** GIULIANI IN “SILICON VALLEY.” Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani had a fundraiser this afternoon in Burlingame, billed by supporters as a Silicon Valley event. (Actually, in point of fact, Burlingame is not in the Valley, it’s on the San Francisco Peninsula, north of the Valley.) He’ll also do some fundraising in Beverly Hills, following on the heels of birthday fundraising in New York (he turned 63 on Memorial Day), where he was dogged by 9/11 victim families and firefighters union officials, who, striking at the heart of his candidacy, assail him for his leadership on and immediately after 9/11. But that is another matter.
Giuliani attacked the former first lady, whose husband, former President Bill Clinton, was a great favorite of California’s high tech elite, for supporting increases in capital gains taxes and rolling back the Bush tax cuts for the very wealthiest.
Giuliani is just the first of three major presidential candidates to appear in Silicon Valley, or thereabouts, in just over 24 hours.
Democrat John Edwards is doing a town hall meeting at Google right now. Hillary Clinton herself will address the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, which provided a backdrop for one of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s events in favor of his comprehensive health care plan, last week. And Barack Obama will be arriving this weekend.
** VILLARAIGOSA IS A NATIONAL CHAIR OF HILLARY CLINTON’S CAMPAIGN. As revealed yesterday on NWN, LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa this afternoon endorsed Hillary Clinton at an event on the UCLA campus. Villaraigosa will serve as one of the national chairs of her presidential campaign.
** AL QAEDA’S AMERICAN PRISONERS STILL NOT LOCATED. A 19th day of searching by thousands of US troops south of Baghdad for the two remaining surviving American soldiers captured in an ambush by Al Qaeda has ended. The prisoners have still not been located.
** ARNOLD IN CANADA. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s tour continues. He visited a stem cell research lab in Toronto and announced that UC Berkeley’s Stem Cell Center and Canada’s International Regulome Consortium will coordinate research. He and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty then announced the creation of the Cancer Stem Cell Consortium, which will coordinate and fund cancer stem cell research of both Canada and California researchers, universities and private industry. The Ontario Institute of Cancer Research (OICR) will donate the first $30 million, that’s Canadian dollars, to fund the new consortium.
Then Schwarzenegger addressed the luncheon of the Toronto Economic Club, where he received the Newsmaker of the Year award. This afternoon, he meets with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Hunter in the national capital of Ottawa.
** REPUBLICAN SCUFFLING ON IMMIGRATION CONTINUES. The McCain campaign wonders if Mitt Romney, now a staunch foe of illegal immigration after previous ambiguous statements, will respond to President Bush’s characterization of criticism of the immigration bill as “empty political rhetoric, trying to frighten our citizens.” Probably not.
** INFORMAL BUSH-PUTIN SUMMIT SET FOR MAINE. With relations between America and Russia deeply strained as Russia reasserts its role as a great power and cracks down on dissent at home, President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet on July 1st and 2nd at the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine.
** CALIFORNIA AND ONTARIO ACCORD ON CLIMATE CHANGE. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, continuing his jaunt through Canada, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty for the American state and the Canadian province to develop ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change. As Ontario is Canada’s chief car-producing province, it may not be as amenable to California’s overall cap on greenhouse gas emissions. But the premier of the Canadian province has committed it to follow California’s new low carbon fuel standard, in which the carbon content of transportation fuels sold in the state is to be reduced 10% by 2020.
“We are going to work with Ontario to develop a similar low carbon fuel policy in their region,” says Schwarzenegger, “which is even more powerful because Ontario is known as the ‘Detroit of Canada,’ the hub of all the automobile manufacturing. So what we are doing here today would be like establishing a Low Carbon Fuel Standard in Michigan. Just imagine the progress we will make in our fight against global warming.”
** WHO KIDNAPPED THE BRITS IN BAGHDAD? A top aide to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr says their militia did not kidnap five Brits from the finance ministry, as many suspect. It would seem an odd move, since Sadr is back from Iran and his movement, which has begun cooperating with US forces, seems poised to play a significant role in a new Iraqi government that may be at least partially worked out in negotiations between the US and Iran. But that doesn’t mean they didn’t do it, for reasons yet unfathomable.
