Open Thread Wednesday

I tried Netflixing this but they kept sending me the disc with the sequels – turns out the Airport/Airport 75 discs are mislabeled on their end. Luckily, they had it available for instant viewing, albeit cropped from 2.35:1 to 1.78:1.

You know what? Despite seeing Airplane! a million times, I thought this was a very entertaining film! It's a bit long but never dragged, the melodrama never came across as cheesy, and I don't even recall any unintentional laughter on my part (the sequels on the other hand…). I did want to punch Mrs. Quonsett in the face at one point but it all worked out in the end.

How much does it cost to buy the votes of the poor in NYC? $200.00

http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/08/12/2009-...

Which is amazing! Most of it was from the stimulus bill.

PajamasMedea has a Michael Yon interview posted at their PJTV site. And the always lovely Dana Loesch with one about town hall meetings. Dana has post about a new Obama poster on her blog. If we make it through a day with more anti-Obama posters than magazine covers, we win. Trees lose but we win.

I hope that the Democrat party doesn't get rid of Pelosi until we get her out of position in 2010. If we beat her fairly and squarely in the arena of ideas then most of the liberal agenda goes away for many years.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/08/12/to...

The Obamabots/kool-aid drinkers comments are enlightening. Short story, they don't like what Camilia has to say.

Page 1 out of the Hugo Chavez playbook. I saw a picture of people lined up in New York to get their checks, the caption under it should have read: "Your tax dollars at work, keeping me in office. -Barry O"

They’ve discovered a money tree in NYC, free money. Two hundred dollars to the sainted poor for back to school supplies, hey it’s only 175million, boy that Barry and his partner in crime George Soros are swell fellows. Now it’s time for circuses, wee…

We have had several arrest at town hall meetings here in St Louis, all of them were supporters of this so called health care bill.

Wow, the Obamabots on there are really foaming at the mouth. frightening to know that they can actually vote…

It is nation-wide. It started out in Los Angeles, CA now it is in Clermont, FL. I wonder what will happen if they do catch one and prosecute? My guess would be more would show up everywhere.

'Airport'- 'Grand Hotel' in the sky…

Based on one of the most famous, and oft repeated themes in filmic history- people thrown together by fate and their lives as a snapshot- 'Airport' is easliy the best bad movie ever made, pure American Velveeta, smooth and creamy.

A great Elmer Bernstein score and Dean Martin(!) as a pilot help immeasurably. Great guilty pleasure…

Think of all the great spec scripts floating around out there that will never be made because we just have to have a LEGO MOVIE! (smacks forehead)

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/42030

I used to play with Legos all the time as a kid. And if/when I have kids, hopefully they'll like to play with them too. But a movie? Really?!

Obama On Single Payer Health Plan.

Then. "I happen to be a proponent of the single payer universal health care plan"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpAyan1fXCE

Now. "I have not said that I was a single payer supporter…"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd-F8Z6sSpA

IMO, Camille Paglia is a very unusual person – a liberal that can exercise common sense and logic. I don't agree with all her opinions, but her opinions are reasoned, well-thought-out, and worth considering.

thanks for the heads up; you are correct- we even have the CD laying around somewhere…

Jacqueline Bisset was in Airport. I was a kid when I saw the movie but I knew what I wanted when I grew up : )

Man, I can still sing that Main Theme. Da-da-da-daa-dat, Da-da-da-da-daaa-dat, duh-dat. In fact, I'm singing it right now in a hotel's great room, mooching off their wi-fi. Getting strange looks.

Sounds like he was for it before he was against it…..

Ever notice how Obama and John Kerry are never in the same room?? Hmmmmm……

That woman needs to be fired yesterday. Talking on the phone while being spoken to at a townhall qualifies you for the lead in the country's biggest a$$hole award…..

Have you seen his latest?

Airport was a great move. Unfortunately, there are very few good copies floating around (good sound and letterbox picture). If I remember correctly it was filmed in Todd-AO 70 mm which would make for a great Blu-Ray transfer. Kind of a shame that they haven't done it and I haven't seen anything that indicates it will go to Blu-Ray.

This was especially good, although I am surprised she is surprised at her surprise.

"But who would have thought that the sober, deliberative Barack Obama would have nothing to propose but vague and slippery promises — or that he would so easily cede the leadership clout of the executive branch to a chaotic, rapacious, solipsistic Congress? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whom I used to admire for her smooth aplomb under pressure, has clearly gone off the deep end with her bizarre rants about legitimate town-hall protests by American citizens. She is doing grievous damage to the party and should immediately step down."

