Woody Allen's science fiction satire. Through the past darkly . . .
Today when Pope Benedict XVI spoke in English, he sounded like Dr. Strangelove, didn't he?
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Sleeper (1973)
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6 comments:
Soylent Green, now Sleeper. Hey, as long as I can go to India for major surgery, or heaven forbid--organ transplants, I'm okay with a German Pope sounding like Dr. Strangelove.
This is Norman Mailer he donated his ego...what a hoot. Never saw this one either Erik, but now I think I will count it among ones that I would watch if it ever shows up when I am channel flippin'. Didna listen to the pope, who is Dr. Strangelove?
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mark
Good clip. I love the joke about Mailer.
bye the bye did a little blurb about LeadFoot at JR's
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I haven't seen many Woody Allen films but I saw this one and liked it.
I'll have to check out the video from my other computer. This one says it's no longer available. My brother & I laughed at Sleeper when we were kids. Only when I saw it decades later did I realize that we really didn't get any of the jokes back then.
The new pope kind of freaks me out. He seems like he could be Anti-christ, if I believed in such a thing...
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