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| 06-13-09 07:15pm - 5671 days | #20 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I suspect that you might need to re-examine your figuring. My impression is that the necrophiliac is the person who is alive, who desires or is engaged in sex with a dead person. So the necrophiliac is the one who is still alive. In that case, the necrophiliac might be straight, gay or bi with living people, and his orientation toward the dead ones might be the same or different. All kinds of interesting possibilities, if you really want to get into it. :) What about lust for a vampire? A werewolf? That is a common erotic element in fiction and movies. Not too many people lust for slugs, or moles, or zombies, etc., but with the niche porn that people find stimulating, it's probably only a matter of time before there are porn sites dedicated to vampiric/wolfman/zombie lust. Vampires are supposed to be The Undead. Zombies are also some kind of dead. So would that be classified under necrophilia, if you had a lust for one? | |
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| 06-13-09 06:54pm - 5671 days | #12 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Using a condom kind of pricks the bubble of my sex fantasy. Having said that, if there is even the smallest chance of anyone getting AIDS from unprotected sex, fuck fantasy. Male performers should all use condoms. | |
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| 06-13-09 06:42pm - 5671 days | #60 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Shutter Island, directed by Martin Scorsese, release date 2 October 2009. Should be one of the better films of 2009, almost certain to be nominated for a bunch of Academy Awards. (Personally, I wonder how useful some of these Academy Awards really are, except as a marketing tool, a boost to an actor's career/paycheck, and a bit of glory. Academy Awards are not a useful indicator for me of how much I will enjoy a film.) Shutter Island has great cast: Leonardo DiCaprio Mark Ruffalo Ben Kingsley Emily Mortimer Michelle Williams Max von Sydow Jackie Earle Haley Patricia Clarkson Elias Koteas Ted Levine John Carroll Lynch | |
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| 06-12-09 07:39pm - 5672 days | #58 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
My take is that old Hef has a million memories to keep him warm, even if he can't perform like he used to. And these current girlfriends are probably more like trophies, but still nice and lovely to tuck him into bed at night. In spite of an aging body, he's trying to get as much enjoyment from life he can possibly get. And he's got the money (and fame) to live a lifestyle that is pretty damn great. Maybe on his deathbed he might give it all up for the greater glory of God (human nature?), but until then, carpe diem. | |
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| 06-12-09 05:21pm - 5672 days | #57 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I'm no expert, but I was always under the impression that Nevada was one of the loosest states in the union. -legalized many forms of gambling long before most other states did. -prostitution is legal in at least 1 Nevada county. -the first adult bookstore I went into, back in the dark ages (the 1960s) was in Las Vegas, Nevada. I grew up in California, lived there most of my life, but I don't remember if I've ever been in an adult bookstore in California. But on a visit to Las Vegas, back in the 1960s, I went into an adult bookstore, and actually bought an adult book. First time in an adult bookstore, first adult book I bought (not counting Playboy, which is an adult magazine). So if Nevada passed a child porn law, it's more an example of how mish-mash and conflicting the different laws that get passed can be, rather than a litmus test of the moral or ethical code of the state population or its lawmakers. But you're probably right when you say "The only people going to get busted are the stupid, the young and the clueless. Exactly the people we should be tossing in jail, right?" Who else should we be putting in those taxpayer sponsored jails? Certainly not the business leaders who have grabbed billions of dollars in bonus money from mega-corporations that were going bankrupt, or were saved from bankruptcy by billions of dollars in government aid. | |
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| 06-11-09 10:48am - 5674 days | #52 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I agree Hugh Hefner was much more relevant back in the 1960s and 1970s. I also think he's entitled to spend his time and money as he sees fit. If he wants young girls, and can still enjoy them, that's between Hefner and the girls. On a different note: Brad Pitt bought a painting at an art fair in Switzerland. List price of the painting: $960,000. Titled, "Etappe," the painting is by the German artist Neo Rauch. If the painting he bought is the one in the picture with Brad Pitt, some of us could probably do a painting that is as good as this one, without any artistic background. Just splash a lot of paint onto a canvass, and leave a bunch of white spaces in between the paint. That's the advantage of non-photographic painting: it's difficult to tell how much talent a person really has. I look at paintings by Picasso, and I wonder if Picasso had his eyes crossed when he was painting. Or maybe he was just drunk at the time. But a lot of people don't agree with me, I realize. They create stories in their minds when they look at the blobs of painting, and call it great art. I'm thinking that if John Travolta and Denzel Washington are not available for my Mega-Movie, "The Prisoner Unchained Meets The Terminator At Batman's Cave," I might get Brad Pitt instead. He's a good-looking guy who can sometimes draw a crowd, which would help the gross revenues. Casting will begin soon, when I rent a hotel room and start looking at female hotties who might light up the screen (and my hotel bed). The benefits of being a Motion Picture Producer. But where is that Wittyguy with the script already? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.o...p-modern-art-fair-ap Brad Pitt buys painting at top modern art fair (AP) Source: AP Thu Jun 11, 2009, 5:56 am EDT BASEL, Switzerland - Brad Pitt was the star attraction at this year's edition of the world's leading contemporary art fair. He was also a customer. He bought a painting titled, "Etappe," by the German artist Neo Rauch, said Art Basel spokeswoman Maike Cruse. The David Zwirner Gallery in New York had advertised the work as an "enigmatic and dreamlike" representation of a race car being serviced mid-competition. Its list price was about $960,000. The gallery refused to comment. Rauch is among Europe's top painters, drawing on traditions of Eastern Bloc realism and Western abstraction. The 40th Art Basel fair opened to the public Wednesday. It features works from over 2,500 artists. Pitt also attended last year. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | |
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| 06-10-09 10:16am - 5675 days | #50 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Incest at the Playboy Mansion? I've always respected Hugh Hefner. He was my idol in how to dress, how to behave while I was growing up. But I recently read that his [sexual] relationship with Kendra Wilkinson, one of "The Girls Next Door," has ended, and that she is now friendly with NFL Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Hank Baskett. Miss Wilkinson and Hank Baskett are so friendly, in fact, that they are now expecting their first child together. Miss Wilkinson is planning to marry Baskett at the Playboy mansion on June 27. Before he popped the question, Baskett said he wanted to make sure her ex, Hugh Hefner, was cool. "Hef is like a father to her so he's going to be the one to give her away," Baskett recently said. "That's why I wanted his blessings and her mom's blessing." My problem is that since Hef is like a father to Miss Wilkinson, what was Hef doing having sex with the lady? Put another way, I know that people bullshit, but for a man to say the former lover of his fiance is like a father to his fiance, seems a little strange. Edit: Maybe Baskett really meant to say that Hef is old enough to be Miss Wilkinson's great-grandfather, and that he really respects Hef for his stamina and drive, and that's the way Baskett will be as a father, when he gets to be that old. Hugh M. Hefner born 9 April 1926 age 83 Kendra Wilkinson born 12 June 1985 age 23 -------------------------------------------- age difference 59+ years Edited on Jun 10, 2009, 11:36am | |
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| 06-09-09 08:03pm - 5675 days | #49 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
The American industry earned $9.8 billion at the domestic box office in 2008 and another $28.1 billion abroad, according to the Motion Picture Association of America. I did not realize how large a percentage the foreign take was for U.S. movies. I thought it was about 50% domestic, 50% foreign, but it's more like 26% domestic and 74% foreign, at least in 2008. | |
