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  • How Is Santa Mira Like the House of Representatives?

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 6 18:20:12 2023
    Because Kevin McCarthy can't change people's minds in either of them.

    --
    Evelyn C. Leeper

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  • From Charles Packer@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jan 7 08:22:21 2023
    On Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:20:12 -0800, [email protected] wrote:

    Because Kevin McCarthy can't change people's minds in either of them.

    Interesting. This is the first I've heard of Santa Mira. A quick
    take: The Wikipedia page lists 19 SF/horror works that use the
    place name. The first was "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956).
    Then came eight usages (almost half the total) between 1982 and 1994. "Invasion" was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Film Registry -- in 1994.

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jan 7 23:11:10 2023
    In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Saturday, January 7, 2023 at 3:22:23 AM UTC-5, Charles Packer wrote:
    On Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:20:12 -0800, [email protected] wrote:

    Because Kevin McCarthy can't change people's minds in either of them.
    Interesting. This is the first I've heard of Santa Mira. A quick
    take: The Wikipedia page lists 19 SF/horror works that use the
    place name. The first was "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956).
    Then came eight usages (almost half the total) between 1982 and 1994.
    "Invasion" was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the
    National Film Registry -- in 1994.

    I would guess the last eighteen were all paying homage to INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS.

    Agreed, and given that the remake of Body Snatchers was a huge hit in 1978,
    I would suspect they were paying homage to the remake as much as the original.

    The remake is a very different film but interestingly it's not a bad film
    if taken by itself. Unlike far too many remakes.
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Charles Packer on Sat Jan 7 15:04:45 2023
    On Saturday, January 7, 2023 at 3:22:23 AM UTC-5, Charles Packer wrote:
    On Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:20:12 -0800, [email protected] wrote:

    Because Kevin McCarthy can't change people's minds in either of them.
    Interesting. This is the first I've heard of Santa Mira. A quick
    take: The Wikipedia page lists 19 SF/horror works that use the
    place name. The first was "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956).
    Then came eight usages (almost half the total) between 1982 and 1994. "Invasion" was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Film Registry -- in 1994.

    I would guess the last eighteen were all paying homage to INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS.

    --
    Evelyn C. Leeper

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  • From Charles Packer@21:1/5 to Scott Dorsey on Sun Jan 8 08:21:34 2023
    On Sat, 07 Jan 2023 23:11:10 +0000, Scott Dorsey wrote:

    In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Saturday, January 7, 2023 at 3:22:23 AM UTC-5, Charles Packer wrote:
    On Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:20:12 -0800, [email protected] wrote:

    Because Kevin McCarthy can't change people's minds in either of
    them.
    Interesting. This is the first I've heard of Santa Mira. A quick take:
    The Wikipedia page lists 19 SF/horror works that use the place name.
    The first was "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956). Then came eight
    usages (almost half the total) between 1982 and 1994. "Invasion" was
    selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Film
    Registry -- in 1994.

    I would guess the last eighteen were all paying homage to INVASION OF
    THE BODY SNATCHERS.

    Agreed, and given that the remake of Body Snatchers was a huge hit in
    1978,
    I would suspect they were paying homage to the remake as much as the original.

    The remake is a very different film but interestingly it's not a bad
    film if taken by itself. Unlike far too many remakes.
    --scott

    The two-decade interval between the original Body Snatchers
    and the remake and subsequent usages of the town name would be
    about right, I guess, for a generation of writers who saw the
    original film when they were children. (I never saw the movie
    so the OP's joke was lost on me until I noticed from its
    Wikipedia article that its star was an actor named Kevin McCarthy.)

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