Bene Tleilax
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That is one hell of a schizo ticket.
Its from an election game on the main board called "Time for Decision."
That is one hell of a schizo ticket.
This looks...familiar.Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland
1964-1973: Harold Wilson (Labour)
defeated, 1964: (Majority) def. Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative), Jo Grimond (Liberal)
defeated, 1966: (Majority) def. Edward Heath (Conservative), Jo Grimond (Liberal)
defeated, 1970: (Majority) def. Edward Heath (Conservative), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1973-1975: Roy Jenkins (Labour)
1975-1980: Keith Joseph (Conservative)
defeated, 1975: (Majority) def. Roy Jenkins (Labour), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
defeated, 1978: (Minority, with SDP confidence and supply) def. Tony Benn (Labour), Roy Jenkins (Social Democratic), William Wolfe (Scottish National), David Steel (Liberal)
1980 - 1982: Airey Neave (Conservative minority, with SDP confidence and supply)
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President of the United States of America
1969 - 1973: Ronald Reagan / Walter Reuther (Republican)
defeated, 1968: George McGovern / Walter Reuther (Democratic), Ronald Reagan / Norris Cotton (Republican), George Wallace / Curtis LeMay (American Independent)
1973: Ronald Reagan / Spiro Agnew (Republican)
defeated, 1972: Walter Reuther/Frank Church (Democratic)
1973 - 1977: Ronald Reagan / Howard Baker (Republican)
1977 - 1981: Bronson La Follette / Mo Udall (Democratic)
defeated, 1980: Nelson Rockefeller/Kit Bond (Republican)
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Wonderful.Thank you for it.WESTY (1999) - dir. by Oliver Stone
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Anthony Hopkins as WILLIAM WESTMORELAND
as PETE DOMENICI
as FRED DENT
as LARRY MCDONALD
as LEE ATWATER
as DONALD RUMSFELD
as BRENT SCOWCROFT
as PHILIP ZELIKOW
Sydney Pollack as FRANK SHAKESPEARE
as HAFEZ AL-ASSAD
as MUSTAFA TLASS
as HIKMAT AL-SHIHABI
as LYNDON JOHNSON
as BARBARA JORDAN
as SANDY D'ALEMBERTE
as PATRICIA WALD
Albert Finney as HAROLD K. JOHNSON
as KITSY WESTMORELAND
David Huddleston as JAMES WESTMORELAND I
Sean Stone as YOUNG JAMES WESTMORELAND II
as GRIGORY ROMANOV
as SECRETARY-GENERAL WALDHEIM
as PRESIDENT DEBRÉ
as PRIME MINISTER FOOT
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"...Oliver Stone's Westy, a biography of President Westmoreland, is the most bloated, over-ambitious and chaotic film you will see this year, but that is arguably its strength. Westmoreland is a particularly central and divisive figure in American history; to some, he was a butcher and liar who led millions to their death in Syria and Vietnam, while to others he's an upstanding military man who was sabotaged by hostile forces both inside and outside the government. Stone certainly has his own opinions on the matter, but he knows well enough to not make Westy an explicitly partisan affair. Instead detailing the internal politicking of his manic Administration or telling Westmoreland's story chronologically, Stone focuses on showing the man through the lens of others. During his youth he was the golden boy of South Carolina, the scion of a family of Southern patricians who was the most decorated Boy Scout in the country and the leader of his class at West Point. Westmoreland is fueled by pure ambition during his youth, leveraging his connections and self-serious demeanor to impress people higher up than him. Soon enough he's one of the youngest Generals in the nation, and then soon after that he's the face of the U.S. intervention in Vietnam. Stone repeatedly cross-cuts scenes of admirers and enemies alike wondering what drives him, what makes him tick. Years later, we get the impression that Westmoreland himself doesn't know.
Westmoreland himself is curiously absent between the War in Vietnam and his run for the White House, and it's where Westy sags the most. Stone pads the runtime with ominous foreshadowing - Lee Atwater worming his way into the good graces of the GOP before he becomes Westmoreland's Svengali, CIA bureaucrats discussing a possible intervention into Syria, that sort of thing. When Stone tries to broaden Westy's scope, it fails to say anything significant about its subject and makes everything worst off for it. It doesn't last for long, thankfully, as Westmoreland returns to the picture right as campaign season starts. Anthony Hopkins turns in a masterful and solemn performance as the late President, playing a man who refuses to show any sign of emotion or conflict to even his direct family, like a poker player hiding his tells. The most enlightening moment of the whole film is when Vice President Domenici, who Westmoreland constantly ignores and supersedes in favor of his Cabinet, corners the President and asks why they were invading Syria. Westmoreland stops, his eyes glazing over as he stares past Domenici and into the empty space behind them, then wakes out of his trance and dumbly tells him to go ask Rumsfeld.
It's been a given of pop psychologists for the past decade that he dove headfirst into Syria out of some desire to avenge his embarrassment in Vietnam. Not so, at least according to Stone. The film portrays him as a figure on the sidelines, watching the events unfold before him as a passive viewer. Where Westmoreland was once a man of action, now he's stuck watching other, more ambitious men make the decisions for him. Atwater uses him as a patriotic totem to remake the Republican Party in a new image, Rumsfeld manipulates him in the advancement of his own presidential ambitions, while McDonald encourages the President's aggressive foreign policy as a way to act out his violent fantasies. Westmoreland accepts this with no pushback, trusting their judgement as a non-politician who's more comfortable with the Joint Chiefs of Staff then the voters. If he has a saving grace, it's that - how could he be blamed? He was just along for the ride." - ROGER EBERT
ah hell I have expectations now? terrible newsWonderful.Thank you for it.
Really looking forward to Crashing the Party being a real timeline in the future.