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Sep 17, 2021 - 1:03 PM
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dragon53
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
NIGHTMARE ALLEY---trailer released for the Guillermo del Toro movie starring Bradley Cooper.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-qVV8zyVmI
80 DAYS---trailer released for the miniseries starring David Tennant.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbwZiJP50mw
FOUNDATION---featurette released for the Apple TV+ sci fi series.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmv92GzD0pY
MARVEL STUDIOS---DOCTOR STRANGE writer/director Scott Derrickson replied to Denis Villeneuve's comments about Marvel movies, "Anyone who lambastes Marvel movies as all being the same has either a) not seen them all and therefore shouldn’t assume they’re all the same, or b) seen them all because hey, they actually quite like watching Marvel movies."
JIGSAW---Giancarlo Esposito stars in this Netflix interactive heist series inspired by the true story of $70 billion in bonds that went missing in downtown Manhattan during Hurricane Sandy. Ridley Scott is the producer.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN MURDER AND MAYHEM---Mandy Patinkin stars in this Hulu pilot in which the world's greatest detective, Rufus Cotesworth, must solve a murder on an ocean liner with the passengers being the rich and famous.
DIVINITY---movie about two brothers who kidnap a mogul seeking immortality. Steven Soderbergh is the producer.
JEOPARDY!---LeVar Burton said he will seek other game show host opportunities now that JEOPARDY! has chosen Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings, "I never thought about hosting any other game show outside of Jeopardy! But now, they went in a different direction with their show, which is their right, and now I'm thinking, well, it does kind of make sense, let me see what I can do. So we're trying to figure out what the right game show for LeVar Burton would be."
TRIVIA---September 27, 2021 is the 77th anniversary of Operation Market Garden, the Allied invasion of Holland in hopes to end World War II in Europe early. Audrey Hepburn was offered the role of Kate ter Horst in Richard Attenborough's epic A BRIDGE TOO FAR based on Market Garden, but she declined the role because it was a painful reminder of her childhood suffering during the Nazi-occupation of Holland. The role was given to Liv Ullmann.
Kate ter Horst lived in Arnhem, the town where the final phase of Market Garden was fought when British paratroopers attempted to seize the bridge which would allow Allied forces to cross the Rhine River and into Germany to end the war early. During the battle, she gave permission for the British to use her house as a first aid station for the wounded. Ter Horst helped about 250 wounded paratroopers. Two years after the war, her oldest son, Pieter Albert, was killed by a land mine left over from the war.
During Operation Market Garden, Audrey Hepburn and her mother lived near Arnhem where they helped wounded British paratroopers. The Nazis had executed Hepburn's uncle two years before. During the Battle of Arnhem, the Dutch resistance leader asked Hepburn's mother to hide a British paratrooper in the cellar for a week. Hepburn's mother gave him a bottle of champagne just before he was smuggled out to safety. During the occupation, Hepburn suffered from malnutrition which led to her developing anemia, edema, asthma and jaundice. At the end of the war, Hepburn, then 16 years old, only weighed 88 pounds. A Dutch soldier gave the starving Hepburn some chocolate bars. Decades later, as one of Hollywood greatest actresses, Hepburn kept chocolate bars in a drawer in her living room.
September 17, 2021 is the 77th anniversary of Operation Market Garden, the Allied invasion of Holland, as portrayed in A BRIDGE TOO FAR. This scene shows the German attack on the bridge at Arnhem where Kate ter Horst lived and Audrey Hepburn lived nearby.
In A BRIDGE TOO FAR, Audrey Hepburn was offered the role of Kate ter Horst, but she declined the role because it was a painful reminder of her childhood suffering during the Nazi-occupied occupation of Holland.
In A BRIDGE TOO FAR, Kate ter Horst (Liv Ullmann) agreed to let her house be used as a first aid station for wounded British paratroopers.
Liv Ullmann with Kate ter Horst.
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Interesting Bridge too far/hepburn stuff drag.
Drag did you know the wonderful story in holland along that Bridge too far route, the young schoolchildren are allocated an Allied paratrooper's grave (so Americans and Polish too) at a young age and its their job to tend the grave n learn about the person until they leave school, at which point it is allocated to/adopted by another youngster?
I read some moving stories ages ago of kids who tended graves when at school in the 50s, 60s n 70s still visiting it years later as grandparents.
Maybe there is someone from that area on the board that can update us but i believe the arrangement goes on to this day. I spoke to an old paratrooper in his 80s who was volunteering for the British Legion and he said he had been over there and seen the Dutch kids talk about it in class and place flower tributes and it moved him to tears.
*it seems they called them the "Flower children of Arnhem."
I found this
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-53579714.amp
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Sep 18, 2021 - 6:30 AM
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dragon53
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BILLCARSON:
Thanks for the link. I had not heard that story about the Dutch kids and the Allied graves. I think there is a similar program with school kids in Normandy with the Allied graves there.
If I remember correctly, in the Cornelius Ryan book, Bernard Montgomery said Operation Market Garden was a success, and the crown prince of Holland replied that the people of Holland couldn't afford another of Montgomery's successes.
In some of my books on WW II, it's mentioned that Montgomery's Market Garden was supposed to end WW II by Christmas, 1944, but in fact it made the war last longer by draining badly-needed supplies, gas, aircraft from the US Army which was already at the German border about to invade Germany. It also made the Battle of the Bulge worse because US troops were in Holland long after Market Garden ended which extended and thinned US troops along the German border--including Belgium where the Battle of the Bulge occurred three months later.
Also, Montgomery's forces were supposed to secure the port of Antwerp, which became the top port for bringing in supplies to Allied forces, but he spent too much time planning Market Garden instead of concentrating on the Antwerp port which delayed the Allied invasion of Germany and made the US troops in Belgium before the Bulge even worse.
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Sep 18, 2021 - 7:24 AM
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Warlok
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BILLCARSON:
Thanks for the link. I had not heard that story about the Dutch kids and the Allied graves. I think there is a similar program with school kids in Normandy with the Allied graves there.
If I remember correctly, in the Cornelius Ryan book, Bernard Montgomery said Operation Market Garden was a success, and the crown prince of Holland replied that the people of Holland couldn't afford another of Montgomery's successes.
In some of my books on WW II, it's mentioned that Montgomery's Market Garden was supposed to end WW II by Christmas, 1944, but in fact it made the war last longer by draining badly-needed supplies, gas, aircraft from the US Army which was already at the German border about to invade Germany. It also made the Battle of the Bulge worse because US troops were in Holland long after Market Garden ended which extended and thinned US troops along the German border--including Belgium where the Battle of the Bulge occurred three months later.
Also, Montgomery's forces were supposed to secure the port of Antwerp, which became the top port for bringing in supplies to Allied forces, but he spent too much time planning Market Garden instead of concentrating on the Antwerp port which delayed the Allied invasion of Germany and made the US troops in Belgium before the Bulge even worse.
Good info Dragon. Interesting and sensical causes and effects.
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Well, like all these things with hindsight, everyone is an expert. Plus dismissing Market garden as a disaster is not fair or accurate, it was partial success, but just fell short. Equally the Germans randomly moved panzer divisions near arnhem which was a major unlucky break to the outcome of the overall plan. Its war. All sorts of things happen. Plans are made up with the best intentions based on the intel available at the time.
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Alexandre Desplat no longer scores NIGHTMARE ALLEY. Nathan Johnson has taken over.
Scheduling issues, apparently.
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