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  1. Ok, the links as you posted don't work- but since you mentioned Daniel Day-Lewis, we can count him as your first link. So, we can say you went Daniel Day-Lewis The Age of Innocence Winona Ryder
  2. Russell Crowe Les Miserables Hugh Jackman
  3. (He played "Coleman", the butler for Winthorp who later became Valentine's butler, and who dressed up as the tipsy priest on the Amtrak train.)
  4. Their first appearance in the movie, kidnapping Buttercup.
  5. Pretty Woman Jason Alexander Shallow Hal (And yes, IJ&tLC was 3, not 4.)
  6. Trading Places Denholm Elliott Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade (#4)
  7. Hindsight is 20/20. Those of us going through history NOW may possibly make mistakes about how dire a threat is- which later history may consider transparent. That has always been true. For that matter, the Holocaust was such a mind-boggling things that- even with tens of thousands of eyewitnesses, thousands of survivors of many types, confessions from former Nazis, and both detailed eyewitness accounts of the evidence left behind and filmed footage of same, there's been plenty of people who've thought it was all a hoax. In twi, it was called a hoax. To this day, there's ex-twi and kids of ex-twi who are still convinced it was a hoax. Yes, it can often seem like only an idiot could fail to understand the warnings of the past- while we overlook or disregard the warnings of the present. Hindsight is 20/20.
  8. All right, enough of this waiting sh*.... The Long Kiss Goodnight Geena Davis A League of Their Own
  9. Let me make sure I don't mix this title up again... This was the Costner jam, "Robin Hood- PRINCE OF THIEVES." (The Robin Hood who could NOT speak with an English accent.)
  10. We're gonna need some help here. We can't name this flick from that one pic.
  11. We didn't say that. In my case, my "faith" is as strong as it ever was, if not stronger. It's not dependent upon slapping a label on incidents rather than trying to understand them. In fact, I consider slapping a label of "supernatural" on all sorts of mundane things both A) cheapens the title, making the actual "supernatural" sound as mundane as finding a good parking space, and B) does a disservice to actual "supernatural" things by lumping them into things easily provable as mundane But it sure makes for EASY answers to slap labels on things. Don't like something? It's "spiritually dark." Disagree with someone? They are "spiritually dark" or "don't 'believe' anymore", etc. To bring us partially back on-topic... I don't know if anything supernatural was actually involved with the Third Reich and HItler's rise to power. I DO know that all the steps could easily have been mundane, if a "perfect storm" of hatred, bigotry and ignorance. To me, that's a bit scarier than if it HAD to be supernatural. A little work studying history would go a long way in learning this.
  12. You'd be shocked at how often I guess at a movie- often correctly- having not seen it, or having seen a few clips. You wouldn't be shocked at how many of my wild swings have been clean misses.
  13. Nick Cage and Ving Rhames, to me, means "Gone in 60 Seconds." However, this leaves out Christopher Eccleston, Angelina Jolie and Robert Duvall.
  14. *studies this answer* Ok, Human's close enough on the title. "96 Tears" is the correct title, this was close enough. Human didn't include the ENTIRE name of the artist, but he included the lead singer, so that counts. The group was "? and the Mysterians." Human DID post " ? " which is correct, so I'm counting it. (My turn, so, my discretion.) So, it's HUMAN'S TURN!
  15. *sigh* NEVER jump IMMEDIATELY to the conclusion that something is supernatural. Examine the more common, more mundane reasons FIRST. If they don't work, then you can consider that among the possibilities Why wouldn't the Jews have taken heed and flee Germany, etc? 1) A lot of them DID. There's a few big cities in the world who got a surge of Jewish immigrants at that time. 2) Hindsight is 20/20. Honestly, how likely would you consider the idea that someone would come to power over your country, take it over, declare you and yours ILLEGAL and order everyone to round you up and then confiscate your possessions? I'm sure a number of them thought that was too crazy to happen. 3) Lots of non-Jews were rounded up, most of whom had no idea they were on the rounding-up list. I met one, once. I still don't know why he was ever rounded up, but they grabbed him, imprisoned him, and so on. Yes, he had the number tattoo. 4) Why didn't they fight on the way to the gas chambers? Be thankful you don't know why! These are people whose lives were destroyed, who were placed in a prison having never committed a crime,. starved, watched their friends executed or killed in lab experiments, and led everywhere by threat of violence. They were likely in shock as well as suffering from malnutrition. It's hard to THINK, much less FIGHT, under those conditions. Should they have just shuffled forward and gotten shot rather than walked into the chambers? Possibly. Hard to come to that conclusion under the circumstances. Then again, it's "human nature" to try to survive. They may not have understood that they were being rounded up specifically to be killed- especially since they hadn't been killed yet. I know NOTHING about their suffering. I can work it out on paper, but that's nothing compared to actually living it. I hope those were meant as honest questions and not just an attempt to Monday-morning quarterback, because I answered them with that in mind.