So called 'disaster films' have a long history in Hollywood, though they were never given a name until the 70s.

And there are a handful of "airplane in jeopardy" films, too.
FIVE CAME BACK – 1939 – Plane crashes in the jungle with a cross-section of passengers.
THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY – The official "AIP" grandaddy of them all film.
ZERO HOUR – (Already mentioned here)

Some of the films are dramas with a big disaster sequence near the end – and its always a whopper!
SAN FRANCISCO – 1936 – Huge earthquake in 1904
THE HURRICANE – 1937 – Sensational hurricane hits a tropical island
IN OLD CHICAGO – 1938 – The big fire of the 1880 era.
THE RAINS CAME – 1939 – Incredible rains and a dam disaster.
TYPHOON – 1940 – "B" Film with great special effects by James Bashevi of THE HURRICANE fame
GREEN DOLPHIN STREET – 1947 – Intense earthquake

And you also have the groundbreaking (haha) DELUGE from 1933 in which a tidal wave hits New York City. Incredible special effects and then it become a survivalist film with a love story!

Also – the 'modern' day PANIC IN YEAR ZERO from 1962 with Ray Milland and family on their own in the mountains when an A-Bomb destroys Los Angeles.

There are more.

*Funny sequence in some 1933 film with Lee Tracy depicting the 1933 Long Beach earthquake and the newspaper aftermath with huge headlines on the big out of town newspapers – LA DESTROYED BY EARTHQUAKE!!, HUGE EARTHQUAKE LEVELS LOS ANGELES!!, GIANTS QUAKE ROCKS LA!!…..and then they show a local Los Angeles newspaper…which has the story below the fold…"Small earthquake hits LA, Not too many people hurt."

What about all the taxpayer dollars that ACORN and the rest of the thugish groups are going to be using when they hire people to go to town hall meetings to shout down naysayers of the health care bill? I heard where they will be paying these shouters anywhere from 10-15 dollars an hour.

These democratic politicians came out of the womb crooked.

I liked this quote from that story. Soooo freakin' hilarious when you think back on how THEY portrayed Bush every chance they got.

"He looks so mean, gruesome and evil and this is not something you want to portray your president. Very disrespectful,"

He's a liar and he goes which ever way the wind is blowing at the time.

Good description of "Airport," dcase, but it was Alfred Newman, not Elmer B., who scored the music.

I wish that were true, but he is only lying when he pretends to be moderate, bipartisan, sensible, on our side. He has spend far too much political capital on his ultraliberal policies to be indifferent.

Don´t forget: He never liked to work hard and be held accountable. If he can pull us down in one term and then leave (say, to become UN Secretary General) that may be fine by him.

ScottDS….Well I'll be damned! I thought he had passed. That's what I get for thinking………..Thanks for the correction and Sorry to Mr. Kennedy…

Ah the old disaster movies. This one was not quite as funny as Towering Inferno, but it is interesting that it was posted a day after "Airplane!" Maybe the newdisaster movie should be made titled "health Care Reform."

re: "To bad this judge,"
I didn't even bother to read the story 'cause I started laughing so much!

I think one of the requirements to become POTUS is that you have had to have worked a full time job for at least 5 years.

Yeah … and just like the Joker, Hussein has a ready-made lie on hand to feed to his victims.

About the Loss of John Hughes.

I read an interview with Actor Kevin Bacon. He mentioned the one film that he did with the late Mr. Hughes, "She's having a baby". That film is almost never mentioned in Mr. Hughes body of work. Since it wasn't a big money maker, it is called a "Misfire" .
Mr. Bacon understood that it was Mt. Hughes's personal film, The film that talked about how he went from a kid, wanting to play all the time, to being a man. I love that film. And as much as I liked "16 Candles" and most of his other work, "She's having a baby" was Mr. Hughes best film.

Thank you sir. You will be missed.

late great George Kennedy
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George ain't dead yet!
He is only 84 years old
"What we've got here is failure to communicate."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001421/

'Charade' is even better, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn- but Matthau, Coburn and Kennedy as the baddies… good stuff.

Love this movie.

Ms. Paglia does seem to be open-minded, fair writer. Interesting to read.

It's on one of the cable movie channels every now and then, because I recorded it not too long ago.

I never miss an Airing of Airport. Never. I just love it.

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