Celebrity Video Palate Cleanser
by John NolteAfter a month of celebrity videos ranging from creepy to disturbing, maybe this will help to take the edge off:
Email this to a friend | Print |
Share on Facebook
| Tweet this
| 
After a month of celebrity videos ranging from creepy to disturbing, maybe this will help to take the edge off:
Email this to a friend | Print |
Share on Facebook
| Tweet this
|
Follow Us on Twitter
Subscribe via RSS
Tips & Feedback
29 Comments
Thanks, John!
It’s nice to see all those images of film stars actually supporting the troops. I know many of them were out selling war bonds and such, but it also seemed that they knew their mission was to entertain the troops. Some of the current crop of entertainers do a bit of entertaining (of their sort), but there seems to be a lot more preaching involved–and on a much wider variety of topics.
This is a great counterpiece/antidote to the vapid, self-serving celebrity “I Pledge” video. Thanks John.
Gee, maybe Bush ought to have come up with a war bond program in order to fund the Iraq War without having to take out massive loans to pay for it. Thanks for reminding us that when faced with an existential threat during WWII, FDR implored people to sacrifice and give of themselves so the troops were PROPERLY armed. FDR never told anyone to “just keep shopping”.
Thanks John, I was just commenting yesterday on how I felt things were so much different during the WW2 era. Even Hollywood was different.
http://www.traeblain.com/why-i-love-world-war-ii/
It’s great to remember that at one time support was properly placed for our Troops.
FYI I don’t know why, but your videos aren’t showing up in my Firefox browser.
Bev, not a bad question. At the time the war broke out, I was really on the fence about the case Bush made regarding the WMD (it was too much of a circumstantial argument very half-heartedly made with very offensive invocations of 9/11 thrown in to boot), but I thought that they would have thought out the invasion enough to avoid the nearly decade long adventure it ended up becoming.
The lack of a real engagement effort between Bush and the country about the war, apart from the dodgy financial estimates of the war’s COST, made me wonder if the “threat” was really so dire that it justified the cost and loss of life.
I think the ultimate hubris of it all was that Bush OR his people predicated their war plans on the erroneous belief that the Iraqis would just roll over and play dead like they did in 1991. That seems to have been an underlying factor in why there weren’t enough troops, why the troops weren’t adequately protected with body armor, why there wasn’t anything resembling a counterinsurgency plan in place, and whatnot. There was WAY too much “winging it” going on, and the ultimate reason and/or objectives for the war changed so many times over the years, I doubt even the war’s staunchest supporters today can actually tell you what the ultimate goal of this is supposed to be.
Meanwhile, the ACTUAL culprits for 9/11 got away and managed to reconstruct many of their networks. Good thing we quintupled our debt over the last eight years, eh what.
However, if we’re going to be in a perma-war, then our finances better be set up to actually PAY for it.
I watched this and then thought of Susan Sarandon’s self-serving “what did they ever do to me” spot, and I get physically ill….Carole Lombard was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, married to the King, and did in a plane crash while selling bonds….they really don’t make them like they used to.
Lombard never won an Oscar, but was the better actress, too.
Carole Lombard was my mothers favorite actress. She admired her so much, she legally changed her name from Carol to Carole, in her honor. Thank you so much for the link, John. I really enjoyed it.
And to add to Bev’s comment – why bother with the expenditures of processing War Bonds, when less than 40% of the country would purchase them, or volunteer to sell them? Libs in and out of Hollywood would have laughed in Bush’ face if he brought it up, with the MSM cheering them on.
Last year I saw a documentary on t.v. about Hollywood’s first female superstar, Mary Pickford. Pickford, like a lot of her fellow stars (and even stage stars like Sarah Bernhardt), pitched war bonds during World War I at huge rallies. She told one audience that she might only be five feet tall but every inch of her was a fighting American. I can’t imagine any movie star today saying something like that.
John
On the Turner Classic Movie side of Free Movies on Demand, Time Warner. During the introduction for “The Fighting Seabees” Ben Mankiewicz, who I like as a host on TCM makes this statement.
“Now there’s a lot of nonsense talk today about Hollywood being an unpatriotic place. But a big part of this film’s job is its unabashed patriotic point of view.”
Hollywood being patriotic during the 1940’s has what to do with today?
Pam, so if proposing war bonds would be a dumb idea, just how EXACTLY are we paying for this war? If we object to deficit spending for domestic purposes, then why exactly is acceptable to finance a full-scale war with huge loans from China? Or is fiscal conservatism merely a situational thing?
Titov, you should know that I was picking World Trade Center out of my hair and coughing more up for days following the attack, so I may be biased. Explain why we were fighting Al Quaeda in Iraq if there is no nexis with Afghanistan. They came rushing in to fill the void when Saddam was deposed. Every think that might have been the plan? Take the fight to the enemy and keep them occupied in the region while at the same time taking down an psychotic despot in the bargain?
No one has questioned why we went after Germany when we were attacked by Japan? Hitler had been no direct threat to the US! Why is going into 2 countries in the same region such a big stretch for everyone?
My father was a lonely West Virginia boy, stationed at Mojave Air Base during WW2. To this day, he speaks fondly of Bing Crosby. Almost as if Bing was family.
Bing used to come out often to the NCO club. He’d sip a beer or two with the soldiers and sing along with the piano player. That meant the world to a those boys.
Reason #831 to love Cary Grant.
That was a treat…looking at those guys and dolls while listening to Dino croon was a nice way to end the day.
Thanks John.
Just more proof that I was born in the wrong era.
I really needed to see, and hear, the true patriots of that time.
Thanks for that.
I read Bob Hope’s autobiography ‘Don’t shoot, it’s only me’. He was an amazing man who made a difference to many lives and it seemed like Hollywood shrugged at his passing.
Hope did slightly more than going on ‘rotating fasts’ like Glover or Sarandon; but each according to their abilities.
And I didn’t think I could love Clark Gable any more than I already do!
It's stuff like this that makes me wish I'd been born 40-50 years earlier.
You must be logged in to post a comment.