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I've been doing pop culture all week, and I thought I'd finish the week on the same theme. My first offical job as a teenager was in a movie theater. I started as a doorman and usher, then did concessions and box office, finally working as a manager. One summer I worked as an operator (non-union projectionist) when I was living in Ocean City, Md. Always in demand were old posters (one-sheets) from movies that had left the theater. I've still got a big box of them somewhere, I always thought they would make a dandy wallpaper for a game room or something, but I never had a house with such a dedicated room. In any event, the first question of the day is, what are your favorite movie posters? Doesn't matter how good the movie was, I'm just talking about really good posters themselves. Here's mine, I have it framed and hanging on the wall of my office:

Last Embrace was a 1979 film starring Roy Scheider about an ex-CIA operative. His wife had been killed on his last mission, and now people around him are dying. Is he going crazy, or is he the target of some nefarious plot? It was a pretty good movie, but I just love the one sheet art. (BTW, I'm pretty sure the picture above is of an insert ( 14” x 36” ), not a one sheet( 27” x 40” ), but it was the best picture I could find).

One other thing that was always fun was collecting reels of trailers, previews of coming attractions, called trailers because originally they were shown after the feature presentation. We would get trailers in every week to put at the beginning of films, but after the film was released and then gone from theaters, they would be thrown out or rolled up and tossed into a dusty cabinet in the projection booth, where they were forgotten. Some of my friends and I would gather these up and splice them together onto hour long reels, and sometimes at night after the theater was closed we would run private shows of these trailer reels. It was really a lot of fun. Question number two is: What trailers did you really enjoy? I offer you this:

The effects are crap by modern standards, but the mood! My God, the mood!

Posted by: WeirdDave at 06:30 PM

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1 First

Posted by: azjaeger at November 26, 2021 06:31 PM (x6KWs)

2 More often last

Posted by: azjaeger at November 26, 2021 06:33 PM (x6KWs)

3 _- 33 1/3

Posted by: Braenyard at November 26, 2021 06:33 PM (l029t)

4 Howdy, Weird Dave! Always enjoy an Ocean City reference, Hon!

Posted by: Doof at November 26, 2021 06:33 PM (mZUr4)

5 Thought we were getting willowed

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2021 06:34 PM (2JoB8)

6 Ocean City. Ah, my mis-spent youth.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 06:34 PM (u82oZ)

7 Howdy! Happy Black Friday!

Posted by: Moonbeam at November 26, 2021 06:34 PM (rbKZ6)

8 Ocean City. Ah, my mis-spent youth.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 06:34 PM (u82oZ)

There is still a place there called the Salty Dog Saloon. You the owner?? HAHA!!

Posted by: Doof at November 26, 2021 06:36 PM (mZUr4)

9 I've got Kansas City Bomber hanging on my wall.

Posted by: yep at November 26, 2021 06:36 PM (a21PD)

10 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 26, 2021 06:36 PM (Zz0t1)

11 Omicron this way comes!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 26, 2021 06:37 PM (63Dwl)

12 I was never much into movie posters. The only one that comes to mind is Jurassic Park.

I loved Something Wicked This Way Comes. My favorite scene was the "funeral" the carnival folk had through town, and Mr. Dark showing the kids faces as tattoos on his palms. As I recall, that was not in the book.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at November 26, 2021 06:37 PM (CAJOC)

13
Music by Miklós Rózsa. Ought to be worth listening to.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2021 06:37 PM (/U27+)

14 OT -Just wanted to recommend this excellent article from "The Federalist" about thanksgiving NOT being about genocide and violence. The author also uses a interesting word to refer to leftist grievance mongers including the Native American guy enraged about TG. They're angertainers. They make a living at being angry:

https://tinyurl.com/2p8nhca9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2021 06:37 PM (dhoHm)

15 My brother has a bunch of the old commercials from shitty B horror movies on his phone/MP3 player.

It's kinda hysterical.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 26, 2021 06:37 PM (Zz0t1)

16 Happy Friday of Color to all the... ladies?... at the Brattleboro Wymyns' Center.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at November 26, 2021 06:37 PM (PTevG)

17 On my computer room wall I have a LotR movie poster featuring Gollum. Creepy as hell, it freaks people out when they see him evilly looking at them as they enter the room.

Posted by: davidt at November 26, 2021 06:39 PM (0hbQ6)

18 I think David Lynch could do a good remake of Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 26, 2021 06:39 PM (nBzM9)

19
OT -Just wanted to recommend this excellent article from "The Federalist" about thanksgiving NOT being about genocide and violence.

Injuns checked the "I have read and understood the terms" box before downloading the treaty. Serves them right.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2021 06:40 PM (/U27+)

20 I always liked Roy Schieder, he had that old school quality about him. But I don't recall many of his movies. Sure there was Jaws, of course that one. There was also The Seven Ups, though I am not sure I ever saw it. I do remember Blade Runner. It was woke before it's time but we loved it because we were not angry and it was cool. The last one was about some guy trying to blow up the Astrodome. I don't recall the name of that one either, but I remember Roy Scheider.

Posted by: Quint at November 26, 2021 06:40 PM (NXntH)

21 I'll be a poser and say Star Wars IV and Pulp Fiction are amazing movie posters.

Also, my copy of The Hunt For Red October (the novel) has a cover rendered in movie-poster style. The first page (this is a paperback) has still photos from the movie.