** A NEW/OLD TACK. With the lawsuit to overturn California Attorney General Jerry Brown’s ballot description having predictably failed, and with new polling indicating positive prospects for the initiative to change term limits next February, the backers of the current term limit law in the Golden State, headed by Washington-based US Term Limits, are turning to a golden oldie tactic. Attack the politicians. They intend to attack the state Legislature as corrupt and do-nothing. It’s not a popular institution, though it’s not as unpopular as it was, so it’s not an unsound thing to do. But with the relatively minor distinctions between the current version and the proposed version — 14 years allowable in both houses today (only six in the Assembly, eight in the Senate) vs. 12 years allowable in both houses in the new version, but all 12 could be served in the same house — voters may shrug at the fuss. That’s especially true if Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is very popular, weighs in on behalf of the change.
** AL QAEDA’S AMERICAN PRISONERS STILL NOT LOCATED. Thousands of American troops are now in the midst of an 18th day of searching for the remaining two US soldiers captured by Al Qaeda in an ambush south of Baghdad. They have had no luck so far. But the activity may be preventing Al Qaeda from having the time and space to film the captives in a propaganda bonanza.
** Track global and national energy prices in near real time via Bloomberg. Most crude oil prices have dropped to the $63 per barrel level.
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Jonas Blane:I don’t see why people care so much about changing term limits there. A few years difference here or there. So what?
May 30, 2007 - 9:27 am richard locicero:Personally I’m against term limits of any kind but if we have to have them, and I guess we must, then this is good news and I hope this passes.
May 30, 2007 - 9:30 am Paul Burton:Here’s an interesting view re: term limits from former SF Board of Supervisors president Matt Gonzalez, who was being interviewed about possibly running against SF mayor Gavin Newsom again.
from BeyondChron:
“Q: How have you enjoyed being in private life?
A: Well, it’s been very good to me. It’s made me think that instead of term limits, we ought to make elected officials leave public office for a while before they can seek successive terms. Maybe after two terms, make them spend one out.
May 30, 2007 - 9:33 am Ann:It’s good for reflection. Lets you see things with fresh eyes, and allows you to truly identify with the frustrations regular citizens have with governmental bureaucracies.”
Isn’t Gonzales a vagabond who can’t decide what to do with his life? He’s not going to run against Gavin Newsom.
May 30, 2007 - 9:36 am Bill Bradley:I wonder if term limits mean much one way or another.
Actually, I think they tend to make individual legislators less important.
I should write about that.
May 30, 2007 - 9:56 am Vladimir Bierko:Maine? Isn’t that were Fred Thompson hid the Red October? Wait, that was Chesapeake Bay near Maryland. Let’s hope no side trips are planned. I bet Putin is still pissed about that from his KGB days.
May 30, 2007 - 10:14 am Bill Bradley:I think it was Alec Baldwin who hid the Red October, along with Sean Connery. I think it was Maine.
May 30, 2007 - 10:16 am Vladimir Bierko:Well, Captain Ramius killed Politburo Officer Ivan Putin. Was that Vladimir’s brother?
May 30, 2007 - 10:19 am Bill Bradley:I was just about to say that the zampolit’s name was Putin.
He was not actually a politburo officer, since the politburo was the inner political steering group of the Kremlin, but a political officer.
In the Soviet armed forces, units all had political officers assigned to ensure the “reliability” of command and procedures.
May 30, 2007 - 10:25 am Ann:Bob Sallady at the silly La Times political blog let his mask slip with the snarkiest digs at Schwarzeneger yet.
May 30, 2007 - 10:37 am Paul Burton:Ann, I’ll break the Barbara rule and respond to your insipid comment re: Matt Gonzalez: you have no idea what you are writing about. Gonzalez is a successful public interest attorney and remains active as a member of the Green Party. Lots of people think he’d be a good candidate against Newsom; Gonzalez says Newsom should be challenged but that he prefers former Mayor Art Agnos for the job.
Obviously, he’s already decided what to do with his life and is doing it. The Democrat party establishment didn’t think he was a vagabond when they brought out the big guns like Al Gore to campaign for Newsom, who barely beat Gonzalez. His point re: politicians taking time off to get in touch with reality shows more wisdom than most current, former, or would-be officeholders have.
May 30, 2007 - 10:41 am Ann:Insipid, Paul? Insipid is what you say about a man who claims to lead a movement and drops out of politics because he lost his mayor’s race. Insipid is what you say about claiming that Art Agnos is his candidate. That’s like saying he has no candidate. lol
May 30, 2007 - 10:54 am Ann:Paul sounds like a Republican with “Democrat party.”