  16. There's difficulties if we get a proper Jakeem Thunder. That or a GL gives us too much power for this scale of team. Jakeem was Johnny Thunder's replacement, and gave orders to the Thunderbolt. How can that be fixed? Two possibilities present themselves immediately: 1) Let him make a single wish, then the Thunderbolt goes away for now. Jakeem can give one order per scene or per hour or per day, or something. 2) Jakeem's not a successor to Johnny Thunder, he's a successor to Jonni Thunder- Thunderbolt. He can basically turn into living lightning. I think another Flash might not be the best idea, but maybe Johnny Quick, Max Mercury or Impulse might be called for. How about Liberty Belle? Oh- we'd better get Cyclone/Maxine Hunkell if this series goes the distance.
  17. The sad part is their inability to detect their own hypocrisy. Remember being told in twi that the bad guys always accuse the good guys of what they THEMSELVES do? With twi, we've seen plenty of examples. Anyone kicked out is accused of practices that are standard policy in twi but never acknowledged as the same thing.
  18. They not only saw it coming, their plans depended on it. A year before they sent their letter to the BOD, they were heard recruiting, and they'd reserved the domain name for "revival and restoration". This whole "maybe we can all fix this and stay together" thing was mere posturing, a formality that didn't reflect ANYONE'S thinking.
  19. "Too many teardrops For one heart to be cryin' Too many teardrops For one heart to carry on You're way on top now Since you left me You're always laughin' Way down at me But watch out now I'm gonna get there We'll be together For just a little while And then I'm gonna put you Way down here And you'll start cryin'"
  20. Some of these might be remembered individually- the Smithsonian Guard who realizes Captain America's costume is missing, the FedEx Driver looking for "Tony Stank", the Milwaukee Man who drank from a bottle and dropped dead due to gamma ray exposure, but individually, none may ring a bell. Except for a case like this one where you're LOOKING for Waldo in the background, none of these should count as a role for this thread. THAT was a clue by itself. An informant for The Watcher? A ladies' man on XANDAR? Someone's got cameo roles in Marvel movies. Generalissimo Lee and Senator Lieber are slips of the name- Stan Lee, born Stanley Lieber. I'd have gotten it off of the top line. Willie Lumpkin appeared in one movie. Tony Stark identified Stan as Larry King and incorrectly(?) as Hugh Hefner in Iron Man 1 and Iron Man 2 (IIRC, in reverse order, as Larry at the beginning of IM2 (on the way to the car, just before getting served the Congressional subpoena) and Hef at the charity ball in the middle of IM1 (on his way into the building.) GEORGE'S TURN!
  21. Ok, different song, but same artist. (AFAIK, the original artist for both songs, although they've both been covered since then.) "Too many teardrops for one heart to be crying . Too many teardrops for one heart to carry on. You're way on top now since you left me. You're always laughing way down at me. But watch out now, I'm gonna get there. We'll be together for just a little while. And then I'm gonna put you way down there."[/b]
  22. Willie Lumpkin was the mailman for the Fantastic Four. Any thoughts about who might play "Generalissimo Lee" or "Senator Lieber" ?
  23. "Whenever we kiss I get to feeling like this. I get to wishing that there was two of you. My heart cries out 'Woo, baby'. It feels so nice. I want your arms to wrap around me twice." "Right or Wrong Baby Right or Wrong When you had to go I hated the thought I always wish the night was twice as long My heart cries out more baby I love you so much I wish that there was more of you to touch." "Whenever we kiss I get a feeling like this. I get to wishing that there was two of you. My heart cries out, 'More, baby!' I love you so much. I wish that there was more of you to touch!" This song charted with the original artists. Decades later, it charted with a cover that was on a teen movie soundtrack.
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