Meeting Again, Again

Colleague--and Kubrick enthusiast--Henry Riggs passes along the news that Dame Vera Lynn, a.k.a. "The Forces' Sweetheart," has just charted in the UK at the record age of 92 with her her album We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn. The most encouraging aspect of this musical reacquaintance, of course, is that it didn't even entail nuclear Armageddon:

 

COMMENTS (2)

08/31/2009 - 3:02pm EDT |

Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove is to timeless cinema what Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is to timeless spelling.

I don't know what that means either but it sounds like something that simply must be said.

Oh, and if a remake is ever made, may I suggest that in the scene where Dr. Strangelove rises from the chair bellowing tremulously, "Mein fuhrer I can walk!", it be changed to "Mein fuhrer, I have bombed Iran!"

I'll leave it to your imagination as to whom I see Dr. Strangelove most cannily reflecting today.

gw

08/31/2009 - 3:47pm EDT |

Lest we forget.

Vera Lynn's Greatest Hits have been rereleased to coincide with the Thursday's 70th anniversary of Britain declaring war on Germany.

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