Raf

He often wrote in the nude. After his death, it is said that 2 million people lined the streets of the city. The population of the city was around 2.5 million. Cheated on his wife with his mistress. Cheated on his mistress with another mistress. Cheated on all of them with a woman in a relationship with his son. On completion of his best known work (maybe a tie for first place on that), he sent his publisher a letter asking for feedback. The letter read, in its entirety: ? The publisher responded: ! Who is this author? [Extra credit, name either the book or the OTHER famous book he wrote].

"Will you marry me?" "Maybe." "You call that an answer?" "You want another answer? Ask another girl." ***

It went off the air and came back.

I would have to guess The Simpsons, with Law & Order SVU in second.

Don't. Even. THINK. About. It. A billion websites are having this conversation. This will not be one of them.

Oh for the love of hate The Stepford Wives

Thank you for sharing this. I had a little bit of an ulterior motive in posting the question, but I was hoping to hear from more people before disclosing it. Seems the most critical thing we can say about the current crop of directors is: 1. We would expect better of a genuinely credentialed psychologist. Then again we have, I am sure, credentialed psychologists involved in all sorts of religious leadership roles, so why not TWI? 2. It appears that the BOD and their families have a history of loyalty to TWI. Not exactly the kind of revelation that merits a phone call to your cardiologist.

No Way Out Gene Hackman Crimson Tide

Reacher

The executive producer of The Elephant Man was Mel Brooks. Hilarious and Frankenstein were clues.

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Did he replace someone?

The Elephant Man is not The Producer's only black and white movie. He is an EGOT. which means he has an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Tony Tony Tony... He was married at the time of the Elephant Man to an actress who had previously won an Oscar. He is almost 5% of the way there on becoming one of his most famous characters. There's a movie mentioned in the clues that appears irrelevant, until you know who The Producer is. Then it's like, ok, he had nothing to do with that movie, but yeah, it's still a clue. Syntax, by the way, includes placing the right words in the right order, with proper punctuation and capitalization. Incidentally, not all syntax errors are syntax errors. Some are huge hints.

The clue about the wife is genuinely challenging. Two of the others are so obvious you will SYH when you realize it. No clues in this post.

Spencer Tracy?

Hitchcock had nothing to do with the Elephant Man. The Producer's wife did. She's a costar. They said she did not need to audition. In fairness, she was already an Oscar winner. MUCH later, the Producer became an EGOT winner. There's a grammatical/syntax error I am making repeatedly that gives the answer away.

The Producer was actually considered for the role of Sam Loomis in Halloween, which no doubt would have created even further confusion. Sam Loomis was played by Donald Pleasence, perhaps better known [but not to me] as Blofeld in You Only Live Twice. Coincidentally, he also played Victor Frankenstein and Baron Frankenstein in a comedy called "Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tilly." Incidentally, not all syntax errors are syntax errors. Some are huge hints.

Those guesses are hilarious. No, it was not John Merrick or John Landis. Yes, that was a hint.

These abrasive posters... are they the ones who accuse those who disagree with them of having massive egos, seeing the word through sh!t-colored glasses, or being responsible for Satan's takeover of America because they don't support your favorite political party or candidate? Or is your disdain for the guy who says "knock that off, GSC has rules and you're violating them"? Just checking.

Please save criticism of Mike's positions for another thread. It's off topic here.

Posters disagree with Raf = righteous indignation. Posters agree with Raf = circle jerk. And I'm the hypocrite. Ok. P.S. the issue you raised was fully addressed in detail.

The executive producer of The Elephant Man (1980), a heartbreaking black n white drama based on a true story, held a screening for studio executives near the end of production. Studio execs shared some ideas to make the movie better, to which the producer responded something to the effect of: I screened the movie for you as a courtesy. "Do not misconstrue this as our soliciting the input of raging primitives." The executive producer left his name off the credits of the movie because he thought including his name would confuse audiences. Who was he?

Mike gives me too much credit for rules that I had nothing to do with establishing. He also glossed over my role in making this place so inhospitable to him when he first arrived. For which I don't think I ever apologized. Nor will I. The Raf who did those things had a completely different worldview at the time. An apology would be meaningless. Nonetheless, thank you, Mike. [P.S. As much as many here would no doubt like for Mike to get lost, no one to my knowledge has asked moderators to ban him].

Since you brought it up here I will clarify it here, though it's really not on topic here... ALWAYS is an adverb. It modifies a verb. Not a noun. To say something ALWAYS happens is to say whenever you have a occurrence or circumstance, A, you will have a corresponding occurrence, B. So let's say A is "atheist admits he doesn't know something about how life appeared on the planet. Given A, it is a rhetorical certainty that some believer somewhere will come out and say "You're just saying I don't know because you refuse to admit the answer is God. CHECKMATE!" The more people involved in the conversation, the more that rhetorical certainty becomes a mathematical certainty. Note that the ALWAYS applies to occurrence B, something that always HAPPENS, verb. It does not modify the noun "believers" or "Christians." It does not say ALL CHRISTIANS DO THIS. Because that would be silly. Lots of Christians don't do that. But lots do. And there will always be someone who does. You can count on it. So by applying the ALWAYS to believers instead of to the occurrence of a believer saying what some believer always says, you completely changed the meaning of my comment. Now, you could have handled this by saying "you shouldn't say always. Not all believers do that." And I would have replied "That's not what I meant to say, but I can see where you might think that. Let me edit the post to add clarity." And it would have been over. Instead, you said... let's see... "you obviously have no clue to what other people think until you ask then shut-up and listen." Those were your words. "Shut up." After demanding to be treated with a respect you were not willing to show. "I grow tired" you said before accusing me of something YOU READ INTO my post that I never said. I specifically attributed that behavior to "the Ken Hamms of the world." Are you a Ken Hamm? No? Then lean in close... I WASN'T TALKING ABOUT YOU. Despite your rampage, I still managed to see your point and I went back to the original post and added some modifiers to make it even more clear [as if limiting it to the Ken Hamms of the world wasn't enough] that I was only talking about some people and not a single person on GSC, much less all Christians everywhere. Now, if you had asked instead of joining the Let's Pile On Raf cult, we could have resolved this a lot more amicably. Let's assume we can all do that moving on. [Added later] By the way, there is such a thing as hyperbole. Most people in casual conversations recognize that always doesn't mean always and they never take it literally because there are always exceptions. It's like when people say Raf always hides pro-Christian posts when 99.99 percent of their pro-Christian posts are still on the site. Obviously they mean I delete MANY pro-Christian posts. Not that they have ANY examples that don't flagrant violate gsc rules. That one's literal, by the way. Not any examples of any post anywhere on this site that was moved or moderated strictly for espousing a Christian point of view. It always rains whenever I wash my car. ALWAYS? A watched pot never boils. NEVER? You are on a message board, not an English mayor's doctoral dissertation. You would never jump down someone's throat in person for saying always when he meant often. That's not what happened here. But if it were, there would be nothing abnormal about it except the overwrought response.