Isn't that a line from "The African Queen"? LOL!
and YES! I agree with you! hahaha
Posted on 09/13/2014 8:10:16 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Let’s start with the end. When it’s over — when you make it through the marathon that is Ken Burns’s beautiful, seven-part documentary “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History,” which begins Sunday night on PBS — you may find yourself with a lingering, nebulous grief. You’re sorry it’s over. You’re sorry they’re over. You’re sorry a certain expression of American ideals is, or often appears to be, completely over.
My study habits haven’t improved since college; like an idiot, I put off watching all 14 hours of “The Roosevelts” until I absolutely had to watch them on a deadline binge this week. Yes, the entire series sat on my desk for most of the summer, while there was still plenty of time to savor it. When I emerged from my office for a break, midway through the amplified noise of World War I, a co-worker reminded me (spoiler alert) that all of the major players eventually die, so why bother watching the whole thing? Why not skip ahead or skim through most of it?
Because I was absorbed. Within the first hour, “The Roosevelts” will probably have you hooked in a way that Burns and his collaborators haven’t quite achieved since 2007’s “The War.” Unlike the intimidating climb offered by “National Parks” or “Prohibition,” you easily glide through “The Roosevelts’ ” sublimely constructed narrative arc. The series is among Burns’s best works.
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I’ll be sorry to see Craig Ferguson go. The Roosevelts, not so much.
I would like to go back and be a partner in J.P. Morgan & Co., the real power back then.
Oh, I agree. And I should have added in my original post how lucky the West was that Churchill was in power at just the right moment in history.
FDR and Churchill did not make the perfect team. But an isolationist president in 1940 would have been disastrous.
I’m sure the be-banged Ken Burns was not allowed by his mommy to watch the mean, nasty 3 Stooges. I can’t bear that sanctimonious, psalm-singin’ old maid!
Never liked them. Never will. Destroyed the constitution
I love TR, but not for the things he did in the White House. His days in the army and his explorations of the Amazon Basin after his presidency are truly inspiring. Read The River of Doubt, a great read about the man and his trip.
Indeed, it is!
Ken Burns is another closeted, married gay who trots around a Reggie Love-style guy from interview to interview.
Eyew.
Here I thought he was a Stooges fan! Modeled his hairstyle after Moe, after all! LOL!
We visited FDR’s Library in Hyde Park. I was amazed to see how pretty Eleanor was as a young woman. Previously, I only remembered her photos as an elderly woman. Modern orthodontia would have done wonders for her.
The other thing we learned was how incapacitated our military was at the beginning of WWII. We had no combat vehicles and few planes. It was a miracle that we won. It brings the words “Grace of God” to mind.
I think this series will be worth some time, just for the historical context.
Hah! You’re breaking me up. Maybe you’re right and I’m wrong! That theme song was snuck in there as a homage to his idols.
He also once compared Robert E. Lee to Tojo which completely turned me off to his boring movies. The only thing he does right is to get access to archive photos.
Me too, but I don’t think it will ever be gone completely. It’s based on something for nothing, a real crowd pleaser with the dems most core constituency, the hand-out population.
If FDR had not run in 1940, who do you think would have been the Democratic candidate?
I know that he wouldn’t have won in 1940 if people had voted like Protestants did.
Why are you asking me the bizarre questions that you are?
I give up, who would have run as the democrat nominee in 1940 if FDR had not, and how many of the people who voted for Roosevelt in 1944 would have voted for him if they had realized that he would be dead within three months after starting his fourth term, and why do you care?
It was no miracle we won. We had the man power, over 12 Million in uniform at the war’s end. We also had the industrial capacity and technology that we put to work to win.
A lot of things came together in a short period of time for us to win, hard work, innovation and a determination from a united country to do it. Today it probably would not happen.
Rumor was that old Joe Kennedy wanted it as well (but he and Farley were both Catholics and unlikely to be elected; James Byrnes had been a Catholic and become an Episcopalian, which probably disqualified him as well).
It's impossible to say what would have happened if FDR hadn't decided to run again. He really held the party together North and South. There would have been real inter-party strife if FDR wasn't in the picture.
He compared R.E.L. to Tojo? Yikes!
Lee had de Mojo!
He was nothing like Tojo!
Tojo got in late from the dojo,
Ended up sleeping at a Hojo.
Stalin was only in it fo’ Joe.
I’m meandering! LOL!
You’re happy today, LOL!
LOL...I meticulously prepared one of my students for an audition, and i found out this morning that she got the role!
I am very happy about that!
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