Posted by: Cow Demon - The Spice Must Flow at November 26, 2021 06:40 PM (CdZ4i)

22 Doof

Nyah. Ocean City was several lifetimes ago.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 06:40 PM (u82oZ)

23 I don't recall the special affects being bad in SWTWC because I don't care about those things and as you noted it wasn't up to modern standards. I thought it was a good version of the Ray Bradbury book.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2021 06:40 PM (gLCCE)

24 Had chances for many movie posters as they got them at grocery store way back in the video renting age, never took 1.

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2021 06:40 PM (2JoB8)

25 Something wicked - thought it was HAL9000 going into overload

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 26, 2021 06:40 PM (/6GbT)

26 20 I always liked Roy Schieder, he had that old school quality about him. But I don't recall many of his movies. Sure there was Jaws, of course that one. There was also The Seven Ups, though I am not sure I ever saw it. I do remember Blade Runner. It was woke before it's time but we loved it because we were not angry and it was cool. The last one was about some guy trying to blow up the Astrodome. I don't recall the name of that one either, but I remember Roy Scheider.
Posted by: Quint at November 26, 2021 06:40 PM (NXntH)

Here's a forgotten movie with Roy Scheider that I rather liked:

2010.

Posted by: Cow Demon - The Spice Must Flow at November 26, 2021 06:41 PM (CdZ4i)

27 Omicron this way comes!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

Any idea why they would skip the Greek alphabet letter before Omicron?
I can't for the life of me figure it out. /s

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 26, 2021 06:41 PM (mMQZc)

28 Doof

There were these women in high school with me ... Never went into a bar.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 06:41 PM (u82oZ)

29 She's nippin pretty good as she's about to die in that poster.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 26, 2021 06:42 PM (Zz0t1)

30 27 Omicron this way comes!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

when one peters out, they got another one in the wings

Posted by: REDACTED at November 26, 2021 06:42 PM (us2H3)

31 AZ deplorable moron

This is the modern version of the Jaws music, but with COVID-19 Wuhan variants.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 06:42 PM (u82oZ)

32 Not necessarily my favorites but I have Pulp Fiction, Casablanca and Wizard of Oz posters in my media room.

And the Jaws poster is probably the most famous.

Posted by: Just a side note at November 26, 2021 06:42 PM (xIkNd)

33
American Indians got treated a hell of a lot better than inhabitants of the Caucasus when the Russians conquered it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2021 06:43 PM (/U27+)

34 but I remember Roy Scheider.
Posted by: Quint at November 26, 2021 06:40 PM (NXntH)

He was in 2010

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 26, 2021 06:43 PM (/6GbT)

35 Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks

That wrist hold only works in Hollywood.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 06:43 PM (u82oZ)

36 I think the idea of trailers that were better than the movie would be a good one. One trailer I always loved was Legends of the Fall.

Those old movie posters remind me of Bullfight posters. Unlike the latter, in most cases, I could see some being valuable.

Posted by: Quint at November 26, 2021 06:44 PM (NXntH)

37 A question for the Bond aficionados. I remember, that is, I think I remember, a Bond poster where he* is posing with a pistol that is obviously a break-barrel airgun. I tried looking online but couldn't find it, possibly because I imagined the whole thing.

* he, in this case, unless my memory is failing again, is Roger Moore

Posted by: Oddbob at November 26, 2021 06:44 PM (nfrXX)

38
That wrist hold only works in Hollywood.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 06:43 PM (u82oZ)

Well yeah.....I know I ain't strong enough to grab someone like that on the way down and stop them for more than a second or two.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 26, 2021 06:44 PM (Zz0t1)

39 20 I always liked Roy Schieder, he had that old school quality about him. But I don't recall many of his movies. Sure there was Jaws, of course that one. There was also The Seven Ups, though I am not sure I ever saw it. I do remember Blade Runner. It was woke before it's time but we loved it because we were not angry and it was cool. The last one was about some guy trying to blow up the Astrodome. I don't recall the name of that one either, but I remember Roy Scheider.
Posted by: Quint at November 26, 2021 06:40 PM (NXntH)

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He was also in a TV show called SeaQuest DSV

Posted by: No One of Consequence at November 26, 2021 06:45 PM (CAJOC)

40 We have Netflix and Amazon Prime for streaming shows and films, and I keep swearing to drop them because there is so little to watch that is not SJW crap, but I got tuned into a guy named something Van Dam.

He has a YouTube channel focusing on films that can be streamed, and I watched his latest about what's worth watching on both those platforms. Made a list of almost 30 films to try on each.

Am still thinking it's all crap, after viewing a few on each, none of which I watched to the end.

One was shot in Poland, another in Spain, and one thing that can be said for films done in those countries, is that the producers and casting directors don't feel compelled to flood the zone with POC actors. Both countries have allmost-all-white populations.

Not that I am racist (or am I?) but everything done here feels a little otherworldly to me, not living anywhere near a big metro area. Rainbow casts full of every letter in the alphabet just doesn't match reality, IMHO.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at November 26, 2021 06:45 PM (KiBMU)

41 "I think David Lynch could do a good remake of Something Wicked This Way Comes."

Does he even make movies anymore?

Posted by: lowandslow at November 26, 2021 06:45 PM (4thlk)

42 I have posters used to advertise plays I was in, signed by the cast and crew. Worthless.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 06:45 PM (u82oZ)

43 Posted by: Quint at November 26, 2021 06:40 PM (NXntH)

Marathon Man. Relatively small part re: screen time.

