Re: Dr Strangelove

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In a message dated 98-05-04 09:58:58 EDT::

<< The full name of the film was "Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to stop
 > worrying and love the bomb" issued in 1963. It is one of the all time
classic
 > black comedy films that should be rented and viewed by all. It featured
Keenan
 > Wynn, James Earl Jones, and a SAC base commander character named Gen. Jack
D.
 > Ripper [whose name I can't remember] who launches his B-52 bomber wing
against
 > the FSU because the communists are poisoning our PBFs [precious bodily
fluids]
 > with by introducing fluoridation into our water supply.
 >
 
  And the recall code for the bombers, which Slim Pickens didn't get was .....
 
 -- >>

My thanks to Carl Peterson who e-mailed me after recalling that Gen. Jack D.
Ripper was played by Sterling Hayden. Other cast included George C. Scott as a
womanizing U.S. Army General.


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