Reading is really hard, sometimes.

Lethal Weapon the movie is almost 30 years old.

Like Where The Boys Are, where a character attempts suicide after being raped—a twofer.

The highlights are the very young and breathtakingly beautiful stars, Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty. The lowlights are everything else. In my opinion anyway. I just remember feeling sad and confused about it for days after. My mom has made some strange recommendations over the years. Another movie she thought I’d…

Sabrina was one of them which I guess is probably like 1954. Also The Apartment and Gidget Goes Hawaiian

Was “Splendor in the Grass” one of them? I was a pre teen when I saw that, my mother’s “favorite” film. Even at 12 I thought what the fuck was that horseshit?

Yeah it was totally common for female characters in 50s-60s to be so “overly emotional” that they would try to kill themselves if they didn’t get a love interest right away (Sabrina, for example) or for a number of other random incidents.

Is rape better than suicide? I just watched three movies in a row from the late 50s early 60s that all feature a young woman’s attempted suicide as a major plot point. They were rom-coms.

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Yeah, I saw the '2.5 lbs' of uranium and thought "That's not a reactor - that's a test instrument.'. And given the size - I have to wonder if the uranium is more for shielding the Californium than anything else, U being denser than Pb...

Yes. This is a subcritical research reactor. The Californium was used as a neutron source to bombard the highly enriched uranium, causing chains of fission events that greatly amplified the neutron flux.

C'mon guys, get your facts right. It wasn't a reactor; the radioactive material in it functioned as a neutron source for neutron activation analysis (the "check materials for impurities" purpose mentioned in the article) and radiography testing. Even in the case of exposure to the Californium-252 that was left in the…