tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620033997567463526.post8913239629968264642..comments2023-04-02T01:24:09.580+11:00Comments on The Michael Duffy Files: Tim Andrews, Young Conservative Women, Ayn Rand and the PJ O'Rourke bodacious babe way forwardUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620033997567463526.post-47380114708928712422009-05-22T16:29:32.677+10:002009-05-22T16:29:32.677+10:00Ayn Rand - aaaarrrrgggghhh!!!!Ayn Rand - aaaarrrrgggghhh!!!!Ilagohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14431751899314746470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620033997567463526.post-68759018915398414912009-05-22T11:36:59.869+10:002009-05-22T11:36:59.869+10:00Well she did help give the world King Vidor's film...Well she did help give the world King Vidor's film The Fountainhead (screenplay Ayn Rand based on an Ayn Rand novel), as befuddled and dumb a melodrama as has ever hit the screen, and blessed with a Max Steiner score along with Gary Cooper as the heroic architect Roark.<br /><br />Rand demanded that the entire speech that Howard Roark makes in the novel be transcribed exactly to the film. There was a fussin' and a feudin' and infighting but the ponderous six minutes or thereabouts of the stolid Cooper delivering leaden thoughts in purple prose remains one of the longest and funniest speeches ever in a feature film. To this day, it remains a sublime pleasure and surreal hoot of the highest order ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620033997567463526.post-91935689317010956932009-05-22T03:08:17.859+10:002009-05-22T03:08:17.859+10:00Ugh, Ayn Rand..
I find it amusing that the far-ri...Ugh, Ayn Rand..<br /><br />I find it amusing that the far-right in the US have latched onto Rands objectivism yet seem to skip her stance on church and state, which, as far as I'm concerned, was the only intelligent thought she ever expressed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com