... but it was everyman Peter we probably laughed at most. We loved it just as much in the late nineties when they reran them all, and in 1997, I finally got to see them in Belfast, on the only reunion tour they ever did with all four members. Sheer joy. Manufactured take-off of Hard Day's Night or no, the Monkees will always be more musically important to me than the Beatles.
It always raises a wry smile on my face that the most famous escapee of them all, as a result of the film, remains the entirely fictional Captain Virgil Hilts...
An interesting character. He had style and other things going for him; he could also be a sexist ass. Not to mention some of his other, more dubious attitudes. But anyone who loved his cat like that can't be all bad, surely? I hope she's doing well. The death of a very close owner can really do a number on a cat's emotions.
Quite. I guess it's one of those images - much like the Churchill myth, really - that has been imbued with such pop-culture interpretation over the years that a conflicting interpretation - even from the lady herself - is still controversial. Amazing how a moment like that can be transformed - and still raise so much debate - via the simple act of being captured on film.
Granted, the US is a very different culture than the one in which I live, but truth be told I've never known a woman of i]any/i] political stripe who would react other than with a firm slap to the situation as was.
I'm rather a fan of how they subverted that image in Zak Schneider's movie version of Watchmen.
Airman Richard Churchill has died at the age of 99. He was the last survivor of the 76 men who escaped from Stalag Luft 111, a Nazi POW camp. Hitler personally ordered the execution of 50 of the escapees, however Richard Churchill speculated that the Nazis thought he was related to the British Prime Minister, which is why, in his view, he survived the war.
The escapades of Richard Churchill and his comrades were immortalised in the 1963 movie, The Great Escape.
It always raises a wry smile on my face that the most famous escapee of them all, as a result of the film, remains the entirely fictional Captain Virgil Hilts...
My wife and daughters just recently watched a Netflix doc on Karl Lagerfeld, one of the few male designers who actually dressed well in person. He is now gone, aged 85, and I bet having lived one hell of a life.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/karl-lagerfeld-dead-1.5024196
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An interesting character. He had style and other things going for him; he could also be a sexist ass. Not to mention some of his other, more dubious attitudes. But anyone who loved his cat like that can't be all bad, surely? I hope she's doing well. The death of a very close owner can really do a number on a cat's emotions.
Also, by his own admission, Mendonsa had "had a few drinks," which likely translates into quite a few given the number of bars-per-block around Times Square in 1945. I don't know any women who feel particularly aroused when they're randomly grabbed by a drunken sailor, no matter what the occasion.
Quite. I guess it's one of those images - much like the Churchill myth, really - that has been imbued with such pop-culture interpretation over the years that a conflicting interpretation - even from the lady herself - is still controversial. Amazing how a moment like that can be transformed - and still raise so much debate - via the simple act of being captured on film.
It would be interesting to have a non conservative woman's opinion on this 'cause far too many fellas consider if a woman says no, she really means, yes.
Granted, the US is a very different culture than the one in which I live, but truth be told I've never known a woman of i]any/i] political stripe who would react other than with a firm slap to the situation as was.
I'm rather a fan of how they subverted that image in Zak Schneider's movie version of Watchmen.