More typical rambling confirmation bias on The Mindless Freaks Blog. At least his dates and number counts appear to be accurate today.
Time to explain the post title. Even Nad didn't go so far as to make that claim, but it is insinuated. Talk of the book 1984 as John starred in the film version. 911 number tie ins. Passenger count on Flight 175, dates related to these and collateralized topics such as the House of Windsor and the Pope, etc...
All one big, sloppy NERDS* mess. What's not said is just as important as what is said. Let me think a second...something gnawing away at the back of my brain like an angry gerbil...
Oh yeah, I think there were two planes that crashed into the Trade Center on 9/11. Flight 11 and its passenger count just weren't important enough to make even an honorable mention. Guess that's why John was only an Oscar nominee and not an Oscar winner.
And we also had the death of Mike Conners (Mannix) recently that never got a mention. By now it's a given how painfully easy it is to come up with vague two and three digit numbers that match other vague two and three digit numbers. Even the most recent post has a cheat I'll call a CANTS. The number you got cant's work, so Condense A Number To Suit. 1091 was condensed to 191 because it was "close enough". Mike Conners' film career too limited? John Hurt has been in like one thousand bazillion things. So now all the costars, release dates, dates of birth, # of days between events and every tiny bit of minutiae for damn near everyone can be pulled into this awe inspiring number like -56-.
I'm kind of surprised that two other John Hurt works didn't get a mention. V for Vendetta would have been a nice match with 1984 with dystopian future societies in each. V was a terrorist! And John was in the 50th anniversary special of Doctor Who with Jenna Coleman. Having already proven that she us the Antiantichrist it would have been nice to see a mention. And a picture. You can never have too many Jenna pictures.
*Never Ending Ridiculous Data Set
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