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Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (1980)
The real life Benjie and Todd
Benjie was one of the most incredible people I ever knew. We would work away around bars and restaurants on the upper east side, and Benjie would walk in and around them like he owned them. I was a naive young kid who had a front row seat with my back against the bar watching this.
One waiter worked very hard, and went on several auditions. All he got were a couple of commercials. One soap opera hired him and then called him back. He earned, Newcomer of the Year, and became a big soap opera star.
Everyone thought I was a Kung Fu Master from Benjie's description of me. We hawked the International Society for the Protection of Public Figures, and it was a lot of fun. The most amazing part was that, if you had to choose Hollywood actors,Ben and Jeff looked very much like us.
Great memories!
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers is current today
The invasion of the Body Snatchers represents Big Tech and the Media today. They are taking over people's minds and telling them how to think. I have heard a man call into News stations and give his opinion. Later analysts would tell what he said and their warped reporting had me wondering whether they heard the same words of the call in that I did. Now if this was an isolated case I could understand it but I would hear the same analysis from NBC, CBS, and ABC. Thankfully enough people heard him live that we elected him.
However, the media kept distorting what he said and taking lines that he said out of context. They also did what they could to divide us when we were unifying under America First. Big Tech would join the media distortions and then hired people to follow their objective and called their employees "independent fact checkers". It got so bad that when I went to defend him and give the facts that people would not listen but just point and repeat what the media said like a foghorn.
We are all headed to be robotic pods dependent on the government and following their doctrine. We are becoming the New World Order. We need some more Kevin McCarthys out there.
Stars in My Crown (1950)
A film with a message relevant for today
Stars in My Crown is a story centered pretty much on three men and the child who witnessed it. A Pastor straight from the war wants to evangelize a rough town and does through by some bullying maneuvers. There is a black man who enjoys keeping to himself but loves to help his fellow man. A Doctor is representative of the medical and science community that does not believe in the power of Christianity but is dedicated to helping mankind.
There is a pandemic and the Doctor blames the Pastor for spreading it by visiting people. The Pastor and his family hunker until the source of the pandemic is solved. However, the Doctor's fiancée who had become sick gets to the point where the Doctor feels hopeless. As a comfort to her, the Doctor allows the Pastor to visit. After hours of prayer by the Pastor at her bedside, she awakens.
Meanwhile the mineral vein spills over into the black man's property and the town wants to take over his property. However, he loves it there and will not sell. The townspeople seeing this mineral as a way to prosperity raze his crops and scare off his animals trying to force him to sell. Seeing this, the Pastor storms into the general store where many of the townsmen are hanging out and he tries to bully them into stopping this evil that he says is worse than the pandemic. The men who had talked themselves into a rage of propaganda against this man don't listen,
That night, the townspeople band together, put on their hoods, and go to lynch the black man. They expect a fight when at the house they meet the Pastor. But he is unarmed and says he won't stop them. And as they drag the black man to the nearest tree. The Pastor says that first he would like to read the black man's will. Surprised the men stop and he reads most people's name one by one and tells how the black man individually leaves them his fishing pole, his gun, his watermelon patch, his dog etc.; because they admired them when he they were younger when they did things together. He then finishes how he wants to leave the land to the richest man in town because he must want it powerfully bad.
The Klansmen see the evil in their hearts had spread worse than the pandemic and their hatred for this one man was unjustified. The man with the rope has an epiphany and throw done the rope and walks off. One by one the other men walk off.
That Sunday, the Church is full. People are smiling because they realize they have Stars in Their Crown.
This great movie was almost ruined by the two commentators who for some reason could not process it. One person even said it was laughable how the lynchers walked away. I wonder if he laughed when he heard how the people who were going to stone the young lady? She had sinned but the mob walked away one by one after Jesus asked them a simple question?
Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016)
Fellow Democrats do not see this movie, even though I did
I saw this movie about a year and a half ago. I did not enjoy it and saw it was biased, but it did make me think.
DC Politicians have all made millions via corruption, but all long as the country is doing well - who cares? Everyone knows Hillary's pay to play foundation was corrupt, but she and Obama had a scandal free administration. At least that is what the MSM was telling me. They were also telling me the economy was doing great and ISIS and illegals were committing crimes, but that is the price we pay for civilization.
Trump is an idiot, but he made some good points. Our educational system is down and so is our manufacturing. We are taking in more products than we produce. The policeman is no longer my friend and the jails are over crowded. It is hard to make a living and I should consider giving up and going on welfare. If I have a complaint, I have to press 1 for English, jump through hoops and finally talk to someone I don't understand.
Trump is a narcissistic, lying weasel; but I am voting for him in 2020 and I very much appreciate this movie for opening my eyes. Just don't tell my family and friends. They won't believe it anyways.