Category Archives: …and other stuff

miscellaneous postings by Lawrence R. Spencer

THERE YOU ARE

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BUCKAROO BANSAI

If you haven’t seen this film, you should.  What else do you have to do?  — LRS

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!, often shortened to Buckaroo Banzai, is a 1984 parody science fiction film. It was directed and produced by W. D. Richter, and concerns the efforts of the multi-talented Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, a physicistneurosurgeontest pilot, and rock musician, to save the world by defeating a band of inter-dimensional aliens called Red Lectroids from Planet 10. The film is a cross between the action/adventure and sci-fi film genres, and also includes elements of comedysatire, and romance.

THE PUBLIC INTEREST

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PUBLIC INTEREST

Ayn Rand (1905 – 1982) was an American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, Rand moved to the United States in 1926.  After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful in America, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead. (Wikipedia.org)