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How Is Santa Mira Like the House of Representatives?

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On Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:20:12 -0800, eleeper@optonline.net wrote:

> Because Kevin McCarthy can't change people's minds in either of them.

Interesting. This is the first I've heard of Santa Mira. A quick
take: The Wikipedia page lists 19 SF/horror works that use the
place name. The first was "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956).
Then came eight usages (almost half the total) between 1982 and 1994.
"Invasion" was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the
National Film Registry -- in 1994.

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by: eleeper@optonline.ne - Sat, 7 Jan 2023 23:04 UTC

On Saturday, January 7, 2023 at 3:22:23 AM UTC-5, Charles Packer wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:20:12 -0800, ele...@optonline.net wrote:
>
> > Because Kevin McCarthy can't change people's minds in either of them.
> Interesting. This is the first I've heard of Santa Mira. A quick
> take: The Wikipedia page lists 19 SF/horror works that use the
> place name. The first was "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956).
> Then came eight usages (almost half the total) between 1982 and 1994.
> "Invasion" was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the
> National Film Registry -- in 1994.

I would guess the last eighteen were all paying homage to INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS.

--
Evelyn C. Leeper

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by: Scott Dorsey - Sat, 7 Jan 2023 23:11 UTC

In article <b088fc84-a167-448f-ab71-824b888f9a43n@googlegroups.com>,
eleeper@optonline.net <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Saturday, January 7, 2023 at 3:22:23 AM UTC-5, Charles Packer wrote:
>> On Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:20:12 -0800, ele...@optonline.net wrote:
>>
>> > Because Kevin McCarthy can't change people's minds in either of them.
>> Interesting. This is the first I've heard of Santa Mira. A quick
>> take: The Wikipedia page lists 19 SF/horror works that use the
>> place name. The first was "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956).
>> Then came eight usages (almost half the total) between 1982 and 1994.
>> "Invasion" was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the
>> National Film Registry -- in 1994.
>
>I would guess the last eighteen were all paying homage to INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS.

Agreed, and given that the remake of Body Snatchers was a huge hit in 1978,
I would suspect they were paying homage to the remake as much as the original.

The remake is a very different film but interestingly it's not a bad film
if taken by itself. Unlike far too many remakes.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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by: Charles Packer - Sun, 8 Jan 2023 08:21 UTC

On Sat, 07 Jan 2023 23:11:10 +0000, Scott Dorsey wrote:

> In article <b088fc84-a167-448f-ab71-824b888f9a43n@googlegroups.com>,
> eleeper@optonline.net <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> wrote:
>>On Saturday, January 7, 2023 at 3:22:23 AM UTC-5, Charles Packer wrote:
>>> On Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:20:12 -0800, ele...@optonline.net wrote:
>>>
>>> > Because Kevin McCarthy can't change people's minds in either of
>>> > them.
>>> Interesting. This is the first I've heard of Santa Mira. A quick take:
>>> The Wikipedia page lists 19 SF/horror works that use the place name.
>>> The first was "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956). Then came eight
>>> usages (almost half the total) between 1982 and 1994. "Invasion" was
>>> selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Film
>>> Registry -- in 1994.
>>
>>I would guess the last eighteen were all paying homage to INVASION OF
>>THE BODY SNATCHERS.
>
> Agreed, and given that the remake of Body Snatchers was a huge hit in
> 1978,
> I would suspect they were paying homage to the remake as much as the
> original.
>
> The remake is a very different film but interestingly it's not a bad
> film if taken by itself. Unlike far too many remakes.
> --scott

The two-decade interval between the original Body Snatchers
and the remake and subsequent usages of the town name would be
about right, I guess, for a generation of writers who saw the
original film when they were children. (I never saw the movie
so the OP's joke was lost on me until I noticed from its
Wikipedia article that its star was an actor named Kevin McCarthy.)

Subject	Author
How Is Santa Mira Like the House of Representatives?	eleeper@optonline.net
Re: How Is Santa Mira Like the House of Representatives?	Charles Packer
Re: How Is Santa Mira Like the House of Representatives?	eleeper@optonline.net
Re: How Is Santa Mira Like the House of Representatives?	Scott Dorsey
Re: How Is Santa Mira Like the House of Representatives?	Charles Packer