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And that reminds me of that old guy Peter Ustinov played in Logan's Run. He sure had a lot of cats.
Perhaps he was suppose to suggest Twain, as the scene suggests a pun of the cliche of "fat cat" bureaucrats since Ustinov and cats lived in the US Senate Chamber.
iirc he was reciting T>S> Eliot's cat poem
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Nov 24, 2016 - 5:05 AM
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Metryq
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Perhaps he was suppose to suggest Twain, as the scene suggests a pun of the cliche of "fat cat" bureaucrats since Ustinov and cats lived in the US Senate Chamber.
I'd call that a reach. "Old Man" (Ballard in the book) never said a word about fat cats, nor was there anything to invoke Twain. The book was not really political, although it had a social point to make. The movie, like most such adaptations, watered down the story to a simple "small guy overthrows the oppressive authority single-handed."
It would have been more appropriate to have Old Man hanging out in the Library of Congress. If anything, the Senate was chosen to underscore the contrast between the dream of the Founding Fathers and the world of the 23rd century—the opposite of satire. (Old Man made the sketchiest allusion to the Gettysburg Address.)
The movie never explains the nature of the cataclysm, and we can only guess whether or not it was world-wide. If it had been a nuclear holocaust, then most likely D.C. would not exist. The domed city was a microcosm of the situation in the book, where the entire world was overpopulated and resources limited.
So if anyone in the movie could be termed "fat cats," it would be all the pretty people living in the domed city.
And as Mr. Marshall noted, Old Man was quoting from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot.
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Bartlett got his name after a string of cats named after reference books in the house. Very quiet and dignified. You'd never know Wriggley came from the same litter.
i thought you were gonna say Bartlett started digging tunnels in the garden, putting the goons to sleep and getting 76 cats in the street to escape!!! 
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Or flicking dirt in the litter tray?
"Im sorry zat ze soil ist not more to your liking, Herr Oberst!"
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No but ive sung it to one.
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. There's a world of difference between "near" and "next to". And I query whether crouching outside to do our business would really obviate the need for toilet paper. I will however bow (but not squat) to your experience in that regard!
