'Tis such a silly place"
Posted on 01/30/2025 5:02:26 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
As Stanley Kubrick's satirical masterpiece Dr Strangelove turns 60, an ongoing mystery endures: who was the real-life inspiration for his demonic central character?
In 1999, a reporter from Scientific American asked the 91-year-old physicist Edward Teller whether it was true that he had been the real-life template for Dr Strangelove, the chilling scientific adviser played by Peter Sellers in Stanley Kubrick's movie Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Rumours had been circulating ever since the movie's release on 29 January 1964
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Well, I was a Bruins fan, and they sure put the fork in them for years! For me, 1979 was the worst.
When the Bruins finally beat them in the playoffs in 1988, me and a bunch of my friends went in to meet them at Logan Airport when they came in at like 2 AM or something like that, there was a large, joyful crowd there to meet them!
But oh, did I suffer. I had to be at work at 0600, as I had patients to work with!
I got that distinct impression from the old Air Force guy I spoke to!!!
Hahahahahahahah!
“Shut your noise, You! And put that suit on!” (slap)
“But Father...”
“You’re not going into a song while I’m here!”
And of course: “Let’s not bicker about who killed whom!”
Yeah. Once people get set on having a good mad, nothing will dissuade them.
LOL, happens to me all the time here!
“ Let’s not bicker about who killed whom!”
So funny.
The kids around here watch interviews on criterion and so forth. Eric idle talks about the grail. It’s interesting. He was good friends with George Harrison (as was every nice gentleman in the arts world)
Clockwork Orange was the worst stinker he ever made.
But I liked Strangelove.
I never became enthralled with the Dr. S movie.
I absolutely love threads like this. Nothing critical, some laughs, and sometimes interesting trivia. The world continues to turn on its axis while we inhabit “this silly place”!
I got my wife to watch “A Clockwork Orange” with me, and to this day, she won’t forgive me for it.
When she watches “Singin’ In The Rain”, she hears:
“I’m Siiiiinging in the rain...just siiiiinging in the rain...” (kick) UUUMPH!!! Just siiiiinging in the rain...” (kick) UUUMPH!!!
Me too, of course. But she liked “Singing In The Rain” more than I ever did! So I feel bad about that.
I feel differently than you do...I find it to be a very powerful movie. But as I said before upthread...people have very different tastes in movies!
I have a collection of classics (including Dr. Strangelove). The Wild Bunch. The Hustler. In The Heat of the Night. Etc.
As an aside, I also have a DVD of "Touch of Evil" with Orson Wells, Marlena Dietrich, and an English speaking (no accent) mexican named Charlton Heston. I can't see the appeal of that movie. It's just not very good.
LOL
they could never make Blazing Saddles today
It’s the same B17 used in a bond flick.Dr no?
The Bird ended up being owned by evergreen and later sold to Collins foundation IIRC
When I was at IBM Research in the late 1980’s, I briefly talked to Richard Garwin, a physicist and IBM Fellow, whose office was down the hall from mine. He had been tasked by Teller to do the engineering design of the first thermonuclear “device” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Mike).
But Garwin wasn’t anything like Dr. Strangelove either. In fact later on he did some quite peaceful physics that led to MRI machines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garwin).
Very true.
And his puppetmaster who was pulling his strings.
Yeah, ya can’t let Waters ruin Floyd for ya. Well, he literally ruined Floyd because his ego got so damned big. It’s impossible to overstate what an insufferable ass Waters is, but I’ll give him this: He’s hardcore leftist, but he’s his own thinker, not PC.
Sometime around the completion of Wish You Were Here (their 10th album, but their 2nd album since going monster big in the US), Waters went nutsy. Animals was terrible Waters crap. He explored his own inner demons in The Wall, and it was brilliant, but instead of shedding light on them to expunge them, he went the opposite direction and embraced them. Pink Floyd broke up during The Final Cut, so it’s almost just a Waters solo album and it’s horrible.
Critics hated the next two albums, created when the other members of PF reunited, because what they really loved about Pink Floyd was Waters’ hatred, but I’d argue that they’re more of a return to form. They get attacked for both being not enough like old Pink Floyd, and at the same time for being too much like them (”Pink Fraud”).
I think Gilmour and Wright inspired Waters to write about great things, and when they did, Waters was a brilliant lyricist. Gilmour isn’t the songwriter Waters was when he’s on his own. So the later albums (A Momentary Lapse of Reason, The Division Bell) aren’t quite as good as Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall or Wish You Were Here, but they are infinitely better than The Final Cut and even far better than Animals.
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