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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
The Manchurian Candidate: Programmed with Hydrangeas
Have you been brainwashed by political rhetoric? Or is it the candidates whose minds have been “dry cleaned”?
Capt. Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra) listens to a lecture on hydrangeas delivered in a Soviet prison by “Mrs. Henry Whitaker” (Helen Kleeb)
The Manchurian Candidate, 1962
“It might appear that the hydrangea is a fairly simple plant, but there are more complications….”
So Mrs. Henry Whitaker drones, gesticulating with white gloved hands as Frank Sinatra, in a soldier’s fatigues, slumps in a chair. His upper lip is sweating.
With the final 2008 U.S. presidential debate coming up tonight, we remember Raymond Shaw, The Manchurian Candidate, also in attendance as the garden club ladies sipped tea and clicked their cigarette holders in John Frankenheimer’s marvelous movie.