May 30, 2007 - 10:55 am Kandy Kid:Sorry Ann. After months of reading Paul’s posts, he does not register on my GOP-dar.
May 30, 2007 - 10:59 am Vladimir Bierko:Ann, Salladay was just channeling his inner-Heinlein from Starship Troopers. “For the everlasting glory of the Federation, shines the name, shines the name Rodger Young.”
Salladay’s going out heels clicking and on-the-bounce.
May 30, 2007 - 11:06 am jillian:they hid the sub in The Hunt for Red October” in the Penobscot River
May 30, 2007 - 11:16 am Jonathan Hemlock:It is hard to believe there are thousands of US troops still searching for the prisoners. I wonder if it’s true.
May 30, 2007 - 11:39 am Jonathan Hemlock:It is hard to believe there are thousands of US troops still searching for the prisoners. I wonder if it’s true.
May 30, 2007 - 11:42 am Brasky:What’s Perata going to do with his Golden Pig Award?
I got to think Arnold is going to ask a high price to endorse the term limit thing. No reason for him to stick his neck out otherwise.
May 30, 2007 - 11:52 am Bill Bradley:Jill, I thought they put Red October up there in Maine, but I couldn’t remember the name of the river and don’t have time to look it up.
May 30, 2007 - 12:12 pm Bill Bradley:I think Schwarzenegger’s price on term limits is pretty clear.
May 30, 2007 - 12:13 pm Capitol Boy:Salladay’s a one note reporter who doesn’t understand politics.
May 30, 2007 - 12:48 pm Brasky:“I think Schwarzenegger’s price on term limits is pretty clear.”
Redistricting? Does he still insist on Congressional?
He either bargins-out Congressional and insists for concessions on something else, or insists on keeping Congressional in and effectively kill the measure.
May 30, 2007 - 1:05 pm Sacramento Solon:Jillian,
Welcome back…where you been?
May 30, 2007 - 1:49 pm Jack Aubrey:Term limits is one of the issues I don’t give a damn about. It’s a stupid idea that didn’t solve anything and doesn’t hurt much, either.
May 30, 2007 - 2:47 pm Hap Hazard:Term limits was something I strongly supported back in the day, not because of Willie Brown, the target of Prop 140 whom I very much admire, but because of so many of the rest of the legislators, whose overinflated view of their own self worth, intelligence and related character traits was not remotely connected with the reality. Plus the overwhelming sense of privilege…
But after a few years, when the effects began to percolate throughout the Capitol and beyond, I decided that I had made a huge mistake of judgment. I never imagined that it would largely result in limiting the field to aggressive, ambitious operatives who have virtually no interest in developing policy expertise on any given topic of interest in the state, but are intent only on concentrating power, and jockeying for another job or position, either in the lobbying corps or in another elective office.
Seeing the few great public servant members arrive, and then have to watch as they are forced out prematurely by the artificial time limits serves to remind me of the stupidity of my thinking when I voted for term limits.
I am not sure this initiative would improve things much, if at all, nor am I convinced that it would hurt anything either.
What seems to have happened in the wake of term limits is the concentration of power in the leadership, particularly in the Assembly. To me it seems to have extended beyond that enjoyed by those in the Brown-Unruh-McCarthy-Roberti-Lockyer days. Nobody knows squat about anything, so the Speaker, the Pro Tem, and their staff have assumed full control of the entire policy apparatus — to hell with the committee chairs, individual members, and similarly insignificant pieces of furniture. The potential value added by those who may be up to the task, but are trapped in these lesser positions, is never tapped into. They are instead forced to defer to the better judgment of the leadership.
This is not a good thing, and we should have just left it up to the voters in the districts to decide on what they want — trust in the system for once.
May 30, 2007 - 3:32 pm Bill Bradley:Of course, Willie Brown is the main reason term limits passed in the first place. He was a natural target for the right, given his pigmentation and politics. Plus, he really pushed the whole power deal, with some choice, arrogant quotes.
May 30, 2007 - 3:52 pm Dana:Looks like the Republican race is about to get even more complicated with reports Fred Thompson is about to form an exploratory committee and start serious fundraising.
