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This movie was not filmed by Alfred Hitchcock. Why might I lead off with that? Well, the rest of the clues..... This movie included a scene that took place at an important spot- the exact same spot- as a scene in "Vertigo." And ANOTHER scene was a reenactment of a scene in "Vertigo" but not in the same spot-the exact set was a recreation but the alleged location was along the shore.) It also had a scene that appeared to be a frame-by-frame reenactment of a VERY famous Hitchcock scene (so famous I am not naming the scene.) We had an innocent man framed for a murder. The director appeared in the movie. The name "North By Northwest" appeared in the movie's dialogue. Alfred Hitchcock got to screen this movie before it was released. He seemed to like the movie- his only criticism was something insignificant. (Knowing Hitchcock and under the circumstances, that's the same as someone else saying it was a good movie.) One scene was a nod to another famous movie- a man sat on a park bench, while pigeons slowly congregated on something behind him... This was NOT an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Which movie was this?

Herman's Hermits? *wild swing* "Something Good"???

Next one. This movie was not filmed by Alfred Hitchcock. Why might I lead off with that? Well, the rest of the clues..... This movie included a scene that took place at an important spot- the exact same spot- as a scene in "Vertigo." And ANOTHER scene was a reenactment of a scene in "Vertigo" but not in the same spot-the exact set was a recreation but the alleged location was along the shore.) It also had a scene that appeared to be a frame-by-frame reenactment of a VERY famous Hitchcock scene (so famous I am not naming the scene.) We had an innocent man framed for a murder. The director appeared in the movie. The name "North By Northwest" appeared in the movie's dialogue. This was NOT an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Which movie was this?

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"STELLA!!!!! STELLA!!!!

Police Squad! In Color! Your turn.

Hey, they are all games and we all have lives.

"Now do you think you can beat The Champ?" "I can take him blindfolded." "What if he's not blindfolded?" "I can still beat him." "I'd just come from the stockyards. We'd gotten reports of hundreds of cows had been senselessly slaughtered in the area, but I couldn't find any evidence. I stopped off for a hamburger and checked in with headquarters." "Who are you and how did you get in here?" "I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith."

It is not. Good, I thought this one might have been too easy.

I was hoping someone from that time would explain. I'll explain a bit. It started before I started posting here. As I understand it, something happened. Raf meant to post about it (a twi news event, if memory serves.) He posted it with a normal title and a normal initial post. For reasons of internet, somehow the post got eaten, but not 100%. The first word of the title remained, and the first word of the post remained, along with the comma following it. The rest of the post was blank. Naturally, some of the posters had some fun with it, reacting as if it was intentional, and an artistic choice. But the jokes...just...kept...coming...... Months and years later, they were still coming. People wrote song lyrics for THE. People got titles for THE ("Official Shaver of THE", etc.) It was an inside joke that just never stopped. Years later, another thread was posted. The poster immediately reconsidered. They changed the title to "Oops" and the post to something like "Never mind, please delete." We had a few pages of similar jokes, IIRC. I speculated on whether "Oops" would someday rival "THE" and overtake it (my speculation was largely a joke.) That joke ended a LOT sooner. That's all I've got.

I honestly can't tell, sometimes, what impressions people get. I'm sure someone, somewhere, thought me and Raf were the same person. We have never been the same person, and we have no plans to change that at any time. ;) I've occasionally been mistaken for any notable twi personality, and that's always worth a chuckle. If I'd been a decade older and joined a decade sooner, probably, but I joined in time to participate in the biggest exodus. Knowing all of that, the idea of me secretly being oldies, knowing our history, almost made me laugh out loud. I know you didn't mean that (I know that NOW, at the very least), but it was a little like "In World War II, Stalin and Churchill were secretly the same person." NOW you can see why it was at least worth a smirk.

Technically, he WAS in the Bronx at the time, but he was not in twi at that time. I know because I was in twi before him, and I wasn't in twi at the time.

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I'd reminded of Patrick Stewart on SNL, captaining the USS Pacific Princess in "LOVE BOAT- the Next Generation."

So... medical story. Kid in medical distress. *wild swing* "Lorenzo's Oil"?????

I had to get that out of my system before I could even focus on the next round. It was bugging me.

That's it. J.J. was obsesses with Kool-Aid, and Walker's catch phrase followed him in- "Dy-no-mite!" Michael was studying to be a lawyer, and was in the "Lawyers of Tomorrow" program or something. This did nothing to help when something happened and he was arrested. (I forget why.) The desk sergeant introduced a dose of reality to the situation by finding it irrelevant in getting Michael out of a jail cell. (Probably very accurate for desk sergeants.) Your turn!

"Michael's going to be a Lawyer of Tomorrow!" "Oh? Well, welcome to the slammer of today!" "Water? She ain't drinkin' nothin' but the best from now on... Kool-Aid!" "DY- NO- MITE!"

I just checked Imdb. They have Steve Carell listed, Fred Willard, Seth Rogen, Ben Stiller, Kathryn Hahn, Will Ferrell, Danny Trejo, and Christina Applegate, but NOT Harrison Ford nor Kristen Wiig. How confident are you that they were in this movie? *checks* Those two were in the sequel, apparently, but Ben Stiller and Danny Trejo weren't at the least.

I have no idea what movie this is. That comment about a star so narcissistic she (we know it's a she) made that phone call makes me think of Barbra Streisand. She has to have an ego big enough to inspire the Streisand Effect, and be big enough she had the phone# of the executive...and maybe to think someone wouldn't just hang up on her with that phone call. If not Streisand, some woman with as big an ego, and that narrows the possibilities considerably. So, I'm thinking Streisand. But that's all I've got. Oh- if I'm right, and Raf came to the same conclusion, then he's thinking it's not "Yentl", and I agree it's not that film.

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1) oldiesman started the thread, and had the opening post. You can tell it wasn't me, because it was heavy on the AI content. 2) If, for some reason, someone thinks me and oldies are the same person, we're not. There's still a few people who've met us both (like Raf) and there was a time on this board, long ago, where we tended to be diametrically opposed on many threads, almost to the point of a fist fight. (Had we been in a bar or something, I was sure at least once it would have escalated to the alley outside.) We still disagree on quite a bit, but not to that degree. 3) Actually addressing the question, Although not an official Harvest Festival, I think that the State Fair or County Fair practiced in a number of places acts as a de facto Harvest Festival. The traditional events include judging produce (like pumpkins) and livestock (like hogs) and contests like pie eating and so on. I know the one in Texas, at least, is in early October- possibly to avoid conflicting with Thanksgiving, and with Halloween. But for a place not dependent upon a harvest, it's pretty close to a harvest time. If it's a coincidence, it's an interesting one.

For those of you not US citizens, happy Thursday.