A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

This is what happens when conservatives in Miami see a Cuban flag patch on Emma Gonzalez's olive-drab jacket during her speech about the need for common-sense gun control laws: This is communistic as well. Her choice of attire, green army jacket and Cuban flag on one shoulder. Offensive to me! She looks like a young communist sympathizer. Logic exercise...Miami Politics 101 . Emma Gonzalez wore a jacket with a Cuban shoulder patch at the recent gun control (NOT ban all guns) protest. Cuba currently is misgoverned by a Communist dictatorship. That dictatorship appropriated, as it did everything else in Cuba, the flag that has flown over the island since 1902. Emma Gonzalez had the audacity to wear a patch bearing the image of that flag to celebrate her heritage. Enter "conservative logic." Emma Gonzalez is at a protest march related to a controversial topic. (Check.) Emma Gonzalez is wearing an army jacket with all kinds of patches....

Major Cast: Dirk Bogarde .... Lt. Gen. Browning James Caan .... SSgt. Eddie Dohun Michael Caine .... Lt. Col. J.O.E. Vandeleur Sean Connery .... Maj. Gen. Roy Urquhart Edward Fox .... Lt. Gen. Brian Horrocks Elliott Gould .... Col. Robert Stout Gene Hackman .... Maj. Gen. Stanislaw Sosabowski Anthony Hopkins .... Lt. Col. John Frost Hardy Kruger .... Maj. Gen. Ludwig Ryan O'Neal .... Brig. Gen. James Gavin Laurence Olivier .... Dr. Jan Spaander Robert Redford .... Maj. Julian Cook Maximilian Schell .... Lt. Gen. Wilhelm Bittrich Liv Ullmann .... Kate Ter Horst A Bridge Too Far , Richard Attenborough's ( Gandhi, Chaplin ) epic recreation of one of the most controversial battles of World War II, is one of those films that fall under the category of "glorious failure." Like the subject it vividly depicts (Operation Market-Garden), it was a well intentioned and daring endeavor, yet it failed to capture a receptive audience and was quickly forgotten ...