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These are the posts for Wednesday, the 30th day of August in the year 2006 of the common era.

Glenn Ford (1916-2006)

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

You can do all these amazing things, and sometimes you think that you will burst wide open unless you can tell someone about it, don’t you?… There’s one thing I know for sure, son. And that is, you are here for a reason. I don’t know what it is, exactly, but I do know this much: it’s not to score touchdowns.

Pa Kent has passed.

Glenn Ford, best known to modern audiences as Clark Kent’s father in the 1978 Superman movie, died today at the age of 90. Ford, a native Canadian who became an American citizen in 1939. His film career dated back to 1937, interrupted when he served in the Marine Corps in World War II.

The Towering Inferno (1974)

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

Someday you’re gonna kill ten thousand in one of these firetraps, and I’ll keep eating smoke and carrying out bodies until someone asks us how to build them.

I suppose it’s just coincidence that this film wrapped 27 years to the day before 9/11, but in the wake of those terrorist attacks, and the ultimate sacrifice of hundreds of rescue personnel, this film carries a level of grim irony. Beyond that, however, Irwin Allen’s clichéd, overblown disaster spectacle offers little in the way of significance.

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