May 30, 2007 - 4:50 pm Juan Cortina:Hap - you are my new BFF.
May 30, 2007 - 4:55 pm richard locicero:The GOP is waiting for Fred and Newt to join the race. Then they will have a road company for “Twelve Angry Men”
May 30, 2007 - 4:59 pm richard locicero:I’m not sure who gets the Henry Fonda/Jack Lemmon part. I’m not sure, given the audience, that any of them want it!
May 30, 2007 - 5:01 pm Bill Bradley:I reported some time ago that Fred Thompson would declare this summer. There are too many candidates for me to keep reporting the impending declarations of the latest iteration of the obvious.
For example, Hillary is still not a formally declared candidate for president!
May 30, 2007 - 5:20 pm Bill Bradley:Henry Fonda is still the best.
In Harm’s Way, in which he is one of the stars, along with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas, ended up as the Memorial Day movie.
Even though he has only a small fraction of the screen time as the Admiral Nimitz figure — and Wayne and Douglas are good in their much bigger roles — he owns every second of the movie that he appears in.
May 30, 2007 - 5:24 pm Brasky:“The GOP is waiting for Fred and Newt to join the race. Then they will have a road company for ‘Twelve Angry Men’”
I ok, that get’s my first ever LOL.
Although, I think it should be the sequel, “Twelve Even Angrier Men.”
May 30, 2007 - 5:30 pm mitchell:In Harms Way is a classic for so many reasons. But what makes it so much more than a war movie is how realistic it portrays their personal lives. From John Waynes character who is divorced and hasnt seen his son much, to Kirk Douglas’portrayal of a rabble rousing but tough Naval guy, who rapes a nurse. Really powerful.
Bill, did you mean to say Bill Clinton lowered capital gains taxes? Because thats what he did, I believe. He did raise the income tax of the wealthiest 1.2%
May 30, 2007 - 5:34 pm RM 'Auros' Harman:Very well said, Hap.
they tend to make individual legislators less important.
For better or worse — they toss out people who would eventually build up the base of knowledge and influence to make big changes, as well as the lazy know-nothings.
If the citizenry is paying attention, we already have a natural system of term-limits. They’re called “elections”.
May 30, 2007 - 5:38 pm Bill Bradley:Harm’s Way, the novel (by an LA Times editor!), the original title, has elements of greatness amidst all the soap. It manages to glorify the Navy while showing it warts and all.
Kirk Douglas is great in it, such a charming bastard. I actually became a fan of Michael Douglas watching his dad in this.
And John Wayne is very good, as he is in his other great Navy movie, which is even better, They Were Expendable, where he doesn’t even play “John Wayne.”
May 30, 2007 - 5:45 pm Bill Bradley:Mitch, re the Clinton tax stuff. What I was saying is that Rudy attacked Hillary for backing some increase in cap gains and marginal rates for the very highest income.
May 30, 2007 - 5:47 pm Bill Bradley:RM, what you and Hap are saying is what I was trying to get at in my diplomatic way.
I was at a reception for new legislators a few months ago, where the organizers neglected to provide name tags.
So of course I had no idea who these folks were. As some were introduced, I recognized names, but still, it was obvious that more them knew who I was than I knew who they were.
It’s all about leadership figures. It’s Arnold and the top leaders. That’s why I can release and leave the ins and outs of hearings on redistriciting plans to the Sac Bee and so forth.
Nothing will be decided there.
May 30, 2007 - 5:51 pm Anonymous:Hap/RM…
While I never liked term limits, I couldn’t agree with you more.
Mr. Bradley…
Totally agreement, In Harms Way is a wonderful movie.
As is Back To Bataan. The story of which is truly told in a recent book by Hampton Sides, “Ghost Soldiers”
May 30, 2007 - 6:11 pm Sacramento Solon:Folks,
Sorry. I’m Mr. Anonymous.
May 30, 2007 - 6:26 pm Bill Bradley:I’m so glad you clarified that. We were about to have to send Romulan agents after you.
May 30, 2007 - 6:29 pm mitchell:Best World War 2 movies, in order of greatness;
The Great Escape
May 30, 2007 - 6:30 pm Bill Bradley:Stallag 17
Guns of Navarone
Where Eagles Dare
In Harms Way
The Longest day
Check out They Were Expendable.
http://www.amazon.com/They-Were-Expendable-Philip-Ahn/dp/B000F0UUJG/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-3030579-6924028?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1180575281&sr=1-1
In my opinion, it’s in a class by itself.
