TCM LATE night! 12:45 AM Dr. Strangelove

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1. NYT January 30, 1964 Screen: 'Dr. Strangelove,' a Shattering Sick Joke

We're way past that level of loony now IMHO

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/01/06/17/specials/southern-strangelove.html

Stanley Kubrick's new film, called "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," is beyond any question the most shattering sick joke I've ever come across. And I say that with full recollection of some of the grim ones I've heard from Mort Sahl, some of the cartoons I've seen by Charles Addams and some of the stuff I've read in Mad Magazine.

For this brazenly jesting speculation of what might happen within the Pentagon and within the most responsible council of the President of the United States if some maniac Air Force general should suddenly order a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union is at the same time one of the cleverest and most incisive satiric thrusts at the awkwardness and folly of the military that have ever been on the screen.

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