TS REMINDER to Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Catastrophe (Progressive Movie on Feb. 25)

[touchst at cy-net.net]

Don't forget the Progressive Movie Night showing of "Dr. Strangelove" 
this coming Saturday (Feb. 25) starting at 7 PM.  I place the 
original announcement and film description we sent out earlier below 
(Bud Wurtz wrote it -- nice job and thanks Bud!).  It's pot-luck 
snacks and BYOB.  For more information and directions get back to me 
via email (touchst at cy-net.net) or 777-8758. I hope to see you there.

            Danny

P.S.   I sent out directions on getting to the movie locale via email 
yesterday to everyone who had responded earlier positively about 
attending.  If you had let me know you were going to attend and did 
not get the directions, please let me know right away and I'll email 
you directions.

>Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:24:56 -0600
>To: betterdays at brazosprogressives.org, ts at philebus.tamu.edu, 
>AGGIEPROGRESSIVECOALITION at listserv.tamu.edu
>From: touchst at cy-net.net
>Subject: Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Catastrophe (Progressive 
>Movie on Feb. 25)
>
>Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Catastrophe
>
>
>The Progressives' Movie group is proud to present Dr. Strangelove, 
>Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). Listed 
>as one of the 100 greatest films ever made, the late Stanley 
>Kubrick's brilliant, satirical, provocative black comedy is a 
>cynically objective, biting response to the apocalyptic fears of the 
>1950s -- and still relevant to our own nightmarish times. The film's 
>nuclear holocaust theme illustrates how technology can go haywire 
>and dominate the people who created it.
>
>The film features memorable performances from a great cast: Peter 
>Sellers plays three characters, including the title role; George C. 
>Scott as Air Force General Buck Turgidson; Sterling Hayden as the 
>mad General Jack D. Ripper who launches nuclear war; and Slim 
>Pickens as Major Kong, the Texas B-52 pilot who rides an atomic bomb 
>to detonation.
>
>Loosely based on the novel Red Alert, the screenplay was written by 
>director Kubrick and Terry Southern. A large part of the 
>screenplay's brillance is its combination of vast amounts of sexual, 
>anal, erotic and infantile imagery and references (including large 
>phallic cigars, mating airplanes, guns, Ripper's impotent "loss of 
>essence", and the orgasmic atomic bomb that Kong rides between his 
>legs) into one long joke about the connection between war, sexual 
>obsession and the male sex drive.
>
>This film will be shown at 7 PM on Saturday, Feb. 25.  As usual it's 
>pot-luck snacks -- so bring enough to share -- and, if you want to 
>drink, BYOB. We have a new host and new location.  For more 
>information, reservations (seating is limited), and directions 
>please, send a return email (touchst at cy-net.net).  See you at the movie!
>
>           Danny Yeager
>
>
>
>

Danny Yeager

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