I watched Tombstone today. He's great in an otherwise pretty mixed-quality movie.
Also enjoyed him in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.
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Personally I think there are conspiracies, they just happen in board rooms and government departments and are mostly hiding in plain sight. And if you wanted to conspire you would just have to love conspiracy theorists, because they just muddy up the waters and provide nonsensical cover for all the...

Richard Chamberlain. The original Shogun was awesome. Also, Allan Quartermain. He had a small role in the 3rd season of Twin Peaks as an assistant to David Duchovny's Denise Bryson. Several of the actors from the show who met him as part of that experience posted loving tributes on social media, ta...

either they are totally incompetent (they are) or (and) they did this on purpose for whatever reason. It’s been an effective distraction from several other things, like the DoJ arguments about the disappearance of immigrants in court that read like a 14th century royal proclamation, or the impendin...

Curry Pervert wrote: Fri Mar 21, 2025 10:23 pm On an actual person though?

Jose Ferrer and Thomas Wadhouse come to mind.

Get ready for streets lined with Dentist offices and drone shops. They only take Bitcoin and of course... teeth. https://hagemusings.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/necklace.jpg alt: the teeth-collecting robot from the Sealab 2021 episode "All That Jazz", wearing its necklace of ...

I don't know if there's a word / term for it, but the relative historical recency of those two people makes them kind of hard to rate relatively. I don't think you're totally off, and it's an interesting question regardless. To me Dali seems a bit more playful. Possibly because we know more about hi...

dfglv wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2025 1:30 pm

zircona1 wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2025 8:36 am Now reading Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad.

i've never got round to this but Emerald City, her first collection of short stories? god, i adored that book.

Her novel The Keep is also good. (No relation to the whacked out 80s movie.)

Return of the Obra Dinn ... I'm sure the average completion time is about 6 hours. I'm on 8 and about halfway done. Savor every moment, take 20 hours. Lots of people have said this, and they're all correct: I wish I could go back to the first time I played Return of the Obra Dinn. It's lightning in...

It's time for another Lightning Round: Now In Theatres!

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