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Ok, I'm not going to use my more obvious connection this time. Tank Girl Naomi Watts King Kong

It is the original "The Producers." You really need to sit down and watch it- both versions. They're very funny. Peter Sellers thought this movie was so funny, he went into his own pocket to buy ads promoting it, since the studio didn't bother- and he made the movie a success, and Mel Brooks a successful producer/director. Yes, it is possible to take in a lot of money, produce a flop, then pocket the remaining money because nobody looked that closely into a flop. On the other hand, if it is a success, you're ruined because you could never pay off all the backers. (If you sell more than 100% of the profits, you can't have a successful production, it HAS to fail or you get caught and can't pay everyone back.) So, they found the worst story, got the worst principal actor, and got the worst director. They sold something like 2000% of the production, and set out to close on opening night and retire to Rio. They accidentally ended up with a successful comedy. "Where did we go right?"

Anyone know where this "stand when a Bible teacher enters the room" nonsense started? Most people will stand for a head of state, and maybe a foreign dignitary. Ever heard of a church or something where this is required- one that isn't ex-twi?

The attempts to pull that on the field had varied results. With New Yorkers, it often had the same results as kicking a bale of cotton- the impression faded the instant you stopped. :) Once, I visited hq in a weekend visiting group. One guy in residence took the slightest pretext to shoehorn in some "reproof". I had said something he hadn't noticed- because he didn't want to. He replied as if I'd challenged the Bible (or even twi doctrine, but it was unrelated to either.) I would have replied, but he was clearly wound up. So, calmly, I let him get where he was going, and at the end, flatly asked him "Been saving that speech up all week?" Oddly, he relaxed after that- I think he was trying to fit in to the situation at hq when I replied like a normal New Yorker when faced with pretension. In hindsight, the whole thing raised some questions, but at the time, I had other things on my mind.

*checks* I'm not familiar with ANY other movie she's done. Unless someone else chimes in, see you in 3 days.

I was in the ballpark, at least. Ok, now I think it was "THE PARENT TRAP."

Had to remember a single reference I heard where someone mentioned Shirley Temple being remembered for her dimples. (And a movie memorabilia place named "Dimples" for that reason.)

Not a comedy troupe. Seriously, once you work out who was in charge of making the movie, the title will suggest itself.

I actually haven't seen them. Mrs Wolf didn't think much of Discovery, and found Lower Decks unwatchable. I'm thinking I might like LD myself. On paper, I like the concept, at least. (But the ship looks awful to me, probably meant as a joke.)

Wild swing- "Freaky Friday"????

OK, based on the supposition I'm supposed to have SOME chance to get the answer, and, having looked at the emphasized clue, I'm going with SHIRLEY TEMPLE.

I suppose, once you get to the people who made the movie, you'll have the answer pretty quickly.

It is definitely NOT a Marx Brothers film. I suppose one might consider it related in some sort of metaphorical way, but it's not as old as a Marx Brothers film.

