David Andrews

Why, exactly, did you not like Parasite? Why, exactly, did you not like Us?

From the A&E site, on Larry Silverstein: However, according to Fox News journalist Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, a 9/11 eyewitness and ardent defender of the official 9/11 story, Larry Silverstein had controlled demolition on his mind on September 11, 2001, and it was no secret to the NYPD and others on the ground that day. In an article entitled ‘Shame On Jesse Ventura!’ Shapiro wrote: Shortly before the building collapsed, several NYPD officers and Con-Edison workers told me that Larry Silverstein, the property developer of One World Financial Center was on the phone with his insurance carrier to see if they would authorize the controlled demolition of the building – since its foundation was already unstable and expected to fall. Apparently unaware that it takes months of planning and setup to demolish a skyscraper, Shapiro added, “A controlled demolition would have minimized the damage caused by the building’s imminent collapse and potentially save lives.” https://www.ae911truth.org/evidence/faqs/361-faq-11-did-wtc-7-owner-larry-silverstein-admit-to-ordering-the-controlled-demolition-of-the-building

I just sent a message to Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. We'll see the nature of the response. I would be interested to hear the opinion of architects and engineers of the existence of a FEMA-backed "Godzilla Plan" that mandated the installation and maintenance of controlled demolition wiring and explosives in buildings subject to terror attack, or liable to damage other property in case of partial destruction by natural disaster. Web pages such as the one linked to below describe these as top secret demolition plans which building owners must submit in order to receive favorable insurance rates. I am asking because of the existence of this theory on the Web, which is not through my personal fabulating. Is there evidence for the "Godzilla Plan"? Is there documentation of this in architectural or insurance documents? What is the knowledge and experience of your architects and engineers? Thank you: http://wtcdemolition.com/blog/node/1139

I know, but if we're talking natural disaster, one would think fire codes would be involved, and alphabet soup-agencies (OSHA, e. g.) overseeing workplace safety and urban management. Not that these agencies can't be circumvented, as OSHA frequently is. I have found from experience that government regulatory agencies are like the Better Business Bureau - they're there to effect a compromise, not put anybody out of business. But, through civilians in the insurance industry, doomsday device planning would have leaked, especially after near misses such as the first WTC bombing. Don’t forget that under this scenario we’re talking about buildings all over the world, not just WTC. It would seem the place to start on this would be to nail down what material is in insurance company contracts, architectural studies for buildings, code inspections, etc. It's difficult to believe that secret wiring configurations would be accepted as a premium slasher without some written record and schedule of inspection and upkeep. If a rat chews through a wire in the basement, does the system fail? Does it all go Ka-boom without a cover story in place? I have to look at what Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth has to say about this. NB that I did watch a Richard A. Grove interview with Buzzsaw linked to at the Gibson Island site. I had read Grove before, but never seen him, and he comes off just a bit too good to be true. I have to do more research in all these directions. So, it's good that you bring this up. The WTC insurance documents hacked by Dark Overlord contain a plethora of information, but I haven't been able to access any that have to do with construction and security of the twin towers. Still, they may be within, especially with the sweetheart contract handed Silverstein. A more detailed Godzilla Plan account. Is it true? http://wtcdemolition.com/blog/node/1139

Jim DiEugenio can rest now - stakes have been pounded in the hearts of Scorsese and Tarantino.

The empire strikes back: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/08/trump-tan-line-picture-forehead-hair

With malice toward none, I'd be seriously interested in any further information on pre-rigging of stable buildings for demolition in case of catastrophe as an insurance premium reduction standard practice.

Since 1987, construction of WTC 7? Or since 1995, year of Kobe earthquake? Wired up in New York, rat infestation capital of the western world? Prior to the invention of nanothermite by government contractors?

I haven't watched a debate since the days of Walter Mondale, when I was yet young. I ought to, but I rely on the press consensus and the round-up of incriminatory soundbites. I should have taken the trouble to watch Trump orate against Hillary; but later, on election night, after voting for neither, I went to bed thinking the inevitable wasn't possible. Still, I mean, Jesus Christ, Walter Mondale!

Who knew Godzilla Vs. Mothra was a political film?

Obama gave it to Joan Didion, which was a good call.

Wayne taking the small-c conservative view of strategy.

What about the allotment of GD's TFX manufacturing plants to states that would pull for JFK in the 1964 election, mentioned as a black mark against Kennedy among his enemies in Stone's JFK and preceding published research? The article's great - does it need a brother?

Mencken wrote it in July, 1920, and may have been contemplating Warren G. Harding's candidacy that year.