It’s about victory in defeat, the tale of the PT boats in the Philippines after Pearl Harbor. Starring Robert Montgomery, a real life Navy combat hero of World War II now best known as father of the star of Bewitched, the young John Wayne who forgets to be “John Wayne,” and Donna Reed.
Directed by another WWII vet. Name of John Ford.
I wrote a treatment for another movie, called East of Java, which the star decided not to do. About the little known sacrifice of the US Asiatic Fleet as, essentially, a speed bump to buy time for the US after Pearl Harbor.
May 30, 2007 - 6:33 pm CADTS:re:best ww2 movies
should we not have the Sly Stallone movie with Pele…c’mon,that was good stuff.
May 30, 2007 - 6:36 pm CADTS:And you left out
“Fighting Leathernecks” with John Wayne
“Kelly’s Heroes” with Clint Eastwood
“Battle of the Bulge” starring Henry Fonda (THAT was a great WW2 movie)
May 30, 2007 - 6:39 pm Bill Bradley:Well, if we’re going into all this stuff, don’t forget The Dirty Dozen.
And … attention Mssrs. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld, A Bridge Too Far.
And let’s not forget Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers.
May 30, 2007 - 6:45 pm Ann:Enough of war. What about happiness?
May 30, 2007 - 7:02 pm CADTS:Oh man…I TOTALLY missed the Dirty Dozen…Lee Marvin at his best with Charles Bronson, Jim Brown — what a great film. But I have to say, Band of Brothers was tops on my list. I have watched that series several times and always seem to find something in it that I haven’t seen…whether its a character or something in the cinematography….just amazing.
Didn’t the author, Steven Ambrose, pass on last year? Ambrose was a professor at University of New Orleans, was also a pretty cool speaker whom I got to listen to one time in DC. He would tell these stories (in both his books and in person) that were so vivid you felt strangely a part of it. You could almost sense what it was like for a 18 or 19 year old kid in combat in WWII.
A Bridge Too Far…was Sean Connery in that…or am I confusing him with the role he had in another WW2 movie?
May 30, 2007 - 7:03 pm CADTS:Happiness is:
1.) George and Dick are gone in 16 months…
2.) The Boston Red Sox have the best record in baseball…
3.)The Republicans are stumbling and bumbling around like drunken idiots at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington DC….
4.)Seeing that the New York Yankees (and their payroll which is nearly double the GNP of Niger) are TIED for LAST PLACE with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays — the Phil Angelides of Major League Baseball….
5.)Knowing that Matt Gonzalez will NEVER be Mayor of San Francisco — not in this or any century. He may seem like a leader but, I caution you that spouting off idealistic liberal themes in front of unrealistic so-called progressive dittoheads does not a Mayor make. (Oh and Paul, Gonzalez did not BARELY lose to Newsom. In very real terms, he got his ass kicked and any sane political person, except for Matt and Chris Daly, knows that.)
May 30, 2007 - 7:14 pm CADTS:Apparently, Wikipedia says Ambrose passed on in 2002…jeez.
May 30, 2007 - 7:19 pm Bill Bradley:Yes, Band of Brothers author Stephen Ambrose passed on recently.
Sean Connery was General Urquhart in A Bridge Too Far, a Richard Attenborough film which also starred Robert Redford, Dirk Bogarde, and Gene Hackman as the leader of the heroic but ill-fated Polish paratroopers.
PS: And Lee Marvin and The Dirty Dozen. Once upon a time, actual war heroes like Lee Marvin actually played war heroes in war movies!
May 30, 2007 - 7:19 pm Ann:La Times political blog looks dead. It was snarky trivia and PC bullshit from the beginning. Good riddance.
May 30, 2007 - 7:32 pm Bill Bradley:The truth is that the LA Times blog did not represent an individual agenda, it represented an institutional agenda.
All the California political journalists I know with the Times have a similar point of view. They all believed that Phil Angelides had an excellent chance of winning last year, notwithstanding the reality of the situation, and similarly thought that Arnold Schwarzenegger was at least a closet right-winger.
We’ll see if that attiude survives the many things which suggest it should decidedly not.
May 30, 2007 - 7:41 pm Capitol Boy:The Angelides campaign was a very unhealthy project.
