What Will's Watching

Gentleman's Agreement: Gregory Peck and John Garfield take on WASPy anti-Semitism in 1947. Peck plays Phil Green, a gentile magazine writer who wants to blow the top off of Jew hatred. john Garfield is as tough as ever as Green's childhood best friend. Estelle Holm gives an Oscar performance as the magazine's witty, wry and perceptive fashion editor. Watch her closely. Hokey, but that's what the country wanted, needed, and deserved in the late 40's. It's a period piece now. Who are these men that wear a coat, tie and fedora everywhere they go? Growing up in the NYC's northern suburbs and living in Dover, Arlington and now New Jersey, we have never, ever experienced anti-Semitism of the type shown in this film. Never. 

Battle Extraordinaire

Just a wonderful movie:

We first saw Air Force when we were nine.

Everything in the trailer is true.

This is an adventure film with some great battle scenes. We particularly like the battle sequence at Clark AFB where the B-17 narrowly escapes the approaching Japanese. There's a great scene where the B-17 is taxing into position even as one of the mechanics is tightening bolts on an engine.*

Air Force features a crew from all over America, Quinncanon, Rader, Winacki, Weinberg, Hauser. They're a good looking bunch too.

[I'll say...mmm 40's man, those accents and speaking mannerisms-Ed]

Why don't you go take a warm bath, Ed.

[Already running the water -Ed]

*We did something similar in one of our novels. First reader to name the book get an autographed copy.