As we endure America’s top action figure Tom Cruise’s very public Scientology-fueled PR meltdown, let’s not forget that he’s supposed to be promoting his new movie.
Li’l Tommy’s new movie is the second cinematic remake of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds (unless you count Independence Day which is virtually the same idea). The remake is a major re-write of the original source novel so that Hollywood could pair Cruise with a leading lady that was shorter than he is…
Enough of the short jokes about Li’l Tommy; what’s astounding to me is learning that Li’l Tommy’s public behavior in 2005 is nothing compared to H.G. Wells’ awful behavior in 1905. What’s even worse is the fact that I had to learn this fact from a Canadian newspaper.
WOW!
I had no idea how evil that guy was.
Thank you for the enlightenment, Scott.
Even if it is a disturbing kind of enlightenment.
I’ll wait till the movie comes on tv.
Not a huge Scientology fan either.
Sorry, Scientistigists.
Oh great next thing you know they will be saying that wells was a conservative republican and that we are all wife beaters. I guess I’ll have to go home and tell my wife the bad news about the beatings to come.
Wha…no slutty chearleaders? The guy was a saint!
My vote:
Wells: merely an arse of gigantic proportions.
Cruise: fruitcake nominee of the year.
Cruise wins.
Holy crap!
Wells was a enormous @ss!
He would have gotten along with the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margret Sanger, swimmingly.
“The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”
Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race
(Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923)
On blacks, immigrants and indigents:
“…human weeds,’ ‘reckless breeders,’ ‘spawning… human beings who never should have been born.” Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people
On sterilization & racial purification:
Sanger believed that, for the purpose of racial “purification,” couples should be rewarded who chose sterilization. Birth Control in America, The Career of Margaret Sanger, by David Kennedy, p. 117, quoting a 1923 Sanger speech.
On the right of married couples to bear children:
Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child, she wrote in her “Plan for Peace.” Birth Control Review, April 1932
Yuck!
I agree with Laura … Sanger beats both tom and wells. At least those 2 have entertained me. Sanger has done nothing but become an icon of the left. She even shows up in high school textbooks how scary is that!
“Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child”
OK, I have to admit – I’ve had that same thought on more than one occasion. Usually in Wal-Mart.
Tracey, LOL!! So I’m not the only one!!!
With respect to his treatment of women, Wells sounds a lot like Teddy Kennedy.
And strangely they have the same physique.
The greatest irony of all w.r.t Sanger and Wells is that in a new book Freakenomics the authors essentially state that abortion has succeeded in going just what they intended.
There’s a chapter explaining that the steady drop in crime is closely correlated with the availability of abortion on demand. In other words, the “dirty races” (according to Sanger) have aborted themselves closer to extinction.
I’m sorry, folks, but this is all just so sick I’m revolted even having to point it out. But it needs to be pointed out.
Tony, you’re thinking of Orson Welles of the 1938 radio play, not HG Wells of the 1905 book.