Posted by: Just a side note at November 26, 2021 06:45 PM (xIkNd)

44 Jean Claude Van Dame?

Posted by: davidt at November 26, 2021 06:46 PM (0hbQ6)

45 Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks

The fingers slip through the grip. Good by.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 06:46 PM (u82oZ)

46 I always liked "The Killer Elite".

James Caan and Burt Young's fat ass doing judo.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 26, 2021 06:47 PM (6FtXF)

47 20 I always liked Roy Schieder, he had that old school quality about him. But I don't recall many of his movies. ...
Posted by: Quint at November 26, 2021 06:40 PM (NXntH)
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5, 6, 7, 8, .....All that Jazz

Posted by: Braenyard at November 26, 2021 06:47 PM (l029t)

48 Just watched Blithe Spirit (2021) it was funny but I wonder if the original 1945 version was better?

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 26, 2021 06:48 PM (FcPY7)

49 Howdy! Happy Black Friday!
Posted by: Moonbeam

Hiya Moonbeam !

Posted by: JT at November 26, 2021 06:48 PM (arJlL)

50 I recently saw "The French Connection" Never saw it initially. Roy Schieder was very good in that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2021 06:48 PM (poMoX)

51 I don't recall the name of that one either, but I remember Roy Scheider.
Posted by: Quint

He made a remake of I think a french film called Sorcerer that was really good. Desperate man having to do desperate things.

Also the Rebel Yell is cool.

Posted by: Blutarski at November 26, 2021 06:49 PM (rz+/y)

52 , 6, 7, 8, .....All that Jazz

Posted by: Braenyard at November 26, 2021 06:47 PM (l029t)

all of these are great. I know most of them or heard he was in them. But no way I could pull them up. They are on the too watch list, thanks all.

Posted by: Quint at November 26, 2021 06:49 PM (NXntH)

53
The fingers slip through the grip. Good by.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 06:46 PM (u82oZ)

https://pics.filmaffinity.com/Cliffhanger-521965763- large.jpg

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at November 26, 2021 06:49 PM (Zz0t1)

54 I didn't know there was a new version of Blithe Spirit. I love the older film.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 26, 2021 06:50 PM (poMoX)

55 AZ deplorable moron

I looked it up. They skipped the letter Xi. Too on the nose.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 06:50 PM (u82oZ)

56 Braveheart and The Matrix are pretty good movie posters. I don't have enough room to put up any more.

Posted by: Just a side note at November 26, 2021 06:50 PM (xIkNd)

57 Blue Thunder

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 26, 2021 06:51 PM (/6GbT)

58 Wow, that is not a kind photo of Roy. Woof.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 26, 2021 06:51 PM (1t5dY)

59 Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks

Thank you. Much better. An aerialist wrist grip with good arm strength.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 06:51 PM (u82oZ)

60 Speaking of movie trailers... my Dad was friends with Don LaFontaine as a kid in Duluth MN.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 26, 2021 06:52 PM (flINI)

61 20 I always liked Roy Schieder, he had that old school quality about him. But I don't recall many of his movies.

Posted by: Quint at November 26, 2021 06:40 PM (NXntH)

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Blue Thunder was a decent flick. It was no award winner, but good enough to watch on a rainy Saturday afternoon.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at November 26, 2021 06:52 PM (lNHqD)

62 I always liked "The Killer Elite".

James Caan and Burt Young's fat ass doing judo.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 26, 2021 06:47 PM (6FtXF)

Pauly doing judo. Gotta see that.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 26, 2021 06:52 PM (2O3/e)

63 Pauly doing judo. Gotta see that.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

There's a scene where he crawls under a car to search for bombs and finds one. He makes a noise that always makes me laugh. Kind of Oh, No! and Oof da!

Posted by: Blutarski at November 26, 2021 06:54 PM (rz+/y)

64 I make my own "movie posters" from the pics I take:

https://tinyurl.com/2p879t63

https://tinyurl.com/4bszsytd

https://tinyurl.com/2p8uwwbw

Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 26, 2021 06:54 PM (vuisn)

