#Twelve O&039;Clock High

[bobduh]

Spring 2024 - Week 11 in Review

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week I’m riding high on the back of another successful DnD session, as I lead my players through a post-campaign island adventure with a clear Indiana Jones coat of paint. It’s becoming a tricky thing to provide meaningful challenges for my party of heroes; DnD is reasonably well-balanced from around level four to level twelve (the point…

[travsd]

Paul Burke: Alia Shawkat's Cool Grandfather

Paul Burke: Alia Shawkat’s Cool Grandfather

Fans of actor Paul Burke (1926-2009) may object to the title of this post, but I submit it in the calculated spirit in of my earlier Anne Gwynne: Chris Pine’s Cool Grandmother, which is within the top of 1% of all 7,000 Travalanche posts in terms of readership. No hook, no readers, and a contemporary angle is a hook. Best as I can, I try to make connections between Then and Now: it’s kind of the…

[streamondemand]

'Twelve O'Clock High' – Gregory Peck faces the pressure of command on Criterion Channel

‘Twelve O’Clock High’ – Gregory Peck faces the pressure of command on Criterion Channel

Gregory Peck stars in Twelve O’Clock High (1949) as Brigadier General Frank Savage, an officer called in to take command of a “hard luck” Air Corps group in the European Theater of World War II. The base commander (Gary Merrill) blames the worst losses of the air groups on “our stinking luck” but Savage sees a crisis in leadership. He believes that Davenport is too emotionally involved with his…

[dawnlizjones]

Roger, Wilco

Building #Godskingdom takes #tenacity and #courage. Just like our #veterans

This past summer Bob and I enjoyed visiting my parents in their beautiful Midwest retirement community—it’s like a college campus for the over-60 crowd.  They’re incredible!  Interestingly, we were also roaming around the California Redwood Forest just few weeks prior to that, and in my mind, there is a striking resemblance between the two in more ways than one, if you get my drift.

Now a retired…

[thecomicon]

10 Movies To Watch Before Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Can you feel it? The arrival of Star Wars: The Last Jedi is so close that you can almost see the comforting sight of paragraphs floating through space. It’s pretty surreal to think that we’re currently living in a world where we’ll be treated to a new Star Wars opus every year for the foreseeable future, but knowing that we’re on the cusp of witnessing the eighth episode of the main story arc is…

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Memorial Day - 2015

Memorial Day – 2015

It’s Monday, 25 May, 2015; Memorial Day here in the United States. This is the day we remember those who gave their lives in service to our country.

Today, I remember my grandfather, Lt. Herbert David Edelstein. He was a navigator aboard a B-17 bomber (no known nickname or nose art), 367th Bombardment Squadron – Heavy, 306th Bombardment Group (“The Reich Wreckers”, tail insignia “Triangle H”),…