Posts Tagged ‘Melodrama’

Tiger Woods, Heath Care and Men in White

So what goes with Health Care debates and the Tiger Woods scandal? This Tiger thing is so silly.

How much do you think one can make by saying you slept with Tiger? You know what…come to think of it…
I slept with Tiger!

Did you sleep with Tiger? I think we should have a national “I admit I slept with Tiger Woods Day”. That way at least this thing will just stop and we can get an actual news story reported. So tomorrow when you get up, get a white t-shirt out of your closet and take a magic marker and write on it, “I Banged Tiger” maybe you’ll get a stimulus check in the mail?

So here’s a little mixing of a star who falls and important health care issues.Clarke Gable plays an up and coming surgeon who’s gets caught up in infidelity. Men in White(1934)

The film is best know for how it handles the topic of abortion and more interestingly the man (Clarke Gable) suffering consequences of the botched procedure. (Dead girlfriend, public humiliation, fiance leaves him).The League of Decency was none to thrilled about this film and cut the daylights out of it as well as determining it was unfit for public viewing. Here’s a great description of the melodrama which has that fall from grace Tiger feel to it.