WordWolf

"Enchanted"?

"Monty Python's The Life of Brian"?

This series ran for about 6 years (plus a short sequel.) Its writers included Jack Vance, Arthur C. Clarke Damon Knight, and Isaac Asimov. It was NOT an anthology, it was a more conventional series instead. (We saw the same characters in each episode, etc.) One regular character's name was accidentally reversed due to a stenciling error by the staff. That's especially a shame because the character represented a "first" for television. The show had an amazingly wide range of products for merchandising for its time. In fact, some of the merchandising seemed superior to some of the on-set props. The theme was the Overture to "the Flying Dutchman" by Wagner. This series is fairly well-known even now. At the time, it was fairly famous. In fact, it was famous enough to be sub-referenced in another show. We know this was Ed Norton's favorite television show. And a recent Dick Tracy cartoon strip suggested that Vitamin Flintheart got his television break on this show.

"Maria!"

That's it. A movie with car chases, hand-to-hand fight scenes, and some clever dialogue. For Mr and Mrs Wolf, those are good signs for a movie. :)

"I want the truth." "You can't handle the truth!"

"I always say, the way a man treats his car is how he treats himself." "Rule One: Never change the deal. Rule Two: No Names. Rule Three: Never open the package." "Monsieur Frank, people with this kind of firepower do not make mistakes about who they visit. Who would want you this dead?" "If you don't mind...I just conditioned the leather back there." "You gave me too much." "We need you to take us to Avignon." "The deal was this far and no further." "The deal is the deal. Rule number one." "Rules are meant to be broken." "Not mine." "Are you looking for milk? There's milk at the door." "Stay, stay. I'll go. Hi." "And you are?" "The new cook." "Is Monsieur Frank in? Ah! Monsieur Frank. Is your invitation for coffee still open?" "Sure, come on. Please, sit." "Madeleine?" "Homemade?" "Yes. I'll bring some more." "Ah. My mother used to make...fresh madeleines every morning. I smell them and my whole childhood...comes back in one big flood...like Proust. You ever read Proust, Monsieur Frank?" "No." "Ah. He's fantastic. Memory like a steel trap. He would have been a great cop. A real detail man." "You believe her?" "Yes." "In French we have a saying..."Never believe the cook." " "She's not the cook." "Transportation is a precise business."

This series ran for about 6 years (plus a short sequel.) Its writers included Jack Vance, Arthur C. Clarke Damon Knight, and Isaac Asimov. It was NOT an anthology, it was a more conventional series instead. (We saw the same characters in each episode, etc.) One regular character's name was accidentally reversed due to a stenciling error by the staff. That's especially a shame because the character represented a "first" for television. The show had an amazingly wide range of products for merchandising for its time. In fact, some of the merchandising seemed superior to some of the on-set props. The theme was the Overture to "the Flying Dutchman" by Wagner.

"Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring"

Come, Mister Taliban, turn over bin Laden.... When I think of this song, the movie I think of is "BEETLEJUICE." Is that it?

I'll provide both the verses and the rationale I believe there's 3 events- 1 for us, plus 2 Resurrections- but for those who are convinced there's exactly 2 events (or less, of course), whatever I post may be insufficient to change their mind. Over the years, I've seen reasons to fine-tune what I believe on this, but not enough to discard what I believe on this.

"Joanie Loves Chachi." Ok, seriously... "Happy Days" spun off "Laverne and Shirley" and had a stealth series pilot for "Mork and Mindy" which crossed over with the series pilot for that as well. Mork traveled between 1950s Milwaukee and 1970s Boulder.

"I always say, the way a man treats his car is how he treats himself." "Rule One: Never change the deal. Rule Two: No Names. Rule Three: Never open the package." "Monsieur Frank, people with this kind of firepower do not make mistakes about who they visit. Who would want you this dead?" "If you don't mind...I just conditioned the leather back there." "You gave me too much." "We need you to take us to Avignon." "The deal was this far and no further." "The deal is the deal." "Rule number one." "Rules are meant to be broken." "Not mine." "Are you looking for milk? There's milk at the door." "Stay, stay. I'll go. Hi." "And you are?" "The new cook." "Is Monsieur Frank in? Ah! Monsieur Frank. Is your invitation for coffee still open?" "Sure, come on. Please, sit." "Madeleine?" "Homemade?" "Yes. I'll bring some more." "Ah. My mother used to make...fresh madeleines every morning. I smell them and my whole childhood...comes back in one big flood...like Proust. You ever read Proust, Monsieur Frank?" "No." "Ah. He's fantastic. Memory like a steel trap. He would have been a great cop. A real detail man."

Food, glorious food!

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good."

Donald Sutherland Heaven Help Us Wallace Shawn

In this takeoff on Shakespeare, a new kid must find a guy to date the meanest girl in school, the older sister of the girl he has a crush on, who cannot date until her older sister does. After graduation, he ends up working for the British Secret Service alongside a Japanese secret-service ninja force that must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked.

