{"id":25685,"date":"2026-01-03T18:56:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=25685"},"modified":"2026-01-03T18:58:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:58:37","slug":"movie-pass-adventures-walk-of-fame-movies-the-plague-and-destry-rides-again-with-joe-pasternak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/03\/movie-pass-adventures-walk-of-fame-movies-the-plague-and-destry-rides-again-with-joe-pasternak\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Pass Adventures\/Walk of Fame Movies: The Plague and Destry Rides again with Joe Pasternak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/the-plague-and-Destry-Rides-Again.jpg\" alt=\"A large, scared, yellow face of Everett Blunck as Ben in The Plague looks at a tiny Jimmy Stewart as Destry carrying a tiny Marlene Dietrich as Frenchy in Destry Rides Again.\" class=\"wp-image-25689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/the-plague-and-Destry-Rides-Again.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/the-plague-and-Destry-Rides-Again-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/the-plague-and-Destry-Rides-Again-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Plague<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/the-plague.jpg\" alt=\"The eyes of Everett Blunck as Ben in The Plague\" class=\"wp-image-25687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/the-plague.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/the-plague-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/the-plague-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sure no one would call this movie a fun watch, but it was incredibly rough as a middle school teacher to watch and recognize  the bullying and shaming that happens in this movie. I seriously considered walking out, and I never walk out of movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t mean that this is a poorly made film. It&#8217;s very well made, and the performances all feel real- but more than a little PTSD triggering for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Destry Rides Again<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/destry-rides-again.jpg\" alt=\"Una Merkel as Lilly Belle and Marlene Dietrich as Frenchy fighting in Destry Rides Again.\" class=\"wp-image-25686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/destry-rides-again.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/destry-rides-again-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/destry-rides-again-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jimmy Stewart at his Jimmy Stewartest. A very enjoyable ride. Also: I&#8217;d never seen this before, so I had no idea how much Madeline Kahn in Blazing Saddles was channeling Marlene Dietrich&#8217;s Frenchy. Mel Brooks got some very delayed laughter out of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Madeline Kahn Performing &quot;I&#039;m Tired&quot; in Blazing Saddles (1974)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IjmZbIwx1RE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The horror of middle school boys and a jaunty romp about murder in the Old West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,359],"tags":[357,78,10,358],"class_list":["post-25685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-watch-of-fame","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-walk-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25698,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25685\/revisions\/25698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}