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That's why the guy let the door slam in his face. He was too grief-ridden to hold it any longer.

Piggies' boss is waiting in the wings

When this thread started, he was just the guy destroying the RW with his infusion of support for the pro-wrestling candidate.

Although it could be from her time as an escort.

Oh i don’t know if i trust this…but yeah

There was part of me that thinks Hellen Mirren might have been a freak even if she seemed kinda demur.

Yeah, let’s hope he stays

Soon

Ukraine is Frodo or the Fellowship or some other metaphor implying that they carry the weight of the entire Atlantic Charter (the four freedoms) on their backs.

Posting this here but it could go in a couple different threads The Coronavirus thread being one other I could think of right away.

Caligula was just a brilliant career choice for any actor. Hellen Mirren and Peter O' Tool maybe not as damaged as McDowell.

i think what happened is Kubrick slowed Ryan O' Neal's career. Kubrick was a sort of career killer for a lot of actors. He took them out of the normal rotation for so long to do his movies that they didn't get seen in normal stuff for such a long time that they didn't produce the same impact on the movie industry as those who stayed out of his clutches. Mathew Modine was a perfectly serviceable brat pack type actor until he disappeared for all those years to make Full Metal Jacket. (BTW, see him in Birdy great Peter Gabriel soundtrack). I think Tom and Nichol as a Hollywood couple did not survive whatever it was that Eyes Wide Shut was. Tom Cruise is just so talented and hard working so he could overcome that sort of thing.

Gavin was a lady killer who slept with Marlene Deitrich. Ryan O’ was semi big deal at the time. I think Redford wanted the POV character for the river crossing which gave him a lot of action scenes.

the scene in A Bridge Too Far where Sean Connery is discussing the situation on the ground with his battalion commanders and the lunatics are laughing at them from the woods comes to mind. "Do you think they know something we don't?"

This is a fun video to watch. Motivation is strong: to liberate the oppressed and to keep the Russians from stealing their children!

This is something else Bill Barr has decided to put in the knife and Trump should be grateful he had such a willing servant when it mattered.

Boston just did whatever they could to give the Tigers an early lead. Was that just to draw in the betting lines?

Yeah, its all a warm goo of stupidity and fascism.

This is an fuggly brand of baseball. No me gusto.

Its not that we aren't important. We exist. He's not spending all his time here.

aye thanks

So, our boy piggie was propagating the Russian devised IC leak thing as it was going down. Do we need further evidence he's not on the level?

In actuality, there are a lot of people outside the US who do look upon it as a big fat dumb place with a generally good heart. The see that the actual makers of things are clever. The business sharps are clever. The entertainment is top notch. But, alas, the accumulated mass of our democracy behaves like a toddler. It doesn't mean we aren't generally on the side of pluralism and human rights. We do have a lot of people trying to do the right things. We do think we are better in alliances even if many of my colleagues wouldn't trust a Brit as far as they could throw him and we've been allied with them for longer than almost anyone. We do believe we are for free and fair trade even if it isn't perfect. So, enough of the moral relativism. America is actually weird in good ways and stupid in some bad ways.

The general struggle between pilgrims and cavaliers began thus. There are of course a lot of other influence: various immigration waves, the various African-American cultures which formed in pockets based on the type of crops and plantation styles and in response to the manner of being freed. Obviously, Hispanic culture has its own long history.