65 New York Post:
Gov. Kathy Hochul orders elective surgery canceled amid COVID spike, Omicron https://trib.al/t9feRci
~~~~~

Unbelievable.

It's a cull.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 26, 2021 06:55 PM (7b2L9)

66 Doof

There were these women in high school with me ... Never went into a bar.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 06:41 PM (u82oZ)

I met the future Mrs Doof in Ocean City 32 years ago. We started dating 2 years after we met. Many family vacations there as a kid, then many more with my kids years later. Spent many fun summers down there as a teen. Very fun times!! I have since discovered that there are many better places to enjoy the beach -- but OC will always hold a special place in my heart.

Posted by: Doof at November 26, 2021 06:55 PM (mZUr4)

67 New FL man charged with 1200 counts of sexual assault

Posted by: REDACTED at November 26, 2021 06:55 PM (us2H3)

68 Apologies for going off topic. Should have checked. Mea culpa.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 26, 2021 06:55 PM (7b2L9)

69 Blade runner lol. oof. Yeah Blue Thunder. I wondered why people kept mentioning it lol.

Posted by: Quint at November 26, 2021 06:56 PM (NXntH)

70 angertainers ... good word, FS !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (ahosz) at November 26, 2021 06:56 PM (ahosz)

71 I don't really remember any movie posters. Probably would recognize some of them but don't have any images in the old memory banks.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Semi-Stuffed Meatbag at November 26, 2021 06:57 PM (4I/2K)

72 Injuns checked the "I have read and understood the terms" box before downloading the treaty. Serves them right.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at

Dancing Queen (Angie) had a great retort to BLM

Black Lives Mattern
@Blklivesmatter
You are eating dry turkey and overcooked stuffing on stolen land.

GhostOAngie3
@OAngie3 Replying to @Blklivesmatter
I'm on conquered land, not stolen land, you dumb commies.

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 26, 2021 06:57 PM (FcPY7)

73 Speaking of movie trailers... my Dad was friends with Don LaFontaine as a kid in Duluth MN.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 26, 2021 06:52 PM (flINI)

"In a world...." There was actually a movie with that name a few years ago. About that line of work. Decent movie. Not great, but not bad.

Posted by: Doof at November 26, 2021 06:58 PM (mZUr4)

74 It's a cull.
Posted by: IrishEi

Is that a typo? Coz it works too

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 26, 2021 06:59 PM (FcPY7)

75 Another great Roy Scheider film is Sorcerer, a remake of the French film The Wages of Fear, about 4 fugitives trying to transport a truckload of nitroglycerin across some South American hellhole with dirt tracks for roads. The bridge scene is intense.

https://youtu.be/3BDbIzovuos

Posted by: Weirddave at November 26, 2021 06:59 PM (kaZpl)

76 IrishEi

She is a tyrant that does not have this power, but asserts it. What to do? What to do?

People can die without even elective surgery. Can she be charged with their deaths?

And think of the A cup beauties and their plastic surgeons. Sad.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 07:00 PM (u82oZ)

77 Dancing Queen (Angie) had a great retort to BLM

Black Lives Mattern
@Blklivesmatter
You are eating dry turkey and overcooked stuffing on stolen land.

GhostOAngie3
@OAngie3 Replying to @Blklivesmatter
I'm on conquered land, not stolen land, you dumb commies.
Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 26, 2021 06:57 PM (FcPY7)

How about just Dry Land??
https://youtu.be/Kmws1elYNHw

Posted by: Doof at November 26, 2021 07:00 PM (mZUr4)

78 Just an fyi, for black friday roku is offering 99c/mo for 2 months on some premium channels and hulu is offering 99c/mo for one year

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 26, 2021 07:01 PM (FcPY7)

79 Posted by: Doof at November 26, 2021 06:55 PM (mZUr4)

I met my wife when I was 21. We were both antique dealers and did biz together but nothing else. Then we had a falling out and didn't see each other for 5 years.

then I saw her again in the mid 80's and we haven't been apart since

she was and still is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, in real life

Posted by: REDACTED at November 26, 2021 07:01 PM (us2H3)

80 He made a remake of I think a french film called Sorcerer that was really good. Desperate man having to do desperate things.

Also the Rebel Yell is cool.

Posted by: Blutarski at November 26, 2021 06:49 PM (rz+/y)

I thought you might be referring to the roller coaster and had to check if he was in that movie/. Damn if that movie didn't have an all star cast.

Posted by: Quint at November 26, 2021 07:01 PM (NXntH)

81 elswys, i got nuffin' ... posters ? trailers ? nope, bupkiss ...

g'night everyone ! the good lord bless us, every one, & keep us safe !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (ahosz) at November 26, 2021 07:02 PM (ahosz)

82 REDACTED

Congratulations to you two turtledoves.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 07:02 PM (u82oZ)

83 Hey a pop culture/movie thread! Thanks WeirdDave!

Last Embrace looks like a 1970s take on North By Northwest. Silly Hollywood fools should know by now, nobody can outdo Hitchcock. (Although Brian DePalma sometimes came close.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2021 07:02 PM (L2ZTs)

84 7 Howdy! Happy Black Friday!
Posted by: Moonbeam at November 26, 2021 06:34 PM (rbKZ6)

OH, is that where they go out and loot some more stores?

Posted by: Romeo13, having Dalls Flashbacks at November 26, 2021 07:03 PM (oHd/0)

85 Congratulations to you two turtledoves.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 07:02 PM (u82oZ)

for at least 30 minutes a day

otherwise, we are at each other's throats

Posted by: REDACTED at November 26, 2021 07:04 PM (us2H3)

86 Whatever the outcome, Ms. Margolin will need new sandals.

Posted by: Something Miklos This Way Comes at November 26, 2021 07:05 PM (QzkSJ)

87 I met my wife when I was 21. We were both antique dealers and did biz together but nothing else. Then we had a falling out and didn't see each other for 5 years.

then I saw her again in the mid 80's and we haven't been apart since

she was and still is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, in real life
Posted by: REDACTED at November 26, 2021 07:01 PM (us2H3)

Very nice!! Kinda like a twist on Dan Folgerberg's "Same Auld Lang Syne"

Posted by: Doof at November 26, 2021 07:05 PM (mZUr4)

88 REDACTED

There is a T-shirt out there saying

90% of marriage is shouting into another room: "What?"

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 07:05 PM (u82oZ)

89 first snow of this winter here in Mill River MA

about an inch

Posted by: REDACTED at November 26, 2021 07:06 PM (us2H3)

90 Doof:
Dan Fogelberg. :-)

Folgerberg was his super-caffeinated doppleganger.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2021 07:06 PM (L2ZTs)

91
she was and still is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, in real life
Posted by: REDACTED at November 26, 2021 07:01 PM (us2H3)

Recently told Her Majesty that she'll always look 18 to me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2021 07:07 PM (/U27+)

92 Black Lives Mattern
@Blklivesmatter
You are eating dry turkey and overcooked stuffing on stolen land.

GhostOAngie3
@OAngie3 Replying to @Blklivesmatter