May 30, 2007 - 8:05 pm Barbara:I am going to recommend a book…a very clever book…it is “OIL ON THE BRAIN” by Lisa Margonelli. I bought it for “airplane reading” but started reading it today and forced myself to stop …very very clever book ! Toodles!
May 30, 2007 - 9:12 pm sergei:I hope that US keep on fighting the terrorists.
May 31, 2007 - 3:59 am Jonas Blane:It will.
May 31, 2007 - 4:42 am Brasky:“the Tampa Bay Devil Rays — the Phil Angelides of Major League Baseball….”
Ok, I almost spit coffee on myself with that one. Hi-lar-i-ous.
May 31, 2007 - 2:10 pm Bill Bradley:I don’t follow baseball enough to get that reference.
May 31, 2007 - 5:18 pm richard locicero:Sean Connery got himself promoted in “A Bridge too Far.” In the other film based on a cornelius Ryan book, “The Longest Day” hwas just a regular Tommy.
Jim Basset, Author of “Harm’s Way” was Bowdoin ‘34 and very active in the local Bowdoin Club. We used to go to his house for barbeques (my father was a senior when Basset was a Frosh). After the book came out I asked himk how much of it was based on his experiences as a reporter in the SW Pacific during the Big One and he swore he made most of it up.
I always like the film a lot myself even though most critics have panned it.
There’s a great story about “They were Expendable” which involved Ford, Montgomery, and the Duke. Wayne did not serve in WWII which rankled Ford no end and he rode the Duke about the shooting. Whenever Wayne had to salute Ford would tell him he was doing it all wrong. “Watch Bob (Montgomery), he’ll show you how to do it!”
Montgomery had served and was a highly decorated PT Boat skipper in the Solomons campaign. I think he was in the same unit as JFK.
May 31, 2007 - 6:25 pm Brasky:Anyone remember 36 Hours with James Garner?
May 31, 2007 - 9:05 pm Bill Bradley:No, what’s that?
Jun 1, 2007 - 8:07 am Bill Bradley:Richard, I’d never claim In Harm’s Way as a great film, it’s awfully soapy in spots, but it has stood the test of time. Wayne looks awful in it, by the way. It’s hard to imagine one of today’s biggest stars allowing himself to be photographed like that.
Re They Were Expendable. It’s funny that Ford liked to tweak Wayne so much, since they worked together so often.
But that film was made in 1945, while the war was still on. It’s a fascinating time capsule. We knew we were going to win, but hadn’t won yet, and it celebrates the early sacrifice necessary for future victory.
Montgomery is great in it. In addition to his PT boat heroics in the Pacific, he commanded a destroyer at D-Day.
Jun 1, 2007 - 8:11 am Brasky:Bill — 36 Hours is about an American military officer (James Garner) who is involved in the planning of the D-Day invasion. He’s captured by the Germans, who convince him that it’s several years after the war and he’s just awoken from a long coma. They tell him the war is over and the Germans lost. All the Germans of course speak perfect “American” English (a la Battle of the Bulge). They then try to get the D-Day invasion plans. Haven’t seen it in years, but it was great.
Jun 1, 2007 - 9:10 am Brasky:Hey, where are all the Democrats — no one mentioned PT 109!
Let’s not forget the greatest WWII movie — The Incredible Mr. Limpet.
Jun 1, 2007 - 9:12 am Bill Bradley:36 Hours sounds like a good one to check out. I can add it to the stack of dvds.
PT 109 was not a very good movie. Remember that Warren Beatty, who was JFK’s pick to play himself, turned it down, telling the White House it wasn’t a good script.
Jun 1, 2007 - 10:14 am Brasky:No, 109 wasn’t well done. I just can’t imagine that some dem didn’t mention it anyway.
No comment on Mr. Limpet?
Jun 1, 2007 - 10:59 am Brasky:Oh, I would be remiss not to mention:
Jun 1, 2007 - 11:05 am Brasky:The Big Red 1
Go for Broke!
Mister Roberts
And:
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Sergeant York
York took place in WWI, but released in 1941 — great propaganda film transitioning America from isolationism to WWII.
Jun 1, 2007 - 12:22 pm Bill Bradley:Incidentally, NWN passed 31,000 comments sometime last week.
Jun 5, 2007 - 2:07 pm