Free Republic University, Department of History presents
World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment:
New York Times articles and the occasional radio broadcast delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view
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general discussion thread.Of all the news here, the most significant in the long run is the shortest: the two-sentence notice about Rita Hayworth being chosen to star "in a straight dramatic role in Columbia's 'Gilda'."
All the other movies are either forgotten--I agree with the reviewer, Rhapsody In Blue does Gershwin no justice, if Alan Alda knew how to act he never shows it here--or period pieces, like Cagney's Blood on the Sun, which was obviously rushed in production and looks it, perhaps in fear that the war would be over before the movie could be released.
And at the "Soviet" concert, they say it's "early Soviet," but Gayane was first performed in 1942--except that it's really Armenian, and based primarily on Armenian folk music and dances, only "Soviet" in the 1945 political sense. I suspect they did not play the Adagio from the third act, which was the background for the opening sequence of the Jupiter voyage in 2001.