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THE TRUTH ABOUT JAMES RANDI:
She's more right than she knows!
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NOW WHO OR WHAT DID SHE SPEAK TO AND WHAT WAS ASKED OF HER?
Randi with his SKULL CANE is a fitting final image of this man and his IDEOLOGY OF DEATH...
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Was that one worried about our precious bodily fluids?
Been awhile since I've seen one of these threads.
Can't say I missed them.
Dr. Strangelove, what a wonderful film. I walked out of the theater in a daze.
Quote from: SGOS on June 26, 2018, 10:55:11 PM
Dr. Strangelove, what a wonderful film. I walked out of the theater in a daze.
That is because you don't worship our lord and savior ... Peter Sellers ;-)
Failsafe was much more serious, as was Seven Days In May.
Quote from: Baruch on June 26, 2018, 11:11:25 PM
That is because you don't worship our lord and savior ... Peter Sellers ;-)
Failsafe was much more serious, as was Seven Days In May.
I had a friend who continually brought up that Failsafe was the better movie. Finally, another friend told him to quit that. They were both good movies, one meant to be quirky comedy, and the other to be a thriller. The juxtaposition of humor and horror in Strangelove was unique at the time. Failsafe kept me on the edge of my seat. How do you compare them?
Quote from: SGOS on June 27, 2018, 04:08:54 AM
I had a friend who continually brought up that Failsafe was the better movie. Finally, another friend told him to quit that. They were both good movies, one meant to be quirky comedy, and the other to be a thriller. The juxtaposition of humor and horror in Strangelove was unique at the time. Failsafe kept me on the edge of my seat. How do you compare them?
Well, not everyone appreciated Peter Sellers. Or Steve Martin. Sometimes it is cringe-worthy.
Failsafe is based on (loosely) a very real incident. Our first strategic military AI (automation). When the Sage radar defense system was first turned on, so I was told, it went immediately on alert seeing a Soviet first strike in progress. An object was approaching the US at 14,000 mph. It was the Moon rising over the horizon! Fortunately the nuclear response wasn't automated.
Dr Strangelove is based on the general craziness of automated weapons systems (which are a hot subject now) and Herman Kahn, a MIC analyst who wrote "On Thermonuclear War" ... which repudiates the MAD doctrine. That and Operation Paperclip (Nazi scientists to the US). General Curtis LeMay during the Kennedy admin was a vocal advocate for nuclear first strike against the Soviets ... he is the basis for the George C Scott character, General Turgidson. The insane General Ripper who launches the SAC bombers ... is based on the ongoing paranoia regarding fluoridation of the water supply. The Peter Sellers' character is the only sane person in the story.
Seven Days in May was a film JFK requested to be made, shortly before he was assassinated. It is prophetic ... except it was other parts of the government that staged the coup ... the military's role was to be passive.
Quote from: SGOS on June 26, 2018, 10:55:11 PM
Dr. Strangelove, what a wonderful film. I walked out of the theater in a daze.
I loved Slim Pickens in that! His bomb ride is legendary! ;-D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTaSJk0n_Y
Quote from: Baruch on June 27, 2018, 06:56:22 AM
Well, not everyone appreciated Peter Sellers. Or Steve Martin. Sometimes it is cringe-worthy.
Steve Martin's remake of the Pink Panther was embarrassing. I actually felt sorry for him.
Quote from: Unbeliever on June 27, 2018, 01:34:56 PM
I loved Slim Pickens in that! His bomb ride is legendary! ;-D
A movie moment, for sure. It will be his legacy.
My favorite line from the movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeqVGP-GPM
The bomb ride was the epitome of craziness. And emblematic of the whole movie.
I'd actually forgotten that James Earl Jones was in that. It's been a while since I've watched it.
Quote from: Unbeliever on June 28, 2018, 01:42:30 PM
I'd actually forgotten that James Earl Jones was in that. It's been a while since I've watched it.
Forgotten anything James Earl Jones has ever been in? You are excommunicated from Hollywood!
We don't usually think about peoples voices that much, until you hear James Earl Jones. You then realize just how good a voice can be.
Oh, good - I've been to Hollywood, so being excommunicated from there ain't bad!
Quote from: SGOS on June 27, 2018, 02:01:31 PM
Steve Martin's remake of the Pink Panther was embarrassing. I actually felt sorry for him.
I bet he cried all the way to the bank...
Quote from: SGOS on June 28, 2018, 06:26:59 PM
We don't usually think about peoples voices that much, until you hear James Earl Jones. You then realize just how good a voice can be.
There are some voices you just can't forget. Mae West. Stan Laurel. Paul Simon. Bob Dylan. the many voices of Mel Blanc, James Earl Jones...
