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White Noise & A Catastrophic Event
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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I mean, barely a month out on Netflix and then there's the train derailment in Ohio. And - while the book is some 40 years old (??), the movie foreshadows the - quite literal - Catastrophic Event - in Ohio - and not only are the parallels uncanny extras from the movie were actually evacuated from their homes for this. Life imitating art?
Since when - as the news has veered away from the shooting down of garbage bags, weather balloons, it's now ALL train derailments.
Sadly, all of this has been building for quite a while now and can't be in the least bit seen as a surprise, what is surprising is the inadequacy of the response and the dearth of good advice/damage control at ground level. Also extraordinarily well predicted...
The Saragossa Manuscript
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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I don't know how I've never heard of this.
Absolutely bloody brilliant, 1965 Black & White Polish movie about...
Well, I don't want to spoil it, but it's an Arabian Nights of sorts, and as I'm going to briefly describe it (Spoilers below - don't do the read more unless you've first watched it...)
The Seven Dwarves...
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So, apparently, as the story goes, at the original screening of "Snow White & The Seven Dwarves" in 1937 Walt Disney hired a bunch of real-life dwarves, put them in costumes and exhibited them above the Marquis on a little balcony, by way of drumming up business. Provided with free food and wine, they did what dwarves are expected to do, they stripped off their costumes (too hot!!) and got naked and quarrelsome with the audience and passers-by.
Now, I'd read this on reddit, and, rather thrilled at this piece of history trivia thought I'd do a bit of digging before sharing it with you.
There is something inherently comic and salacious about the thought of dwarves getting rowdy and naked.
And - you know it, the most trivial of research seems to disprove it, apparently it was the premier of Pinocchio, and there were 11 midgets (not dwarves), and, no, they just got hot, took off their costumes and went inside into the shade to play cards and dice and lie down.
Which kind of saddens me, it's one of those rare instances where the truth is far more boring than fiction, usually it's quite the other way around...
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