I like the idea of a movie about Sterling Hayden, who smuggled weapons to Tito's anti-Nazi guerillas for the OSS, joined the CP, finked on his comrades, felt bad and became a leftist again, starred in "Dr. Strangelove" (as the mad general), wrote two books (one autobiographical), and married my aunt...
On 7/14/06, Daniel Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
god I hope so. That period was the high-water mark of economics. It was the last moment when economists were regularly, publicly, making important predictions which were right (cf Keynes "Essays In Persuasion"). If there can be a film abut John Nash that wins Oscars, surely to Christ it is not beyond the wit of man to turn men like Sweezy and Galbraith into movie heroes. dd -----Original Message----- A lot of interesting people were involved in the anti-Nazi war effort: Paul Baran, Paul Sweezy, Herbert Marcuse, Sterling Hayden, etc. Is there a movie somewhere in that?
-- Jim Devine / "Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force." -- George Bernard Shaw
