From: Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com)
Date: Sat Mar 15 2003 - 23:32:29 MST
At 02:04 PM 3/12/2003 -0700, Terry W. Colvin wrote:
>MMB:
> >Frankly, I don't think General Buck Turgidson would let a little lack of
> >tail stop him from doing his duty. Kubrick had it righter than Arstophanes,
> >for my money.
>[...]
> >PS: Clue for those in need: General Buck Turgidson was the SAC-War Room
> >officer played to the hilt by George C. Scott in _Doctor Strangelove, or
> >How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb_; I suppose that's harder
> >to get performance rights for than anything Arstophanes wrote. Hmm. I
> >wonder...
>
>
>I adore this movie...! It might have a universal appeal that
>cuts across cultural boundaries too. Once I encouraged this
>movie to be chosen for a movie party of a group of friends from
>Max Planck- no one else had seen the movie, and as we watched
>the film, they laughed as hard as I was laughing (and I've seen
>it six or more times by now). I think the nationalities that day
>were Norwegian, German, Australian, Greek, Italian, American (me).
>
>Did you know that Kubrick filmed a full scene of a War Room pie fight,
>that was later cut from the final movie?
Not only that, if you look closely enough you can see a table full of pies
in some of the war room scenes. Makes for some interesting speculation if
one isn't aware of the pie fight on the cutting room floor.
Interestingly enough, the only time I've visited Graceland (doing the tour
guide thing for an old friend who was visiting Memphis) I was surprised to
see "Dr. Strangelove" playing on one of the three TVs in Elvis's TV room in
the basement of Graceland. I thought it a bit odd until someone mentioned
(I think during our time on the Graceland grounds, though I may have heard
it later) that "Dr. Strangelove" was one of Elvis's favorite movies and
apparently he had his own copy that he watched fairly often.
Len Cleavelin
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