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Saturday, May 31, 2008


Technicolors of Obama   [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

He had to be kidding...right? The AP reporter doesn't seem to think so.... Obama at Mt. Rushmore: 

He did express curiosity about the filming of a chase scene in "North by Northwest," Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 classic starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint that included a death-defying scramble over Rushmore's presidential faces.

"How did they get up there in the first place?" he asked ranger Wesley Jensen.

"They didn't. It was a movie set," Jensen told him.

"Pretty spiffy, isn't it," said the Illinois senator, summing up his overall impressions. 




 





 

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