Watergate pipe-smoking porn, final installment. Some great footage of Senators Fred Thompson and Howard Baker, along with lawyers Rufus Edmisten and Terry Lenzner, and a few other random spectators.
"Let's get something straight here. I spent fourteen years in an eight by nine cell, surrounded by people who were less than human. My mission in that time was to become more than human. You see? Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church, Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking."
If you're a guy who's turned on by 1970s men smoking pipes, the 1973 Watergate hearings are better than porn. Senators, lawyers, reporters and businessmen, all decked out in 1973 fashion, confidently filling a room with pipe smoke like it's the most natural thing in the world. Which in those days, it was.
Here's a compilation of footage from the hearings (only about a quarter of what I've found so far) set to a nice 1970s 'adult film' soundtrack. More where this came from...
Operation Sky-Drop by Mike Brogan, 1977. One of a series of ten Action Man novels published in the late '70's. Mike Brogan was a pseudonym for Fred Baker, a prolific writer of comic strips including Billy's Boots, Hot-Shot Hamish and Skid Solo.
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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues has a brief shot with spinning-style police car lights, with the shot immediately after showing cameras flashing from all directions.
All of the camera work is either stationary or very smooth.
Flashing Lights: 3/10. Motion Sickness: 0/10.
TRIGGER WARNING: Like its predecessor, this film has humor about workplace sexism. Other topics include racism and disabilities. One early scene has an extended joke about suicide. There is a scene of questionable consent during a sexual advance.
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Image ID: A promotional poster for Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Follow The Fleet - " I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket"
I love all of the Astaire/Rogers musicals, but I think I have the biggest soft spot for Follow the Fleet. And it’s not JUST because I’m a sucker for a sailor suit. Bake and Sherry are both unabashedly working-class, for one, and almost all of the usual romantic misunderstandings are reserved for the other couple. For the most part, Bake and Sherry are like Benedick and Beatrice: the single biggest stumbling block to their happy ending is that they’re too much alike and too proud to admit they love and need each other. And once all the other plotlines are tied up, they kiss and make up because they’re just both tired of fighting it.
Plus, we get to see Fred play the piano and Ginger play the clown in a tap routine, and it’s fun. (Keep an eye out for Betty Grable and Lucille Ball in bit parts. Ginger’s mother was Lucy’s acting coach.)