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Part 1 of the fondly remembered, but rarely seen, movie Robinson Crusoe on Mars is at this link. Here is part 2. It’s 30 minutes long.
This is my favorite part of the movie, after Mona the monkey is found and before Friday is introduced. Animal characters are usually a turn-off for me, but Mona’s contribution to Draper’s survival makes her an integral part of the story.
Note: This commentary is by Dennis F. Rogers, who wrote it after reading a Boston Globe article at this link. If that doesn’t work, try this one.
Philip, Alma, and Anthony Pasquale.
Sixty years later, war still makes an impact. You wonder about the guys over in Iraq now. The guys from Vietnam paved the way for public problems — they were always there but previous generations kept it hidden.
Even back to the Civil War — many veterans were never the same. But this is interesting, as it is triplets — two of whom served in WW II — one with no problems at all and the other still haunted to this day. The troubled brother was never in ground combat, he was on a Navy command ship for the amphibious assaults.
However, the ship received many of the wounded and dead from Iwo Jima — and was off Okinawa — with the non-stop kamikaze assaults, the mental wear-and-tear must have been tremendous. Two of the worst and deadliest battles in WW II — and of course the reasons why the atom bomb was deemed necessary. “If it’s this bad just invading two islands, how much worse will it get invading their actual homeland?”
– Dennis Rogers
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Here’s some of last night’s Colbert Report. Tonight is the big 1-hour election show, combined with Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show.
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Us bald guys get no respect. The viewer is led to believe for a moment that the nerdy-looking bald dad in this commercial is the victim of a huge bird dropping. Then it’s revealed to be dripping ice cream. But it seems odd, doesn’t it, to try selling ice cream by associating it with bird droppings …
The day before the mid-term elections, The Army Times is publishing this editorial, calling for the removal of Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense. It should be noted that although the paper is sold to military personnel, it is a private publication.
A recommendation of my own is that we return to calling the Defense Department the War Department. Invading Iraq had nothing to do with defending America.
My Google toolbar includes this “RS” link for Rolling Stone magazine. A recent item that appeared there is an interview with both Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, conducted by New York Times columnist Maureen Down. Click here to read.
