Mastodawn

N-gated Hacker News Apr 21, 2025

🌪️ "Out of the Fog" is a tale of how Operation Babylift's "heroic" rescue of Vietnamese infants turned into a lifelong identity crisis for adoptees 😵. Apparently, saving children from a war-torn country comes with a side of existential dread and cultural dislocation, who knew? 🙃
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/651701/vietnam-operation-babylift-adoption-transnational #OutOfTheFog #OperationBabylift #AdoptionStory #IdentityCrisis #CulturalDislocation #ExistentialDread #HackerNews #ngated

Out of the Fog

Operation Babylift was an earnest attempt to save children during the fall of Saigon in 1975. Fifty years later, a generation of adoptees wrestle with Vietnam’s legacy of transnational adoption

The Verge

jack the nonabrasive Sep 17, 2023

Whoa, it’s some insensitive nastiness, forcing her to identify the body. #OutOfTheFog #NoirAlley #TCMParty

jack the nonabrasive Sep 17, 2023

If Goff fell into superfund site Newtown Creek, he’s a goner. #OutOfTheFog #NoirAlley #TCMParty

jack the nonabrasive Sep 17, 2023

#JohnQualen playing yet another Scandinavian in #OutOfTheFog! We need to make a #NoirAlley or #TCMParty bingo card.

jack the nonabrasive Sep 17, 2023

Here for #OutOfTheFog #NoirAlley #TCMParty

P.M.Bryant Sep 17, 2023

“Out of the Fog” (1941) coming up on #NoirAlley this morning! #TCM host Eddie Muller mentions a story that Lupino did not want to work with Bogart again on this movie, filmed a few months after their joint starring roles in “High Sierra”.

What’s behind this tale? See this article for more:

https://pmbryant.typepad.com/letyourselfgo/2021/10/lupino-bogart-feud.html

#TCMParty #IdaLupino #HumphreyBogart #HighSierra #OutOfTheFog