WordWolf

"Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in." "Wendy, I'm home./

Correct- each actor has played Hamlet in a movie of the same name.

This story has seen more than 14 different versions made into movies. 6 were silent films, A few were television-film and didn't air in theaters. 2 were French, one was Soviet, 1 was Danish, 1 was Italian, and the rest were US or UK versions(as far as I know.) Not to mention 1 opera version. Depending on the director, it's been a film noir, an action adventure, or an epic. (A critic said that, and I agree with him.) It's also been adapted, sometimes radically. (Bob and Doug Mackenzie? Really?) (A Spaghetti Western???) What do Mel Gibson, David Tennant, Ethan Hawke and Richard Burton all have in common?

This story has seen 14 different versions made into movies. 6 were silent films, at least 1 was a television-film and didn't air in theaters. 2 were French, one was Soviet, 1 was Danish, 1 was Italian, and the rest were US or UK versions(as far as I know.) What do Mel Gibson, David Tennant and Ethan Hawke all have in common?

"Standin' in front just shakin' your @$s. Take you back stage you can drink from my glass. Talk about something you can sure understand Cause a month on the road and i'll be eatin' from your hand."

"Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in."

The versions of that story are not versions of the story I'm addressing at this time. About both actors, technically true, but not germane to the round. (Also true: two actors who have never been in my kitchen, but also not germane.)

Exactly. They obviously talked about SOMETHING else. Someone was speaking in front of a map of the Palestine area and so on. However, the "highlight" of the entire event was "the old chestnut." It's kinda sad that Walter's biggest thing nowadays is an 8-table event that had him play a supporting role. I remember when there were double that to hear him speak solo, and I'd heard there were 80 people at his home weekly for Bible study once upon a time. Maybe he's not as elite as we were told he was-he's tops for the twi crowd but maybe he's a lightweight as soon as we move from a little pond to a big lake.

I can hear The Moody Blues sing the line "I decided that we're really not to blame".

This story has seen 14 different versions made into movies. 6 were silent films, at least 1 was a television-film and didn't air in theaters. 2 were French, one was Soviet, 1 was Danish, 1 was Italian, and the rest were US or UK versions(as far as I know.) What do Mel Gibson and David Tennant have in common?

I have the artist, but not the title.

Following the tradition of delusions of grandeur vpw began, this little get-together, while perhaps a nice little get-together, falls far short of the definition of an "extravaganza." http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/extravaganza?s=t "1. a musical or dramatic composition or production, as comic opera or musical comedy, marked by a loose structure, a frivolous theme, and elaborate costuming and staging. 2. any lavish or opulent show, event, assemblage, etc.: an extravaganza of new housewares on the twelfth floor." "— n 1. an elaborately staged and costumed light entertainment 2. any lavish or fanciful display, literary or other composition, etc " The only part that was kept as audible speech was someone quoting the plagiarizing rapist. Played for chuckles, and getting the obligatory chuckles. That's a pretty concise way to let me know everything I need to know about the entire organzation right there. For the curious, this was a SOWERS event.

Is this "the Fifth Element"?

I kept focusing on the "Illinois" when the "October" was the clue. Silly me. Imagine what the movie would have been like if Michael Myers had worn an unaltered Shatner mask and killed looking like Shatner..... This is the original "Halloween" movie.

There were all sorts of claims that pfal and so on were about learning how to read the Bible and study for ourselves. However, as you went up the ladder, that changed. On the field and out of sight, each night, nobody cared we did exactly that. However, when a higher-up heard that a handful of us were planning on going over the basics of Bible study and do some basic study for ourselves, he strongly discouraged it and pushed for us to reread the collaterals, instead. That really was ingrained and obviously what he'd learned when HE was in the corps. Learn to do Bible study? Good thing. Actually DO Bible study? BAD thing. Remain dependent upon what vpw already published. At local fellowships, we always benefited most from when we studied on what WE needed and not what was SCHEDULED. Seriously, scheduled, canned studies reminded me of the church services we were supposed to scorn, and vpw lampooned in pfal.