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| 06-09-09 07:26am - 5676 days | #48 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I am considering seeing The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) with Denzel Washington and John Travolta this weekend. I saw the original back in the 1970s and don't even remember it, except that it had to do with a New York subway. I'm trying to keep my expectations down, so I won't be disappointed by the actual movie. But with Denzel Washington and John Travolta, I'm hoping for a decent movie. Maybe we can get Denzel or Travolta in our new movie, "The Prisoner Unchained Meets The Terminator At Batman's Cave." None of the major roles have been cast yet. What does Wittyguy have to say about my choices? The script is his responsibility, but creative input is always welcome. I've just promoted myself to Movie Producer, by the way. I will be taking donations from PU members on the financing of this first Mega-Movie venture. | |
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| 06-09-09 06:44am - 5676 days | #46 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
For 50% of the gross revenues, I am hooking you up with a film distribution center. "Nowadays, you push a button and a movie appears," John Young said. "There's fun in the inconvenience of having to get off the couch and go somewhere you might not be familiar with, maybe getting rained on, maybe being cold. It makes it an adventure." With a marketing genius who turns negatives into positives, and a sure-fire script from a legalistic genius like Wittyguy, I can already taste the millions that will be rolling into my pockets from this great movie I helped to create, called "The Prisoner Unchained Meets The Terminator At Batman's Cave." ........................................................... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090609/ap_e...s_guerrilla_drive_in 'Guerrilla drive-ins' turn nostalgia on its head By JOANN LOVIGLIO, Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA - Think the only way to see a big-screen movie is while slurping a 64-oz. soft drink, eating a $5 candy bar and shushing the wannabe film critic behind you? That's not the case anymore, thanks to people like John Young, creator of the West Chester Guerilla Drive-In and part of a loosely knit network of celluloid renegades resurrecting the drive-in for a new age. "Nowadays, you push a button and a movie appears," he said. "There's fun in the inconvenience of having to get off the couch and go somewhere you might not be familiar with, maybe getting rained on, maybe being cold. It makes it an adventure." For the past four years or so, the 38-year-old Web developer has been showing films -- real, honest-to-goodness 16mm film -- from a 1970s school projector mounted on the sidecar of his 1977 BMW motorcycle. He has presented more than a dozen movies at locations suited for the theme: "Meatballs" at a canoe rental center, "Caddyshack" on a golf course, and most recently, "Ghostbusters" at Fort Mifflin, a favorite haunt of paranormal investigators. It's not exactly an evening at the local multiplex -- and that's the point. "What a great idea. What a great way to see a movie," said Jim Haighey, of West Chester, one of more than 60 people watching "Ghostbusters" projected in front of the fort's 211-year-old Citadel. All had to first find a hidden AM receiver in West Chester transmitting a secret code before being e-mailed the location of the movie. It was a soggy night at the Revolutionary War fort on the Delaware River, and the 1984 comedy was interrupted every few minutes by planes zooming just overhead on their way to the runways at nearby Philadelphia International Airport, but that only seemed to add to the moviegoers' enjoyment. Guerrilla drive-ins or "MobMovs" -- shorthand for mobile movies -- are popping up around the country in a variety of configurations. Unlike Young's old-school use of real film, guerrilla drive-ins typically eschew the analog in favor of DVDs and LCD projectors. And while West Chester's guerrillas bring lawn chairs to watch their movies under the stars (weather permitting), other groups maintain the drive-in tradition of watching from inside their cars. Audio is heard through each car's radio by way of an FM transmitter. Whatever the arrangement, guerrilla drive-ins give new meaning to the phrase "community theater." People can get up, walk around and socialize during the show if they wish, with some MobMovs taking on the feel of tailgate parties. Eric Kurland, 41, an independent filmmaker living in Los Angeles, runs a popular 4-year-old weekly showing, HollyMobMov. "I miss the old drive-ins," said Kurland, who remembers the thrill of seeing "Star Wars" in 1977 at a long-defunct Pennsylvania drive-in near his home. "It's like nothing else, and people are really hungry for that kind of experience." And though they're decidedly do it yourself-style, all aspiring MobMovers are urged to keep it legal and secure required approvals from property owners and film distributors, who charge roughly $150 to $300 for a showing. Guerrilla drive-ins are typically free, with attendees' donations used to offset the organizer's expenses. Since 2005, 28-year-old San Francisco Web developer Bryan Kennedy has shown classics, as well as independent films looking for distributors, and runs MobMov.org, a site that lists 240-plus movie mobs around the world. "A lot of independent filmmakers are enabled by modern technology (to make their own movies), but the area where they're not enabled is distribution," he said. "There's no channel for them to get out there, no audience interaction or feedback. We can help support that." ___ On the Net: West Chester Guerilla Drive-In: http://www.guerilladrivein.com Hollywood MobMov: http://www.hollywoodmobmov.org/ MobMov: http://mobmov.org ........................................................... | |
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| 06-08-09 05:27pm - 5676 days | #42 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
The major asset of "The Prisoner" (1967) was Patrick McGoohan, the star. I don't see how a re-make will have anywhere near the value of the original. | |
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| 06-08-09 03:40pm - 5676 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I don't have any problem when hitting the back button in returning to the same page area I was previously viewing at PU. I use Windows XP and Firefox version 3.0.10. Actually, I never even thought about this issue before you brought it up. | |
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| 06-08-09 12:49pm - 5676 days | #40 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I liked Get Smart when it played on TV as an original series. Thought Barbara Feldon was adorable, Don Adams was crazy (but a little irritating at times). Did not understand why Barbara Feldon did not have a cameo in the movie version of Get Smart (2008) with Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway. I did not enjoy Get Smart (2008) the movie. Thought it was a waste of time, and will not bother furnishing a PU-style review to back up my opinion. :) Now I read that Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway are set to make Get Smart 2. U.S. box office for Get Smart was $130 million, so you could see a sequel coming. But what a waste of time and talent. | |
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| 06-08-09 12:16pm - 5676 days | #14 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
What information is being collected and saved about your online browsing? Basically, you have little way of actually knowing. The article below does not make clear exactly how Sears was able to gather detailed information on thousands of its customers. And the customers themselves were apparently unaware of the massive details that Sears was collecting about the customers' online behavior. "the Sears Holdings Management Company, in fact, put a price of exactly $10 on being able to attach some sort of code that would track very precise details about a person's "online browsing." This, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, included details about online shopping, drug-prescription records, video rentals, library-borrowing histories, names and addresses of e-mail correspondents as well as bank statements." Sears apparently agreed to change their tracking practices in an undisclosed agreement with the Federal Trade Commission. But if Sears, a simple retail company, is able to gather this detailed information, you might wonder what information the federal government, its agencies, and other groups are learning and keeping about us. Even if you can effectively clean the hard drive of your PC of sensitive files, that information might already be in files the government is keeping on you anyway. For your benefit, of course. ............................................................................................. http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=19338&tag=nl.e539 June 5th, 2009 Behavioral Data: Valuing Customers. Then Avoiding Them. Posted by Tom Steinert-Threlkeld @ 4:23 pm There's little question that just about every profit-making company out there would like to know exactly what you're doing on the Web, all the time. And that there's a clear (profitable) market to be had in data that captures your "behavior" on the Internet. There is in fact, a street value for behavioral information, as Gartner analyst Andrew Frank, points out. And it's captured in "cost per thousand" calculations on data exchanges such as BlueKai