But first, it was a novel by Herman Wouk.
I can totally tie this back to "Firefly". Here's how: a married couple, both friends of mine, can never agree on "good" books, each of them enjoys completely different books. The favorite of the husband? The "Cain Mutiny" mentioned above. The favorite of the wife? "Ender's Game", written by Orson Scott Card, who apparently really likes "Firefly".
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Queeg. The Caine was the boat, I believe.
Okay. I thought so, but I don't like to correct Nutty, because 99 times out of 100, she's going to be correct, and I'm going to be wrong. Plus, I get a little dizzy(ier) trying to keep straight
The Caine Mutiny, Citizen Kane,
and
Mutiny on the Bounty.
Whenever I try to sort them out in my teeny brain, I wake up on my old sled, watching
Casablanca.
Plus, I get a little dizzy(ier) trying to keep straight The Caine Mutiny, Citizen Kane, and Mutiny on the Bounty.
And, strangeley enough, none of them star Michael Caine.
That's all right; "Michael Caine" is not his real name. (IIRC, he took it from the movie.) Frank is right, and Caine is the name of the boat, not the character.
(There are possibly dumber ways to come up with a pseud. Charles Bronson took a street name, after all. For which the parents of Bronson Arroyo thank him, because "Buchinsky Arroyo" is not exactly a winning moniker.)
(There are possibly dumber ways to come up with a pseud. Charles Bronson took a street name, after all. For which the parents of Bronson Arroyo thank him, because "Buchinsky Arroyo" is not exactly a winning moniker.)
Bwahahahaha!!! For some reason, this makes me laugh and laugh.
Cary Grant really being Archibald Leach is one of my favorites in the psued sweepstakes. And where John Cleese got the name for his character in A FISH CALLED WANDA.
Cary Grant really being Archibald Leach is one of my favorites in the psued sweepstakes.
You have to admire Traci Lords (porn star) taking her name from Katherine Hepburn's character in
The Philadelphia Story.
I also love that John Wayne's real name was Marion.
It was inspired by an actual event, when Admiral Halsey (edit: I think it was him) sailed his carrier task force directly into a hurricane or typhoon or something - several destroyers (which are small ships when compared to a carrier) sank as a result of the storm.
I once read an account of this incident written by the captain of one of the surviving destroyers who described how at one point his ship heeled over so far that he and his XO were hanging parallel to the deck of the bridge from what was normally a vertical pipe before the ship finally righted itself.
Enemy of the People is what Jaws is basically a version of, but with a shark. Speilberg's attempt to make The Doll's House with a giant alligator was, however, doomed to failure.
You owe me a keyboard, this one's all coffee-clogged now.
Let's not even get into Hedda Gabler with dinosaurs, or The Wild Duck with killer flying piranhas.
Let's not even get into Hedda Gabler with dinosaurs, or The Wild Duck with killer flying piranhas.
Or the complete works of August Strindberg as performed by penguins.
Or the complete works of August Strindberg as performed by penguins.
Well, if I had to pick one playwright to have his works portrayed by penguins, it would be Strindberg.
OK, maybe Pinter.
