Kansas City Confidential [1952)

Just like we drew it up. (Feb. 11, 2024 [21:50])

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1756888470599967000

Mr. Big = “the big guy”

18% of voters more likely to back Taylor Swift-endorsed presidential candidate, poll shows (Jan. 29th, 2024)

https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/18-of-voters-more-likely-to-back-taylor-swift-endorsed-presidential-candidate-poll-shows-2024-election-voting-ballot-biden-trump-white-house-politics-travis-kelce-kansas-city-chiefs

Roll ’em, Pete!

49ers Stars Christian McCaffrey, Nick Bosa Infuriated After Hotel Fire Alarm Incident – ‘No Way It’s Random’ (Feb. 10, 2024)

https://www.westernjournal.com/49ers-stars-christian-mccaffrey-nick-bosa-infuriated-hotel-fire-alarm-incident-no-way-random/

Helen = Taylor Swift

“I signed and was responsible for the Music Modernization Act for Taylor Swift and and all other Musical Artists.  Joe Biden didn’t do anything for Taylor, and never will.” (Feb. 11, 2024 [15:35])

https://t.me/real_DonaldJTrump/16531

Travis Kelce = Joe Rolfe

Blazers find snake in locker room (May 8, 2014)

https://www.espn.com/nba/playoffs/2014/story/_/id/10904374/portland-trail-blazers-find-snake-visitors-locker-room

Joe Rolfe was a Marine at Iwo Jima

LINE

4 years ago today, A/C went out at Spurs-Heat finals game, causing LeBron to cramp up (Jun. 5, 2014)

https://www.ksat.com/sports/2018/06/05/4-years-ago-today-ac-went-out-at-spurs-heat-finals-game-causing-lebron-to-cramp-up/

San Antonio’s Foreign Players Didn’t Understand Why Everyone Was Freaking Out About The Broken Air Conditioning (Jun. 6, 2014)

https://www.businessinsider.com/parker-ginobili-broken-air-conditioning-2014-6

San Antonio Spurs’ Manu Ginóbili Becomes First Argentinian Enshrined into Basketball Hall of Fame (Sep. 12, 2022)

https://remezcla.com/sports/san-antonio-spurs-manu-ginobili-becomes-first-argentinian-enshrined-into-basketball-hall-of-fame/

Tim Duncan’s Hall of Fame career has made the U.S. Virgin Islands proud (May 14, 2021)

https://andscape.com/features/tim-duncan-hall-of-fame-career-has-made-the-us-virgin-islands-proud/

Gregg Popovich showed up to Air Force intelligence training like a super-spy (Jun. 12, 2013)

https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/gregg-popovich-showed-air-force-intelligence-training-super-173949055.html?a20=1

Video: Who wants to hear Popovich speak Russian? (Jan. 8, 2013)

https://www.yardbarker.com/nba/articles/video_who_wants_to_hear_popovich_speak_russian/s1_10012_12607681

East Chicago Native: Gregg Popovich (13 years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBrPa7PJh9s

[Chicago] Black Sox Scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sox_Scandal

1919 World Series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_World_Series

Arnold Rothstein

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Rothstein

King of the Jews (book)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_the_Jews_(book)

Overtime.

19-19 (World Series)

Just like we drew it up.

Who tweets on behalf of Joe Biden?

Who’s “we”?

Taylor was right to care about the genocide/ethnic cleansing/war crimes being perpetrated against the women and children of Gaza.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/taylor-swift-selena-gomez-gaza-fundraiser-b2463425.html

Half of the 2 million inhabitants of Gaza are under the age of 18.

Death toll in Gaza from Israeli bombing (since Oct. 7) as of today:  28,200

https://tass.com/world/1744873

30 eyes for every eye.

Israel lost approximately 1,000 people on Oct. 7.

Just like the U.S.-Afghan War, a “disproportionate riposte” (to quote Thierry Meyssan).

The “wrong man” (to use Hitchcock’s most famous archetype) is blackmailed.

Like the three stooges who pulled the bank job (Jack Elam, Lee Van Cleef, and Neville Brand).

Taylor needed a Super Bowl win.

Biden needed Taylor to have a Super Bowl win.

Biden needs Taylor (desperately).

Fans lash out at Travis Kelce after 20-million-dollar deal with Pfizer (Dec. 30, 2023)

https://www.marca.com/en/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/2023/12/30/65903d1d46163f900d8b459f.html

Money equals control.

Visible investments to secure under-the-table deals.

How to pay off an asset.

Dr. Anthony Fauci Announces New Memoir to Publish in Summer 2024 (Feb. 8, 2024)

https://people.com/dr-anthony-fauci-will-publish-new-memoir-in-summer-2024-8572241

Truth (lacking from Trump and West):

https://www.amazon.com/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Democracy-Childrens/dp/1510766804

Truth (lacking from Trump [again] and RFK Jr.):

https://www.jns.org/enough-evidence-israel-committed-genocide-cornel-west-claims/

N.B.  Trump is the best of these three on the border, the economy, and abortion (to name just three).

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-PD

High Noon [1952)

What’s the point?

Says the old lawman who refuses.

Disillusioned.

I hear you, old lawman.

What is the point?

No one here but me.

What did I do wrong?

I could have been perfect, but I wasn’t.

But we all have little High Noons.

Where we can run, or do the right thing.

There’s a lot more left to the night.

And though my heart is hurting, I have stood fast.

In my own little way.

Sure, I feel pathetic.

But in my own way, a hero.

There was an easier path for me tonight.

And last night too.

But tonight was so seductive.

Mind games.

Of right and wrong.

Here I sit.

With no one to talk to.

I’m really not sure what’s happening.

I feel like Gary Cooper at the table with the bullets.

Just me and the bullets.

I have tried really hard.

Maybe not hard enough.

But I can look back and have pride in some of what I’ve done.

When I mess up, I try to rectify the situation.

And so on and so forth…into infinity.

Dimitri Tiomkin’s strings outline the ticking clock.

What’s the point?

Sure, Grace Kelly looks nice…but a little young.

She doesn’t have that same allure she would have later.

But she does the right thing too.

In the end.

We can despise her, but when the guns start firing, she makes up for it all.

Gary Cooper.

On his wedding day.

Kind of an MS-13 trip.

When we see Lee Van Cleef at the very beginning.

And we realize he’s way down the credits.

It’s then that we know this is gonna be good.

Do the right thing.

You might sense Trump here.

Good.

Gets really complex.

At “high noon”, Kane (Cooper) will be either dead or single.

Which is why he has to dig deep.

What is it that makes him stay?

Perhaps the same thing which makes Kelly eventually turn back?

Katy Jurado is good here.

Married to Ernest Borgnine for four years.

This film is a big metaphor.

No one does a damn thing.

Because it’s too hard.

Lloyd Bridges definitely picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.

Bridges plays the quid pro quo sack of shit that tries to unnerve Gary Cooper.

Hell, Harry Morgan is even in this!

You know, Colonel Potter from MASH!

But it’s pretty much just up to Gary Cooper.

Cooper’s mannerisms would later be carried on by Kevin Costner (to name just one).

But here Cooper was all alone.

Sweating.

Sweat as a motif.

Supposed to be in New Mexico.

Would you have the courage to write a will just before your judgement hour?

That’s a lot of temerity.

Maybe this film really revolves around the uncredited role by Jack Elam.

I don’t know.

But this is a film not to be missed!!!

 

-PD