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Friends, we've got trouble! Right here in River City! With a capital 'T' and that rhymes with 'P' and that stands for 'Pool'!"

Ok, I looked up that song. ("Superstition.") My turn. =================== "(TITLE) walks beside me. (TITLE) walks on by. (TITLE) Never gonna fall for (TITLE)"

If you'd mentioned the writing on the wall, I'd have gotten it almost instantly. Stevie Wonder, "Superstitious". ("Superstition?")

"I feel a hot wind on my shoulder And the touch of a world that is older. I turn the switch and check the number. I leave it on when in bed I slumber. I hear the rhythms of the music. I buy the product and never use it. I hear the talking of the DJ Can't understand just what does he say?" "I dial it in and tune the station. They talk about the U.S. inflation. I understand just a little. No comprende, it's a riddle."

Royd Tolkien's a fan of the books, and got to spend enough time with Peter Jackson that Peter put him in the third movie. Jackson himself was in each movie of the trilogy in a don't-blink moment, but in the third, he's distinctly on-camera for several seconds and could be recognized in the theater. (I did.)

I wasn't sure about the theatrical cut, since they seem to show that scene whenever it airs on TV.

""*mumble* *mumble* " Translation: "Your hate will be everlasting. Your emnity will never die. It will follow them through this life, into the next, and the next. You owe me one, buddy."

To me, Amistad's a ship. I have a fuzzy recollection there was a movie. Oh, "Pulp Fiction." I'm not gonna torture H w/out B across a weekend.

That's The Proclaimers, doing "500 Miles (I'm Gonna Be)". ===================== "I feel a hot wind on my shoulder And the touch of a world that is older. I turn the switch and check the number. I leave it on when in bed I slumber. I hear the rhythms of the music. I buy the product and never use it."

Ok, it's time for a little movie trivia. The titular character (technically, the 2nd of 2 titular characters, but most people wouldn't notice) is played by an actor, of course. That actor is a fan of a soccer team-the same team of which Pope Francis is also a fan. In one scene, the director wanted an actor to scream as his character was fatally stabbed with a lung wound. The actor REFUSED. He explained that such a stabbing makes it impossible to scream. What happens if you're stabbed like that is that you struggle to try to get a gasp of air just as you're dying. He then acted out the death exactly that way. Some actors are more bad@$$ than the characters they play! Of course, now his death didn't match the source material, but the fans didn't complain-not TOO loudly, at least. Due to a few details left out, John Noble's character has less of a motive for being a schmuck, so he just seems like that's who he is, not that he ended up like that after being manipulated. Also in the movie was the great-grandson of the writer of the source material, and someone got to shoot and kill the Director on-camera. I bet the rest of the principal cast was jealous it wasn't them shooting...

The "deus ex machina"? Yeah. When I was tabletop RP'ing superhero games, I had some characters who COULD time-travel, but I never just used it to reverse the outcome of gameplay. It felt like cheating. And my excuse was that tampering with space-time was dangerous. In fact, we had pretty consistent discussions about whether I SHOULD. We once flattened the GameMaster when he overheard one argument about it at full speed, in character. "You've gotta do it!" "I don't want to wreck the space-time continuum! The consequences could be disastrous! I could wake up nude in the trunk of my car with my keys up my @$$!" "If you do, we'll pull you out!" THAT'S when the GM collapsed with laughter. I also thought the final ending was cheating. BTW, Mrs Wolf and I thought that Kendra's idea should have been discussed. If Savage would have died off if he wasn't able to complete his cycle, then deny him the cycle and pick up a century later, once he's dead. And I liked the little mention of "nth metal."

What?

Once Upon a Time in Mexico Johnny Depp Sweeney Todd-the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Tone it down a notch. If you respond to all replies with hostility, the Powers That Be will probably revoke your "post lots of advertisements" privileges.

"Once I ran to you. Now I'll run from you. This [TITLE] you've given. I give you all a boy could give you."

Ok, it's time for a little movie trivia. The titular character (technically, the 2nd of 2 titular characters, but most people wouldn't notice) is played by an actor, of course. That actor is a fan of a soccer team-the same team of which Pope Francis is also a fan. In one scene, the director wanted an actor to scream as his character was fatally stabbed with a lung wound. The actor REFUSED. He explained that such a stabbing makes it impossible to scream. What happens if you're stabbed like that is that you struggle to try to get a gasp of air just as you're dying. He then acted out the death exactly that way. Some actors are more bad@$$ than the characters they play!

"Lately he's been overheard in Mayfair."

The movie sounds interesting. I'll have to put it on my list.

Sorry, I was asleep at the switch. "Careless Whispers", George Michael. (I was stumped on the first post, though.)

The love interest is possibly Dr Chase Meridian (Nicole Kidman, an Aussie.) I keep thinking of "L.A. Confidential", but it's odd if a movie about L.A. had all these Australian influences. So, I've got nothing so far.

That settles that. As for the Martin Luther imitation, I thought that was too interesting not to explain. vpw announced, at the end of one ROA (77), that they were going to go to the local churches, and nail up the list of verses saying Jesus isn't God. (Never mind that in Luther's place and time, nailing up a notice in the assigned spot was an accepted and expected thing to do.) Is that what he did once the microphones were off? No. Here's what he did. He had sign dropped off, supposedly at several churches, but no eyewitness account confirms more than one stop- at his old denomination. "Jesus Christ is not God. Never was, never will be." With it, he dropped off an autographed copy of JCING. I kid you not.

Almost caught up on "Arrow." Caught up on "Flash." Way behind on "Supergirl." Caught up on everything else, I think.

I know that he sounded Trinitarian when he was trying to pretend he was cool with the Ecumenical movement (rather than just trying to siphon members.) BG Leonard doesn't sound like a standard Trinitarian. Bullinger was claimed (in twi) to have such leanings, but both he and Kenyon used Trinitarian phrasings in their books. I am suspicious (as in, guessing) that the E. Stanley Jones Ashram thing in 1944 was an introduction into new and different things vpw hadn't heard before-so MAYBE it started to come up there and then. Then again, it could have been exposure to Glenn Clark (of Camps Farthest Out). Clark introduced a number of new Thought and Christian Science ideas. (Whether he did so accurately or not is an entirely different discussion.) He had lots of strange, new ideas, and people with them. Drop wierwille into that crowd and there's lots of strange, new ideas to draw from, starting with the whole "believing" thing to make things happen. (He also drew from Albert Cliffe there.) Among all that, non-standard ideas about God and Jesus were comnmonplace. Add in Lamsa, and that's yet more different takes on Jesus. vpw pursued these variant theologies, he counted on them, and he plagiarized the heck out of them. This was very profitable for him.

"'Sic gorgiamos allos subjectatos nunc'- 'We gladly feast on those who would subdue us.' Not just pretty words." "The human spirit-it is a hard thing to kill." "Even with a chainsaw." " I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss!" "They say a man who represents himself has a fool for a client. Well, with God as my witness, I am that fool!" "Last night you were unhinged. You were like some desperate, howling demon. You frightened me. Do it again!" "He won't eat, he can't sleep, he keeps coughing up blood." "He coughs up blood?" "Well, not like he used to..." "'How all occasions do inform against me and spur my dull revenge. O, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody or nothing worth. If I must strike you dead, I will.'" "'A hit! A very palpable hit!'" "'O, Proud Death. What feast is toward in thine eternal cell? Sweet Oblivion, open your arms!'"

No.