Monday, October 30, 2000
Friday, October 27, 2000
Thursday, October 26, 2000
Monday, October 23, 2000
October 23: Forrest Gump
October 23, 1971
"Imagine" reaches the Billboard Hot 100 chart
DICK CAVETT: You had quite a trip. Can you, uh, tell us, uh, what was China like?
FORREST GUMP: Well, in the land of China, people hardly got nothing at all.
JOHN LENNON: No possessions?
GUMP: And in China, they never go to church.
LENNON: No religion, too?
CAVETT: Oh. Hard to imagine.
LENNON: Well, it's easy if you try, Dick.
FORREST: Some years later, that nice young man from England was on his way home to see his little boy and was signing some autographs. For no particular reason at all, somebody shot him.
Sunday, October 22, 2000
October 22: Forrest Gump
October 22, 1967
The morning after the Lincoln Monument rally, Washington DC
Saturday, October 21, 2000
October 21: Forrest Gump
Oct 21 1967: 70,000 demonstrators came to Washington, D.C. to "Confront the War Makers."
The biggest rally was held at the Lincoln Monument on the D.C. Mall. During the afternoon, people lined the reflecting pool and listened to speeches by Dave Dellinger and Dr. Benjamin Spock...
After the speeches, about 50,000 people set off to exorcise the Pentagon. The brainchild of Abbie Hoffman...
The plan was for people to sing and chant until it levitated and turned orange, driving out the evil spirits and ending the war in Viet Nam.
By the way, it was a year later that Abbie Hoffman was arrested in Washington DC for wearing a shirt that resembled the design of an American flag. "I wore the shirt because I was going before the un-American Activities Committee of the House of Representatives, and I don’t particularly consider that committee American, and I don’t consider that House of Representatives particularly representative. And I wore the shirt to show that we were in the tradition of the founding fathers of this country.”
Who knows, maybe he wore one in 1967 too. Or maybe it's a bit of poetic license on the part of the filmmakers. If you want to dig into all this yourself, one place to look would be Jo Freeman's "Levitate The Pentagon" page, from which I plagiarized a bunch of the information in this post.
Friday, October 20, 2000
Sunday, October 15, 2000
October 15: "21"
Fake I.D. so the lad from MIT can cheat the casinos in Vegas
Curiously enough - but completely coincidentally - but still fascinating, for a numbers geek, in a movie about numbers geeks - the time code for the screen capture above is 42:42. Twice "21", two times.
Friday, October 13, 2000
Wednesday, October 11, 2000
Saturday, October 7, 2000
October 7: Married Life
"On Friday afternoon the seventh of October,
I took the rest of the day off and drove north to the Allen cabin."
Friday, October 6, 2000
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