Thanks for always providing a weekly summary. Work & volunteering kept me busy through my normal Friday evening catch-up. There is sooo much this week from the accounts I follow. I'll be reading all day tomorrow!
::Strangelove is based on Wernher von Braun, a Nazi rocket scientist who emigrated and worked on American military programs.::
I thought Kubrick had explicitly stated that Strangelove was based on Henry Kissinger, who even in the early 1960s was known as an extremely hawkish political advisor as director of the Harvard Defense Studies Program. (Kubrick had met Kissinger at some cocktail party or another, and was stunned at the casual way Kissinger talked about people dying in military actions.)
Kubrick neither knew nor cared that Kissinger was Jewish and had fought in the U.S. Army during WWII—if it walks like a Nazi and talks like a Nazi, then it must be a Nazi, right?
Thanks for always providing a weekly summary. Work & volunteering kept me busy through my normal Friday evening catch-up. There is sooo much this week from the accounts I follow. I'll be reading all day tomorrow!
I need to add: the fact that you read and respond to comments makes the subscription more valuable than other subscriptions I pay for.
While I don't always agree, I truly appreciate that you pay attention.
Engaging with the authors I find relevant/valuable makes this a much better experience than just reading.
oh that's good to hear! I don't respond to everything always but I try to at least let people know I'm reading...
::Strangelove is based on Wernher von Braun, a Nazi rocket scientist who emigrated and worked on American military programs.::
I thought Kubrick had explicitly stated that Strangelove was based on Henry Kissinger, who even in the early 1960s was known as an extremely hawkish political advisor as director of the Harvard Defense Studies Program. (Kubrick had met Kissinger at some cocktail party or another, and was stunned at the casual way Kissinger talked about people dying in military actions.)
Kubrick neither knew nor cared that Kissinger was Jewish and had fought in the U.S. Army during WWII—if it walks like a Nazi and talks like a Nazi, then it must be a Nazi, right?
nope. Kubrick said it was *not* Kissinger. Kissinger's political career hadn't really gotten off the ground in 1964...