Well worth seeing and it holds up to multiple viewings. I must have seen it a dozen times over the years. Avoid the remake.>

Do you remember what city they were trying to get to? Benghazi.

No. I've publicly criticized <z> on several occasions over the years, but for me his pluses far outweigh his minuses on the one topic I really care about- chess history.>

Alas, poor Stalin! If only he’d known! Historians have been so harsh to him that his name is now synonymous with oppressing free speech. Here’s one example:

<literal Stalinist practices of the anti-free speech, violent <Antifa> nitwits and other vanguards of the frankly <Stalinist> Social Justice Warrior Twat movement.>

Kenneth S Rogoff (kibitz #347385)

All could have been forgiven, though. Our evil man Stalin could have avoided the verdict of <VILE SCUM> that historians have given him.

Why, instead, they would have said this verdict <is way over the top, and certainly unjustified. I might think <Stalin> is wrong about this or that, but his motives have never seemed to derive from such a characterization as that.>

He only had to write good chess history, dontcha know? Sorry, Joseph, there’s not enough punchy prose in your Bondarevsky bio. We are going to have to judge you as VILE SCUM for all those dissidents you silenced. But if you want to spruce up the Polugaevsky page, all will be forgiven.

There are other names on the hit list, more censorship work to be done here.

Kenneth S Rogoff (kibitz #345922)

So I ask you, <jess>, if the other 3 are suspended, how many nice bios will our resident Stalinist need to write, in order for all to be forgiven?? Don’t worry, there are always good rationalizations for evil. I am sure you can find some from the history books. I think it was a man from the NYT who justified Stalin’s excesses by saying you have to break some eggs to make an omelette.

<The Good Anteater> yes point taken. I still wouldn't use that phrase to characterize <z>, because he's not as bad as Stalin, or Hitler, or Jack the Ripper and so on. To my knowledge.

I don't agree with him swanning around the website trying to get his viewpoints promoted by the new administrators. I think that is disgraceful behavior, and it is showing no signs of letting up.

But that doesn't equal <VILE SCUM> to me. Maybe <ineffectual busybody> would be more accurate, since no administrator in their right mind is going to give any credence to his current raft of twaddle. I think he might be having one of those "moments" people get under stress. Running around like a chicken with his head cut off. He's posting tons of stuff on almost every active page and the "feedback" to any of his posts so far is either an insult, or more commonly this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re7...

Self indulgent and immature, as <Optimal Play> suggests, not a case of <VILE SCUM>.

Actually my paraphrase of <Optimal Play> would better be replaced by what he actually said which was <"self-deluded with a falsely inflated opinion of his own self-importance">.

I don't know if <OCF> is interested in James Stewart movies, but since we're here, I listed "Flight of the Phoenix" as no.3 for many reasons, but particularly the cast, who were all superb.

I would make a couple of other comments about it, particularly the ending, but I don't want to reveal any spoilers.

Suffice to say, I can certainly recommend it.

An excellent assessment of <zanzibar>!

I've just finished putting him through the wringer over on Rogoff.

He seems intent on sticking his nose in everything, but gets all the facts wrong and just ends up looking foolish in front of everyone.

He should stick to being an Historian and avoid making silly comments all over the site.

<Robed.Bishop: <jfq> I agree with you and <optimal’s> description. I recall after the announcement of Daniel’s passing, all he could post was why weren’t we getting constant updates and how we deserved (a millennial attitude) to be kept informed. No patience whatsoever. He was almost as bad as Mark with his constant and useless postings.>

Yes, Zanzy comes across as quite young and immature.

This is obvious in his comments as you pointed out, but is also evident in his constant change of avatar.

He's always changing his avatar, which indicates he's rather juvenile.

Oh yes, IIRC ... the reactions of James Stewart and Richard Attenborough!!

LOL!

I strongly prefer reading the book before watching a film>

Udder-side Dairy.>

<One of my favorite acts is The Flying Kurzemes Brothers.>

<Tim> I was too frightened to click on your link before fact checking. Are you suggesting that the <Flying Kreegah! Bundolo! Burgers> were actually bowling pins?

hmm... do you mean safe, or "safe?"

<My Dear Bishop>

The clerk, an unpopular senior at the nearby high school, then says the book's iconic line, "Get a room" with such perfect aplomb, so important in those situations. I personally didn't see THAT coming.