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  1. Ok, next round. Here's some actors, name the role: Dylan Sprayberry Cooper Timberline George Newbern
  2. Entire episodes circled around the concepts from the first 3 quotes. One episode, a Greek platoon expressed their thanks by sending a Greek feast, including a live lamb. Radar arranged its escape- Blake signed the papers authorizing the emergency hardship discharge of Private Charles Lamb. ("You know him- short, curly-haired guy." "Death in the family?" "Almost."") Another episode centered around their inability to get an incubator for the unit- which delayed diagnoses of illnesses, and they went all over Korea trying to get one. Another favorite episode centered around how the army decided to hide weapons dumps near the hospitals in the hopes no enemy would attack it. One rogue North Korean pilot tried, every day at 5pm, to hit it with a bomb- missing by a lot and generating bets as to what he would hit. The army authorized the addition of a cannon to the unit- which meant they needed to figure out how to get rid of the ammo dump- which would get rid of Charlie AND the gun. The last quote was from Hawkeye in the Officers Club.
  3. IIRC, they shortened "Kajagoogoo" some time ago to "Kaja." Did they restore the old name? I don't want to look it up because I'll end up running across the game answer that way.
  4. "Don't give me that do goody-good bull$h1t." "Ha-ha! I was in the right!" "Yes, absolutely in the right!" "I certainly was in the right!" "Yeah, I was definitely in the right. That geezer was cruising for a bruising!" "Why does anyone do anything?" "Yeah!" "Why does anyone do anything?" "I don't know, I was really drunk at the time!" "I was just telling him it was in, he could get it in Number Two. He was asking why it wasn't coming up on freight eleven. After, I was yelling and screaming and telling him why it wasn't coming up on freight eleven. It came to a heavy blow, which sorted the matter out."
  5. Keep in mind that even words spoken during a song are part of the lyrics. As you can see, sometimes that can include quite a lot that doesn't sound like a normal "song." You've heard this song before, I'm sure.
  6. "Let me tell you how it will be. There's 1 for you, 19 for me."
  7. "In the meantime, be on the lookout for a male Caucasian lamb. He is unarmed, and considered to be delicious." "You have a fever of 109 stroke 10, you can't have an incubator but you can have a pizza to go, unless of course you go first." "Attention. Attention. One minute to Charlie. The betting book is now closed." "I'd like a dry martini, Mr. Quoc, a very dry martini. A very dry, arid, barren, desiccated, veritable dustbowl of a martini. I want a martini that could be declared a disaster area. Mix me just such a martini."
  8. I'll ignore my first response, and go with the Corsican instead. How about "NAPOLEON BONAPARTE"?
  9. I don't know him. Is he one of the Baldwin brothers? I've heard of Alec, Billy, Daniel, and maybe Bobby (or maybe I made that one up.)
  10. Ok, next song. "Ha-ha! I was in the right!" "Yes, absolutely in the right!" "I certainly was in the right!" "Yeah, I was definitely in the right. That geezer was cruising for a bruising!" "Why does anyone do anything?" "Yeah!" "Why does anyone do anything?" "I don't know, I was really drunk at the time!" "I was just telling him it was in, he could get it in Number Two. He was asking why it wasn't coming up on freight eleven. After, I was yelling and screaming and telling him why it wasn't coming up on freight eleven. It came to a heavy blow, which sorted the matter out."
  11. The first Grateful Dead album I ever bought WAS "In The Dark." I was introduced to them with that album, then listened to some of their older stuff. That was a generational thing.
  12. Of course, a rewrite is the perfect excuse for making everyone pay to retake the same class all over again. "So much has changed, it's a completely new class!"
  13. "Carefui, careful. Every one of them has a mother." "It's a low neighborhood, full of rumpots. They're used to curious sights, which they attribute to alcoholic delusions. " "Excuse me, I'll slip into something more comfortable while your cocoa is warming. " " This curtain which separates our countries is so foolish. If we could just contrive some way of getting more deeply involved with each other. " "Oh, da. Da, we must search for such a method." "Disposing of pre-atomic submarines to persons who don't even leave their full addresses... Good day, Admiral! " "What weighs six ounces, sits in a tree and is very dangerous?" "A sparrow with a machine gun!" "Yes, of course."
  14. "Carefui, careful. Every one of them has a mother." "It's a low neighborhood, full of rumpots. They're used to curious sights, which they attribute to alcoholic delusions. " "Excuse me, I'll slip into something more comfortable while your cocoa is warming. " " This curtain which separates our countries is so foolish. If we could just contrive some way of getting more deeply involved with each other. " "Oh, da. Da, we must search for such a method."