I'm on conquered land, not stolen land, you dumb commies.
Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 26, 2021 06:57 PM (FcPY7)

Uh, BLACKS do understand they are ALSO on stolen land? Unless they moved back to Africa?

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 26, 2021 07:07 PM (oHd/0)

93 REDACTED

A worldly wise women told me when I was 17 that snow fall is like men. You never know how much you are getting until you see it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 07:08 PM (u82oZ)

94 What, not an open thread?

So now America will utterly beclown and damage itself, *again*, with virus idiocy? What a surprise.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2021 07:08 PM (OTzUX)

95 Hadrian the Seventh

Thats nice. I hope it worked. I guess homecoming are like returning from sea.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 07:09 PM (u82oZ)

96 yeah, because of elective surgery cancelled I got to enjoy my colostomy for several extra months ...
fwiw
meh, one good thing about a colostomy is that a bit of runniness that would be troublesome to the sphinctered is just an event to those with a bag; no big deal.
still glad to have gotten it all back in working order, make no mistake about that !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (ahosz) at November 26, 2021 07:09 PM (ahosz)

97 90% of marriage is shouting into another room: "What?"
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 07:05 PM (u82oZ)

lol, the troof is hilaruous

I'm thinking about getting hearing aids

and then again, maybe not

Posted by: REDACTED at November 26, 2021 07:10 PM (us2H3)

98 64 Dr Varno very good

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2021 07:10 PM (2JoB8)

99
Thats nice. I hope it worked. I guess homecoming are like returning from sea.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 07:09 PM (u82oZ)

By the time the shows in Florida end next month, she'll have been on the road for half the days this year.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2021 07:10 PM (/U27+)

100 A worldly wise women told me when I was 17 that snow fall is like men. You never know how much you are getting until you see it.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 07:08 PM (u82oZ)

lol, you're on fire

Posted by: REDACTED at November 26, 2021 07:11 PM (us2H3)

101 Recently told Her Majesty that she'll always look 18 to me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2021 07:07 PM (/U27+)

awww

Posted by: REDACTED at November 26, 2021 07:11 PM (us2H3)

102 100 A worldly wise women told me when I was 17 that snow fall is like men. You never know how much you are getting until you see it.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 07:08 PM (u82oZ)

lol, you're on fire
Posted by: REDACTED at November 26, 2021 07:11 PM (us2H3)

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They make a cream for that.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at November 26, 2021 07:12 PM (CAJOC)

103 Yeah, "elective surgery" isn't just boob jobs, face jobs and implants. Get that right out of your mind.

Elective surgery is anything that isn't done on emergency basis, more or less.

By definition a ban on elective surgery will more or less kill many, many people, and fairly quickly.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 26, 2021 07:12 PM (KNsfV)

104 When she takes over that organization and stops showing, will she travel as much?

And being gone for 6 months was a thing in my job routine as a Naval Officer, so I feel for you. I was once gone 13 months.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 07:12 PM (u82oZ)

105 Nice! Samsung is going to build a $17 Billion Chip Factory, in Taylor Texas.

I think they see the writing on the wall.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 26, 2021 07:12 PM (oHd/0)

106 Recently told Her Majesty that she'll always look 18 to me.

I told my wife she's the only one I will ever love.

All the others are sevens and eights.

Posted by: Weirddave at November 26, 2021 07:12 PM (kaZpl)

107 97 90% of marriage is shouting into another room: "What?"
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 07:05 PM (u82oZ)

lol, the troof is hilaruous

I'm thinking about getting hearing aids

and then again, maybe not
Posted by: REDACTED at November 26, 2021 07:10 PM (us2H3)

Mrs IMG laughed and said, "Not 90%, bit SOME percentage, SURE!"

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at November 26, 2021 07:13 PM (8C7+r)

108 Thanks, Skip. I've made at least a hundred or so -- should make a coffee table book!

Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 26, 2021 07:13 PM (vuisn)

109 Any idea why they would skip the Greek alphabet letter before Omicron?
I can't for the life of me figure it out. /s
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 26, 2021 06:41 PM (mMQZc)

Because there were "mutations" that they found that weren't dangerous, and the word Omicron is scary

Posted by: Kindltot at November 26, 2021 07:14 PM (P9T5R)

110 Weirddave

To wives and girlfriends. Mat they never meet.

- A traditional Navy toast.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 07:14 PM (u82oZ)

111 110 Weirddave

To wives and girlfriends. Mat they never meet.

- A traditional Navy toast.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 07:14 PM (u82oZ)

Yeah, watch out for that Matt guy!

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 26, 2021 07:14 PM (oHd/0)

112 May. Sheesh.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 07:15 PM (u82oZ)

113 Romeo13

Yup. Time to step away. We have leftovers!

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 07:15 PM (u82oZ)

114 autocucumber never sleeps !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (ahosz) at November 26, 2021 07:15 PM (ahosz)

115
When she takes over that organization and stops showing, will she travel as much?

In January, it's Glen Rose, then Corpus Christi, then Westminster.

Then it all stops. She's the judge of the 2022 BCOA National Specialty and doesn't want to be out in the four months before the show.

The breeder of her principal rival has been on the warpath trying to influence the national board either to make her stop showing or strip her of the National assignment. Read the contract, HM says, doesn't say anything about that. And a contract trumps any standing rule that might be slipped by.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2021 07:16 PM (/U27+)

116 Doof:
Dan Fogelberg. :-)

Folgerberg was his super-caffeinated doppleganger.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2021 07:06 PM (L2ZTs)

Haha -- comical typo!

Posted by: Doof at November 26, 2021 07:16 PM (mZUr4)

117 sock_rat_eez, we may need to talk.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko gender fluid at November 26, 2021 07:17 PM (YW+V7)

118 always "people" trying to game the system ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (ahosz) at November 26, 2021 07:17 PM (ahosz)

119 116 Doof:
Dan Fogelberg. :-)

Folgerberg was his super-caffeinated doppleganger.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2021 07:06 PM (L2ZTs)

Haha -- comical typo!
Posted by: Doof at November 26, 2021 07:16 PM (mZUr4)

The Horde, never let a typo go to waste!

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 26, 2021 07:17 PM (oHd/0)

120 90% of marriage is shouting into another room: "What?"

This is so funny. It's my life... every. single. fucking. day.

