Gates watched "Seven Days in May" flying back from Pakistan

[Cruzan]

Last sentence in the NY Times' report of Defense Secretary Gates' visit to Pakistan:

His final message delivered, he relaxed on the 14-hour trip home by watching “Seven Days in May,” the cold war-era film about an attempted military coup in the United States.

[Captain Hilts]

1. Okay, so what?

[MUAD_DIB]

2. It was a good movie.

[Captain Hilts]

3. I love it. nt

[arcadian]

6. Mount Thunder = Mount Weather

[villager]

4. and yet, it was a Supreme Court coup that did in America.

n/t

[FarCenter]

5. Ava Gardner as Eleanor "Ellie" Holbrook:

"I'll make you two promises: a very good steak, medium rare, and the truth, which is very rare."

[Captain Hilts]

9. I'm wearing an Ava Gardner Museum t-shirt right now. I won't elaborate on

what else I might or might not be wearing.

She was cool.

[El Supremo]

11. She was a lot better than Joan Crawford wasn't she?

On the Beach
Night of the Iguana

[Captain Hilts]

12. No contest. nt

[Enrique]

13. John Frankenheimer is embarrassed by that line

in his DVD commentary he talks about it, says something like, everyone has things in their career they wish they could take back, and that line is that for him. I didn't think it was that bad. ;-)

[Forkboy]

7. Great movie. But I have no idea what to take from this info.

Which makes it much like all the other info I get.....

[GreenStormCloud]

8. I saw it when it first came out, and recently on DVD.

Back then I loved it. I had read the book first, and it was reasonably faithful to the book

Now, I thought it was silly.

Anybody who is trying to read anything into Gates watching it is trying to find much in little.

[El Supremo]

10. I've watched this movie countless times from the time it was in theaters. How it ends:

President Jordan Lyman: There's been abroad in this land in recent months a whisper that we have somehow lost our greatness, that we do not have the strength to win without war the struggles for liberty throughout the world. This is slander, because our country is strong, strong enough to be a peacemaker. It is proud, proud enough to be patient. The whisperers and the detractors, the violent men are wrong. We will remain strong and proud, peaceful and patient, and we will see a day when on this earth all men will walk out of the long tunnels of tyranny into the bright sunshine of freedom.

president exits; reporters stand and applaud

Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, that was the President of the United States.


I also read the novel.

[PopSixSquish]

14. And...

???