Whether it’s the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, deadly news out of Pakistan and Myanmar or Friday’s stock market tumble, moviegoers seem disinterested in more bad news at theaters with films about child-kidnapping, torture, widowhood and heroin addiction.
(h/t Hot Air)
Bernie Sanders’s My Space page. HoDe and Willie Nelson are among his friends.
Max McGee falls down sober, dies.
Max McGee, the free-spirited Green Bay Packers receiver who became part of Super Bowl lore after a night on the town, died when he fell while clearing leaves from the roof of his home. He was 75.
Police were called to his home in suburban Deephaven on Saturday afternoon, Sgt. Chris Whiteside said. Efforts to resuscitate failed.
“I just lost my best friend,” former teammate Paul Hornung told the St. Paul Pioneer Press. “(His wife) Denise was away from the house. She’d warned him not to get up there. He shouldn’t have been up there. He knew better than that.”
McGee caught the first touchdown pass in Super Bowl history in 1967, a game he expected to watch from the sideline. When it was over, he had caught seven passes for 138 yards and two TDs and Green Bayâ€â€coached by the great Vince Lombardiâ€â€had beaten the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10.
Frank Rich: Suicide Is Not Painless
Well, at least the Times are speaking to something they know. Of course, such a thing could never have happened [Vince Foster] under an administration as clean as the Clintons’ [Vince Foster].
I’m just going to pretend this never happened, as far as Reese goes. She gets ONE of these.
*gets*
Meryl Streep is dead to me though. That Manchurian thing I think it was.
Damn. Max McGee and Jim Irwin were radio icons in Wisconsin.
I hope Witherspoon’s agent gets an orange jumpsuit and a Mecca-oriented arrow on the floor for standing by while she signed on for this bit of agit-prop.
This is about the worst case of looking under the lamppost because the light is better as I’ve ever seen. Being ambushed by hf’s namesake was the very last straw for me. Luckily, the propaganda was above my three-year old’s head. But after that I refuse to see a movie until someone I know and trust has vetted it. If I want to be insulted and told everything that’s wrong in the world is my fault I’ll read Kos for free; I’m not going to blow northward of 20 bucks for the privilege.
There’s a war on yet when Hollywood makes a movie about heroism, it is about the Coast Guard. Not to demean the courage or commitment of those in the Coast Guard but what about the Marines and infantry? When it makes a movie about the WOT we get Rendition and Redacted. I can’t wait to not see the inevitable blockbuster about Joe and Valerie.
yeah, Mike C. my therapist keeps asking if I’m going to see some of the recent “military” films. and I tell her “no, I don’t need to spend money to find someone slamming what my husband does” I think she’s mainly just interested in hearing a different (informed) opinion, but I’m dealing with enough depression as it is.
In the Frank Rich story, before they correct it, the bottom paragraph has a fitting typo.
Either way, the angry four-page letter the officer left behind for General Petraeus and his other commander, Gen. Joseph Fil, is as much an epitaph for America’s engagement in Iraq as a suicide note.
“I cannot support a msn that leads to corruption, human rights abuse and liars,†Colonel Westhusing wrote, abbreviating the word mission. “I am sullied.â€Â
Me either, man. That Oblerman is a dick.
“abbreviating the word mission”
dammit, still my way works better.
If movie-goers are disinterested in “more bad news,” why was a vampire movie #1 at the box office?
Maybe people simply don’t want to be preached to, especially at this time of the year. Save your “thoughtful” (read: liberal pet causes) movies for the holidays and you might see some results.
In fairness, Mike, the Coast Guard doesn’t get a whole lot of love, even from the other branches. so I was actually kind of glad to see them get their own movie treatment. But I see your point.
you attacked by vampires often, TNSP?
Ted, I’m not by any means saying that the Coast Guard doesn’t deserve more respect or even a movie celebrating the heroism of its members, which far exceeds that of my own chickenhawk self. It’s just revealing that, considering the circumstances, it was chosen to the exclusion of all the other branches for this treatment.
Jefferson Davis tells me the North was lousy with profiteers, and that, given the profiteering, they lost any moral authority they might have had. Theoretically speaking. Because the Yankees were wrong all along.
Mike, believe me, I totally understand. I’d love to see more films oriented towards the other branches–and history shows when this happens, it’s almost a guaranteed blockbuster going back at least to the Top Gun days.
Christ, one of the biggest movies of the summer was Transformers, which was practically a recruiting ad for the Air Force and Army. And people loved it, because we are a visceral culture and we like seeing our military kick ass in addition to the nostalgia of the big robots.
Since I’m not going to bother to see “Rendition,” I’ll go ahead and guess that the film probably doesn’t touch on the roots of the policy.
Does Witherspoon do her own singing in Rendition?
Given the sales performance, I suggest that the film be retitled “Remaindered”. That will save a lot of time when it comes out on DVD.
Under his administration the city made major strides forward in affordable housing, progressive taxation, environmental protection, childcare, women’s needs………
“Mayor Sanders, don’t forget, you’ve got a teleconference with the folks at Tampax this morning at 10.”