A review of doctor strange love

Harkin Backwards

``Doctor Strange LOVe’’ -- 1963

A Review by Tracy Charles Gibson

     Find comic French actor Peter Sellers (Who my Mother LOVed in the Pink Panther series of films) – playing three roles including the President of the United States lording over – reluctantly mind you – an awkwardly engaged nuclear war with ``Those damned Russians.’’

      Look for a just-out-of-diapers, baby boy, light-brown-eyed James Earl Jones [pre ``Claudine’’ [ 1974 ]  & pre `` The Great White hope’’  [  1970  ]  ] as the only BLACK actor in the film. Jones and his colleagues are egger Air Force pilots in the only North American reconnaissance plane that is, unfortunately, able to break through turn-back & abort efforts to ``get dem commies’’ with nuclear warheads.

     The question I have as I re-watch this classic low to moderate budget film is have North Americans learned anything yet. There is almost a totality of White males in government leadership positions Sitting around a military encrusted table deciding ``the Fate of the Earth.’’ Women are featured as a military secretary who is the Sweet Pea of a war general [a pre-``Patton’’ [ 1970 ]  George C. Scott ] who reluctantly has to take time away from bathroom duties, sexual intercourse & ``Just Chillin’’ to find out How to stop the nuclear freeze out.

     What sent chills up & down my spine was the sight of some 20 all-White men being left the duty of making world nuclear decisions all on their own. The impact of those weapons being popped effects all people of every nationality, stripe, colour, sex, sexual orientation, sexuality identity, Race, cReed, age, ability and so on.

     ``Doctor Strange LOVe’’ points out the utter ridiculousness of only White males being decisions makers at a place or kitchen table where attitudes and thought patters have to adjust quickly to bring on Paramount results.

     It also shows something I’ve been saying for years, The United Nation’s Security Council – The Soviet Union, The United States & China  --  should NOT – I Really mean NOT --  have permanent seats as Security Council members in the United Nations and as such, have veto power over any & all resolutions any specific nation in the United Nations might want to strike down or promote.  That three-pronged veto power is unspeakably unfair and unbalanced.  All nations will benefit when The United nations adopts a one-Nation-one-vote policy on all actions and resolutions voted on in the international  New York body.

     If art reflects reality in any regard, be sure to read some progressive magazines like ``Mother Jones,’’ ``The Progressive,’’ ``GQ,’’ ``The Nation,’’ & ``The Crisis.’’ And more conservative publications like ``The Wall Street Journal’’ & ``The Economist’’ . Just skimming the ``Philadelphia Daily News’’ does your intelligence level a vast dis-service. I wonder what the value of my stock portfolio will be after the earth is turned into dust?