Re: OT: Maddening news coverage...

In article <1h2ddhy.n0glol16pucv6N%peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Peter Ceresole" writes:

> Well I have. But I've never watched 'Strangelove'. Partly
> because I was interviewing people like that at the time and the
> movie was simply nowhere close to the pure black farce of the
> real thing.

Emotionally, I keep on confusing "Dr Strangelove [...]" with the
more realistic "Fail Safe", which I watched around the same time.
Those films are similar in general structure. Funnier loonies in
"Dr S", on the whole.
--
Andrew Stephenson

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