and Exelate. These relate to the anonymous IDs, aka cookies, that Web sites use to track sale, purchase and other activities. Advertisers pay ad networks anywhere from $1.50 a thousand to about $10 a thousand, for the information, which then lets them target their pitches better and get higher returns on the "cost per thousand" they in turn pay for placing ads. The latest company to get caught in the crossfire of using this behavioral data is Sears, the once-proud retailer of all things American. Even kits to build houses (way back in its early catalog days). Its current incarnation, the Sears Holdings Management Company, in fact, put a price of exactly $10 on being able to attach some sort of code that would track very precise details about a person's "online browsing." This, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, included details about online shopping, drug-prescription records, video rentals, library-borrowing histories, names and addresses of e-mail correspondents as well as bank statements. The recipient also would be able to take part in a "dynamic and highly interactive online community" where they could converse with Sears and its sister retailer, Kmart. But Sears and Kmart did not tell their past, present or potential customers (about 5,000 of the) that their "online browsing" would be tracked in such detail. And the Federal Trade Commission took the company to task. The charges were settled, with undisclosed (surprise, surprise) details. There are problems here that seem to be repetitive, among profit-making companies. a. A desire to know everything about a person's Web behavior. b. A desire to disclose as little as possible about what is being collected. c. A propensity to compensate the past, present or potential customer as little as possible. But the biggest problem seems a combination of not fully disclosing what you're doing or trusting your customer to understand that what you are doing is in his or her best interest. If it was in the customer's best interest, then it'd be an easy sell. You'd tell the existing or prospective customer that tracking his or her behavior would allow you to provide more useful features or services, or keep down subscription or other fees by allowing you to sell ads that would save them money, in the long run. In effect, you'd be able to get every customer to "opt in" for the service you're trying to provide. It'd be easy to explain, easy to get customer assent and easy to operate. It would be a win-win. You wouldn't have customers questioning what habits were being tracked, how deep the inspection of their packets went and what the uses were, a la the NebuAd kerfuffle last year. And you'd have, quite literally, buy-in from the customer for what you wanted to do. You know, eventually, opt-in - getting customers' agreement first - is going to happen. Has to happen. Google's the quintessential behavioral ad company and it will increasingly come under the microscope. Cable operators, from Comcast to Time Warner to Cox, all want to get into very targeted advertising on TV, not just the Internet. And yet, the Network Advertising Initiative that is supposed to be so mindful of customers and their rights to privacy is still opting for ... opting out as the principle of the day. Put the onus on the customer to say they DON'T want to be watched, rather than putting the onus on the company to get permission that they DO. What's the problem? That companies might actually have to listen to the customers they want to track and do more business with? Yes. What's got to change? The idea that interacting with customers, talking to and with them, is a hassle. "The first mindset change has to be the customer is an asset,'' said Anthony Nemelka, the president and CEO of Helpstream, a company that provides an integrated suite of customer support services over the Web. "The second is that the customer wants to be an asset -- and it is simply a matter of asking." What's holding them back? The mass of customers they might have to actually deal with. Millions of customers who you have to ask for assent before you can market to them. Or begin to listen to them. It's a hassle. In effect, Nemelka says, companies want to be protected from the customer. Heaven forbid they should ask for something. Or provide feedback. They couldn't handle "the deluge." But, you know, therein lies the power of blogs, tweets and other methods of instant publishing of experiences and sentiments. Companies who don't realize they aren't in control of their customers - that they have to get them to say "yes" in everything they do - aren't in control of their own businesses. "You can't deflect any more,'' says Nemelka. "You deflect at your own peril." Tom Steinert-ThrelkeldTom Steinert-Threlkeld is a journalist who has constantly looked at what media could become, rather than what they currently constitute. ............................................................................................. | |
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| 06-06-09 07:35pm - 5678 days | #15 | |
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That's what the PU reviews are for: to give us an idea of whether we will like the site or not. But the real test is once you pays your money and get into the site. Even after reading the reviews, and looking at the site preview, you can still be disappointed for various reasons. But what the hey, I'm trying to be strong enough to survive in spite of life's little problems. | |
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| 06-06-09 04:53pm - 5678 days | #59 | |
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I used to love popcorn with my movies. But when they charge $5.00 for a small popcorn, and $7.50 for a large popcorn, I find it's cheaper to watch a movie without any popcorn. | |
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| 06-06-09 04:22pm - 5678 days | #36 | |
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Apologies for beating a dead horse. But in lawsuits, or criminal cases, I try not to guess what the outcome will be, because I am a bad guesser. But Sacha Cohen will have very high-priced legal aid on his side, which always helps. NBC Universal called the suit's allegations "completely baseless." "Filmed footage of the full encounter, which took place more than two years ago, clearly shows that Ms. Olson was never touched or in any way assaulted by Sacha Baron Cohen or any member of the production and suffered no injury," said the statement released Friday by NBC Universal publicist Jen Chamberlain. "If the Olsons elect to proceed with their frivolous action, we expect each of the defendants to be fully vindicated." As PinkPanther says, "We shall see" (what the courts decide), but that could take years before the courts decide. ........................................................................................ http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=413089>1=28103 Atty: 'Life-altering injuries' in 'Bruno' case June 5, 2009, 3:19 PM EST LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The lawyer for a woman suing actor-comedian Sacha Baron Cohen over a scuffle at a charity bingo tournament said Friday that his client suffered "life-altering injuries." Attorney Kyle Madison released a statement asking for privacy for Richelle Olson, who sued Baron Cohen on May 22 in Lancaster, Calif. Olson, 39, claims Baron Cohen and a camera crew ambushed her on the stage of a bingo tournament that she organized to raise money for nursing students. "The actions of Mr. Cohen and those acting in concert with him have resulted in life-altering injuries to my client," Madison's statement said. "My focus is her well-being and to secure a fair, just and equitable remedy for her claims. This claim is distinguishable from Mr. Cohen's previous lawsuits as a defendant." The lawsuit states that Olson suffered brain injuries after a fall that happened as a result of actions by Baron Cohen and film workers, and that she now has to use either a walker or a wheelchair. NBC Universal called the suit's allegations "completely baseless." "Filmed footage of the full encounter, which took place more than two years ago, clearly shows that Ms. Olson was never touched or in any way assaulted by Sacha Baron Cohen or any member of the production and suffered no injury," said the statement released Friday by NBC Universal publicist Jen Chamberlain. "If the Olsons elect to proceed with their frivolous action, we expect each of the defendants to be fully vindicated." Baron Cohen's 2006 film, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," was a surprise hit. The British comedian is known for crafting outlandish characters and often dupes people into interviews or settings where he films their reactions to his antics. In his upcoming film, "Bruno," Baron Cohen plays a flamboyantly gay fashionista. Several people featured in "Borat" sued Baron Cohen, claiming that his movie caused them humiliation. Olson's claim is the first to allege a serious physical injury. Olson's suit states that she was contacted about having a celebrity call the numbers at the charity event in the desert city of Palmdale in May 2007 for a documentary on bingo. Baron Cohen, 37, showed up as Bruno and began using vulgarity in front of the audience, which was comprised mostly of senior citizens, the complaint states. Olson's suit claims she got into a struggle with the comedian over a microphone, and that he called over his camera crew to accost her and try to provoke a reaction. The suit states Olson went offstage and a co-worker found her sobbing uncontrollably. When Olson tried to stand up, she fell, hitting her head on a concrete slab and suffering brain bleeds, according to an account in the lawsuit. ........................................................................................ Edited on Jun 06, 2009, 04:35pm | |
