@RBrookhiser

Biographer, historian, journalist, senior editor National Review (my columns: City Desk, Country Life)

 www.richardbrookhiser.com
Joined July 2014
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I liked modern GW puffing Gus cigar as he looks over his field, and modern RELee surveying ( his scouting in the MexWar was pathfinding for Scott).
David Corbett@corbettrex4h
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The "casual Friday" dress doesn't serve them well.
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R B Weaver@RickyBobWeaver5h
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This may be one of the things that happens when the director is drunk.
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R B Weaver@RickyBobWeaver5h
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You need to watch Cat Ballou even though it stars Jane Fonda. We always justify it on the grounds that it was made before she turned into a communist. And yes, this is the funniest scene in any movie.
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He had a quirky mind, like a magpie, always looking for bright things.
Eric-Clifford Graf@graf_ec5h
If I understand correctly, what is particularly genius about TJ's clock is that you read it--decipher it--by moving the dial to where there's no shadow. Some days I doubt TJ. Then there are days where his genius swamps me. If I'm right, he played a very long game. @RBrookhiser
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Acilius@losthunderlads6h
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Ho came from a different, deeper barrel.
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Startled Normie
@StartledNormie14h
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I think the wait for a verdict took the steam out of him, as it did us all. There were actual tee-shirts, "Free the Tarnower Press Corps!" with "Intent?" on the back. Ridiculous D.C. society aspect, with NPR running "All Things Considered" from the courthouse lobby. Good times.
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No, that would be whatever Ho wore.
Acilius@losthunderlads15h
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The scarf, cavalry cap, and pearl handled revolver moved more than one diplomat to cable from Saigon the phrase "bottom of the barrel" and its equivalents in other languages.
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Cute!
Eco Tradeoff@EcoTradeoff15h
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This is amusing. The Alexander Hamilton seemed a bit off. Davy Crockett kind of looks like Joseph Gordon-Levitt or some similar actor. Thomas Edison looks a bit like John McCain. Franklin looks a bit like Bob Dole.
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Second mention— we are quick.
Jonathan Leaf@WriterJonLeaf16h
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You know the joke? "What's the difference between communism and fascism? Nobody says, 'You know, they've never tried real Nazism.'"
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Ftw2
Steve@SMartinH195716h
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Sam Potts would have been even tougher if he was missing both an arm and the nose.
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Steve@SMartinH195716h
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From what I understand, the original cut was over 4 hours long and Peckinpah wanted Lee Marvin for the Coburn part but was turned down.
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Ftw
R B Weaver@RickyBobWeaver16h
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It came out in 1965 - the same year as Cat Ballou. There may be a rule against an actor losing both an arm and his nose in the same year.
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This is the Wild West?
R B Weaver@RickyBobWeaver17h
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That was a great movie. Mean Apaches, captive white kids being rescued, Richard Harris and Ben Johnson as the perfect Southern officer and sergeant, Brock Peters and his USCT, one-armed James Coburn, Jim Hutton with his little mountain howitzer and Senta Berger!
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Upvotes.
Scott baxter@Md181917h
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Me too, while up here on my beach/history tour I bought a book on Hood’s Tennessee campaign and one on frigate captains of the early 19th century.
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Scott baxter@Md181917h
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Probably not!
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News you can use. He should have made a book about Harris— perfect subject for him.
Startled Normie
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I saw him daily for some weeks when he was in Westchester covering the Jean Harris trial. I learned from him that when the jury is not in the courtroom you can sit in the jury box and the judge won't chase you away -- and you can hear the sidebar conversation.
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No but the harder they try the more suffering they cause
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Jack Jolis@JackJolis18h
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.@SMartinH1957 “The difference between Nazi and Communist is that when you say how horrible Nazis have been, they don't say, ‘Well, real Nazism has never been tried’." – FRANK J. FLEMING @IMAO_ P. N. Gwynne's THE COMPENDIUM stingray-bat-pb8x.squarespac…

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Steve@SMartinH195718h
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The entire plot of the Sam Peckinpah movie, “Major Dundee”. Although lore has it that Peckinpah spent most of his time offset drunk and Charleton Heston directed large chunks of the movie.
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Jack Jolis@JackJolis18h
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Good point ⬆️ «I wanna see the picture of the death camp run by a party without ‘socialist’ in its name.» -- KURT SCHLICHTER @KurtSchlichter P. N. Gwynne's THE COMPENDIUM stingray-bat-pb8x.squarespac…

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