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  1. Very nice film. I think Scott retired after it. Wonderful theme music, and love the kettle drums during the climactic shootout. Not unusual to see Warren Oates and John Anderson as villains, but James Drury? Interesting casting.

  2. Type the following symbols in sequence (omit my commas, and put a single space between img and src)

     

    <,img,src,=,url address of the photo,>

     

     

    Place the photo's url address in-between the = equal sign and the right arrow. Make sure there are no spaces between the equal sign and the url address and none between the url address and the right arrow.

     

    To find the url address, place your screen cursor over the photo, then right click your mouse and click on "properties." The address will then be listed. Copy that and place it in-between the equal sign and the right arrow, then post that to the blank "message" box on this thread.

     

    I got this long ago from FredCDobbs, so you can really thank him for it.

     

    This can be used if you want to copy an image from another website onto this page. If you have images on your computer you want to copy here, you need to use a site like photobucket.com (it's free, I use it) to upload your pictures, and then copy them from there to here.

     

     

    Rich

  3. In the novel, investigators stumble on the relationship between "Charles Calthrop" and the "Jackal" by examining the first three letters of the first and last names ... cha - cal, which means "jackal" in French. This is handled as a breakthrough in the investigation. But when this scene plays out in the movie, it's handled with an annoyed look from one of the investigators, as if he's saying "give me a break." I've always found this change amusing.

  4. Jack, the Groucho quote came from Dick Cavett. If Groucho in fact said it, I'm sure it was meant as an insult. In "The Marx Brothers Scrapbook," by Groucho Marx and Richard J. Anobile, Groucho says: "We had a very dull man for a director. Sam Wood was a fascist. A real son of a b****. Even his daughter hated him." (page 149)

     

    So I doubt if there was any love lost between Groucho and Wood.

  5. If I flip the channels and see this move, I inevitably start watching it, no matter at what point I arrive ... I've lost count how many times I've seen it. I know almost every detail, yet every time I see it, I enjoy it immensely. I am particularly impressed with the cast .. everyone delivers a first-rate performance. I actually believe they are jurors.

     

    By the way, the old man would have had to been walking 2.5 mph to get from his bedroom, and down the hall, to see the murder (my class figured that out, and they were correct). Could he have walked that fast, having had a stroke? Open question ;)

     

    I think there is one major flaw in the movie, though. Lee J. Cobb comes off as a bigot, or, at the very least, someone who is fed up with young punks. Yet, when Ed Begley goes into his diatribe about Hispanics, Cobb, like everyone else, turns his back on him. That just didn't ring true.

     

    Still, thumbs up, way up!

  6. On March 24, 1975, Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from King's Lynn, literally died laughing while watching an episode of The Goodies. According to his wife, who was a witness, Mitchell was unable to stop laughing whilst watching a sketch in the episode "Kung Fu Kapers" in which Tim Brooke-Taylor, dressed as a kilted Scotsman, used a set of bagpipes to defend himself from a black pudding-wielding Bill Oddie (master of the ancient Lancastrian martial art "Ecky-Thump") in a demonstration of the Scottish martial art of "Hoots-Toot-ochaye." After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter - almost the entire length of the show - Mitchell finally slumped on the sofa and expired from heart failure. His widow later sent The Goodies a letter thanking them for making Mitchell's final moments so pleasant.

     

    Of course it's from a blog. Here is one of many that contains the exact wording:

     

    http://www.buzzle.com/articles/145580.html

     

    You wouldn't expect a plagiarist to tell the truth, would you?

     

    Apparently, he's never heard of google search .. although now I suppose we'll get a 10-paragraph description of it, copied from wikipedia.

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