As you know, noted actor Paul Newman passed away recently. Newman had been married to actress Joanne Woodward from January 1958 until he died.
They weren’t your standard version of a Hollywood couple. In fact, at the time of his death, they had lived in Connecticut for many years.
First, let me wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. Even if where you live, Thanksgiving as a holiday isn’t celebrated, it is always correct to offer thanks for all the good things we have. A lot of turkeys help us celebrate today, and for all of them, it was the last thing they did in their short lives. I guess we could lay the blame for turkey on our Pilgrim forefathers and their friends and families of long ago.
Bitin’ Up
Chuck Wagon
Recently I watched the movie, The Hunt for Red October (1990). This is a real man’s movie filled with submarine warfare, geo-politics and its offspring - political brinksmanship, as well as great heaping gobs of pure testosterone. There’s no sex or romance in this tale, in fact there may not even be any speaking roles for women in the movie.
As the movie begins, we learn that the Captain of The Red October, which is the USSR’s newest and most technologically advanced nuclear powered submarine, has disobeyed his orders, and is heading for the United States. The question is - is he defecting or is he a madman who will bring about Armegeddon by firing nuclear war heads at major US coastal cities?
Sean Connery portrays the Russian submarine Captain Marko Ramius whose real mission is to defect to the United States and bring with him the invaluable submarine and most of its officers. We learn this from a discussion at a dinner in the Captain’s Mess aboard the Red October.
