

But this opportunity carried with itincredible challenges. The little family lived in a two bedroom shack on the premises of the project.

They got their break in 1974 when the opportunity presented itself to buy three acres of land in Lakewood that was zoned for townhomes. But in 1972 (the year daughter Michelle was born) their adjusted gross income was only $3,000. When the company relocated their headquarters to Colorado in 1970, Gary & Charlotte (and now son, Ted) moved too.Ĭharlotte describes Gary as a free spirit who didnt like being tied down to a desk. After discharge from service, Gary went to work for Geico in Maryland. While stationed at the Pentagon he met his future wife, Charlotte, a Coloradoan who was working for the FBI in Washington. Gary served three years in the army working in Staff Communications. Very sports minded, Gary played semi-pro baseball and at one point was signed by the Detroit Tigers organization. He attended college in Bloomsburg, PA graduating with an accounting degree. Johnson, 47, was born and raised in Shamokin, Pennsylvania. Go deeper: Netflix Q&A with McKay, DiCaprio and Lawrence on the film's inspiration."Don’t Look Up" premieres in select theaters on Dec. There are parallels to climate change here too, given the Biden administration’s focus on climate change as a job-generator, and the meteoric stock market growth seen recently for electric vehicle manufacturers.government to a stage where getting rich off of the comet becomes an end in itself. So why isn’t it just as ridiculous for politicians to ignore decades of climate science?”īetween the lines: The movie also brings the U.S. “The idea that politicians wouldn’t take astronomers seriously when they say a comet is hurtling toward Earth is ridiculous.“This movie may look like 'Deep Impact' 2.0, but I think it’s going to end up being way more about climate than it is about space,” she said.

Quick take, part 2: I asked Axios space reporter Miriam Kramer for her thoughts on the film:
