Tuesday, September 22, 2009

#158 - An army was created.

What event connects them? Bonus points for those, who can explain the title. So 2 questions for today. Entries will be open for 48 hours.




Refer to Achyuth's answer.

The title is a reference to the band "Jodie Foster's Army"

5 comments:

abhishek chakraborty said...

THE CONNECT IS JOHN HINCKLEY JR. WHO TRIED TO KILL RONALD REAGAN TO IMPRESS JODIE FOSTER.THE ARMY IS JODIE FOSTER ARMY(JFA).IT IS A HARDOCRE PUNK BAND FORMED IN 1981 AND GETS ITS NAME FROM THE ABOVE MENTIONED INCIDENT.

Dinesh Krithivasan said...

John Hinckley Jr. decided to assassinate Ronald Reagan in an attempt to impress Jodie Foster. The resulting press coverage on the then Yale student Jodie Foster was "like a cavalry invasion" to quote her own words.

Achyuth aka Tempo said...

Ronald Reagan and Jodie Foster.The assassination attempt on Reagan in 1981 by John Hinckley Jr. was to catch the attention of Jodie Foster, because he was obsessed with her. The name of the band Jodie Foster's Army was inspired by this incident.

Vinay Hegde said...

Assassination attempt on Reagan by Hinckley.
Apparently John Hinckley did that to impress Jodie Foster.
The title is Samaadhi's weak attempt at humour/ putting pseud/ something similar. :P
It also happens to be an obvious reference to Jodie Foster's Army (I presume?).

Nakul PS said...

John hickely jr. tried to assassinate reagan macha to impress foster selvi