WordWolf

We're caught up on "Arrow", "Flash" is next.

I'll offer a few of my own thoughts, and they can be taken or left, of course. I find that I understand God more as I spend more time as a parent. Keep an eye out, educate, instruct, warn- then watch as you're ignored and someone pays the consequences of ignoring. If there is a God, and if there is a Transcendent God, then His perspective is more long-term than my here-and-now perspective. Any veteran chess player can understand that thinking long-term is a key to winning consistently at chess. A chess master can think dozens of moves in advance. A Transcendent God could think millions of moves in advance, and incorporate "insignificant" events into later events a century later, a millenium later. Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers, and was thrown into jail as a slave for a crime he never committed, but for which he was wrongfully accused. This covered years of his life. Joseph later saw it and said that they meant it to him for evil, but God meant it for good, to save many people. (Joseph's time in prison led to him becoming Pharaohs Chief Executive Officer, which led to him saving much of Egypt and Israel, as well as others.) He never claimed God put him in prison or slavery, but he thought God meant all of that for good. I think he was correct in thinking that. So, even years in a life with no seeming guidance or blessings may be part of a bigger picture, and leading up to something major.

No, and nobody who should remind you of him.

Dr Christian Szell Dr Totenkopf Ezra Lieberman

The fighting is limited to what they can do with the actress. Street brawling is the default for the untrained, unskilled fighter. Preparing for a role like this with A martial art would have been smart. Too much work for the actress? Do I need to rush to catch up with BL or Supergirl because they're doing Crisis teasers already? If not, let me know when they do.

We already had Supergirl doing that. Apparently, the new show has less story and more lecturing, and even the target audiences had enough. Or maybe it's because they got the wrong actress. She didn't look anything like Kate Kane. She's not known for being a good actress. She's not known for being a good martial artist/acrobat/whatever. If they wanted an actress to fill a quota, they should have gotten a COMPETENT actress who did so, and not just the first one they found. (Seriously, they could have found others without too much work.) Or maybe the writing just isn't that good. Or maybe the audiences are tired of all the DARK shows that are being offered, and want something more cheerful. Or maybe it's a mix of all of the above. Seriously, if you're going to pander to a group, you can do that. However, it's on you if the resulting show ONLY appeals to them, and if that group doesn't have enough people to support the show. There's legitimate things to do to improve the show or increase who they pander to. I imagine they just focused on the pandering and putting episodes out, and supposing people would automatically tune in based solely on that. No surprise an uproar like that isn't driving more people to the show- people aren't attracted to a show by being insulted or ordered to watch it.

Mickey Rooney....... Dave Grohl....... Judd Hirsch...... Neil Patrick Harris....... Selena Gomez....... Whoopi Goldberg....... James Carville...... Emily Blunt....... Donald Glover...... Sarah Silverman...... Ken Jeong....... Zach Galifianakis...... Alan Arkin..... Rashida Jones..... Chris Cooper..... Amy Adams..... Jason Segal...Jim Parsons Mrs Wolf later said that the point where the stage lights went dark should have coincided with Wayne and Wanda taking the stage. She was right, but very few people would have gotten the joke, although I would have fallen out of my chair. It should surprise no one that this movie was a musical. It also references the first movie (and ignores all the others, obviously.) This movie represented the international standardizing of the names of these characters. Now, they all have their original English names, so Rene, for example, isn't Rene anymore. I realized that when I saw the promotional posters go up, with the names I recognized. Correction: In Spain, he was still "Gustavo." The songs in this movie's soundtrack include "Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard," "Smells Like Teen Spirit", Gary Numan's "Cars", AC/DC's "Back in Black", "Bad to the Bone", "(I'v e Had the) Time of My Life", and Starship's "We Built This City". The role of Tex Richman was originally written for Alan Rickman. The moment in a Google office was filmed in an actual Google office in Zurich, at least as of the filming. The auto being worked on in the children's classroom was a British "Morris Minor." I'll have to play the DVD again, since I've wondered what they look like. (Black 47 mentioned that model in their breakout song "Funky Ceily" and I've never known what they looked like.) Courtney Love was outraged about the way "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was sung and played. Dave Grohl was happy with it (and I was quite entertained.) Grohl probably heard about it before she did, since he was actually IN the movie.

"The Untouchables"? I thought I replied to this last night, but obviously I forgot to.

Its ratings are poor, or are you saying the show stinks? (Or the ratings are poor because the show stinks?)

Finished the first Arrow episode. I must say I did NOT see that ending coming. I was calling for red skies crossovers around the 6th or 7th episode, in time for the mid-season, and Legends of Tomorrow to start its late season. Then again, it makes perfect sense. I wonder if Psycho Pirate is still in Arkham Asylum. Mrs Wolf speculated that Ollie's putting together another team, one hop at a time, and hopes we get another Snart out of it.

