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That's Hector Hammond, a villain who fights GREEN LANTERN. I yield my turn to T-Bone. NOW we can answer his post. :)

Uh, you're supposed to answer the current turn FIRST.

https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/24969-twi-memories-good-bad-and-indifferent/page/5/?tab=comments#comment-606515 We discussed some of this here. With links to other threads. Page 5 of "TWI memories- good, bad and indifferent."

This question came up on another thread, and I didn't want it to get lost. I'm hoping to get some thoughts on this one. Here's what we know..... vpw got static for his India trip from his denomination. He made it independently of anything they said, and they made it crystal clear he was not representing them and was doing this entirely on his own. vpw CLAIMED he was the first such minister who'd ever taken his ENTIRE family on such a trip (although baby JP was left with his grandparents for all the months of the trip.) vpw CLAIMED that the majority of his access was the result of a miraculous healing- an account we all heard in pfal. Supposedly, vpw was hanging off the back of a train when it was about to move. A local asked for healing but was specific he didn't believe in Jesus. vpw supposedly did a miracle that transformed his arm instantly as the train began pulling away. It makes no sense in physics, and is cinematic. Supposedly, on the same train was some Indian notable who represented some other notable. The one on the train saw the "miracle" and that's why he got the second notable to open the doors in India to vpw. Mrs W's account was rather specific. Dr I.S. Williams opened all the doors for vpw, and she said nothing about such a miraculous healing. As vpw went around the country, he swallowed the line Williams was spouting, and repeated it back- which some locals wanted to hear. In other words, Williams USED vpw to advance his own agenda, and vpw lacked the wit to see through it. This carried on all the way through vpw speaking on "The Dilemna of Foreign Missions"- which became a book when someone transcribed hs speech. Ok, Williams stroked his ego, and that's enough reason for vpw to appear. Williams offered "secret" (behind-the-scenes) knowledge- and vpw ALWAYS ate that up no matter how ridiculous it was. That's enough for why vpw showed up. Why in the world did vpw drag his FAMILY across India to all these stops? Does anyone have any thoughts?

Would you believe I still haven't seen this movie? Still haven't seen a good review of it, either... Makes for an interesting bad guy, though.

Hm. Not sure about this one. However, it might be a reference to the 2nd of 2 James Bond movies not made by the usual production company. If so, it was the last JB movie Sean Connery did, and it was called "NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN."

That's a good question, and an original question. So I did a little digging. Here's what we have: The thread "VP's visit to India" discusses this. https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/23050-vps-visit-to-india/page/2/ "When wierwille went to India......he was propped in front of church groups, the Hindu convention, dignitaries by Dr. I.S. Williams. It was Williams who OPENED all the doors for wierwille to speak. And, when wierwille left India he "designated" Williams to continue to oversee his (vp's) work.....of which, Williams did NOT accept." "Most likely williams opened doors for vpw so that he could use vp as his puppet. They could show off an American who was spouting the same anti-colonial line many Indians were using. VP was getting fed a line and used and didn't know it. I'm sure it stroked his ego to be the lone voice of "truth" over "tradition." " "I got hold of a copy of Dilemma of Foreign Missions in India shortly after I disassociated from TWI in 1986/'87, and was horrified to see how closely the Corps training duplicated the practices Wierwille decried in Dilemma." "Like Dilemma, most of VP's "books" were transcribed sermons he gave, a method which captured his sloppy, extreme, offhanded, and inaccurate manner." "There were some incidents concerning vpw's visit to India that we've discussed before. There's what vpw SAID, and what HAPPENED. For example, vpw said something about there never before having been a minister who traveled there with his whole family- saying he was the first. Supposing there were none before him, he wasn't the first because he left his youngest son separated from his entire nuclear family for several months when he was tiny. vpw also claimed he had entre to all sorts of things there. This is true. His host, Dr Williams, had entre and walked vpw through everything. vpw responded by swallowing Williams' line of talk about missionaries- which vpw later spoke on and had someone transcribe into "his book" "The Dilemna of Foreign Missions." vpw claimed that his entre into things all over India was the result of some miraculous healing he performed. The truth is that Dr Williams opened all the doors- as Mrs W's account clearly stated in her book. vpw told us all that it was all because he supposedly was standing on the back of a train as it was preparing to pull out, and there was a man with a withered arm there, who was not a Christian. He asked the man if he wanted vpw to pray for him and if he believed he would be healed if vpw prayed for him. The man supposedly replied 'yes' to both, but was clear he did not believe in Jesus. vpw supposedly prayed and the man received a miracle of healing, his arm suddenly becoming whole and strong in a few seconds, just as the train was pulling out. Supposedly, vpw was shouting to him about him receiving his healing in the name of Jesus. Then someone came up to vpw on the train, said he was representing some official who saw the entire incident that happened back there, and was responding to such a healing, gave him the keys to his city, and said the doors to "the East" would always be open to him as a result. Mrs W's account of the train incident said he was asked to perform a special blessing for the people there, Christian and non, and he prayed publickly. Then a man came up on the train and said he represented an official who saw the prayer, and was impressed a Christian minister would pray for non-Christians. Later, Dr Williams arranged for vpw to get a key to a city and speak at the convention. Mrs W's account skips this entire supposed miracle. No surprise, since a poster who knew her and saw her notes said there was no such miracle in her notes of the time. The entire supposed incident was ridiculous, and cinematic. vpw supposedly is on the back of a train, and is permitted to hang off the back as it's prepared to move, and a crowd is allowed to surround the back of the train. As the train begins to pull out, vpw is in physical contact with someone on the ground, and the train is beginning regardless. Furthermore, he's with NO support, standing at the back of a train, bent over the back as it's moving, and he is immune to the laws of inertia and general physics because he's shouting slogans rather than struggling to stay onboard a train. So he obviously lied about what happened, and Mrs W refused to include that lie in her notes and in her book. An interesting side-note is that one poster who knew her claimed she pointed to a man in photos and said that was the man- but there's no such account in her notes and her OFFICIAL accout of what happened skipped over it. Does that mean she told ONE person the truth, and hid the truth from the rest-who wanted to believe it? Or did she lie to one person and tell the truth to everyone else even though it would have been easier to just give the lie they expected? I think we all would draw the same conclusions." Some threads that discussed related points: https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/16710-wierwilles-stories-in-pfal/ https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/13609-the-indian-that-was-healed-on-the-train-by-vp/ https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/21689-keys-to-the-city/ "Wierwille's stories in pfal." "The Indiand that was healed on the train by vp." "Keys to the city." =============================== We get that vpw dragged his family along- except for JP- to India for months. We get that his denomination seemed to be against it, and made it clear he was not being sent as a spokesperson who could speak for them. But why was he so insistent on going? Looking at it right now, it looks like Mr "I want to be special and have special knowledge" got played by Dw Williams and those who played ball with him. vpw wasn't very intelligent. If they were playing him and offering secret knowledge and entre, he would go along. (He's not the only one- it's been said that, if you put a velvet rope in front of a toilet, people would begin lining up for it. ) That's why HE went. Why was it so important to bring his family? I have NO idea. Anyone got anything?

