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TWO TELEVISION BOMBS
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There were two excellent hours of television last night. Understand it is rare for me to rave over anything on the tube, but last night was an exception over the norm of murder, irresponsible sex and adolescent behavior.
The first was Clay Jenkinsons' portrayal of Robert Oppenheimer.
Jenkinson is a scholar who performs around the country as several characters, among them are Thomas Jefferson, Merriwether Lewis and Oppenheimer, the "father of the atomic bomb". His Jefferson perfomances are radio-broadcasted here every Sunday afternoon and I have seen him as Lewis a couple times. His work is fascinating and riveting to listen to and watch as you learn of the lives of these greatly influental historical figures.
I learned that Oppenheimer was, most of his life, a sheltered acedemic genius, with zero social skills and no interest in the world. He was in his early thirties before he read a newspaper, had sex and voted. When he was placed in charge of the Manhattan Project it was hushed that he was a card-carrying Communist. He made the statement that, "All of the most progressive and brilliant people in the world are Communists."
Six years and two billion dollars later, his team first developed and built the "gadget" which upon detonation Oppenheimer quoted the Bhagavad Gita saying, "I am become Death, Destroyer of the World", and "Now we're all sons of bitches." The plutonium "Little Boy" and the uranium "Fat Man" dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively together, instantly vaporized around 120,000 people. Please understand "vaporized", the heat produced by an atomic blast is hotter than the surface of the sun. In an instant your body goes from flesh and bones to nothing, just vapor. And these were crude, first run bombs. Physicists say so crude that they only used 1/10th of 1% of their explosive capabilities. If they had been 100% efficient 12 million people would have been vaporized.
Oppenheimer fell into a deep depression afterwards and pissed off President Truman by saying he "had blood on his hands." It is fascinating that Oppenheimer went from being a socially disconnected, academic, with no interest in the world or people, to the "father" of atomic destruction. It's also interesting to note that he was apparently a real space-cadet, so maybe he just forgot about the whole thing after some time. Which brings me to the second show of last night.
Harrison Ford in a half-hour interview with Tavis Smiley. Anthony Hopkins said in an interview years ago that all the talk from actors about it being a craft and an art and so complicated was bullshit. Hopkins said acting is nothing more that pretending. Listening to Harrison Ford struggle to sound convincing and be coherent describing his "craft" added a lot of weight to Hopkins' comments.
I am now convinced that Harrison Ford is an airhead. He jabbered on and on about how he is creating a "product" and we, movie-go'ers are his "customers". His most outrageous comment was "And action, I haven't done so much action, actually. I've done films that have action in it, but I've never done what I would call a real action film." WHAT! Is he suffering from Alzheimers? Does he think he is Sir Lawrence Olivier? Besides who cares what genre it is when, for example, he received $25 million and 20% of the gross for his role in K-19. The whole time Smiley was so painfully patronizing, sucking up, I expected him to give Ford a blow-job. My suggestion to Harrison Ford would be, "Stick to the Script". With his skills at extemporaneous speaking he would be better off miming. He bombed big-time!
Listen to the Ford/Smiley interview here.
The first was Clay Jenkinsons' portrayal of Robert Oppenheimer.
Jenkinson is a scholar who performs around the country as several characters, among them are Thomas Jefferson, Merriwether Lewis and Oppenheimer, the "father of the atomic bomb". His Jefferson perfomances are radio-broadcasted here every Sunday afternoon and I have seen him as Lewis a couple times. His work is fascinating and riveting to listen to and watch as you learn of the lives of these greatly influental historical figures.
I learned that Oppenheimer was, most of his life, a sheltered acedemic genius, with zero social skills and no interest in the world. He was in his early thirties before he read a newspaper, had sex and voted. When he was placed in charge of the Manhattan Project it was hushed that he was a card-carrying Communist. He made the statement that, "All of the most progressive and brilliant people in the world are Communists."
Six years and two billion dollars later, his team first developed and built the "gadget" which upon detonation Oppenheimer quoted the Bhagavad Gita saying, "I am become Death, Destroyer of the World", and "Now we're all sons of bitches." The plutonium "Little Boy" and the uranium "Fat Man" dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively together, instantly vaporized around 120,000 people. Please understand "vaporized", the heat produced by an atomic blast is hotter than the surface of the sun. In an instant your body goes from flesh and bones to nothing, just vapor. And these were crude, first run bombs. Physicists say so crude that they only used 1/10th of 1% of their explosive capabilities. If they had been 100% efficient 12 million people would have been vaporized.
Oppenheimer fell into a deep depression afterwards and pissed off President Truman by saying he "had blood on his hands." It is fascinating that Oppenheimer went from being a socially disconnected, academic, with no interest in the world or people, to the "father" of atomic destruction. It's also interesting to note that he was apparently a real space-cadet, so maybe he just forgot about the whole thing after some time. Which brings me to the second show of last night.
Harrison Ford in a half-hour interview with Tavis Smiley. Anthony Hopkins said in an interview years ago that all the talk from actors about it being a craft and an art and so complicated was bullshit. Hopkins said acting is nothing more that pretending. Listening to Harrison Ford struggle to sound convincing and be coherent describing his "craft" added a lot of weight to Hopkins' comments.
I am now convinced that Harrison Ford is an airhead. He jabbered on and on about how he is creating a "product" and we, movie-go'ers are his "customers". His most outrageous comment was "And action, I haven't done so much action, actually. I've done films that have action in it, but I've never done what I would call a real action film." WHAT! Is he suffering from Alzheimers? Does he think he is Sir Lawrence Olivier? Besides who cares what genre it is when, for example, he received $25 million and 20% of the gross for his role in K-19. The whole time Smiley was so painfully patronizing, sucking up, I expected him to give Ford a blow-job. My suggestion to Harrison Ford would be, "Stick to the Script". With his skills at extemporaneous speaking he would be better off miming. He bombed big-time!
Listen to the Ford/Smiley interview here.
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