Which is why I spend a lot of time freezing or sweating my ass off in my garage.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 26, 2021 07:17 PM (BFigT)

121 103 Yeah, "elective surgery" isn't just boob jobs, face jobs and implants. Get that right out of your mind.

Elective surgery is anything that isn't done on emergency basis, more or less.

By definition a ban on elective surgery will more or less kill many, many people, and fairly quickly.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 26, 2021 07:12 PM (KNsfV)

-------------------------

Found that out when Covid first hit. A few days before my son's scheduled back surgery, they cancelled all elective surgeries. At first, I thought it would be OK, because this wasn't "elective", it was a surgery he needed. It ended being rescheduled twice, and happened 3 months after the original appointment.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at November 26, 2021 07:17 PM (CAJOC)

122 To wives and girlfriends. Mat they never meet.

- A traditional Navy toast.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at November 26, 2021 07:14 PM (u82oZ)

Rodney Carrington -- Today's The Day My Wife Met My Girlfriend
https://youtu.be/fMNzF9i8e4k

Posted by: Doof at November 26, 2021 07:19 PM (mZUr4)

123 Among the many pertinent things I don't know due to giving up on it all a year ago - whether there's been any rigorous look at the medical cost of deferred screenings and treatment due to unscientific virus idiocy.

It's not a new area, all of the interval recommendations for screening tests are based on statistical analysis of benefit and risk/cost. And for many serious non-emergency conditions, there is lots of good data on the risk of deferring treatment.

Waaay back at the start, spring 2020, of all places Ontario's health chief announced they'd already calculated the number of deaths likely due to deferred cardiac screenings/care. Surely they just used the existing statistical framework to generate that estimate.

And on the other side of the scale, let's see any rigorous or persuasive analysis showing *any* benefits to *all* the "mitigation" policies. Any. All. There are control groups (Sweden, FL, SD, others). We already know there's been no interesting variation in results between the two groups. Let's see the medieval witch doctor/lysenkoist totalitarians attempt to show one.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 26, 2021 07:19 PM (OTzUX)

124
Yeah, "elective surgery" isn't just boob jobs, face jobs and implants. Get that right out of your mind.

We need an emergency exemption for boob jobs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2021 07:19 PM (/U27+)

125 Samsung is going to build a $17 Billion Chip Factory, in Taylor Texas.

Posted by: Romeo13

At that price they aren't going to sell many. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at November 26, 2021 07:20 PM (mD/uy)

126 Commissar, try the email in nic ...
if that works ...

otherwise, ask again.

re the bag ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (ahosz) at November 26, 2021 07:20 PM (ahosz)

127 Dr Varno with that many and quality you should make a coffee table book

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2021 07:21 PM (2JoB8)

128 Just started reading Beowulf.
Hope it's good. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2021 07:21 PM (L2ZTs)

129 Joe Biden's colon made me President. True story!

Posted by: Kamala Harris at November 26, 2021 07:21 PM (1vynn)

130 Roy Scheider was also the star of "All That Jazz", a semi-autobiographical movie of Bob Fosse, and he had a supporting role in "The French Connection".

He was in "52 Pick-Up" with Ann Margaret (who played his wife).

He was also in "Blue Thunder", a police helicopter movie.

I think he was also the star of some kind of cold war military thriller called "The Fourth War", or something like that.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at November 26, 2021 07:23 PM (tjZg/)

131 Just got back from Nordstroms.

Limited selection, but can't beat the prices.

Posted by: Black Friday Miklos Matters at November 26, 2021 07:24 PM (QzkSJ)

132 Comet has been running an X-Files marathon since yesterday. I think it's going all weekend, too.

Gillian Anderson, hubba hubba.

Posted by: Sharkman at November 26, 2021 07:24 PM (TQpmS)

133 Wife always thought we met two years later than I thought. Going through one of her picture binders, 30th b-day party, there I was. She finally gave in. So much for good first impressions.

Posted by: From That Time at November 26, 2021 07:24 PM (4780s)

134 Joe Biden's colon made me President. True story!
Posted by: Kamala Harris

It was a man's penis that got me this far, but it was another man's anus that got me to the top!

Posted by: Kamel-Toe Senator Side Piece at November 26, 2021 07:25 PM (rz+/y)

135 Roy Scheider seemed willing to act in anything, good or bad.

I don't know if he just liked working/money, had a killer coke habit, or both.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2021 07:25 PM (L2ZTs)

136
Best of Breed, regular Group 2 and owner-handled Best in Show for Delilah at today's Montgomery KC show. We would have preferred a regular BIS and an owner-handled Group 2, but we'll take them where they come from.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 26, 2021 07:25 PM (/U27+)

137 Never been to OC,Md despite driving by it many a time. Mom says its a honky tonk. Chincoteague doesn't have a bar on the island. I like Chincoteague.

Posted by: Jamaica Queens at November 26, 2021 07:25 PM (b+v9B)

138 Something Wicked This Way Comes was good and scary.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Sexual Racist. at November 26, 2021 07:25 PM (II3Gr)

139 90% of marriage is shouting into another room: "What?"
Posted by: NaCly Dog

lol, the troof is hilaruous
I'm thinking about getting hearing aids
and then again, maybe not
Posted by: REDACTED

I've already got hearing AIDS; I've been listening to too many assholes in my life.

Yeah, I'm actually almost deaf in my left ear, and sometimes can't hear my wife if she is to my left.
"WHAT?"
Ain't that the truth.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at November 26, 2021 07:28 PM (tjZg/)

140 The trailer for SWTWC looks like a giallo version of "The Polar Express", and the train went to a school holiday play of Dante's Inferno directed by Fellini instead of the North Pole.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at November 26, 2021 07:28 PM (Dc2NZ)

141 Samsung is going to build a $17 Billion Chip Factory, in Taylor Texas.

Posted by: Romeo13

At that price they aren't going to sell many. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at November 26, 2021 07:20 PM (mD/uy)

Eh, they'll just get some federal contracts for bitcoin mining and give half to the big guy, and it'll all work out.

Posted by: Methos at November 26, 2021 07:28 PM (kOpft)

142 Never been to OC,Md despite driving by it many a time. Mom says its a honky tonk. Chincoteague doesn't have a bar on the island. I like Chincoteague.
Posted by: Jamaica Queens at November 26, 2021 07:25 PM (b+v9B)

I have been to OC more times that I can possibly count since the mid 70s. I've heard it described as many things. But never a honky tonk.

Posted by: Doof at November 26, 2021 07:29 PM (mZUr4)

143 One movie I really want to see soon is, "Becoming The Ricardos." Nicole Kidman is Lucille Ball, Javier Bardem is Desi Arnaz.

