Talk:Tales of the South Pacific

The Skipper of PT-105

The closing statement of the first graph, that an unnamed PT boat skipper met Michener, is mystifying. If 105 is a typo for 109, then correct it, but I also think that too many readers are going to be without a clue as to the fact that that 'skipper' was John F. Kennedy, so let's not be coy--go ahead and mention it.
If it really was the skipper of PT-105, who was he and why is this worth mentioning, especially anonymously?
One might add that Tales (1946) was published 100 years after Melville's Typee (1846) and continued the tradition of romanticizing Oceania.
98.148.73.179 (talk) 13:42, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

   I removed the passage in question, which read

The skipper of PT-105 met Michener while stationed at the PT boat base on Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.

The edit that began with that addition (made the day after the 65th anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day, FWIW) pretty much, uh, blows the basis for that conscientious caution the hell to Davy Jones' locker. The previously removed portion of the same edit (perhaps moved to a more suitable place in coastwatcher) was

While the coastwatcher in the musical was cast as an American, these were actually a network of Australians and native scouts, some of whom helped save the crew of John F. Kennedy's PT-109. It was produced as a feature film in 1958. South Pacific was also followed by a series of movies and TV shows about sailors in the Pacific who were stranded on islands like John F. Kennedy's PT-109, including the pilot and TV series McHale's Navy, the movie PT-109, and Gilligan's Island.

   The core of the contrib seems to be personal or family reminiscences, and the remainder off-topic nostalgia about being part of WWII, the big one, which spawned more than one stranding-themed entertainment, perhaps bcz ... uh, it was so big?
--Jerzy•t 05:53, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

   The suggested addition about Me_____e & M___e_e_ belongs not in the accompanying article, but -- assuming the phenomenon is verifiable as established knowledge -- in Romanticization of Oceania.
--Jerzy•t 05:53, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Musical Adaptation

"The Remittance Man" The link here points to "remittance". There is a seperate section in Wikipedia for "remittance man" which gives a better understanding of the term 20.133.0.13 (talk) 11:33, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for suggestion. David Couch (talk) 22:32, 29 March 2014 (UTC)