Honoring September 11th: Memories of the WTC — King Kong, Carol Channing, and Ground Zero

I never liked the Twin Towers.  As a boy, I watched them go up - slowly, for years – from the terrace outside my parents’ bedroom.  My dad, who was an architect, griped about them: they were too big, they lacked style, they were monstrous.  They sat vacant for years, a folly of the Port Authority.

And they ruined the skyline.

We all loved the Empire State Building, for decades the tallest building in Manhattan, even the world.  The Empire State Building inspired loyalty.  It was a marvel of engineering and design.  It was a class act.  And King Kong had died for love on it.

Of course, we went to see what the WTC was all about.  The lobby was tacky, grandiose yet bland, like an airport or a ballroom in a chain hotel.  The elevators were fast – a cheap thrill, like a ride at Disneyland – but when you debarked, the mundane, office hallways were an anticlimax. Nothing special. (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, academy award, Bush bashing, Carol Channing, Disneyland
Posted Sep 11th 2009 at 10:27 am in Classic Hollywood, Culture, Featured Story, Politics | 21984234 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cwinecoff/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-memories-of-the-wtc-king-kong-carol-channing-and-ground-zero/Honoring+September+11th%3A+Memories+of+the+WTC+--+King+Kong%2C+Carol+Channing%2C+and+Ground+Zero2009-09-11+17%3A27%3A37Charles+Winecoff

The Real Battle of Algiers, Part II

This is the second of a two-part commentary. You can read Part One here.

We continue exploring Alistair Horne’s, Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962. All the time, bearing in mind that the movie, The Battle of Algiers, conveniently eliminates vital facts regarding the sickening methods codified by the Algerian terrorists. For the truth would negate the film’s foundational purpose: to spread Jihadist propaganda under the guise of the always safe and fashionable anti-colonialism.

Who were these leaders of the Battle of Algiers, these men who were so willing, so anxious to spill oceans of innocent blood? This is not an academic question, for as we shall see, the cast of characters bears little relationship to the romantic images presented by Gillo Pontecorvo in The Battle of Algiers. (more…)

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Tags: Battle of Algeria, Islamic Terror, Islamists, Israel, movies
Posted Jan 20th 2009 at 7:10 am in Entertainment, News | 2028538 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ravrech/2009/01/20/the-real-battle-of-algiers-part-ii/The+Real+Battle+of+Algiers%2C+Part+II2009-01-20+15%3A10%3A23Robert+J.+Avrech