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| 06-05-09 08:40pm - 5679 days | #34 | |
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The main thrust of Sacha Baron Cohen's humor is from showing people, young or old, in embarrassing or socially awkward situations. In Borat, he pees or shits in public (or pretends to), and the film crew films the reactions of the people around him, who don't realize he is trying to make the people look foolish. Using foul language to freak out old people is part of his act. He is abusive, but that is just an extension of the type of insult humor Don Rickles was famous for. That is why I said the movie "Borat" was sick but insanely funny, even though I cringed (was actually embarrassed) by what he did to some of the people. My impression is that there were a large number of lawsuits filed against Cohen and the filmmakers for Borat, because the individuals claimed it caused them harm from embarrassment and damage to their image. But little if any money was paid out, because Cohen/filmmakers got the people to sign releases if they were in the movie. So I don't know how successful this woman claiming disablement/injury will be. I doubt she will get any significant amount of money from the film's profits, which could be huge. She probably signed a release form. And the first film, Borat, had a US box office alone of $128 million. This was a low-budget independent film that made huge, huge profits. IMDB.com (the internet site for entertainment facts) states: "In contrast to his characters, he is a soft-spoken, gentlemanly Cambridge man who considered pursuing a PhD before going into comedy." That is complete bullshit. Anyone who acts the way he does in his comedy, towards other people, is no soft-spoken gentleman. | |
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| 06-05-09 04:00pm - 5679 days | #30 | |
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Haven't seen "The Girlfriend Experience" with Sasha Grey. The film is in limited release. If it goes wide, I might try to see it. I've seen some short porn movies/clips with Sasha Grey. She is physically lovely, but I don't appreciate her persona of a girl who enjoys rough sex with spitting, slapping, choking, gagging, name-calling, etc. That kind of sex is not a turn-on for me. I assume her character in the non-porn movie is totally different. If it were similar to her porn character, I would not be interested in the film. | |
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| 06-05-09 02:20pm - 5679 days | #28 | |
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Bruno opens July 10, 2009. Starring Sacha Baron Cohen, the star of Borat. Anyone who saw Borat (2006) and got a kick from that should probably see this picture as well. I just saw Borat on DVD again today. That is one sick movie. Insanely funny, even though you have to cringe in parts while watching it. In Bruno, Cohen plays a gay Austrian TV reporter. | |
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| 06-05-09 12:50pm - 5679 days | #5 | |
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This one is for Drooler, in recognition of his interest in music. I have no expertise on sound systems, but maybe this article on polka music and the Grammys is worth viewing. Jimmy Sturr, winner of 18 Grammys for best polka album in the past 24 years, will no longer be eligible to win a Grammy for best polka album. The category has been eliminated from the Grammy awards. There is an accompanying photo of Jimmy Sturr with the article. I don't know if there is a tear in Jimmy Sturr's left eye or not. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090605/ap_e.../us_polka_last_waltz No more polka album Grammys for Jimmy Sturr By JOHN ROGERS, Associated Press Writer June 05, 2009 LOS ANGELES - It's enough to make any serious polka fan shove his plate of sausage aside, fling his lederhosen in the closet and go out and shed a few tears in his beer. The waltz is over for America's Polka King, Jimmy Sturr, not to mention every other squeezebox-loving, ompah-dancing fanatic who followed the Grammy Awards each year just to learn whether Sturr would collect yet another trophy for best polka album of the year. Moving to ensure that its awards show remains what it called "pertinent within the current musical landscape," the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced Thursday it is eliminating its best polka album category. Although posters to Internet sites catering to polka fans (yes, there are such places) were outraged, Sturr, who is hailed by fans the world over as the King of Polka, was doing his best to take the news in stride. "Sure I feel a little bad, but I'm grateful, man," said the 58-year-old musician who has won the best polka album trophy 18 of the past 24 years. "The Academy did a lot, not only recognizing me but recognizing polka music," he continued. He added that the recognition gave him a chance to fuse polka with pop, country, rock and folk and broaden the music's audience as he worked with musicians such as Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss and Bela Fleck. Still, he wasn't completely satisfied with the Academy's explanation that polka was attracting too few entries in its category. There are millions of polka fans worldwide, Sturr noted, and hundreds of working polka bands in this country alone. They have taken your grandfather's music, he said, and merged it with Tex-Mex, rock, Tejano and other forms to create a distinctly American sound. As Grammy-nominated player John Gora noted, one of his most popular polka covers is the rock band Genesis' "Follow You, Follow Me." "And Phil Collins liked it," he said of the Genesis frontman. For his part, Sturr said he suspects that if there were 20 people on the committee that recommended dropping his category, "19 of them have never been to a polka concert. " Others speculated that Sturr's amazing record of Grammy wins helped do in the category. "I think the fact that it was so dominated by one artist, that kind of killed the incentive for a lot of people to enter," said Carl Finch, whose Tex-Mex-Tejano-Conjunto-Polka fusion band Brave Combo upset Sturr to take the award in 1999 and 2004. Sturr, meanwhile, says he has no plans to stop entering the Grammys, and will nominate his next album in whatever category he is allowed to. That will be the folk music category, said Bill Freimuth, the Academy's vice president for awards. Finch, however, worries that that kind of pigeonholing won't go down well with polka fans, who he says are already fed up with all the lederhosen and accordion jokes they must endure. "It's not that the polka world's not used to it," he said of polka not getting enough recognition. "The polka world expects it. It's like, 'Yeah, the man did it to us again.'" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
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| 06-05-09 10:26am - 5680 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I've never been to one of these conventions. And, unfortunately, I'm not really into DVDs. I kind of doubt the adult sites I like (met-art, justteensite, mplstudios, femjoy, domai, etc.) will be sending many of their models to the show. Is PU/TBP present with a booth? Where will the PU/TBP booth be found? So what kind of goodies, if any, will PU/TPB be handing out? Will Khan or Rick be making an appearance, so we can see if they look as good in real life as their avatars? Enquiring minds want to know. | |
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| 06-04-09 02:00pm - 5680 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Actor David Carridine found dead in Thailand, an apparent suicide. .............................. http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.o...ound-dead-bangkok-ap Actor David Carradine found dead in Bangkok (AP) June 04, 2009 BANGKOK - Actor David Carradine, a born seeker and cult idol who broke through as the willing student called "grasshopper" in the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu" and decades later as leader of an assassin squad in "Kill Bill," was found dead Thursday in Thailand. Police said he appeared to have hanged himself. The officer responsible for investigating the death, Teerapop Luanseng, said the 72-year-old actor was staying at a suite at the luxury Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel. "I can confirm that we found his body, naked, hanging in the closet," Teerapop said. He said police suspected suicide. A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy, Michael Turner, said the embassy was informed by Thai authorities that Carradine died either late Wednesday or early Thursday, but he could not provide further details out of consideration for his family. Carradine came from an acting family. His father, John, made a career playing creepy, eccentric characters in film and on stage. His brothers Keith, Robert