Aaron Sorkin wrote it. It takes place over one week of Lucy and Desi making another episode of I Love Lucy in about 1954, but actually compresses a number of events that took place throughout the 1950s into the plotline.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2021 07:29 PM (L2ZTs)

144 Just started reading Beowulf.
Hope it's good.

Grendel's mom, why you never stick your missile in crazy...

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 26, 2021 07:30 PM (BCnx7)

145 Here's a forgotten movie with Roy Scheider that I rather liked:

2010.
Posted by: Cow Demon - The Spice Must Flow at November 26, 2021 06:41 PM (CdZ4i)
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It was much better than I remembered. Beautiful shots of Jupiter.

Scheider was great in the criminally underviewed "Sorcerer".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at November 26, 2021 07:30 PM (Dc2NZ)

146 SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, there is added scenes and I think a Different ending copy floating around somewhere.
Damn It's such a good movie. Surprised it came from Disney.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at November 26, 2021 07:30 PM (dKiJG)

147 Recently told Her Majesty that she'll always look 18 to me.

When I did that, she got mad because she'd worked so hard to get down to a size 12.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 26, 2021 07:30 PM (nfrXX)

148 Wife works at MEETH in Manhattan. Hochul is screwing over upstate. How hot is MEETH for surgeries? Well, Friday, a lady came in for rhinoplasty with symptomatic Covid: sneezing & coughing. Doc and management said do it. $$

Posted by: Jamaica Queens at November 26, 2021 07:31 PM (b+v9B)

149 Anna, yup.

Also, you know why Hollywood loves making movies of it: they don't have to pay the author. ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2021 07:31 PM (L2ZTs)

150 One movie I really want to see soon is, "Becoming The Ricardos." Nicole Kidman is Lucille Ball, Javier Bardem is Desi Arnaz.
Posted by: qdpsteve

What platform or streaming service is it on?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at November 26, 2021 07:31 PM (rz+/y)

151 Well, what we feared is happening.

In an age where the dominant themes of Catholic Church architecture are postmodern joylessness and paraboloid severity, there was no guarantee that the beauty of Notre-Dame wouldn't be replaced by something ungainly and grim and awful.
That possibility, alas, appears to be coming to pass:
Paris's fire-ravaged Notre-Dame cathedral risks resembling a "politically correct Disneyland" under controversial plans for its renovation seen by The Telegraph.
Critics have warned that the world-famous cathedral will be turned into an "experimental showroom" under plans to dramatically change the inside of the medieval building.
Under the proposed changes, confessional boxes, altars and classical sculptures will be replaced with modern art murals, and new sound and light effects to create "emotional spaces".
There will be themed chapels on a "discovery trail", with an emphasis on Africa and Asia, while quotes from the Bible will be projected onto chapel walls in various languages, including Mandarin.
The final chapel on the trail will have a strong environmental emphasis.

-
I guess we should be happy it doesn't include a mosque.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 26, 2021 07:32 PM (FVME7)

152 Blutarski, actually and to my surprise, it's already in theaters.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2021 07:32 PM (L2ZTs)

153 NOOD. Snoopy topside.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM- not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at November 26, 2021 07:32 PM (+ldAm)

154 Schneider and Lithgow aboard Alexi Leonov discussing baseball hot dogs.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 26, 2021 07:32 PM (BCnx7)

155 Doof, mom's from Buffalo raised by German Lutherans. Honky tonk means out past 9.

Posted by: Jamaica Queens at November 26, 2021 07:32 PM (b+v9B)

156 From now Philadelphia suburbs we always went to Jersey or more often Delaware, but there would take the drive to Ocean city Maryland one night to the board walk.

Posted by: Skip at November 26, 2021 07:33 PM (2JoB8)

157 Becoming The Ricardos will be available on Amazon Prime Video starting December 21.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2021 07:33 PM (L2ZTs)

158 REDACTED

Congratulations to you two turtledoves.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Seconded !

Posted by: JT at November 26, 2021 07:33 PM (arJlL)

159 Outstanding !

Congrats H7, & Mrs ... & Delilah !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (ahosz) at November 26, 2021 07:33 PM (ahosz)

160 Not that I am racist (or am I?) but everything done here feels a little otherworldly to me, not living anywhere near a big metro area. Rainbow casts full of every letter in the alphabet just doesn't match reality, IMHO.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at November 26, 2021 06:45 PM (KiBMU)
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If it reflects reality, it feels real. If a tiny Michigan town in the 50's is cast as though it's the Lower East Side, it's tick-a-box bullshit. I also hate how fantasy worlds have tiny hamlets in the middle of nowhere with multiracial populations. Transportation was HARD, yo.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at November 26, 2021 07:33 PM (Dc2NZ)

161 The new Ghostbusters does a little of the Check Box Race junk.

Phoebe's older brother falls for the one black girl in this podunk Oklahoma town... why couldn't she be Native American which would work better. Or that Phoebe in summer school is befriended by the little Asian kid that I immediately called Short-Round instead of the nickname he has in the film - Podcast.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 26, 2021 07:38 PM (BCnx7)

162 135 Roy Scheider seemed willing to act in anything, good or bad.

I don't know if he just liked working/money, had a killer coke habit, or both.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 26, 2021 07:25 PM (L2ZTs)

Jaws 4 Michael Caine said Hey I have a mortgage to pay

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at November 26, 2021 07:41 PM (dKiJG)

163 Scheider was also terrific in Marathon Man. (And if you watch the movie, don't forget to check out the novel, which is better -- for my money the best thriller of the 70s; the book's ending is better too).

Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 26, 2021 07:43 PM (JzDjf)

164 Michael Caine.

Muppets Christmas Carol.

Enough said.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 26, 2021 07:43 PM (VxC1e)

165 I guess we should be happy it doesn't include a mosque.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 26, 2021 07:32 PM (FVME7)

Give it 50 years before the minarets appear.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 26, 2021 07:45 PM (2O3/e)

166 50 years

Being an optimist you are. Think France is above 20% Islamic now.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 26, 2021 07:46 PM (BCnx7)

167 The very first Starship Troopers trailer (which ended with Summer 1997 to show you old it was) had a great voice over.

"Since his existence, Man has ruled the Earth. In the future, the rules change."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 26, 2021 07:59 PM (OU+8W)

168 It's a cull.
Posted by: IrishEi
----------
Is that a typo? Coz it works too
Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at November 26, 2021 06:59 PM (FcPY7)
~~~~~

