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April 11 | Stop Everything And... THERE'S this movie that everyone talks about but nobody has seen recently enough. That film is Dr. Strangelove. I'm gonna keep this a mercifully short blog on the theme of "leadership" and invent a way for you to do the writing -- go rent that film. I say this especially to those of you who have never seen it, and I am sure there are plenty of people. We are not all cultural gluttons, and some of us have jobs. Go. Get it. Trust me. Rent it and watch it. Tonight would be good, tomorrow will do; if you absolutely must, wait until the weekend -- but no later than Friday night. If you saw it "a few years ago" go rent it again right now, this week, because you need to see it right now, especially if the world [i.e., the news] is giving you a serious headache. If you've ever taken heart from the words of one of my horoscopes, go rent this film and watch it. If you're pretty sure I'm not getting kickbacks from the distributor, which I'm not, pop it into your laptop or home entertainment galaxy and give it a spin. Watch the first 20 minutes and you'll wish it would last forever or end immediately. It is one of the funniest, cleverest, most shocking films ever made. It leaves the last 50 blockbusters in the shade, wiping their sweaty foreheads. Peter Sellers plays three roles: Dr. Strangelove, the President of the United States, and the British assistant to a top U.S. Air Force general who goes psycho one day. De facto, Sellers plays a fourth role, that of the Soviet Premier because many of the President's lines are actually one side of a long phone conversation with the drunk chief of the USSR, improvised by Sellers. I super duper mean it -- go. Rent. Watch. Invite a really close friend, and let the kids watch. Then, write me an email and tell me what you think and what it says about our moment in time. Have at it: Dr. Strangelove. Starring Peter Sellers. Directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick.
"I'm sorry, too, Dimitri. ... I'm very sorry. ... All right, you're sorrier than I am, but I am sorry as well. ... I am as sorry as you are, Dimitri! Don't say that you're more sorry than I am, because I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are. ... So we're both sorry, all right?! ... All right." (Dialog improvised by Sellers)
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