One of the Ferengi rules of Acquisition (of the Star Trek franchise) is "Never be afraid to mislabel a product." vpw labelled his program a program for training spiritual leaders. It was a program for training spiritual FOLLOWERS. People PAID for their entire time, enough to more than cover the costs and turn a profit per-person. Some of the time, they performed manual labor- and weren't credited back any money as any kind of salary or anything. They also didn't actually learn a marketable trade in the process, like electronics, auto repair, etc. Picking vegetables, killing chickens, painting houses and washing cars and stuff are not trades where anyone needs experience or training, they can be picked up on-the-fly, which is why the US often ends up with the desperate and underemployed doing some of them (migrant farmers.) vpw never went through any leadership training HIMSELF- and he couldn't teach what he didn't know and didn't dare crack his persona of the All-Knowing Leader, so he couldn't bring in outside talent to do it. So, the students COULDN'T learn leadership training any more than they could learn Special Forces training without Special Forces-trained soldiers to teach them. vpw never wanted leaders anyway-people who would stand up for others if needed, to stand up TO HIM if needed. He wanted fanatics who would jump off a cliff if he commanded it. His 2 most fanatically loyal followers were the 2 people he promoted as high as he could- lcm and cgeer. The screening process for the corps was a joke, a formality- "You can stay as long as your money holds!" and people's retentions were based on that and their willingness to OBEY LEADERSHIP. (lcm documented both.) vpw wanted the corps to turn a profit, but most importantly, he wanted FOLLOWERS, and the only real training he brought in was in SALES. So, followers and salesmen. And if they crashed and burned, at least he ran a profit on each one. It's possible a FEW people were refused for entry into his "elite" program, but from what I've heard, paying tuition was the big hurdle and the most incompetent and dangerous people were let in alongside the most compassionate and committed Christians. Naturally, he never phrased it as INCLUSIONARY, but that was the practice, while the rhetoric was that it was EXCLUSIONARY, and not that easy to pass the requirements, so don't try unless you've advanced.

If I've seen this movie, I'm going to be embarrassed. If not, I'm ok. Either way, I'm nowhere close to an answer and suspect I haven't seen it.

zzzzzzzzzzzzz........... Hm what? A guess? Oh, it's "Sleeper"....... ...zzzzzzz.....

"I always say, the way a man treats his car is how he treats himself." "Rule One: Never change the deal. Rule Two: No Names. Rule Three: Never open the package." "Monsieur Frank, people with this kind of firepower do not make mistakes about who they visit. Who would want you this dead?" "If you don't mind...I just conditioned the leather back there." "You gave me too much." "We need you to take us to Avignon." "The deal was this far and no further." "The deal is the deal." "Rule number one." "Rules are meant to be broken." "Not mine."

Ah, is this "Tangled"?

Are we going to Addis Abbaba, Mister Luthor? (end of that scene, with Luthor explaning about retrieving the meteorite and concealing it behind lead)

As I see it, those who stand before the Throne Judgement at the First Resurrection (aka the Resurrection of Life, the Better Resurrection) are not the Born-Again Christians. If the Pre-Trib or Mid-Trib position is correct, the Christians have all been gone, and were judged during the Tribulation events. (Under rather favorable conditions, even moreso than that of the First Resurrection.) They then return with Jesus at the end of Revelation 19, and are the ones who sat on thrones- with Jesus and who judged-with Jesus. (This makes sense if they are "forever with" their Lord from the moment of their gathering-together-unto-him onward into eternity.) Those who are judged, therefore, exclude the Born-Again Ones. So, that excludes Stephen, who was Born Again but who was martyred. It does NOT exclude John the Baptist (Baptizer), who WAS literally beheaded for the witness of Jesus but who was not born again. It would include all Old Testament prophets who testified of Jesus one way or another and were martyred for it. And it would include those who were martyred for Jesus during the Tribulation. I agree that the specific mechanism of martyrdom is irrelevant and is figurative here. I once talked about someone getting back to something as soon as was reasonable after dealing with something more urgent. Of that total stranger, I said something like the following: "They'll deal with that, then come home, decompress, and collapse. They'll sleep for about 12 hours, get up, shower, have their shredded wheat, THEN they'll take care of what you're stressing about, with several days to spare." Naturally, one person missed my point and said it sounded like I knew them very well since I ran through an itinerary. (Everybody else seemed to get my point.) As a matter of fact, I generally use the term "shredded wheat" for strangers eating breakfast-it's a reference to a line in a Marx Brothers movie. So, someone using "beheading" to refer to all forms of martyrdom makes perfect sense to me. This wasn't meant as a forensics textbook outlining methods of executions.

Ok, I guess we're all cool again. *passes out snow-cones and hot chocolate*