Not a typo.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 26, 2021 08:16 PM (7b2L9)

169 Dirty Harry movies were released before Christmas. One of the Dirty Harry sequels had a poster featuring Dirty Harry and his 44 with a banner popping out of the barrel that said "Season's Greetings!"

Posted by: Dennis York at November 26, 2021 08:50 PM (dBNX/)

170 Can't remember whether it belonged to a friend or I saw it in a store.

Anyway -- a "Raiders of the Lost Ark" promo poster with Tom Selleck's likeness. He looked tough, and I still wonder how "Raiders" would have gone had he been able to accept the role.

Posted by: Weak Geek at November 26, 2021 08:51 PM (Om/di)

171 WeirdDave, given your love of trailers, have you seen the web site "Trailers From Hell"? It presents old movie trailers, with commentary by film professionals. The site is run by Joe Dante, who directed the Gremlins movies. Most of the commentators are quite good (with the exception of John Landis, who is dreadful). It's one of my guilty pleasures.

Posted by: Nemo at November 26, 2021 08:57 PM (S6ArX)

172 The trailer for "Suicide Squad" -- the first one -- had me jazzed to see the movie.

When it was released, I read a bunch of reviews.

Still haven't seen the movie.

Posted by: Weak Geek at November 26, 2021 09:03 PM (Om/di)

173 In no particular order:

The Rocketeer

Big Trouble in Little China

Subway

Heavy Metal

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Posted by: Editor at November 27, 2021 12:31 AM (WsIXv)

174 I was just watching Burt Lancaster in Scorpio, made a few years before The Last Embrace. Kind of ironic to see this thread, as I instantly thought of Scheider's movie while watching it.

52 Pickup with Ann Margaret is another good Scheider movie, based on an Elmore Leonard novel. Leonard thought it was one of the better movies out there based on his work.

Posted by: Just G at November 27, 2021 11:54 AM (Y+lix)

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