1月10日
'Cat Ballou' Will Keep You Warm
This is an older piece but I love it. Those stationed in Antarctica often go a little crazy -- especially about movies.
One man really got into "Cat Ballou" -- 87 times really.
Actually, I don't think that's all that weird, especially if you're cold.
From the story:
"How boring is life in the Antarctic? People in one group wintering at the South Pole in the 1960s watched the film 'Cat Ballou' 87 times. People in another, after tiring of the westerns, Disney features and pornographic films on hand, spliced the movies together into their own production and adopted a vocabulary based on their creation that was so strange that relief crews arriving in the spring could barely understand them."
Read the rest of the
story here.
--posted by Kim