slaytonf
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2 minutes ago, SadPanda said:
You're not attracted??
I think she's yummy.
You misunderstand.
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Just now, MovieCollectorOH said:
Now yer talkin'. Throw in the aesthetics of a cheesy cabaret show (just not Chuck E. Cheese), and I'd be all in.
Hey! Norm's is an institute!
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1 hour ago, misswonderly3 said:
Nobody here a Next Generation fan ? I somehow missed Star Trek the first time around, and have seen very few episodes of the original series. (I'd like to, though, watch them all.) But I discovered "Star Trek: The Next Generation" when it originally aired, in the '90s. I loved it, and now own the complete series, all 7 seasons, on DVD. In fact, I'm re-watching them all over the summer. I'm now at Season 4.
It's a great show, so smart and thought-provoking, not to mention entertaining. Isn't anyone here a fan of Captain Picard and company?
Any life lessons from it?
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42 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:
Come on, at least take her to Outbacks!
The only place I'd take her instead is Tail o' the Pup, and that's not there anymore. Well, maybe Du Par's.
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37 minutes ago, Dargo said:
LOL
HEY, their sirloin and shrimp, surf and turf dinner special for $8.99 is actually pretty darn tasty as I recall.
(...heck, you even got soup AND salad AND desert thrown in on the deal TOO!)
Natch.
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This is what I call the Sulu Effect. In a dreadful episode, called And the Children Shall Lead, to keep Kirk from directing the Enterprise where they didn't want it to go, mind-altering children at one point convince Lt. Sulu the ship is coursing through successive rings of daggers:
The Sulu Effect is where a person is so overcome by an idea or belief that they think any least deviation is intolerable. The preoccupation controls the way they view the world and how they act in it. Not only will they let it guide their actions, but they will try to force others conform to it too.
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I would take her to Norm's.
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If ever there were a time we needed the wisdom of Star Trek, it is now. Ok, ok, it's a TV series, but it's influenced movies. I'm not talking about the barely disguised jingoistic paradigms, or the quasi Cold War rivalries of the Federation with the Klingons and Romulans. Or the cavalier disregard--for good reason!--of the Prime Directive in almost any show (come to think of it, I can't remember one where they followed it). I'm talking about what it can tell us about people and what makes them think and behave the way they do. The most powerful one that comes to mind was one of the best shows, called Day of the Dove. An amorphous energy field maneuvers Klingons onto the Enterprise with a reduced crew, warping their thinking and memory, and setting them up for an eternal battle in intergalactic space so it can feed off the emotions of hate generated. Here is the ultimate resolution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v698nFlAVw&t=1s
I know it's chopped up, which interrupts the flow, but you get most of it. Confronting hate with hate, confronting anger with anger, confronting violence with violence, only feeds the beast. When there is unrest in society, you have to wonder who or what is fomenting it, and for what purposes. Is it the obvious parties at the head of the conflict? Or is that the show that is meant to dazzle and distract and occupy our attention? Sleight of hand artists get us to look where they want, so they can perform their manipulations unobserved. Or is this just paranoid fantasy?
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She don't sing great, but, man she can throw a wicked punch.
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*Warning!* Metaphor Overuse Alert!!
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Still riding.
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3 hours ago, Fedya said:
To be fair, there's a lot of casual tossing around of anti-Trump nonsense in most internet fora, too.
When he is fired or retired I will make the same comment.
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3 hours ago, SadPanda said:
Can it be remade ever again?
After all, 1997 was still the dark ages, compared to now. Wouldn't the woke burn down the studio now?
Please, no hobby-horse riding allowed here.
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Oh, that just makes me--angry.
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1 hour ago, txfilmfan said:
I read it. It's in the Historical Background section of my copy of Pygmalion, published by Washington Square Press.
Thanks. That fact is strangely omitted from every other thing I've read about the play.
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1 hour ago, NipkowDisc said:
obama supporters
Still can't get over it, huh?
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2 hours ago, txfilmfan said:
Pygmalion trivia: The play premiered in German in Vienna and Berlin before it was produced in the UK. For a play that exploits the class biases of spoken English as its core construct, I've always found that interesting.
Where did you hear that?
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It is shown from time to time. Though MovieCollectior's list says it hasn't been shown in--Ten years!
Well, you can request it by clicking on the Contact Us tab on the bottom of the TCM homepage. Then on the bottom of that page, click the Contact Us tab again and then you can submit your movie request. There is one box called 'Please choose your category below'. Click on the down arrow on the right side of the box and select 'Request a Movie'. Will it work? Who knows.
Or you can watch it on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqOhU3Eipzw
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Today what's most likely to happen is that someone will make prejudiced statements, then deny they are racist.
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37 minutes ago, SansFin said:
It is true that some people can handle both with complete comfort but there are freaks in all professions.
Michelangelo a freak! Well, I guesso. . . .
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I don't think it would be likely in the America of that date.
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But, with dignity.
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So it's in color?
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Another russian operative. Won't they eve stop their insidious campaign?
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Life lessons from Star Trek.
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But it was.
Pardon, wasn't futile.