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[One of the problems of the internet is that people can pretend to be someone else that already exists. Some time ago, some anonymous person posted in his name on a twitter account or something and posted general apologies for previous action. I'm not sure why they did this. My opinion- which is a guess- is that, given the situation- someone decided to do that in the hopes someone would feel better after they read that. It was done on an April 1, so there might have been some element of prank in there. However, it seems too serious to be a standard prank. Possibly them or someone else has written a different website, apparently, and that's the site you mentioned. Again, my opinion...this strikes me more as less of an attempt to heal others or some mild prank, and less harmless for that matter. I'd probably just let it go, since any attempts to get the site down will probably be a lot of work and probably will just advertise it a lot. So, let it blow over.] [Maybe it's the cynic in me, but I think his current "teachings" aren't as harmful as you do. I'd be surprised if never-been-way are following his stuff, so that only leaves ex-way. Ex-twi numbers dwindle with the passing of the years, as twi becomes even less relevant than before. Any ex-twi knows what to expect from lcm. Any of them who actually choose to read/listen to his current stuff is not being "mislead." They are choosing to listen to him. These are the kinds of people who spend the rest of their lives shuffling between one ex-twi teacher and another, never interacting with all sorts of other Christians out there. This is a bit sad, but it's their choice. By the time someone's in their 50s or later, they should have figured all of this out. If they haven't, this is probably a deliberate decision. In the long run, this problem is self-correcting. They are aging out of the population (as will lcm himself.) So, every year, this "twi only or ex-twi only" subculture(s) gets smaller and smaller. Either people figure it out and explore the rest of the world (among other Christians or among other people) or they age out and are NOT replaced by people falling for the same snappy patter. None of this erases your hurts, but I hope some perspective might help a little.] [Amazingly, some of us worked out that last sentence in the thread discussing the book "VP and Me." lcm wrote it, and the tone suggested that. I'm not sure who or what he was from childhood. We know he was a Christian in high school and university, and was looking for SOMETHING by the time he was in college. The general bluster sounds picked up from coaches and the like (father-figures for team members in high school and college.) lcm went straight from college to twi, with no time for actual life experience- which seemed to have been a persistent deficiency for him. He was unable to empathize with all the normal folk, but mainly he was an excellent target to "soak up the king's countenance" when he met vpw. He copied vpw's yelling, anger and face-meltings over time- sometimes only because vpw INSISTED. lcm wanted answers, and got vpw. lcm really believed vpw's press, and believed that the twi President's passing thoughts were Divine Revelation- which was how some awful decisions were made. On the other hand, vpw KNEW he himself was a fraud, so he covered his tracks. So, for all the hurt lcm passed along, vpw was a far worse person, partly because he made lcm into the kind of person who did that. lcm sincerely thought he was doing the right thing, even when he was doing wrong. vpw knew he was doing wrong. I really do think lcm could have posted here under a screen-name and interacted with people, and been accepted. (Provided he didn't break the board rules and attack other posters, say.) I posted a thread once, asking for personal recollections of lcm. A number of people said he'd been a decent fellow when he first arrived at twi, and long-term contact with vpw/twi was really what changed that.]

Well, you should. This is your kind of movie. If you haven't seen it yet, you've missed something. After they've gone through all the trouble of making it, and everything.

Three Men and a Baby Steve Guttenberg Cocoon

"Ooh, I fell on my keys! " "About six months... but I'm on probation, so it's all good, baby!" "No, I mean, what do you do best?" "I can't do that here. That's why they put me away, baby! " "He who signs a lease must pay rent. That's the law." "You miserable wretch! How dare you take the last penny out of a poor man's pocket?" "I have to. I'm a landlord." "Oh, Lord, hear my plea; destroy him! He maketh a blight on the land!" "Don't listen to him; he's crazy. " " I am the author. You are the audience. I outrank you!" "We find the defendants incredibly guilty." "And may I humbly add, your Honor, that we've learned our lesson and that we'll never do it again." "DON'T SAY IT! I'm scared that, if I hear it just once more, I'll start getting sick to my stomach and I won't be able to stop." "CONGRATULATIONS!" "Not only is he a liar and a cheat and a scoundrel and a crook, who has taken money from little old ladies, but he's also talked people into doing things, especially me, that they would never in a thousand years have dreamed of doing. But, your Honor, as I understand it, the law was created to protect people from being wronged."

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I can't tell if I'm "living in the area" with no information as to the area. Can we at least get a country, and possibly a region in the country? https://www.christianmusicfestivals.net/ https://www.christianfestivalassociation.com/ Both links seem to have updates on a bunch of US Christian music festivals for 2022. If that's not the right country, we'll need to check elsewhere.

