Movies

Just got my latest Columbia House shipment today:

A Star Is Born (Judy Garland version, for Mom)
The Princess Bride (for when the nephew is over here)
Catch-22
THX-1138 the deluxe two-disk version
Akira Kurosawa's RAN

I've already watched half of the bonus disk for THX-1138--a documentary on the birth of the American Zoetrope studio. I'll probably see more before I go to bed tonight.

Carrier Noise

News is this week that the Navy Department has dubbed the upcoming aircraft carrier, currently only a collection of drawings and designated CVN-78, the USS Gerald R. Ford.

This act is making a large number of Navy veterans angry, especially veterans who served on the carrier USS America, which was scuttled in the Atlantic some time ago as part of a munitions test program. They wanted the new ship, which is also the lead ship of a new class (replacing the Nimitz-class), named America to honor the previous one. Frankly, I see their point. The new class will be the most powerful and advanced surface ship ever put to sea by any navy. Why should Ford get the honor of having this ship named after him? Just because he died at the right time?

FP

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