and Bruce also became actors. Actress Martha Plimpton is Keith Carradine's daughter. "My Uncle David was a brilliantly talented, fiercely intelligent and generous man. He was the nexus of our family in so many ways, and drew us together over the years and kept us connected," Plimpton said Thursday. Carradine was in Bangkok shooting the movie "Stretch," said his manager, Chuck Binder. "We're very saddened, he was a wonderful guy," said Lori Binder, a partner in the agency that represented Carradine. "It is shocking to me that he is no longer with us," said Michael Madsen, who played an assassin in "Kill Bill." "I had been thinking about calling him for the last several days. ... I have so many great memories of David that I wouldn't even know where to begin. He has a very special place in my heart." The Web site of the Thai newspaper The Nation said Carradine could not be contacted after he failed to appear for a meal with the rest of the film crew on Wednesday, and that his body was found by a hotel maid Thursday morning. It said a preliminary police investigation found that he had hanged himself with a cord used with the suite's curtains. It cited police as saying there was no sign that he had been assaulted. Police said Carradine's body was taken to a hospital for an autopsy that would be done Friday. Carradine appeared in more than 100 feature films with such directors as Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman and Hal Ashby. One of his early film roles was as folk singer Woody Guthrie in Ashby's 1976 biopic, "Bound for Glory." But he was best known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin priest traveling the 1800s American frontier West in the TV series "Kung Fu," which aired in 1972-75. "I wasn't like a TV star in those days, I was like a rock 'n' roll star," Carradine said in an interview with Associated Press Radio in 1996. "It was a phenomenon kind of thing. ... It was very special." Actor Rainn Wilson, star of TV's "The Office," tweeted about Carradine's death on Twitter: "R.I.P. David Carradine. You were a true hero to so many of us children of the 70s. We'll miss you, Kwai Chang Caine." Carradine reprised the role in a mid-1980s TV movie and played Caine's grandson in the 1990s syndicated series "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues." He returned to the top in recent years as the title character in Quentin Tarantino's two-part saga "Kill Bill." Bill, the worldly father figure of a pack of crack assassins, was a shadowy presence in 2003's "Kill Bill - Vol. 1." In that film, one of Bill's former assassins (Uma Thurman) begins a vengeful rampage against her old associates, including Bill. In "Kill Bill - Vol. 2," released in 2004, Thurman's character catches up to Bill. The role brought Carradine a Golden Globe nomination as best supporting actor. Bill was a complete contrast to Caine, the soft-spoken refugee from a Shaolin monastery, serenely spreading wisdom and battling bad guys in the Old West. He left after three seasons, saying the show had started to repeat itself. "David's always been kind of a seeker of knowledge and of wisdom in his own inimitable way," his brother, actor Keith Carradine, said in a 1995 interview. After "Kung Fu," Carradine starred in the 1975 cult flick "Death Race 2000." He starred with Liv Ullmann in Bergman's "The Serpent's Egg" in 1977 and with his brothers in the 1980 Western "The Long Riders." But after the early 1980s, he spent two decades doing mostly low-budget films. Tarantino's films changed that. "All I've ever needed since I more or less retired from studio films a couple of decades ago ... is just to be in one," Carradine told The Associated Press in 2004. "There isn't anything that Anthony Hopkins or Clint Eastwood or Sean Connery or any of those old guys are doing that I couldn't do," he said. "All that was ever required was somebody with Quentin's courage to take and put me in the spotlight." One thing remained a constant after "Kung Fu": Carradine's interest in Asian herbs, exercise and philosophy. He wrote a personal memoir called "Spirit of Shaolin" and continued to make instructional videos on tai chi and other martial arts. In the 2004 interview, Carradine talked candidly about his past boozing and narcotics use, but said he had put all that behind him and stuck to coffee and cigarettes. "I didn't like the way I looked, for one thing. You're kind of out of control emotionally when you drink that much. I was quicker to anger." "You're probably witnessing the last time I will ever answer those questions," Carradine said. "Because this is a regeneration. It is a renaissance. It is the start of a new career for me. "It's time to do nothing but look forward." ___ Associated Press writer Polly Anderson in New York contributed to this report. .............................. | |
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| 06-04-09 03:50am - 5681 days | #8 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Sort of on-topic: There was a sex scandal last year, where a male Hong Kong actor-singer, Edison Chen, had photos of himself having sex with different female Hong Kong stars. The release of the photos was extremely embarrassing for Edison Chen and the females involved. ....................................................... http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.o...hful-indiscretion-ap Thu Jun 04, 2009, 12:21 am EDT AP "Chen said he deleted pictures from his laptop computer of himself with eight female Hong Kong stars but that they were recovered by technicians at a repair shop. A Hong Kong computer tech was sentenced to more than eight months in jail last month for stealing the photos. Chen said he never showed the pictures to anyone else besides the women who were in them. He said the pictures were all taken with consent." ....................................................... The incident above involved famous movie stars in Hong Kong. But as I've said before, when you take your PC in to have it worked on at a repair shop, you have no idea what the technicians will look at while it's at the shop. | |
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| 06-03-09 07:39pm - 5681 days | #25 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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pat362, you should take pride in what you are. If I had balls that big, I'd be showing them off too. | |
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| 06-02-09 08:41am - 5683 days | #3 | |
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It's great to see you back so soon. Personally, I think you're way too hard on yourself. Your reviews are solid. And most people are human, we tend to make mistakes at least once in a while. I make mistakes all the time, but I've learned to live with it. I don't have much choice about that. | |
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| 06-02-09 12:58am - 5683 days | #26 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Off topic again. If people want to object to my off-topic posts, I will try to stay more on topic in the future. My personal style is to ramble, at times. Just post that it's better to stay on-topic, and I will try for that. A sad case of real-life dementia: Peter Falk, the star of Columbo, is 81, and has been put in a conservatorship, after a legal fight between Falk's wife and Falk's daughter. ============================================================ ============================================================ June 1, 2009 Judge puts 'Columbo' actor Falk in conservatorship (AP) LOS ANGELES - A judge placed former "Columbo" star's Peter Falk in a conservatorship Monday to ensure his daughter could occasionally visit the ailing 81-year-old actor. Falk's wife of more than 30 years, Shera, will remain in control of his personal care and affairs. Falk has advanced dementia, likely from Alzheimer's disease, one of his doctors testified Monday. Catherine Falk petitioned in December to take over her father's affairs despite a sometimes contentious relationship with Falk and his wife. By court order, she will be allowed a 30-minute visit with her father every other month. Falk's condition virtually ensures he will not remember the meetings, his doctor said. The Emmy-winning actor slipped rapidly into dementia since a series of dental operations in late 2007, Dr. Stephen Read testified Monday, the final day of a two-day conservatorship hearing. Read said it was unclear whether Falk's condition worsened as a result of anesthesia or some other reaction to the operation. Read first evaluated Falk in June 2008 before the actor was scheduled to undergo hip surgery. His dementia and apparent Alzheimer's disease worsened after that procedure, and Read said the actor no longer remembers his signature role in the series "Columbo." Falk won four Emmys for his starring role in "Columbo." He also received Academy Award nominations for movies in 1959 and 1960. For months, he has lived in a guesthouse at his Beverly Hills home that has been converted into an art studio and living quarters. He has around-the-clock care, and Shera Falk testified that she cooks dinner for her husband nightly. Falk in 2005 designated Shera Falk to be his caregiver and the keeper of his estate. Catherine Falk, 38, withdrew a petition to take over control of the actor's finances, saying she was only concerned about visiting her