Among the Coming Attractions on the DVD of The King’s Speech was the trailer for Made in Dagenham. It looked like my kind of film, an underdog story, a cute British cast, and good old Bob Hoskins. I grew up in the 1970s with no father to speak of, a working mother, and an older sister who was quite taken with the women’s liberation movement. It is a bit shocking to see that male chauvinism and outright sexual discrimination was still going strong in 1968. For some reason I thought that whole Suffragette thing would have fixed this problem as…
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Pontiac Another One Bites The Dust
Pontiac was a brand of automobile that was produced from 1926 to 2010. Although Pontiac motor vehicles were first produced in 1907, the company was quickly merged into Oakland Motor Company, and began to produce motor vehicles branded Pontiac as a companion brand in 1926. Pontiac was sold in the United States, Canada, and Mexico by General Motors. Pontiac has been marketed as the performance division of General Motors for many years, specializing in mainstream performance vehicles. -Wikipedia Henry Ford had the right idea-for a car to be useful it only needs one make, model, and color. But that great…