Down with Dictators!
This was inevitable, of course:
Bonus:
And of course, the worst dictator of them all assassinated on film:
Add more examples in comments!
(I didn’t mark this one Mindless Diversions. Go nuts!)
Glyph
Glyph is worse than some and better than others. He believes that life is just one damned thing after another, that only pop music can save us now, and that mercy is the mark of a great man (but he's just all right). Nothing he writes here should be taken as an indication that he knows anything about anything.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=568628876543645Report
I’m not sure I get it, but I like it.Report
‘e’s Richard “Dick” Tater.
(A brief aside – as a child at camp, I used to play a game called Silent Football, the rules of which are not important except that each player was required to come up with a false name for themselves, and that the leader of the game was always called Mr Dictator. The best name I ever came up with for that game was Mr Richard Tots. )Report
Ah, thanks, Guy.Report
Bananas was, by the way, adapted (quite loosely) from a very funny book called Don Quixote USA, about a naive young Peace Corps volunteer who bumbles his way into becoming the supreme leader of a Caribbean nation.Report
Is that true???!!!
My parents had that book when I was growing up, and when I was in junior high I read about a quarter of it before putting it down, despite the fact that the mass market paperback edition they had had scantly dressed women on the cover. I remember that I hated the protagonist; I think I may have been too young to have appreciated that satire.
I had no idea it was connected to Bananas the movie.Report
‘Tis. My parent had, of all things, a Readers Digest Condensed Book collection that contained (most of) it. I’m not sure if I ever read the complete version.Report
I love those Woody Allen movies except for that nervous fellow who is always in them…Report
Report
Report