lizbee | (Reply)

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That is TERRIFYING and I think your reaction is entirely understandable. In fact I'd be amazed if your mind hadn't jumped straight to "That could have been me / someone I know." To me it doesn't seem at all like a sign of callousness, but rather of identification -- a reminder to yourself that the people affected were every bit as real as you and your friends are, even if you can't feel as strongly for them as you would if it had happened to you or someone you know well.

I hope the baby will be all right, but those other poor kids (and adults). What a horrible thing.

On the more positive side, I watched Judgment at Nuremberg many years ago and thought it was amazing (and this was back when I tended to assume that all black-and-white films would be dull, badly acted and cheesy, because those were the only kinds of B&W films I'd ever come across flipping channels on TV). I may also have developed a minor and short-lived crush on Maximilian Schell, enough to make me look up Topkapi (but not enough to make me watch past the first ten minutes or so, despite my love of heist movies. I can't recall why, though).