This is the final movie selection on the Also Ran list as it is number one. It has to be Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb! It was the Stanley Kubrick movie that was not only funny but very, very chilling. We seem to have moved away from the Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D.) era we shared with the Russians, but today we're perhaps moving into a place where our protagonists don't care if they do meet Allah prematurely. I'm sure everyone who has seen this movie will remember Slim Pickens riding the nuke down to its target and inevitable destruction. One of those scenes that is never forgotten. Peter Sellars plays the parts of three people in this - President Muffley, the Wing Commander, and also the scary Dr Strangelove himself. Next week we start a series of my favorite books - stay tuned!
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