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    How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

    Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove - Flashbak
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    The writer Terry Southern would joke about big Stan Kubrick being on the line from Old Smoke. He liked Kubrick--though he had never met him--and liked the sound of "Big Stan" and the image of him calling from his London office--though "Big Smoke" may have been better known soubriquet for the English capitol--but let's not quibble over the fancies of such a brilliant man as Southern...


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    At least Slim Pickens had his priorities straight. What a character actor he was.
    Best Wishes,
    Cris Malone
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    "Objectivity comes from how the evidence is treated, not the nature of the evidence itself. Historians can be just as objective as any scientist."

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      Hello Tim, Cris. Of course, his accent was NOT really Texan--it was Oklahoman. My late mother-in-law was from there and so I can recognise one fairly easily.

      Cheers.
      LC

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        "Now if that don't beat all. Here we take the good time and trouble to slaughter every last Indian in the west...and for what? So we can appoint a sheriff that's blacker than any Indian. I am depressed."
        Best Wishes,
        Cris Malone
        ______________________________________________
        "Objectivity comes from how the evidence is treated, not the nature of the evidence itself. Historians can be just as objective as any scientist."

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