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It's great watching him spout that stuff in his courtroom appearance
scene while his eyes and whole delivery say: "I don't have a clue what I
just said is supposed to mean...what the hell is she driving at, anyway?
He blows up poor people's housing because they want balconies, and
that's okay? Is she nuts?"

By the moral standards of  piranhas, they probably are.
It's the old Social Darwinism idea; the more ruthless we all are to each
other, the better things will get.
It's an interesting inversion on the Biblical idea of God rewarding good
people with plenty.
Instead of "Your goodness has been rewarded with riches by God." it has
become "The fact that you are rich proves you are a good person in God's
eyes." which isn't the same thing by a long shot.

Probably took a swing at you with her riding crop, then threw some
statuary out of a nearby window, right?
Ever wonder where that thing landed at several floors below? I half
expected to hear a shriek followed by ambulance sirens.
Boy, the parody you could do of that movie. After Roark dynamites
Cortland and gets away with it, he sets out on a one-architect reign of
terror across the entire country, blowing everything to hell he thinks
wasn't built by a pure act of will on the part of a single designer. The
FBI finally catches up with him as he is getting ready to dynamite Mt
Rushmore on the grounds that "It should have only Jefferson's face on it
as he was the one who wrote the Declaration Of Independence...so the
United States was his idea alone, and the other three presidents meddled
with his plans."
Here, Roark shows a model of the revolutionary "Domino Tower":
http://i.treehugger.com/files/th_images/fountainhead.jpg
...which unfortunately toppled in a stiff breeze two weeks after it was
completed in 1952.
Not to be stopped by something so trivial as nature, Roark next built
the "Intrepid Incline" apartment building:
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/articles/fountainhead/officebuilding.jpg.jpg
...which unfortunately fell into the street in 1958 when all the tenants
rushed onto the front balcony simultaneously one day after hearing a
rumor that Marilyn Monroe was entering the building's first floor...naked.
Undaunted, Roark continued onwards and upwards...producing his first
masterwork, the Wynand Building:
http://www.archipelvzw.be/Bestanden/Images/wynand-building.jpg.jpg.jpg
Which unfortunately was destroyed when the Moon collided with it in 1964.
But there was no stopping a man of Roark's drive and ambition, and even
greater architectural accomplishments lay ahead:
http://jerz.setonhill.edu/images/towers__9-9-01.jpg

Pat

Stephen Tontoni <tontoni@comcast.net> wrote in news:tontoni-
A758C9.07320325072007@comcast.dca.giganews.com:

That's interesting. I always understood it was based on William Randolph
Hearst, Right down to the mansion he built in northern California, the
newspapers, etc.

I think, for their times, Citizen Kane and 2001 were certainly breakthrough
movies. Whether they stand the test of time is always an issue.For me,
Forbidden Planet still stands the test of time in Sci Fi.

Gary Anderson

Almost nothing happens in the movie; it's storyline is this:
monkeys get smart, and start killing each other.
Something strange is found on the Moon, like the monkeys found.
People go to Jupiter, and the trip is really long and boring.
Their smart computer starts killing them.
A person kills the computer.
Then he drops acid, and has a really mind-bending and heavy trip. :-)

Pat

Uh, I hate to tell you this, but it's based on the life of William
Randolph Hearst, not the Kennedy's:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane
There never was a book, it was an original script by Welles and Mankowitz.
The HBO movie about making it, "RKO-281", is excellent, and shows the
beginning of how WRH set out to destroy Welles' movie career in revenge
for it.
"Rosebud" was a nickname of his mother, Phoebe Hearst, or WRH's nickname
for Marion Davies' clitoris, depending on who you belive.

Pat