father. The hearing placed a spotlight on a series of slights within the family that led to the court action. Catherine Falk alleged Shera Falk ridiculed her father, slammed the door in her face and cut off contact with him when he grew ill. Shera Falk testified that her husband thought his daughter was troublesome and that they were never close. Her attorney used the actor's personal diary to show how he regarded their relationship in the last decade. Catherine Falk acknowledged during the hearing that a lawsuit she filed against her father drove a wedge between them, but that they had reconciled. She had sued her father to force him to pay her tuition and expenses while attending Syracuse University. Her attorney used postcards and telegrams Falk sent to his daughter when she was a child to illustrate a closer relationship than the actor's wife was willing to admit. As testimony bogged down Monday in a final series of accusations and rebuttals, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Aviva K. Bobb ordered attorneys for both sides into her chambers. The attorneys then brokered a compromise in a courthouse hallway that would allow Catherine Falk visitations, but not entry into his inner sanctum. The visits will take place at the home of a friend who lives down the street from Peter and Shera Falk. Shera Falk will not be allowed in the gatherings. "We're thrilled with the result," said Troy Martin, Catherine Falk's attorney. Shera Falk's attorney, Marshal Oldman, also claimed victory, saying the hearing proved that Falk's wife had provided top-notch care and should be allowed to continue that role. He said Falk's physical health is good. "Essentially, this is a family matter," Oldman said, noting that Falk was a private man. "It's important that families can figure out how to get along. It's a good outcome for everybody." Edited by Staff on Jun 02, 2009, 04:42am (Khan: repaired formatting) | |
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| 06-01-09 08:41pm - 5683 days | #24 | |
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pat362, I think you bring up 2 major factors in the psychology of movies: 1. Your expectations going in to see the movie. If you aren't expecting much, it's really nice to be pleasantly surprised. That's just human nature. So with a hugely hyped movie, it's harder to appreciate what you're watching. 2. Suspension of disbelief. Most movies are not realistic. How many movies would an actual James Bond survive? He'd be dead long before the start of the second movie. Movies (and plays and novels) almost always call for the suspension of disbelief. My problem with suspension of disbelief is not when actors behave in a way that would normally get them killed again and again, or they act in ways I don't understand. But I do have a problem when the actors don't act by the fictional rules we are supposed to accept. The movie, Memento (2000), established Christopher Nolan as a major player in Hollywood. He later directed the last two Batman movies with Christian Bale. The premise of Memento is that the hero has short-term memory loss. He can't remember anything that happens beyond a few minutes. This short-term memory loss was caused by a head injury. The memory loss is vividly illustrated by an incident that takes place in a bar. Several customers spit into a glass in front of the hero. Then, a few minutes later, the hero is given the glass to drink. He starts to drink from the glass, but a sympathetic girl stops him from drinking. If, in real life, the hero was truly suffering from this massive type of short-term memory loss, the whole movie is stupid and senseless. Why? Because the man is able to search for his wife's killer, in a sensible way, based on some tattoos and notes he has written to himself each night. The man drives from one location to another. No problem. He gets into a car and drives. If he really had the kind of short-term memory loss he is supposed to, he would never arrive at his destination, because he would never remember where he was driving to. Once he started driving, he would not know where to drive to. So how could he reach his intended destination if he forgot what it was, or why he wanted to go there? He would never be capable of carrying out any sustained action, because he would forget the goal long before he could achieve it. The man would need a keeper/helper to assist him 24 hours a day. Even during sleep time. Because if the hero woke up, what would keep him from wandering away out in the streets to some random place? Basically, the situation is similar to Alzheimer's Disease, except that in this case the cause was a physical injury to the brain. I could not enjoy the movie, Memento, at all, because I kept thinking how the hero was able to do actions that required short-term memory (such as driving from one place to another), even though he had no short-term memory. And if, by some miracle, the hero was able to get to his destination, he would have forgotten the reason he was going there, long before he reached that destination. The entire movie was stupid, based on the inconsistency that the hero was supposed to have massive short-term memory loss, but he was able to act as if his short-term memory loss was minor and intermittent. I think the critics and movie-going public thought it was a cute gimmick, this short-term memory loss, and were able to ignore thinking about what the short-term memory loss would mean, in real life. We ignore real life in James Bond movies, in Batman movies, so why not in Mememto? I think the action in Mememto is supposed to be realistic, once you accept the premise of short-term memory loss. But the actions are complete fantasy, if there is this massive short-term memory loss, and that's my problem in thinking this movie is senseless. Rant, rant, rant. But this piece of stupidity was nominated for two academy awards, and won a whole bunch of other important awards. Edit: Actually, to be more complete, the man would not be able to drive his car, because he would not remember he had a car. If he owned or rented a car, he would not remember it. That is short-term memory. Actually, I saw the movie several years ago, and it was annoying. My impression is that the man needed his self-written notes and tattoos to even remember that his wife was dead, and that he was searching for his wife's killer. So I would guess that he had not only short-term memory loss, but major long-term memory loss as well. The concept was interesting, but the execution was flawed/senseless. That's my interpretation/feeling. Edited on Jun 01, 2009, 08:57pm | |
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| 06-01-09 07:48pm - 5683 days | #23 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I enjoyed all the modern Batman movies, starting with: Batman (1989) with Michael Keaton and a great Jack Nicholson Joker; Batman Returns (1992), with Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito as Penguin, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman; Batman Forever (1995), with Val Kilmer, Chris O'Donnell as Robin; Batman & Robin (1997), with George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell as Robin, Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy, Alicia Silverstone as Batgirl; Batman Begins (2005), with Christian Bale, Liam Neeson as Henri Ducard; The Dark Knight (2008), with Christian Bale, Heath Ledger as The Joker, Aaron Eckhart as Two-Face. Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger were both great Jokers, very different from each other. Danny DeVito was a great Penguin. Michelle Pfeiffer and Uma Thurman were lovely eye candy, but also interesting characters that you could root for and appreciate whether they were fighting with or against Batman. Catwoman stood for women's rights. Poison Ivy stood for ecology, always an important consideration in today's world. And this was before Al Gore got the Nobel Peace Prize for climate protection. Batman lives in a man's world, and the women in it don't get the credit they deserve. | |
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| 06-01-09 07:43am - 5684 days | #18 | |
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Strictly off topic, but interesting anyway: A quote from Billy Joel, the singer/songwriter/piano man, who seems to be a straight-thinking guy: "There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex." Edited on Jun 01, 2009, 08:12am | |
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| 06-01-09 02:11am - 5684 days | #17 | |
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PinkPanther, regarding WALL-E and The Incredibles, you mean our tastes actually agree? I think I'm having a heart attack. | |
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| 05-31-09 05:56pm - 5684 days | #14 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Personal taste is one reason I don't give a lot of weight to movie reviews. I saw WALL-E, the cartoon/animated feature that made over $220 million box office in the US alone. I've liked science fiction since my early teens, but I couldn't get into this movie at all. I was bored, bored, bored. The site reviews at PU are different from the average movie review: 1. The review can have practical value, pointing out positive and negative features on sites that might be of potential interest to my personal tastes. 2. The review can have entertainment value: humor, insights, sometimes interesting points of view or ideas. I read almost all the reviews, not just for practical value on whether I want to join a site, but to get a taste of what the writer says. Edited on May 31, 2009, 07:28pm | |