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From the "Cliches, Collaterals and Claptrap" thread..... ============================================ "The surrounding of himself with an armed security detail and a tight entourage was not out of fear as much as it was out of malignant narcissism. My first summer school in 1971, dictor was everybody's pal. He walked around in shorts and overalls and hung out with his keedz. Lots of pizza and beer or burger nights, dances with secular rock and R&B music. There was no dress code other than Sunday nights and corpse nights (Tuesday's back then). Lots of laughter and music in prep for the first ROA. But, by the time of my first year in-Rez, it was already changing. As it turned out, I had an affinity for being hailed into dictor's office over the loudspeakers in the courtyard for personal reproof and correction meetings frequently during my first 4 months in the corpse. The first one, I entered his office smoking a cigarette and sat down without asking permission. OMG!....you'd think the world was ending! Dictor screams at me, "Stand up!". Would you walk into the office of President Nixon smoking a .... cigarette?". I quickly shot back, "I wouldn't wanna be anywhere near old tricky dick's office VP!" I was then ordered at top vein-popping volume, to get the .... outta his sight and never call him "VP" again! Never got around to yelling at me for whatever he called me in for. But, I began to see that malignant narcissistic delusional grandeur of dictor as the man-o-gawd. Comparing himself to Nixon as worthy of the same care, concern, respect and treatment for himself as the most important man on the Earth.....the greatest Apostle since Paul in the first centur, expositor of the great mystery, whose "specialty" was "the holy spirit field" which he co-opted and blatantNtly plagiarized from J.E. Stiles, B.G. Leonard, E.W. Bullinger, Kenyon, Pillai, Lamsa, Glenn Clark, Rufus Mosely, Starr Daily, Oswald Chambers, Rosalind Rinker, F.F. Bruce, Charles Welch, to name a few of his original researchers. So, when Dictor had enough $$ and "trained personnel", the security team, "Bless Patrol", guns, malpacks etc., took over and the goon squad began in earnest in 1975 under the guise of "spiritual vigilance and CP# 1" against the reprogrammers and the seedboy-led trinitarian denominations which were out to kill him and "the minus-tray of the word" we all stood for. Oh the humanity!......LOL! Add to the growing malignant paranoid narcissism, alcoholism, neo-Nazi politics and Aryan theology, stir in a little of Nietche's "Ubermensch" and a lot of sexual predation and serial rape, and you've got a lot to protect, eh? Surround yourself with family and corpses and build your kingdom. Grab guys like MacMullan, Quillen, Geer, Wajnberg, and some other psychopathic ex-marines, Green Berets, and general whackos, give 'em guns and "training" and turn them loose. First on the enemies without.....then, more sinisterly, the enemies within. The whole gun/security/bless patrol/goon squad thing was produced not by fear, but rather by a massive malignant paranoid narcissist's vain and self-serving ego trip. Sheesh!"

[What you're thinking of was craig. Some woman came to Ralph for help, and he went to get to the bottom of this "abusing the women/lockbox" thing. The twi powers-that-be stopped him from talking to anyone while they escorted him off-grounds, threatening him with dogs and firearms. I don't remember that waiting for any kind of meeting. That having been said, vpw got less shrift than he was hoping. He got testy with Ralph not reacting like he was the US president and standing when he entered the room or something. He asked if Ralph would stand if (then-president) Nixon entered the room.] "As it turned out, I had an affinity for being hailed into dictor's office over the loudspeakers in the courtyard for personal reproof and correction meetings frequently during my first 4 months in the corpse. The first one, I entered his office smoking a cigarette and sat down without asking permission. OMG!....you'd think the world was ending! Dictor screams at me, "Stand up!". Would you walk into the office of President Nixon smoking a .... cigarette?". I quickly shot back, "I wouldn't wanna be anywhere near old tricky dick's office VP!" I was then ordered at top vein-popping volume, to get the .... outta his sight and never call him "VP" again! Never got around to yelling at me for whatever he called me in for." [I think, given his narcissism, vpw belittled what he didn't understand- like creativity in the arts, music. etc. He could play an existing song but didn't make much of those who made new songs. One of the best things at the ROA was all the unofficial stuff people sold around the grounds- music, t-shirts, wood-carvings, etc. I liked bringing souvenirs for those who couldn't make the trip. When lcm was forcing everyone to choose between lcm and cg, he made it look like choosing cg was a good idea. It wasn't as bad an idea as choosing lcm- which is not the same thing at all. ]

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Supposedly, WOW was based on Jesus sending his disciples out in pairs to preach. A quote from Isaiah was also used. In practice, it was kids in groups of 4 (with one owning a car so twi didn't have to arrange transport) being sent to different places to get entry-level jobs, run pfal classes, and continue to tithe and abundantly share the entire time, for 1 year. Oh, and rent some place to live, as well.