Old fans who've always been at the movies

[Laura Kelber]

Great find (of an awful tragedy)! If this isn't the source of the final sequence in GR, it's an amazing coincidence. 

Laura


On May 29, 2013, at 8:58 AM, "Monte Davis" <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

> (Haven’t we?)
>  
> Antwerp, 1944:
>  
> “Nearly twelve hundred seats were filled in the Rex Cinema on bustling Avenue De Keyser for the Friday afternoon matinee on December 15… [for] a classic Western: The Plainsman, a Cecil B. De Mille melodrama starring Gary Cooper as Wild Bill Hickok and Jean Arthur as Calamity Jane…
>  
> “At 3:20 p.m., just after Gary Cooper learned of Custer’s death at the Little Bighorn, a searing white light flashed across the auditorium as a V-2 – unheard and unseen, launched from a new site in Holland – blew through the roof… Recovery teams ultimately retrieved 567 bodies, more than half of them Allied soldiers, Navy gun crews,  and merchant mariners...”
>  
> Rick Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe,  1944-1945
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