  15. You said, more than once, that it was only from the 1980s onward that people believed their pets would live on in the afterlife. No, even vpw mentioned it in the filmed/taped pfal class. He complained about "immortal soul" and so on, and said that's why some religions teach that animals live on forever, and that's why they have a Dog Heaven and a Cat Heaven, and so on. He was teaching at at least in the 60s in response to what some people believed, which means some people were teaching otherwise, somewhere, at the time.
  16. Mark Knopfler (of Dire Straits) sang Willy De Ville's "Story Book Love" for the soundtrack. William Golding's parents were Max and Valerie. Cary Elwes didn't do the acrobatic flip, of course. He hurt his foot when he finally agreed to try out Andre's 4-wheeler and wiped out. Mandy Patinkin finally hurt a rib when working with Billy Crystal. The story is a fairy tale being told to a kid. It's not meant to be historically accurate, and is deliberately anachronistic (the references to Australia, etc.) And we're following the telling of the story and how the grandson is imagining it, so there can be inaccuracies because that's how it's imagined. I really hope they don't try to film a remake of this movie. It would be like trying to catch lightning in a bottle. In the scene where they emptied the Thieves' Forest, one man tried, unsuccessfully, to get Inigo Montoya to leave. "Ho, there!" Inigo's response slipped the swear in. Westley was stunned by Count Rugen. Elwes told Guest to hit him for real- with predictable results. Andre the Giant really liked filming this movie. The thing he liked least was being stared at wherever he went, and on this set, he was just one of the guys- which he really appreciated.
  17. Rob Reiner was the Director, but William Golding's exact role is hard to quantify. He wrote the original book, and the screenplay, and had a lot of input on-set while it was filming. So, I think of him also as the Director. I kept meaning to check if I needed to rephrase that. But, yes, this was THE PRINCESS BRIDE.
  18. Next movie. "Carefui, careful. Every one of them has a mother." "It's a low neighborhood, full of rumpots. They're used to curious sights, which they attribute to alcoholic delusions. "
  19. This is the Grateful Dead's "Touch of Grey". their first commercial hit off of "In The Dark." "Oh, well, a touch of grey kind of suits you anyway. That was all I have to say, but, it's all right. I will get by." The music video (they did a music video) was neat- they were playing in a concert, and the band was swapped out for skeletons dressed as the band, playing the instruments. They loved the video, and didn't mind that it was possible to see the rigging to animate the skeletons. This album introduced a different generation to the Grateful Dead, and was a commercial success. (It was followed by an album that wasn't quite as successful, but had at least two hits- "Foolish Heart" and "Shakedown Street." )
  20. -Mark Knopfler was asked to do a song for this movie's score. He agreed, and gave a condition- a hat that the director used in a previous movie had to be included. It was included, and Knopfler later admitted he was joking about the hat when he asked for its inclusion. -Two of the supporting characters are a couple, and they are named after the director's parents (his mother's name is Valerie, his father was Max.) -Two actors did all their own stunts- except for a single move one double had to perform. The other actor took no injuries while filming- until he hurt his ribs trying not to laugh at another actor on the set. The first actor injured and almost broke his foot, but not due to any filmed or scripted scenes. -This story was not historically-consistent, but of course nobody said it needed to be. I'd actually use almost the same reasoning as to why there were a few technical errors in filming, and why they weren't actually errors in filming. -Rumors of a remake of this movie have triggered fan backlashes, and rightfully so. -A swear is slipped passed the censors. A Spanish-speaking character says something odd in English, with a Spanish accent. It was pronounced identically to a Spanish swear-word. -An actor should never tell another actor to hit him for real. It never ends well. In this movie, they lost almost a day's shooting when one actor gave another a concussion. -One actor liked how naturally he fit into the filming. Andre Rene Roussimoff was just another actor on set.
  21. You've left me in the dark, but I will get by.
  22. Next movie. Mark Knopfler was asked to do a song for this movie's score. He agreed, and gave a condition- a hat that the director used in a previous movie had to be included. It was included, and Knopfler later admitted he was joking about the hat when he asked for its inclusion. Two of the supporting characters are a couple, and they are named after the director's parents (his mother's name is Valerie.) Two actors did all their own stunts- except for a single move one double had to perform. The other actor took no injuries while filming- until he hurt his ribs trying not to laugh at another actor on the set. The first actor injured and almost broke his foot, but not due to any filmed or scripted scenes.
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