Operation Strangelove

[pynchonoid]

For Immediate Release
May 13, 2003
Contact: Jen Nessel: (917) 442-0112
press at operationstrangelove.org
http://www.operationstrangelove.org 

JANEANE GAROFALO, ART SPIEGELMAN

AND OTHERS GIVE "DR. STRANGELOVE" SECOND TOUR OF DUTY

Operation Strangelove: a National Movement of
Solidarity and Satire May 14, 2003 
On Wednesday, May 14, activists in New York and around
the country will unleash screenings of Stanley
Kubrick's biting 1964 Cold War satire, "Dr.
Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love the Bomb" to protest cowboy diplomacy, unilateral
preemptive strikes and wars fought for precious
fluids. Er, oil. 

Janeane Garafolo (recent target of blacklist threats),
Art Spiegelman ("Maus", The New Yorker), David Rees
("Get Your War On"), Gene Seymour (Newsday film and
Jazz critic), and a representative from the Guerrilla
Girls (who make their anonymous appearances in gorilla
masks) will discuss "The Art of Dissent: Satire and
Protest" on a panel moderated by critic John Leonard
(CBS Sunday Morning, New York Magazine, Harper's, The
Nation) immediately following the main New York
screening of "Dr. Strangelove." 

The event takes place in New York on Wednesday, May
14, 7:00 PM at United Artists Battery Park overlooking
Ground Zero. Nile Southern, son of screenwriter Terry
Southern, and September 11 Families for Peaceful
Tomorrows will introduce. (Tickets: reserve at
info at operationstrangelove.org or at the door, $15
suggested.) 

Organizers of Operation Strangelove are billing it as
an action to "Stop cowboy diplomacy," in a nod both to
their concerns over the Bush Administration's reckless
handling of foreign policy and to the film's iconic
ending, in which actor Slim Pickens as Major T.J.
"King" Kong rides a nuclear bomb to Kingdom Come while
holding his 10-gallon hat aloft and hollering,
"Yee-haw!" 

"It's déjà vu all over again," said Operation
Strangelove organizer Jen Nessel, "Dr. Strangelove
doesn't seem so strange today, and that's scary. We're
taking back the old Strategic Air Command motto,
'Peace Is Our Profession.' Just remember, 'You can't
fight in here-this is the War Room!'"" 
***

Operation Strangelove grew out of the Lysistrata
Project, which inspired over 1,000 readings of
Aristophanes' bawdy anti-war play in 59 countries and
all 50 states this past March, raising more than
$100,000 for peace and humanitarian groups. 
For more information, please contact Jen Nessel at
press at operationstrangelove.org or visit our website at
www.operationstrangelove.org. 




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