John Edwards Affair: Dr. Strangelove, the “Favorite” Film Edwards Never Saw
Some wives pick out their husband’s ties, while others, it seems, pick out their husband’s “favorite” film. DBKP found a video of John Edwards introducing the movie Dr. Strangelove, the “favorite” film he’d “chosen” for Turner Movie Classic’s series with politicians.
In August of 2004 John Edwards had this to say about his “favorite” film, Dr. Strangelove, the movie he’d never seen :
“I believe that one of the messages Kubrick was trying to send was that putting this kind of power and this potential holocaust in the hands of human beings, no matter who they are, is an extraordinarily dangerous thing,” Edwards says of the black comedy released at the height of the Cold War.”
Edwards was part of Turner Movie Classic series, “Party Politics and the Movies” which aired in 2004. Edwards’ wife Elizabeth admitted in a Slate magazine interview in December of 2007, that prior to the TCM series, Edwards had never seen the movie, Dr. Strangelove. Elizabeth claimed her husband wasn’t a big “movie buff” and that the campaign staff “kicked around” an appropriate film for the Senator to introduce as one of his “favorites”.
Elizabeth told writer Melinda Henneberger that her brother, a filmmaker, Jay Anania, gave Elizabeth a list of films to chose from and that it was Elizabeth who picked out Dr. Strangelove as one of Edwards’ “favorite films”.
Edwards may have “winged” it during the film. Elizabeth stated that she “wasn’t in charge of making him see it” even though, by her own admission, she was the one who picked it out.
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By LBG
Source – Turner Classic Movies
Image – Dr. Strangelove
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[...] Anania, readers may recall, is the guy who helped Elizabeth Edwards pick out John Edwards’ ‘favorite’ movie, Dr. Strangelove for a Turner Classic Movies’ appearance in 2004–a movie John Edwards had never [...]
Wives fighting with their husbands and pulling ties
is a common thing
but pulling their films thats something challenging
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[...] Movies asked Edwards to present his favorite political film, it was Elizabeth who chose one for him, Dr. Strangelove, a movie he’d never [...]