Here are two very different stories: one about a Prophylactic-themed restaurant named "Cabbages & Condoms" and another one about the real-life big screen adaptation by Director Ron Howard of a cave rescue from 2018, "Thirteen Lives."
The first one was brought to my attention by a long-time colleague who enjoyed the contraceptive-oriented restaurant at The Birds & Bees Resort during a Thai vacation trip. The other on the Thai cave rescue is a follow-up to an eàrlier post on this blog site a couple of years ago.
Why the name Cabbages & Condoms?
You may wonder how the Cabbages and Condoms or C&C
got its peculiar name. Mr. Mechai (aka- Mr. Condom) said that you can
go to any shop around Thailand and you will always find cabbages.
Condoms should be like cabbages “ ubiquitous. And so the name Cabbages
and Condoms (C&C) was conceived.RON HOWARD'S "THIRTEEN LIVES"
Includes material from an article in Slate.com and an interview on Amanpour & Company
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Amanpour and Company | Episode | August 5, 2022
New Yorker writer Susan Glasser breaks down the past week in global politics. Director Ron Howard and producer Raymond Phathanavirangoon discuss their new film "Thirteen Lives." Historian Evan Thomas reflects on the United States' bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Thirteen Lives
Ron Howard’s Thai cave rescue movie stars Colin Farrell and Viggo Mortensen as two of the heroic divers. Is it accurate?
The good news for the producers of Thirteen Lives: There’s a built-in audience for the story of the 2018 Tham Luang Nang Non rescue, in which an international effort retrieved 12 members of a Thai junior football team and their assistant coach from a huge cave system where they had become stranded by the early arrival of the monsoon. The bad news: The story was covered so exhaustively at the time that much of the core audience is already familiar with all the details and will notice any fudging for dramatic effect. Director Ron Howard’s previous movie about a high-pressure, life-or-death problem in an extreme environment, Apollo 13, also dramatized a well-known story, but it had the advantage of many details previously remaining classified and so unknown to the public. Howard uses the same approach in both films, breaking down one big crisis into several smaller technical challenges, each one of which has the potential to result in disaster. His heroes thus stay rooted in facts, leaving the audience to feel all the emotions that the heroes can’t afford to be distracted by. Below, we sort out where the film sticks to these facts and where it departs.
Was One Member of the Team Really an Undocumented Immigrant?
area’s governor, Narongsak Osatanakorn (Sahajak Boonthanakit), that her family is from Myanmar and so don’t have any official ID cards. As a result, she is worried that her son (Chai, the youngest of the group) won’t be brought out. She is reassured this won’t make any difference.
In fact, not one but three of the boys were “stateless”, as was the assistant coach, Ekkapol Chantawong (Teeradon Supapunpinyo). Stateless people are Thailand’s equivalent of undocumented migrants, unable to vote, buy land, work legally, or travel freely (which meant the stateless boys on the team couldn’t travel outside their home province of Chiang Rai to matches). However, although the Guardian reported all three of the boys were born in Thailand, the Associated Press said that Adul, the lone English speaker among the boys, had been sent by his parents in Myanmar to Thailand to get a better education. The confusion may arise from the fact that all four were from the ethnic minority hill tribes that populate both sides of the porous border in the notorious Golden Triangle, a hotbed of drug smuggling, between Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos, where Thai authorities estimate the “stateless” population with no documented nationality may be as high as three million.
Did the Coach Really Get the Boys to Meditate?
CABBAGES & CONDOMS
First of all, Why a Prophylactic-themed restaurant in the country of Thailand anyway??
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