Ironic TCM Juxtaposition
Talk about irony! This evening TCM ran a spot featuring Vic Morrow promoting The Blackboard Jungle. Immediately following that, Ben Mankiewicz came on with the evening's guest programmer, John Landis. Landis introduced the film he chose, Paths of Glory, about a military commander's indifference to vast losses of the lives entrusted to him in his quest for personal success. The Vic Morrow thing may have been intentional on someone's part, but the creepy thing is Landis was probably totally oblivious to the irony of all this. It also seems Morrow sensed years earlier how he was to die. http://www.aintnowaytogo.com/twZone.htm The whole thing was so creepy and ironic it would have been material for an episode of The Twilight Zone.
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