Not a "bad" game (though the final level was hair-tearingly difficult), but the Sega Genesis Spider-Man game had a terrifically ominous theme.
Not a "bad" game (though the final level was hair-tearingly difficult), but the Sega Genesis Spider-Man game had a terrifically ominous theme.
Wait, that's terrible! I quit. Well, maybe just some more for the road.
Huh? I said he had his admirable qualities; I never shoved a halo on his head.
1) Which is why I said the pre-1934 Hearst and 2) He also kept the notable anti-Fascist Winston Churchill on retainer. Hell, he paid Walter Winchell handsomely, and bizarrely, Winchell might have been the first really loud voice against Hitler in this country.
True. I guess I was thinking of his home immediately before his Hollywood arrival, and how the establishment viewed him.
Well, I can't say it was utterly ineffective — some historians credited Hearst, a Democratic press baron, with helping Wilson prevent entry into the war in 1915, after Lusitania. (Had, say, Teddy Roosevelt been in office at the time, American troops would almost certainly have been fighting at Verdun in 1916.). But…
He was a saber-rattler in 1898, no doubt. But the belief that Hearst pushed the country into war is more a tribute to his self-mythologizing — and turn-of-the-century historians wanting to wag a finger at the plebeian press — than the actual history. The Journal and Pulitzer's World stand out because so many other…
To be sure, if Hearst wanted to stop it, he could have easily done so — his abrupt turn from Fuck-Roosevelt to I-Want-To-Fuck-Roosevelt after the 1936 landslide being the most notable. I don't think he's blameless. At the same time, this is a guy who fought with kings and presidents, and beating up on a young guy…
Certainly full of himself, I grant, but Hearst wasn't without his virtues, at least pre-1934. He always had a sense of humor; he fought for labor and immigrants in the early 20th century, and his stand against World War I, despite threats and government harassment, was unambiguously brave.
My hypothesis, having studied the man, is that the anti-Kane campaign came more from Richard Berlin, Louella Parsons and other Hearst lickspittles more than the man himself. Hearst had endured far worse abuse (especially in World War I), and virtually every account of the battle makes Parsons the instigator and chief…
According to Wikipedia, it's based on a novel (perhaps titled A Song of Guys and Ire).
With apologies to The Onion: Summer Glau Christmas Movie Ends with Santa Kicked in the Face
"Just remember that when you sleep with danger, you sleep with everyone else who's slept with danger."
Women dream of palaces with beige walls and monochromatic plywood furniture.
Physical therapy, amirite bros?
If I recall correctly, that WAS his original mission, but by the end of the film Cole was making a determined effort to stop the plague from starting.
He was gunned down at an airport after trying to shoot some dude with a canister.
Didn't he do some work with the Modern Lovers, too?
It ain't CYOA without Dr. Nera Vivaldi.
Infocom's parser was fantastic. But other companies (cough, cough, Sierra) — it was like trying to do sign language with a chimp.