[Green-Activist] Beaconsfield rescue

[Roy Garner]

As rescuers inch closer to the entombed miners in Beaconsfield, what a 
pity they couldn't make it in time for the Sunday programme!

The attendant media circus reminds one of Kirk Douglas's 1951 classic, 
Ace in the Hole (also known as The Big Carnival).

[A review of The Big Carnival can be found at 
http://online.swank.com/publicity/Synopsis/0016065.html "A cinematic 
tour de force by producer-director-writer Billy Wilder that brutally 
satirizes the American penchant for exploitation. Kirk Douglas plays a 
talented and tough reporter from the East, now working on a small 
Albuquerque newspaper after he was blackballed for carousing on company 
time. When a roadside stand owner is buried alive in a cliff cave-in, 
Douglas persuades the rescue team to prolong the operations so that he 
can make coast-to-coast headlines and assure himself a comeback. 
Meanwhile, the victim's wife (Jan Sterling) coldly sells gas and food 
to the spectators and falls in love with Douglas."]

I haven't had the time to trawl through the cartoonists' contributions, 
but I'd be surprised if none made the association between the two men 
confined in a cell-like cage and the long-term detainees at Guantanamo 
Bay.  But of course there are no votes for Howard in drilling that far!



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