And the window's completely intact!

Volcano.

Learned from the DVD commentary: Airplane! was based on a much older movie, based on a much earlier book by Arthur Hailey - Zero Hour! (with the exclamation point). Several scenes are line-for-line and shot-for-shot from ZH! Check it out.

Also my beloved San Francisco, at a key moment of downtown highrise development. The old Union Square (completely redesigned a few years ago) where the titular conversation took place. The Director's "office", actually set in the outdoor corridors and stairs of The Embarcadero Center.

I loved the slow-motion wig-out at the end.

Thanks, I was thinking the same thing throughout. How does one define "cult" in a way that does not include pretty much all organized religion, any multi-level marketing scheme, or the whole suburban lifestyle?

fwiw, I'm with you lex. Media in general are suffering from the same problem. The way people get product is becoming increasingly disconnected from how the producers of the product get the wherewithall to produce it and the reward for having done so.

Sometimes I'll leave the commercials playing for their traditional purpose - a quick trip to the kitchen or the head. Sometimes, though, when I'm hitting the skip button, I'll actually back up to catch an ad that looked interesting - whether it's a movie trailer or just an entertaining/weird looking ad. There's some…

Harry J Fink: From what I've seen of it (starting S3 now), The Shield is likely the Best Cop Show Ever, while The Wire is indeed the Best Show Ever. Similarly to how the Stones are a better rock band, while the Beatles are a better band.

I say let's attach Tarantino's name to Terriers, on Showtime - or Starz

damn, I posted that before I'd read all the way down the thread, and now see that right above me, SoonerintheBluegrass said the same, and more, and better.

Not only that. At the very beginning of the process, when Obama et al. promised that "everyone will have a seat at the table", there were advocates for Single Payer, including Congressional sponsors of a Medicare For All bill, who thought that included them too. Man, were they wrong.

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I know it was a *long* time ago … but Haiti was hit by a relatively minor earthquake, which totally devastated its main urban center. Then, shortly after, Chile was hit by one of the biggest earthquakes ever - one of the biggest earthquakes theoretically possible - and suffered relatively minor damage…

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I too was not happy about the hardworking truck driver getting duped like that. But aside from the set-up, the rest of the scene played real. A truck full of something is left unattended in that sort of neighborhood? I'm surprised they left the tires on the truck and gas in the tank!

Frank Gallagher: Loving Husband, Devoted F…
That's what the Dish TV display showed as the title. I liked that.

I also didn't recognize her from Sparkle Motion. Interesting parallel; in both cases, she's sexualized at a far-too-young age by a creepy paedophile and his enthusiastic female accomplices.

Also, to the OP this thread - there is no sex in the champagne room.

I think she's both a striving sociopath, -and- a vulnerable, confused, self-deluded, naive girl/young woman. And I like the way she plays both aspects simultaneously.

Bill's rant about how you can't just make stuff up because it has to come from God made me rofl.

Ashur is a Jerkass Woobie.