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Tentacoli (Tentacles, 1977)

"I always heard that octopuses don't attack humans, is that true?"

"It is. I guess he had a reason to do it."

"Is it true that the suckers on their tentacles are as deadly as the claws of a tiger?"

I’m pretty sure that it is George Shultz. Shultz, who will turn 97 later this year, was Labor Secretary, OMB Director, and Treasury Secretary in the Nixon Administration. He was also Secretary of State throughout most of President Reagan’s two terms in the White House.

By the way, the earliest Administration with Cabinet members still alive is Lyndon Johnson’s. Three Cabinet-level figures from the Johnson Administration are still living in 2017: Marvin Watson, who was LBJ’s de facto White House Chief of Staff throughout most of Johnson’s Presidency and Postmaster General (that was a Cabinet-level position until 1971) in the final months of LBJ’s term; Ramsey Clark, LBJ’s third and final Attorney General; and, Alan Boyd, who was the first Secretary of Transportation in American history.

Hats off to Shelley Winters for classing-up the otherwise diabolically derivative Tentacles (1977). #Review

The post is part of The Shelley Winters Blogathon hosted by Poppity Talks Classic Film and RealWeegieMigdet Reviews.

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