BIG EVENT today: a new film, The Hurt Locker (2009), opens at theaters today. "Hurt locker" is military-speak for where wounded are taken. It is a gritty, realistic tribute to an Army bomb squad working in Iraq--desperately dangerous and essential to quelling the insurgency. Here is the film's official website. The Video tab offers a trailer; the theaters tab gives the schedule. The film opens first in NY & LA today; a second wave of roll-outs comes July 10, to Washington DC and other major cities.
Hollywood finally has done the right thing by the world's finest military--and America's finest citizens. Let us hope more like this are on the way.
On an unrelated, softer program note, enjoy Ben Stein's warm tribute to the late Ed McMahon, the superb announcer who served as a perfect foil for the King of Late Night, Johnny Carson. To those of us who were privileged to watch Johnny & Ed (and Doc Severinsen) in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, the great days of Carson's 30-year run, Ed was always a class act. He kept his dignity while serving his boss, with gracious deference, never servile, always remembering who the King was and how much the viewers mattered. Ed, we will miss you.
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