Quote from: Cavebear on June 28, 2018, 09:04:33 PM
There are some voices you just can't forget. Mae West. Stan Laurel. Paul Simon. Bob Dylan. the many voices of Mel Blanc, James Earl Jones...
Orson Welles, Groucho Marx, Stephen Fry, Hitch...
Carl Sagan, W.C. Fields, G.W. Bush...
Quote from: trdsf on June 29, 2018, 02:15:40 PM
Orson Welles, Groucho Marx, Stephen Fry, Hitch...
Good additions!
Quote from: Cavebear on July 02, 2018, 03:03:24 AM
Good additions!
I'd also put in the audiobook readers William Dufris and Scott Brick, for my money the best in the business, if the author doesn't read their own work. I prefer books read by the author since they know the tone and emphasis they want, but not all authors are good readers. Harlan Ellison was probably the best, and Douglas Adams was great. Asimov was good, but his miles-thick Brooklyn accent kind of took some of the "Gosh! Wow! (sense of wonder)" out of it. Clarke just kind of... read it, without much in the way of characterization, emphasis or inflection.
Quote from: trdsf on July 02, 2018, 10:54:33 AM
I'd also put in the audiobook readers William Dufris and Scott Brick, for my money the best in the business, if the author doesn't read their own work. I prefer books read by the author since they know the tone and emphasis they want, but not all authors are good readers. Harlan Ellison was probably the best, and Douglas Adams was great. Asimov was good, but his miles-thick Brooklyn accent kind of took some of the "Gosh! Wow! (sense of wonder)" out of it. Clarke just kind of... read it, without much in the way of characterization, emphasis or inflection.
I wish I could say better things about Isaac Asimov. He gave a speech at Univ Of MD once and he was beet red, "seemed" drunk as a skunk. and made no sense at all. The audience left before he did.
Quote from: Cavebear on July 04, 2018, 02:10:28 AM
I wish I could say better things about Isaac Asimov. He gave a speech at Univ Of MD once and he was beet red, "seemed" drunk as a skunk. and made no sense at all. The audience left before he did.
Drunken performances don't show much respect for you audience, and are not particularly helpful to your career. The incident may not have hurt his career, but I doubt that it did much to help it.
Quote from: Cavebear on July 04, 2018, 02:10:28 AM
I wish I could say better things about Isaac Asimov. He gave a speech at Univ Of MD once and he was beet red, "seemed" drunk as a skunk. and made no sense at all. The audience left before he did.
By all accounts, Asimov was virtually a teetotaler, so that wasn't it. He may have just not been feeling well and went through with an event that he probably should have rescheduled. And there's that thick and bouncy Brooklyn accent that can be kind of hard to follow sometimes. I have trouble following Richard Feynman not just because the physics is hard but also his Noo Yawk accent gets in the way.
Quote from: trdsf on July 05, 2018, 10:29:35 AM
By all accounts, Asimov was virtually a teetotaler, so that wasn't it. He may have just not been feeling well and went through with an event that he probably should have rescheduled. And there's that thick and bouncy Brooklyn accent that can be kind of hard to follow sometimes. I have trouble following Richard Feynman not just because the physics is hard but also his Noo Yawk accent gets in the way.
Back in the day, people could take codeine based medicine over the counter.
Quote from: SGOS on June 28, 2018, 06:26:59 PM
We don't usually think about peoples voices that much, until you hear James Earl Jones. You then realize just how good a voice can be.
I'll see your James Earl Jones and raise you a BRIAN BLESSED.
Quote from: trdsf on July 05, 2018, 10:29:35 AM
By all accounts, Asimov was virtually a teetotaler, so that wasn't it.
Roger Miller had some brief popularity as a singer back in the 60s. His popularity was hard to figure, although he always had catchy but meaningless tunes, like "You can't roller skate in a Buffalo herd." He came to my college on the circuit as they used to do, and showed up drunk as a skunk. Couldn't make it through half his songs, and just went on to the next song from the middle of the last song. He left halfway through the performance. At the end of the year the college Annual, which always included coverage of the big performances that came there during the year covered Miller's performance with a few pages titled something like Roger Miller Lays an Egg. A graphic description of his hideous performance was pretty much spot on. I guess they could have just skipped the event, but Alumni will always remember the night Roger Miller showed up. And the utter failure of the event was an event in itself.
Some artists implode from the stress of public performance ;-(
Quote from: trdsf on July 05, 2018, 10:29:35 AM
By all accounts, Asimov was virtually a teetotaler, so that wasn't it. He may have just not been feeling well and went through with an event that he probably should have rescheduled. And there's that thick and bouncy Brooklyn accent that can be kind of hard to follow sometimes. I have trouble following Richard Feynman not just because the physics is hard but also his Noo Yawk accent gets in the way.
I will trust that was the cause. But it will be hard to get that bad memory out of my mind.