I can't wait for his biopic.
His father was up there with Robert Altman as an independent director.
He was in "Weird Science" as a bully when he was 19. Kept getting movie roles even when he was being arrested on a weekly basis. Turned his life around and got sober.
Be interesting to see if they can find an actor to play him.
Putney Swope, directed by Robert Downey Sr.
https://youtu.be/OPgId7RgQ2E full movie
https://youtu.be/vO5aZjfOIPs trailer
Good reply. Thanks
If you want to binge a great documentary, Ken Burns' The Civil War is phenomenal.
There's a story that says that a Northern quartermaster didn't want repeating rifles because he didn't want his troops wasting bullets.
More likely the repeating rifles were more expensive and heavier.
You didn't challenge anyone to improve themselves. You tried to impose your ideas on other people. There's a difference.
Cheers.
it could not have happened and would not have happened, for essentially economic reasons.
The interesting alternative histories are ones that turn on a single fortuitous event.
You said it couldn't happen, then said that there are ways it could have happened.
Also, if you don't want to be part of the discussion, you are free to stay out. other people are participating and enjoying themselves.
You are contradicting yourself.
Hitler left orders not to be awakened so he slept in on D-Day. Rommel had left his post. Think that wouldn't have changed things?
Stalin had dozens of warnings that Hitler planned to invade. What if he'd taken even one seriously?
What if Hitler had let the Army get the glory at Dunkirk and steamrolled the troops on the beach?
I can think of dozens of times the course of the War changed by the actions of one person.
https://richardpoe.substack.com/p/how-the-british-caused-the-american
I've seen this idea from several sources. The British figured that American 'Manifest Destiny' would mean annexing Canada eventually. It didn't cost the Brits a lot to stir up Southern resentments against the North. So they South got played.
https://richardpoe.substack.com/p/how-the-british-caused-the-american
Many people believe that the British government actively pushed the south to secede in order to weaken the US.
Apples and oranges.
Vietnamese had been fighting for twenty years against the French and Japanese. The South thought they would achieve victory with a few battles.
I take it as a personal affront that there are grown adults who are ignorant of their own cultural heritage.
Do yourself a favor. Spend Christmas through New Year's in the town you're planning on moving to first.