Blacklisted for Good This Time
(Props to Kirsti)
Or
Cool Jules
(Additional accolades for Kirsti)
Or
Never Again on Sunday
(Bonus bon mot from Kirsti)
Or
R.I.P.-fifi
(Kirsti strikes again)
Or
He Who Must Die (Because I've Got Five Bucks Riding on It)
(Another one from Kirsti, who apparently has been looking forward to this day for some time)
Commie director Jules Dassin has died at the age of 96. A successful director of noir films including Brute Force, The Naked City and Night and the City, considered his masterpiece, the godless Bolshevik’s Communist Party membership was revealed to the House Un-American Activities Committee by true patriots Edward Dmytryk and Frank Tuttle and he couldn’t direct traffic. Like most people who hate America, he ended up in France, where he overcame his inability to understand French by including a 30-minute robbery scene without music or dialogue in Rififi, for which he won a best director award at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. Soon thereafter, he wrote and directed “Never on Sunday,” and with Joe McCarthy having been slandered by Edward R. Murrow, Dassin scored two Oscar nominations. The lifelong troublemaker was also accused later of trying to overthrow the Greek government, apparently figuring it was a little easier to knock off. He also badgered the British government about returning the Elgin Marbles, sculptures looted from the Parthenon 200 years ago.
After 5 years of waiting, Greg finally scores on Dassin, and his Team Quincy moves into 13th, but more importantly Mrs. Greg cherry picks and the death of Jules crowns her Geri(atrics) and the Pacemakers as our new leader with 3 hits.
Or
Cool Jules
(Additional accolades for Kirsti)
Or
Never Again on Sunday
(Bonus bon mot from Kirsti)
Or
R.I.P.-fifi
(Kirsti strikes again)
Or
He Who Must Die (Because I've Got Five Bucks Riding on It)
(Another one from Kirsti, who apparently has been looking forward to this day for some time)
Commie director Jules Dassin has died at the age of 96. A successful director of noir films including Brute Force, The Naked City and Night and the City, considered his masterpiece, the godless Bolshevik’s Communist Party membership was revealed to the House Un-American Activities Committee by true patriots Edward Dmytryk and Frank Tuttle and he couldn’t direct traffic. Like most people who hate America, he ended up in France, where he overcame his inability to understand French by including a 30-minute robbery scene without music or dialogue in Rififi, for which he won a best director award at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. Soon thereafter, he wrote and directed “Never on Sunday,” and with Joe McCarthy having been slandered by Edward R. Murrow, Dassin scored two Oscar nominations. The lifelong troublemaker was also accused later of trying to overthrow the Greek government, apparently figuring it was a little easier to knock off. He also badgered the British government about returning the Elgin Marbles, sculptures looted from the Parthenon 200 years ago.
After 5 years of waiting, Greg finally scores on Dassin, and his Team Quincy moves into 13th, but more importantly Mrs. Greg cherry picks and the death of Jules crowns her Geri(atrics) and the Pacemakers as our new leader with 3 hits.
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