I'm sorry for your troubles, Joseph. I'm constantly seeing past situations with family and friends in films, more so as I get older and rack them up. I haven't been able to bring myself to watch Marriage Story, for instance. I suspect Hawks knew the drinking life as well as anybody. I don't suspect him of being compassionate about anything, however. I've seen his video interviews, and he strikes me as a businessman who stayed at the top by putting nuts on bolts in a way that simulated meaning. Then again, I've seen and read John Ford interviews, and I have no idea how such a man produced My Darling Clementine and the darker parts of The Searchers.

You're probably right, thanks. Being that Oswald was dead at the time, and couldn't present one of his multiple IDs. That's also probably why it's a handwritten check and not a printed payroll check. Still -- it carries the three names of shame.

Again, that strange glance of Oswald's toward Ruby, as he's moving toward Oswald, though Oswald looks away before Ruby fully jumps out of the crowd.

I watched El Dorado last night. I had thought Only Angels Have Wings was the closest Hawks came to injecting screwball comedy into an action film, but I was wrong. I still think Rio Bravo is the more historically significant picture because it responds to High Noon, and Martin playing the drunk for pathos is the more important performance. If you could slam the two Leigh Brackett scripts together, with a triad of Wayne-Martin-Mitchum, something earthshaking might have occurred.

Kirk Douglas deceased today at age 103. Yet Douglas was also shrewd enough to avoid the pitfalls of typecasting. In 1956 he attracted rave reviews for his impersonation of anguished Vincent Van Gogh in Vicente Minnelli’s Lust For Life. John Wayne, for his part, was horrified. “Christ, Kirk, how can you play a part like that?” he reportedly demanded. "We got to play strong, tough characters, not these weak queers.” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/06/kirk-douglas-hollywood-legend-and-star-of-spartacus-dies-aged-103 Is Spartacus a political film? Or is the whole slave revolt thing "window dressing" for an action extravaganza that gives the common man an illusion that freedom is possible? I wonder how Dalton Trumbo felt about that.

BTW, there are color pictures online that purport to show De Mohrenschildt dead, and these have ended up on JFKA sites. I will not link to them because the trouble is, the dead man (whose face is not shown) is much slimmer than G De M, has curly hair, and appears to have shot himself in the chest, since his head is intact. What's up with those?

Elvis and Frank at Balinese Ballroom? Even Skinny D'Amato lost his license to drag Frank back to the 500 Club on the AC boardwalk, though the Balinese is more like Tony Marts at Somers Point. Here's a ballroom great for ya. We're not quite this old, but we oughta be:

You beat me to Roky, Ron, while I was correcting my post. Notice, per Ethyl DuPont, the name of Stockdale's office building. Some coincidences are bullsh*t. If persons care to look up the travails of former member Adele Edisen, her mind-control doctor allegedly predicted that Stockdale would perish after JFK. See the late Adele Edisen's past threads, which were of some notice here ten years ago.

Stockdale jumped or fell from the 14th floor. In some buildings of a certain age, that means... [Wiki:] 'Stockdale died in a fall from his office on the 13th floor of the DuPont Building in Miami, Florida, on December 2, 1963, one week after the funeral and just ten days after the assassination of President Kennedy. Police termed it a suicide, but no suicide note was found. Larry King later reported speaking to him the day of the assassination and finding him "disconsolate to the point where he couldn't get a word out." ' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Stockdale There is a sizable collection of posts in the back threads on Grant Stockdale, the Mob-run vending machine industry, and Bobby Baker.

If those kids in The Last Picture Show had hung around town longer, Bogdanovich could have had them graduate from watching Red River to snoozing through Rio Bravo, and shot the ending in color. I'll reserve judgment on El Dorado until I see it again -- it's been a couple decades. I'm an Only Angel Have Wings man, myself -- real seat-of-the-pants filmmaking, if only in the editing. One of Hawks's underappreciated "political films" is Air Force, which may have invented the trope seen in so many films afterward, in which Americans have to do battle among themselves before they can triumph over a common foe. In the final combat, even the most contentious American (here, john Garfield) proves up to the challenge of the fight and the ability to make the supreme sacrifice. The theme would later appear in John Ford's The Horse Soldiers and Sam Peckinpah's Major Dundee, among many other films, including some in the Star Wars series. It's a sentimental trope, even in Hawks's hands, but it reflects certain American issues of political diversity and economic class. I'm fond of Dean Martin's multiple embarrassments as the recovering drunk in Rio Bravo, which he plays with the right blend of humility and wounded pride. Check out also the sad look The Duke gives him when Dino pours himself a shot in this set of clips. I don't have as many exaggerated complaints about Wayne's acting as other people work up for themselves: If every American could sit back and watch a Howard Hawks film tonight, we'd be a better people in the morning. Unless it's Rio Lobo.

Inspirational verses from the Grayston Lynch page: Author of Decision for Disaster; Betrayal at the Bay of Pigs (1998). Movie rights optioned to Ron Howard and Universal Studios.