Whatever happened to the plans to film the story of Giuseppei Zangara and his fast tracked appointment with death?
Isn't using a President for target practice a sure fire (pun?) way to vault to fame and a prominent place in the Contemporary American Culture Hall of Fame? Just ask Leon Czolgosz and/or Charles Julius Guiteau.
American cultural imperialism is based on the films from Hollywood and isn't gunplay an integral part of that form of entertainment? Wasn't one of the first films about a train robbery?
Didn't movie script writers mine the field of murder with a gun to great advantage?
Where would Hollywood be today if they didn't tell the stories of the gunslingers and their victims? Who doesn't know about Harry K. Thaw, Sacco and Vanzetti, Al Capone, John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Charlie Starkweather and Gavrilo Princip, the man whose bullets cause several million deaths? Didn't someone once say that Guns are as American as apple pie?
Since, for their own protection, the identities of the Seals who did the shooting in the bin Laden compound must remain secret, that means that the story will be in the public domain and not sold as part of a "life story" deal for anyone of the men who were there. What Hollywood producer doesn't love material (ripe for fictionalization) that doesn't require the use of a large "rights" payment? How many film versions of the bin Laden caper will be made? Will it be five or six? In all the excitement, even the Hollywood Reporter might lose track of the exact number. Which version will catch the public's fancy? Now, potential producers have to ask themselves one more question. "Do I feel lucky?"
Did any of the accounts of the termination of bin Laden's command (with extreme prejudice) report what his last words were? Did he say "Top of the world, ma!" or did he say "The Horror! The Horror!"
How many liberal Californians decorated their hippie pads with the poster that showed California Governor (and former actor) Ronald Reagan in a cowboy costume with a drawn six-shooter and the dialogue balloon that read: "Thanks for the votes, suckers!"?
Some folks wonder why the Conservative Christians in the Teabag Party embrace guns.
Teabaggers are not given proper credit for promoting the sentiment of: "Shoot if you must, this old gray head, but spare your country's flag."
Mao Tse-tung said: "Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." Amen!
The disk jockey has lost count of all the good "shoot-em-up" songs and so he'll play these classic American songs:
"Theme from "High Noon'" by Frankie Lane
"Stagger Lee"
"Frankie and Johnny"
Gene Pitney's "(The Man who shot) Liberty Valance?"
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