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  1. That's the one.

    We played "Colonel Bogey March" in band a couple of years ago.  The director thought it was funny that the program notes still refer to BOTRK, a movie that come out before most of the audience was born.  :wave:

    George

  2. Vigilante                              I.C.U.                             The Wolf of Wall Street

    Whiskey Tango Foxtrot           The Legend of Tarzan         I, Tonya

    Mary Queen of Scots                 Once upon a Time...in Hollywood           Bombshell

    George

  3. "I guess they're dead. I guess I've known that deep down for a long time."

    "I'm not giving up. Don't you give up."

    "I didn't want to be just another orphan. I wanted to believe I was special."

    "You are special! Never stop believing that!"

     

    "You spend your evenings in the shanties."

    "You had me followed."

    "Imbibing quarts of bathtub gin."

    "Bronchitism."

    "And here you're dancing in your scanties..."

    "Great gams."

    "With some old geezer called Little Caeser."

    "He's an uncle."

     

    "Absolutely not! I'm a businessman. I love money, I love power, I love capitalism. I do not now and never will love children."

     

    "What are you just standing around here for? You're supposed to clean the bathroom and the kitchen before lunch, my little pig droppings, and if you skip the corners, there will be no lunch. And we're not having hot mush today."

    "Yay!"

    "We're having cold mush!"

     

    George

  4. Expectations of Allied POWS in this WWII movie were that Japan should have honored the Geneva Convention.  Actually, Japan wasn't a signatory to the treaty until 1953.  (Interestingly, misdeeds by the Japanese prompted revision of the treaty in 1949.)

    The commandant of the prison was portrayed as being ruthless.  According to many of his prisoners after the war, the actual Japanese officer on whom the role was based was one of the more humane and reasonable ones.

    To keep costs down, producer Sam Spiegel decided not to hire any extras, using crew members and Ceylon locals instead. This meant that some of the British prisoners were really natives of the region wearing make-up to appear Caucasian.

    For the scene when he emerges from "the oven" after several days confined there, Sir Alec Guinness based his faltering walk on that of his son Matthew when he was recovering from polio. Guinness regarded this one tiny scene as some of the finest work he did throughout his entire career.

    Sir Laurence Olivier was offered Guinness's part but turned it down in order to direct The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) instead. In retrospect, Olivier said that it was a sensible decision to go off and do love scenes with Marilyn Monroe rather than tough it out in the jungles of Ceylon with director Sir David Lean.

    For those who haven't seen the movie, it is best remembered by the whistled march tune it features.

    George

  5. This was the most expensive television show to produce at the time, costing over a million dollars to make each episode, which was one of the reasons it was canceled after only 13 episodes.

    The actor playing the titular character based his performance on William Shatner as Captain Kirk in Star Trek (1966) of which he is a big fan.

    A video game based on this series produced by Bug-Byte Software was released for the Commodore 64 platform in 1985.

    The titular character was a hologram, but no CGI was used on the show, just traditional animation and editing techniques.

    The star of the show was far less famous than his Cuban bandleader father (whom the star portrayed in the movie "The Mambo Kings").

    The father and his (then-) wife were TV innovators, credited with developing the three-camera technique and syndicated reruns.

    George

  6. I guess you're right.

    "Well, I believe in the soul, the c--k, the p---y, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days."

    "My name is Dances with Wolves. I have nothing to say to you. You are not worth talking to."

    "Sex and golf are the two things you don't have to be good at to enjoy."

    George

     

  7. Expectations of Allied POWS in this WWII movie were that Japan should have honored the Geneva Convention.  Actually, Japan wasn't a signatory to the treaty until 1953.  (Interestingly, misdeeds by the Japanese prompted revision of the treaty in 1949.)

    The commandant of the prison was portrayed as being ruthless.  According to many of his prisoners after the war, the actual Japanese officer on whom the role was based was one of the more humane and reasonable ones.

    To keep costs down, producer Sam Spiegel decided not to hire any extras, using crew members and Ceylon locals instead. This meant that some of the British prisoners were really natives of the region wearing make-up to appear Caucasian.

    For the scene when he emerges from "the oven" after several days confined there, Sir Alec Guinness based his faltering walk on that of his son Matthew when he was recovering from polio. Guinness regarded this one tiny scene as some of the finest work he did throughout his entire career.

    Sir Laurence Olivier was offered Guinness's part but turned it down in order to direct The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) instead. In retrospect, Olivier said that it was a sensible decision to go off and do love scenes with Marilyn Monroe rather than tough it out in the jungles of Ceylon with director Sir David Lean.

    George

  8. I hated to do this, but I don't think Raf would mind.  I googled.

    Psycho

    "I guess they're dead. I guess I've known that deep down for a long time."

    "I'm not giving up. Don't you give up."

    "I didn't want to be just another orphan. I wanted to believe I was special."

    "You are special! Never stop believing that!"

     

    "You spend your evenings in the shanties."

    "You had me followed."

    "Imbibing quarts of bathtub gin."

    "Bronchitism."

    "And here you're dancing in your scanties..."

    "Great gams."

    "With some old geezer called Little Caeser."

    "He's an uncle."

     

    George

  9. "Would you tell me please, Mr. Howard, why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away? An elected legislature can trample a man's rights as easily as a king can."

    George

  10. This was the most expensive television show to produce at the time, costing over a million dollars to make each episode, which was one of the reasons it was canceled after only 13 episodes.

    The actor playing the titular character based his performance on William Shatner as Captain Kirk in Star Trek (1966) of which he is a big fan.

    A video game based on this series produced by Bug-Byte Software was released for the Commodore 64 platform in 1985.

    The titular character was a hologram, but no CGI was used on the show, just traditional animation and editing techniques.

    The star of the show was far less famous than his father (whom the star portrayed in the movie "The Mambo Kings").

    George

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