The idea behind the comic was a "deconstruction" of the superhero. They wanted superheroes who were anything BUT "heroic." I gave that a miss from the beginning. I wasn't able to stay awake for the movie, either. You probably know that DC has the modern rights to use the old Charlton heroes, and that Moore was planning on using those until they realized he was going to destroy them all, so he made expies of all of them. Instead of Captain Atom, we had Dr Manhattan. We had Rorschach in for The Question, Nite Owl in for the Blue Beetle, Silk Spectre replaced Nightshade, Ozymandias was in for Peter Cannon/Thunderbolt, and The Comedian replaced The Peacemaker.

Beverly Hills Cop Bronson Pinchot Second Sight

Al Capone?

Danny di Vito Michael Douglas Ant-Man Evangeline Lilly

Having just sat down to watch the previous season finale, I'm about 25% that will happen, and about 75% that everyone except Felicity is told Ollie took one for the team, and they go into retirement like Earth-2's Superman and Lois Lane at the end of CoIE in the comics. (The nice ending that "Infinite Crisis" later tried to retcon into something bad.)

I know Ben Gazzara's name like I know FMA's name. A role Robert De Niro played that the other's played? Jake La Motta can't have had so many movies about him. How about Frankenstein's Monster?

Steiger was the cop in the movie "In The Heat of the Night." IIRC, he was the Patton-like general in "Mars Attacks!". I knew Robards played Rotzinger. (His best line wasn't even a line- it was the flat look. Young Cop: "What's so memorable about a clown stealing a million dollars?" Rotzinger: *flat look* Young Cop: "Jesus, we gotta catch this guy!")

Ok, I need to sit down and watch "Arrow" soon, and get the Mrs so we can watch "Flash" together. Gotcha.

I heard they regularly showed this one film about Martin Luther at the Advanced class, just as cg showed this Tyndale video at his Advanced class. (Someone got a copy of the tape of the Martin Luther one, so I saw it at someone's home, later, now that I think about it.) How did they "celebrate" Reformation Sunday? Was it "this is Reformation Sunday, this is who Martin Luther was, and here's a film about him" , with a 10 second explanation of Martin Luther, or was there something in addition?

The funny thing about that.... you can take a general subject, talk ABOUT it for HOURS, and never say anything SPECIFIC about it. I'm confident Mr "my degree is in Homiletics" could go on forever on the Reformation without hitting one historical fact. He had the general idea, he had the nailing of the theses, and if he had nothing else, he could expound on that all day. Homespun analogies, anecdotes, editorializing, the list goes on and on.

I know the name F. Murray Abraham. I can picture Rod Steiger and Jason Robards. We're talking an older American, a grizzled "I've seen it all" leader. That's all I've got so far.

I forget the name of his character in "A Knight's Tale." I remember Wash, and I remember Vanderveer Wayne Junior from "Powerless." I think the Mrs and I may have been the only people who liked the show. He also played the Joker in the Harley Quinn animated series (aka, the cartoon.)

Martin Luther was famous for the 95 Theses incident. Martin Luther, disgusted with church/political corruption in the church, isolated 95 specific points where the church official practices and teachings differed sharply from the Bible's content (at least how he saw it, certainly.) He made a list, then posted it at the door of the church- which, at the time, meant he was opening discussion on the topic(s). Wierwille never studied church history (too much work.) So, he had a cursory understanding of the incident at best. When he announced he was going to do something similar, he said they were going to go around to all the church doors, and post the list of verses that said Jesus was the Son of God. Much later, I read about what they actually DID. They went to all the church doors. They posted a sign that said, "Jesus Christ is Not God. Never was and never will be." They dropped off a signed copy of "Jesus Christ is Not God", and they took off. ================================== The Way Magazine, January-February 1978, p. 22. "On October 50, 1977, Victor Paul Wierwille stepped from his luxury coach and strutted proudly to the front door of his former United Church of Christ in New Knoxville. There, in an act representing what he saw as “a potentially greater Reformation” than that begun by Martin Luther, he nailed his “version” of Luther’s 95 theses to its door. It screamed: JESUS CHRIST IS NOT GOD—Never Was and Never Will Be.” Then, “Dr. Wierwille strode back to the custom coach after placing an autographed copy of Jesus Christ Is Not God at the foot of the church door for all to see. As the custom coach pulled away, its foghorn blasted three times to signify the ceremony’s completion.” ============================================ The limit of vpw's understanding of history didn't go beyond posturing and grandstanding. As for the founding of the Protestant Reformation, vpw didn't know much beyond the nailing of the 95 Theses, if he knew anything more. He couldn't celebrate what he didn't know. The only way vpw would have celebrated such an event would have been the way he made other comments, the lazy way. Some twi-er would do the research, then come to him, thinking he'd also done the research. Then vpw would later parrot what they said, and make it sound like he'd done the research himself. With vpw deprecating the study of history (which saved him from having to learn it), few wayfers would have bothered. In fact, it was a selling point of twi that they went back to the 1st century Christian Church and ignored all the history since then, which they derided as religion. Mind you, they wouldn't bring that up if they mentioned George Mueller (Muller), or Tyndale, but otherwise, yes.

Never saw the movie, but I know who complained about his code-name. :) Steve Buscemi Big Fish Danny Di Vito

That seems a lot more likely than his claims being true and him being fine, especially since he's BEEN spilling the beans.