I remember that name from the role of Eric Selvig, who was introduced in THOR Natalie Portman V For Vendetta

No, something with better reviews. However, neither movie, strictly speaking, included any superheroes (AFAIK about Catwoman, the other movie definitely did not.)

He spent a LOT LESS time than he'd made it sound. To hear him say it, he was an involved dad and successful dog trainer. He always pushed responsibilities to other people- and raising people and dogs counted among those responsibilities. To hear vpw say it, he was the first minister to take his whole family on a missionary tour of India. Among the falsehoods in that statement was him taking "his whole family" (his words, not mine.) His youngest son, JP, stayed behind with grandparents for the SEVERAL MONTHS of the trip. In general, he spent LITTLE time actually raising his kids, but was fine taking all the credit for someone else's work. Then again, how can this be a surprise with such a serial plagiarist and conman?

"What is it?" "The sound of treachery." "What are you?" "I'm complicated." "If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all." "We'll be at this all day." "Empires crumble. There are no exceptions." "You're sweet... and you're young. Neither are traits that I hold in high regard." "You scratched me!" "Better me than him!" "You have all the time in the world."

Iron Man Jon Favreau DareDevil

That's it. In the first pic, he's wearing a MAIL shirt while being instructed which cup was safe to drink the toast from. (Was it the flagon with the dragon, the vessel with the pestle, or chalice from the palace?) In the second pic, Danny Kaye was dueling with Basil Rathbone- and doing VERY well by all accounts. (The scene is actually VERY complicated to perform.) Both he and Viggo Mortensen (King Aragorn/Strider the ranger) got similar compliments in their movies about how well they picked up swordplay.

"What is it?" "The sound of treachery." "We'll be at this all day." "Empires crumble. There are no exceptions." "You're sweet... and you're young. Neither are traits that I hold in high regard." "What are you?" "I'm complicated." "If you can't do it with one bullet, don't do it at all."

No. Not a Marvel movie.

This was not a time-travel movie.

"What is it?" "The sound of treachery." "We'll be at this all day." "Empires crumble. There are no exceptions." "You're sweet... and you're young. Neither are traits that I hold in high regard."

Ok, next movie.

"BLAZING SADDLES". The beans-and-black-coffee scene with all the flatulence. Amazing how many people got offended that was in the movie.

Sorry, forgot to answer....

They were, and that's the correct answer.

Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer Herb Alpert John Carradine Vincent Price Debra Paget

Clint Howard?

Vincent Price was in that movie, but this is NOT that movie.