The DU Lounge

I remember laying on our bellies with all my cousins in WV watching big it on HBO. Remarkably West Virginia got cable real early.

We’d keep looking back at Pappaw but he was stoic.
Dinner was going in the kitchen.
Johnnie spent time over a year recuperating at the VA hospital at The Greenbrier. I remember him reading constantly. Full text of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.

A Bridge Too Far
It stars an ensemble cast, featuring Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Hardy Krüger, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell and Liv Ullmann.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bridge_Too_Far_(film)


Midway
the film starred Charlton Heston and Henry Fonda, supported by a large international cast of guest stars including James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Ed Nelson, Hal Holbrook, Robert Webber, Toshiro Mifune, Robert Mitchum, Cliff Robertson, Robert Wagner, Pat Morita, Dabney Coleman, Erik Estrada and Tom Selleck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_(1976_film)