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| 05-30-09 12:21am - 5686 days | #33 | |
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What about a Porn Hunter's Bounty Badge, awarded to PU members who hunt down and frag members of the public who have illicit and unlicensed porn on their personal computers? I envision myself carrying a .577 Magnum revolver (bigger and better and louder than Dirty Harry's), breaking into people's apartments and houses, smashing my way to their PCs and Apple computers, then checking to see if there is any unlicensed porn in their stash. Wait a minute. I might be one of the victims. Not cool at all. | |
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| 05-29-09 09:42pm - 5686 days | #12 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Personal taste: one man's gold is another man's garbage. Having said that, I saw the new Terminator. I would recommend renting Terminator 1, 2 or 3 instead of paying good money to watch the new Terminator with Christian Bale. There are lots of fights and loud explosions, but I actually almost fell asleep several times while watching the newest Terminator. The main reason to watch Terminator Salvation is because it's part of the Terminator series. But that's like saying you watched Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull because it's part of the Indiana Jones series: You're hoping for some of the same thrills and enjoyment you got from the earlier movies, but it's just not happening. Batman Begins and The Dark Knight were great Christian Bale movies: great story, great characters, exciting action, etc. Terminator Salvation is dreary (on purpose, it's supposed to be a post-Apocalytic story, but one of hope), but uninvolving: I didn't care what happened to the characters. If Christian Bale had died in the first two minutes, it might have made for a better movie, where someone you could root for would take over. I never realized until I sat through this movie how much Arnold Schwarzenegger added to the Terminator franchise. I mean, I really enjoyed Terminator 1, 2 and 3, and I knew Arnold was due a large part of the credit, but when I saw this Terminator Salvation with Christian Bale, I just didn't give a damn about him in the movie. Like I said, I liked Bale in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, but not in this edition of Terminator. | |
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| 05-29-09 04:54pm - 5686 days | #31 | |
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I assume you're either a lawyer or else have a very clear understanding of legal matters beyond what the average person has. But what you quoted seems to make clear that you can legally use the site contents, or any material you download from the site, only while you are a current site member. That's what the site agreement/license clearly states. I sincerely doubt any PU member, or non-PU member, will automatically purge all site contents from their PC when their membership expires. Or that they will "honorably" refuse to view the downloaded material. I assume that most members believe they have the right to view the downloaded material whether they are current members or not. Honestly, I believe very few people read and understand the "terms and conditions" of most site memberships, of most computer software. You have to click "yes" to install and use computer software, signifying you agree to the terms and conditions. But on a lot of PC software, the language of the terms and conditions is long, detailed and confusing to a non-lawyer. | |
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| 05-26-09 11:43pm - 5689 days | #15 | |
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Off topic ramble: Actually, to understand the law in many cases, you need to be a legal expert, or have a legal expert explain the law to you. A case in point: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, the California State Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, the gay-marriage ban approved by voters in November 2008, that made gay legal nuptials illegal going forward. Gay/lesbian couples who tied the knot during the five-month window when same-sex marriage was legal in California, are still legally married. They are still legally married in California. But I don't know if many other states would recognize that marriage as legal. There are a few states in the U.S. that recognize gay marriages. But my guess is that most states do not allow or recognize gay marriage. | |
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| 05-26-09 11:14pm - 5689 days | #14 | |
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Wittyguy seems to be the unofficial legal expert at this site. So maybe he can give an opinion on the legality of downloading files from a pay site. When I'm a member of a pay site, I normally feel that I have the right to download files (photos, videos) from that site onto my hard drive. I don't know about the legal right, but I feel like I've paid for the right to "access" those files and download those files to my PC for my convenience. I realize I do not have the legal right to sell those photos and videos to someone else. But I've never sold photos or videos to anyone anyway. Actually, though, my impression is that technically, the law(s) on copyright are continuously broken by millions of people everyday of the year. Back in the dark ages, when I was a student in college, I read that technically, it was illegal to photocopy material from a copyrighted item (a book or magazine). Yet that is done every day of the year, by millions of people. I thought that, since it was my impression it was technically illegal to copy copyrighted material, how could libraries, for the convenience of people, have photocopy machines? But most public libraries do have photocopy machines. So aren't public libraries, in a sense, encouraging the public to unintentionally commit illegal behavior? Maybe Wittyguy could also give an opinion on whether it's legal to photocopy material from a copyrighted book or magazine? | |
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| 05-26-09 03:43pm - 5689 days | #7 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I'm not tech savvy, but my impression is that with some simple, free software, you should be able to download and save streaming video. I'm more of a photo person than a video person, but if I did join a video site, I would definitely want to be able to download and save the videos I liked. There is little to no sense, for me, to join a video site that only has streaming, and no downloads. I think the the webmaster reply you got is a lot of wishful thinking and hot air. As I already said, it's probably easy to download streaming video, if you have the right software. And as far as all porn sites eliminating downloading, I think the webmaster is talking nonsense. And when the webmaster says "it may seem like it is too big of a task, but its going to happen.", (referring to eliminating the downloading option), he is talking nonsense again. Or maybe he just has a poor usage of the English language. Why should it be difficult, or a lot of work, to eliminate the downloading option for files of a web site? You just remove the download hot links. It's that simple. | |
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| 05-26-09 02:46pm - 5689 days | #11 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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People, in real life, can be as sick and perverted as the fictional characters we see in the movies. I think the movie described below might be classified as violent porn, as compared to sexual porn. But I could be mistaken. Does porn have to refer to sexual excitement? If you are stimulated/excited by brutality to a person, does the arousal have to be sexual? But then again, a classic theme in action-adventure movies is where the villain is sexually excited when he kills or maims his victims. This is one movie I will definitely avoid watching. ===================================================================== May 26, 2009 BERLIN (Reuters) - A 2006 horror film based on the real story of a German engineer who killed and ate a willing victim may be shown in Germany, a court ruled on Tuesday, overturning a previous ban. The film, "Rohtenburg," released internationally as "Grimm Love," stars Keri Russell as an American exchange student studying criminal psychology in Germany. In the real tale that horrified Germany, Armin Meiwes, the so-called "Cannibal of Rothenburg," met his victim, Bernd-Juergen Brandes, through an Internet advert in 2001. Brandes said he was looking for someone to "obliterate his life and leave no trace." After severing Brandes's penis and trying to eat it, Meiwes stabbed him in the throat, hung him on a meat hook and cut him into chunks, some of which he later ate. He captured the action on video. In 2006, a Frankfurt court sentenced him to life in prison, rejecting a previous argument that his act of cannibalism amounted to euthanasia since Brandes had wanted to be eaten. | |
