Great moments in the movie business (i)

[FierceKitty]

"I don't know, Arthur," remarked Stanley Kubrick. "That dam' Pauline Kael gave Dr Stangelove a terrible write-up. Maybe I'll give up movies and go into soap-making. What do you think of this for a start?"

Clarke looked at the soap carefully. "Hang on, Stan, I've got an idea...", he said thoughtfully.

And the rest is history.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Good but subtle

IanS

[d_Guy]

Particularly subtle if you are first drawn to the orange scrub thingee. (Yes I know it said soap - but it was ORANGE!)

[FierceKitty]

Just as well I hid the Rosebud shampoo.

[mollinary]

It was hiding the monkey that was the real stroke of genius! 

Mollinary

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Just as well I hid the Rosebud shampoo.

Even more subtle Mr Kane

[d_Guy]

Taken all together we would have obviously conjectured a Rosebud sock monkey named Aurthur Stanley:

[fsn]

I saw FK's photo and immediate started humming "Thus Spake Zarathustra".

[FierceKitty]

I saw FK's photo and immediate started humming "Thus Spake Zarathustra".

That was my reaction too when I saw the soap the little lady had brought home.

[Techno]

Now......I'm certainly not an expert on 'Soaps of the World', and their shapes.  (I'll wait for the comments !).....But is that bar of black soap particularly 'flat' ?
(Or is it my eyesight playing silly b's once again ?)

Cheers - Phil.

[FierceKitty]

It slightly resembles a box of those old Sobranie cigarettes, if you remember them. The "Black Russian" ones.

[Techno]

Ta !

Yep....When we still smoked, Mrs T & I bought those on rare occasions.
Seem to remember, they were fairly horrible.

Sobranie also used to make a pack of various colour ciggies ?....They may still do, for all I know.

Cheers - Phil

[FierceKitty]

Correct. I used to collect cigarette packets. No 10mm to be had in those days.

[Chris Pringle]

And that's how our Stanley became a wargamer, because he realised he liked that particular hue and was so attracted by the uniforms of the Austrian 94th Prince Kubriczky Grenadiers and their colourful "Uhrwerkorangen" facings. You couldn't make it up.

[FierceKitty]

He was a dab chess-player, and used miniature figures in planning shots for Barry Lyndon. So near, yet so far.