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And I'm never gonna dance again Guilty feet have got no rhythm Though it's easy to pretend I know you're not a fool. Really? I thought this was easy.

It was L.A. Confidential. Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce were the Aussies. Kim Basinger won an Oscar. Lana Turner featured in one of the few genuinely funny scenes. Guy Pearce: "Shut up! A hooker cut to look like Lana Turner is still a hooker. She just looks like Lana Turner." Kevin Spacey: "She is Lana Turner." Guy Pearce: "What?" Kevin Spacey: "She is Lana Turner." Lana Turner: Throws drink in Guy Pearce's face. You're up, WW!

I watched the second part of the Flash-Arrow team up, but I'm still one episode shy of being completely caught up on the Arrow series. The Flash episode was better than the Arrow, and I'm not sure how you guys are going to react to the Arrow episode. Personally, I think they made a storytelling blunder that just came off as lazy. Not bad. Consistent. But come on.

You left out the Batman villain and love interest (two different people). Russell Crowe Guy Pearce James Cromwell Kevin Spacey Danny DeVito Kim Basinger Simon Baker (minor role) Basinger won an Oscar for it

Ok, other work by the stars of this movie. One, a minor character, went on to star in a hit TV series about a charmingly obnoxious know it all who fights crime while tracking down the serial killer who offed his wife and daughter. One previously helped humanity advance in the space race to the point of initiating our first known visit from an alien race. One was not Lana Turner, and not a hooker, but she played Lana Turner in the movie, but not a hooker.

In other words, accurate Moratorium on Flash and Arrow until Sunday then.

Add another comic book movie villain then. One of the stars played a Batman villain. Another, the one who one the Oscar, played a Batman love interest. Both well before this movie was made.

Let me know when we're ready to discuss this week's episodes. Not a spoiler: Vandal Savage is the villain of this week's crossover episodes of Flash and Arrow. I wasn't overly tickled, but I did like it. Based on the old Justice League cartoon series (well, not THAT old), I thought Vandal Savage would make one hell of a movie villain for a Justice League movie. The Legends of Tomorrow series ought to be good with him as the main antagonist. ... Anyone see the trailer for Batman v Superman that was just released. I liked it. And DOOMSDAY! Oh MAN! I hope they don't screw that up.

In a movie that included an escort service. Brothel might not be the right word. But prostitute would be. Goodness, how many movies had those three people in it?

"Time can never mend, the .... of a good friend. To the heart and mind Ignorance is kind There's no comfort in the truth Pain is all you'll find."

The fascinating thing about the Trinity, I have always found, is that you cannot explain it, at all, without falling into "heresy." The only thing you can say is its definition, but when you try to work out how this seemingly self-contradictory "relationship" works, every single definition is heretical. That was one reason I never believed it. The other reason is I was raised a Jehovah's Witness, so I never, ever believed it. At one point I tried to just accept it, but by then doubts were on the march. One thing that is becoming increasingly clear to me as a layman looking at church history is the notion that the early church was just as divided on these questions as we are. The first three gospels offer no indication that he's God. The plainest reading of John is that he is God, and we ALL know how we have to contort ourselved to prove John is not saying what he (let's face it) pretty clearly seems to be saying. But even then, John confuses by calling The Father greater than The Son (an assertion that would have had him labeled a heretic if he had written it 200 years later). Paul seems to have no knowledge of a pre-existent Christ ("pre" referring to his birth), unless you want to count Colossians, which many scholars believe was not actually written by Paul. Point is, the early church was as divided on this as we are today, which is probably (I submit) why both sides are so successful at making strong cases in their favor. The problem isn't proving Jesus was born fully human or that Jesus was God. The problem for each side has always been disproving the other side. You can't do it, because the Bible actually makes both cases! I'm not sure when Wierwille jumped ship, but I do think it was before the filming of PFAL. It's in PFAL that he says any word other than "pros" in John 1:1 would cause your entire Bible to fall to pieces. That's an explicitly anti-Trinitarian argument. It's also anti-Johannine and anti-Greek, but c'est la vie. I do think the "God Almighty" reference in PFAL was a slip of the tongue. He was anti-Trinity before that. How long before? I couldn't tell you.

That, that right there, is golden.

A new take on Name that Tune... Provide the lyrics immediately before and immediately after the title as sung in the lyrics. Naturally, don't use songs like "Flashdance," where the title isn't in the song (but if you use "What a feelin," I'm sure no one would mind). Get it? Something before the title. Something after. The title can be represented by three dots [...] or the word TITLE -- whatever makes you more comfortable. I'll start: "Time can never mend the ... of a good friend."

"Give us, us free. Give us, us free. Give us, us free. Give us, us free. Give us, us free."

Back to the Future (I and II)

Pretty sure there were no Tollhouse cookies in Frozen, so no.

Now go back to the clue and name that movie!

"First we'll make snow angels for a two hours, then we'll go ice skating, then we'll eat a whole roll of Tollhouse Cookiedough as fast as we can, and then we'll snuggle."

Addams Family

You have not identified the Iron Man villain.

For the record: TRUCE I will no longer make an issue of the authorship of Luke ON THIS THREAD unless conclusions are drawn from it that are relevant to the thread topic. I'm not conceding the point. But I'm not going to post a qualifier every time you or I say "Luke wrote such and such." To do so would be tedious. For purposes of proceeding with the discussion, I will refer to the author of Luke as "Luke," with no quotation marks or qualifiers. As to "God-breathed," I share Ehrman's doubt that Paul wrote the pastoral epistles, which leads to the inevitable question of whether we even NEED to explore the issue of whether the scripture is "God-breathed" by ANY definition.

A few weeks ago my cousin accused me on Facebook of worshipping Satan. His proof was that I capitalized "Satan." This is cultish behavior: inventing an arbitrary rule and then judging others for failing to adhere to it. This is what we did when we chastised people for saying "Good luck."

You got two out of three actors. The third is throwing you off. I never said bald.