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| 05-26-09 12:43pm - 5689 days | #16 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I, for one, really enjoyed Hamburger Helper when it first came out. I don't remember if it was back in the 1960s or 1970s, but I liked the Lasagna and Beef Stroganoff the best. I can almost taste them, and it's been over 30 years since my last time. Package creep. I think the real reason they do that is so, as we get older, we don't have to lift the heavy grocery bags that we could lift in our youth. Also, unless you're using a credit card, modern grocery prices sure help to lighten our wallets. A one pound loaf of nice bread now costs $4.00. Back in the late 1960s it cost around 29 cents. Sales tax in California is now around 9.25% (depends on what county you live in). Back in the 1960s, sales tax was 4%. Since this is a straight percentage increase, the government is taking a larger and larger percentage of your money as time goes by, especially when you consider the effects of inflation. | |
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| 05-25-09 09:03am - 5691 days | #13 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I got my first major credit card back in the 1970s. As best as I can remember, it was a "no annual fee" card. By major card, I mean it was either Mastercard, Visa, or Discover. I don't remember which. But I'm not talking about a credit card from a chain of stores, which I do not consider a major credit card. Edited on May 25, 2009, 09:07am | |
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| 05-22-09 02:31am - 5694 days | #8 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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The theory behind a good/high consumer credit score is that it reduces the cost of credit. Right? But this new law will, basically, increase the cost of credit because of changes: 1. an annual fee for the credit card. 2. eliminating the grace period on each charge. 3. eliminating the rewards program for using the card. What the New York Times article seems to ignore is that the companies where the credit card is used, pay fees when the card is used. The credit card companies/banks make money from the companies where the card is used, as well as from the customer who owns the card when the customer pays interest and other fees. If, somehow, the average credit score is raised by the new legislation, at the same time that the cost of credit goes up, the consumer is not better off. He is paying more money for the same amount of credit. That reminds me of when my mother received a rate increase notice from her health care provider: They stated they were raising her monthly premium, at the same time they were reducing her coverage. The notice said this was to my mother's benefit, because the health care organization would be financially stronger. So my mother paid more money for less health care coverage. And I could not understand, if there was truth in advertising, why they could legally claim that was to my mother's benefit. My guess is that truth in advertising does not apply in this instance, because if you pay more and get less, you are not better off. The health care organization is better off, because they are making more money. But that money was coming from my mother and the other members of the health care plan. | |
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| 05-21-09 05:00pm - 5694 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
My impression is that we will be paying more to use a credit card, not less. I don't see where "on the face of it, it looks good in that credit card holders will have fewer problems with high interest rates." "Now Congress is moving to limit the penalties on riskier borrowers, who have become a prime source of billions of dollars in fee revenue for the industry. And to make up for lost income, the card companies are going after those people with sterling credit." Supposedly people with bad credit will pay smaller penalties, but everyone will be paying a higher real interest rate (with no grace period), in addition to an annual card fee. The banks are justifying increased fees and higher rates partially because their charge-offs are rising. But that's what normally happens during a recession. Banks can charge 20% or more on credit cards. They can pay less than 1% on savings accounts. The new law "does not cap interest rates, so banks can continue to lift them, albeit at a slower pace and with greater disclosure." I don't see this as beneficial reform. | |
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| 05-21-09 06:07am - 5695 days | #65 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
A possible approach to making reviews more pertinent would be to split PU into sections or categories. Section 1 would be for tech-heads, who enjoy reading tech specs. Section 2 would be for artistic types, who believe there is more to life and beauty than mere numbers. Section 3 would be for video fans. Section 4 would be for photo fans. Anyone who doesn't fit into one of the above categories, could be re-educated, a la George Orwell's 1984, and converted into a useful, contributing member. We should form a ruling body, with myself as head, and Drooler, Toadsith and Wittyguy as my able advisers. | |
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| 05-21-09 02:01am - 5695 days | #63 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
As far as reviews go, I think the structure of the review could be loosened up a bit. In each review, you have: 1. A Pros box, with a limited number of lines and characters. 2. A Cons box, with a limited number of lines and characters. 3. A Bottom Line box, with a more generous number of lines and characters. It's nice to have a formal structure, but also somewhat limiting. I would like to have a less structured format available, where I can just write the review, and not have to worry about the number of lines and characters in my Pros, Cons, and Bottom Line. My reviews tend to ramble, so maybe the PU members won't appreciate them as much as a more structured, better organized, more tightly written review, but I sometimes bump up against the line/character limits in my reviews. If a PU member thinks my reviews are too long, he can just stop reading, where ever he feels like stopping. And the simple truth is, no matter how long my reviews, they still leave out many of the technical/numerical details that many PU members look for. | |
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| 05-20-09 05:43pm - 5695 days | #7 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I think Toadsith should be banned because he pays lip service to female beauty but is no true believer. Lena Headey and Summer Glau are both beauties. I give the edge to Summer Glau. They are more than enough reason that Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles should have been renewed. Personally, I thought Crank 1 was much better than Crank 2. Crank 2 did not pack the punch of Crank 1: it didn't have the freshness (originality) or the humor of the first one. I thought Smokin' Aces (another over the top action movie) was pretty cool as well. | |
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| 05-20-09 05:19pm - 5695 days | #55 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I believe I posted this idea a while back, but I really believe this thread deserves a permanent position as the first thread listed. It shouldn't be that hard to make this a sticky position as #1. The reason for the prominent position is simple: This thread deserves to placed where it can easily be found and noticed, because it gives solid guidelines for writing good reviews. Other topics might be important/interesting/whatever, but none of the other threads have the basic, permanent relevance of this thread. Major credit for this goes to Wittyguy, Toadsith, et al. | |
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| 05-19-09 04:28pm - 5696 days | #52 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
My reviews tend to focus on what I personally find positive or negative. Since I'm more interested in pics than vids, I probably give insufficient vid information to a vid-lover. In my defense, most of the sites I belong to are vid-lite, where the vids are much less important than the pics on the site, not just because of my personal preferences, but also because the vids on the site have minor value compared to the pics. Sites I've reviewed: Porn Access- video site, where the photos are almost worthless. Just Teen Site- photos and videos both have value, but photos have more value, at least for me. Just Teen Movie- video site. DOMAI- photo site (no videos). Glam Deluxe- photo site, with very few videos. Met Art- photo and video site, but almost all the value is from the photos instead of the videos. Edited on May 19, 2009, 04:32pm | |
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| 05-18-09 08:53am - 5698 days | #6 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I mainly use Windows Media Player, but if that doesn't open a video file, like Cybertoad says, VLC almost always works. | |
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| 05-16-09 11:37am - 5699 days | #6 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Glad to see you back. Did you just get married, or get a new girlfriend? She's kinda cute. Hope she comes here to visit with us often. | |
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