Comments on: Nikita Khrushchev Doesn’t Go to Disneyland

By: daut

daut — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:56:43 +0000

Funny, I’m pretty sure that Nikita worked in mines owned by the Welshman John Hughes, not French.

By: monroe62

monroe62 — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:28:29 +0000

I have several never seen/published color photos from that day taken by a photog invited as a guest. Several of Khrushchev including one of him and family watching Can-Can, two of Monroe, and one of Judy Garland arriving.

He should’ve gotten to go to Disneyland.

By: poemless

poemless — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:52:24 +0000

I loved the Sinatra bit. And I never knew it, but I think I share Marylin Monroe’s politics…

Here are some other fun excerpts:

Charlton Heston, who’d once played Moses, attempted to make small talk with Mikhail Sholokhov, the Soviet novelist who would win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965. “I have read excerpts from your works,” Heston said. “Thank you,” Sholokhov replied. “When we get some of your films, I shall not fail to watch some excerpts from them.”

Later, Khrushchev would denounce the dance as pornographic exploitation, though at the time he seemed happy enough. “I was watching him,” said Richard Townsend Davies of the State Department, “and he seemed to be enjoying it.”