Still trying to figure this out...

"End of the World"?

That may indeed be another point of view, but it doesn't seem to address the initial question at all. (I'm not watching more than an hour just to confirm that.)

That's it. That was the year I stopped taking the Oscars seriously. Tron wasn't a GREAT movie, but it should have been a lock for SFX, and Ghandi didn't really need any costumes designed, since any well-equipped studio should have had the outfits whereas Tron had costumes designed from the ground up. The quote was Flynn encountering a "Bit" inside the computer. It knew stuff but only communicated "yes" and "no."

Next movie. "Hey! Hold it right there!" "Yes." "What do you mean, "yes"?" "Yes." "Is that all you can say?" "No." "Know anything else?" "Yes." "Positive and negative, huh? You're a Bit." "Yes." The Academy refused to consider this movie for the Special Effects Oscar, despite it using Special Effects for maybe 1/2 the movie. They felt it was "cheating" to use CGI of any type for any kind of special effect and disqualified them for that. They did get nominated for Costume Design, but lost to "Ghandi."

*wild swing* "Sea Wolf"??

I need to check this thread more often. I knew "Real World" but forgot the artists. I didn't recognize "Smooth" from that clip, but I know the song and artists. (Love the video.) Naturally, I recognize Jethro Tull often.

Yes, BLIND LOYALTY was packaged and sold by vpw originally, as was the "I'm kicking you out, but swear a loyalty oath TO ME and you're back in." vpw did it on the zero corps with limited success. lcm was stupid enough to do it on most of the rank-and-file and it backfired.

As reported by posters over the years, PUBLICKLY, vpw wanted to hear who should replace him, and PRIVATELY he had it decided long before any discussion began. In fact, people kept telling him they either thought it should be either Walter, or "not-Craig." After hearing a resounding response of one or the other, vpw blew everybody off and chose lcm. According to lcm, (in "vp and me"), when he wanted to find a wife, he asked vpw to find one for him, and later said he'd decided on one BEFORE ASKING HER. Before he did, vpw went off and all but told her that lcm was going to be president next- after which lcm asked her to marry him. There's 2 interesting things about this. A) According to lcm's own account, they needed time to get to know each other better AFTER LCM ASKED HER TO MARRY HIM. B) Donna had previously told friends she was going to marry someone who was going to be at the top in twi no matter what or who... and this was followed by vpw saying something like "You're about to be proposed to by the guy who might be the next president of twi after I step down." Then lcm asked her to marry him. Despite needing to get to know him better, she accepted. Of course, different people were told different things about how vpw's successor was picked. The reality was that vpw did it unilaterally. I was told it was done like in Acts 1, where they prayed, and lots were cast, and Matthias was voted in. I don't know who started that lie, but it traveled pretty far...

If one HAD to have a piano out in the open where it might rain, isn't the SMART thing to set up a canopy over the thing, or even a framework behind it that can be wheeled or carried a few feet forward to cover it if you can't bring yourself to cover it before rain begins. Corps Principle #1 was "acquire an in-depth spiritual perception and awareness." Naturally, even though he wrote it, vpw was inconsistent about what it meant. At one point, he told the corps it originally said- and SHOULD say "....OF THE WORD" at the end of it. "Acquire an in-depth spiritual perception and awareness OF THE WORD." He DERIDED the idea that the perception and awareness could apply to anything else. He also told lcm that "common horse-sense" was the most important part of Corps Principle #1. So, by that thinking, "in-depth spiritual perception and awareness OF THE WORD" would require "common horse-sense"- and the man who said all that demonstrated none of it when setting up a piano where rain was supposed to fall and did nothing to block the rain. Naturally, it would be someone else's fault if the rain fell. They would be blamed for not planning in contradiction to him (which, if they did, was worth a yelling session). They would be blamed for failing to hear Divine Revelation to get a tarp. They would be blamed for failing to believe away the rain. And so on. Nothing was EVER vpw's fault.