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#763089
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Beatles Thread
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Nope, never wanted to see AtU based on the trailer. I've never seemed to enjoy films that have extrapolated music and themes by The Beatles in order to create a project not centered around the Beatles as a group. On the other hand, the 1968 animated film "Yellow Submarine" was enjoyable and acceptable by my standards. I saw the 1999 re-release in a theater packed with Beatles fans, what an experience!

Does anyone remember the slightly amusing but mostly forgettable "I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)" directed by Robert Zemeckis, or "Birth of the Beatles (1979)" directed by Richard Marquand?  I don't think they ever had a DVD release, have they?

A far as favorite Beatles cover... 

The Mamas & The Papas - I Call Your Name

and

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Taxman

 

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#761531
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That's some damn fine coffee. Twin Peaks is returning to TV!:)
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Tobar said:

Dear Facebook Friends, Showtime did not pull the plug on ‘Twin Peaks.’ After 1 year and 4 months of negotiations, I left because not enough money was offered to do the script the way I felt it needed to be done. This weekend I started to call actors to let them know I would not be directing. ‘Twin Peaks’ may still be very much alive at Showtime. I love the world of ‘Twin Peaks’ and wish things could have worked out differently.

We were saddened to read David Lynch’s statement today since we believed we were working towards solutions with David and his reps on the few remaining deal points. SHOWTIME also loves the world of ‘Twin Peaks’ and we continue to hold out hope that we can bring it back in all its glory with both of its extraordinary creators, David Lynch and Mark Frost, at its helm.

 

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#760971
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Nothing Matters Anymore. Climate Change/Global Warming Will Drive Humans To Extinction In A Matter Of Decades
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imperialscum said:

FanFiltration said:

And then there is that nasty Fukushima radiation killing the Pacific Ocean.

Oh yes, Fukushima is killing Pacific Ocean. What about countless of nuclear bomb detonations across the pacific islands?

 And also here in Nevada just 60 miles north of me, the landscape is pitted with atomic test craters. The plumes of fallout from the Nevada tests blew east over Utah. The Salt Lake City area of Utah is still the leukemia capitol. Also, the fallen radiation into the Utah desert is said to be responsible for the cancer and deaths of many of the cast and crew of the film "The Conqueror",  including John Wane.

From Wikipedia:

Cancer controversy

See also: Downwinders—Health effects of nuclear testing

The exterior scenes were shot on location near St. George, Utah, 137 miles (220 km) downwind of the United States government's Nevada National Security Site. In 1953, extensive above-ground nuclear weapons testing (11 total) occurred at the test site as part of Operation Upshot-Knothole. The cast and crew spent many difficult weeks on location, and in addition Hughes later shipped 60 tons of dirt back to Hollywood in order to match the Utah terrain and lend verisimilitude to studio re-shoots.[5] The filmmakers knew about the nuclear tests[5] but the federal government reassured residents that the tests caused no hazard to public health.[12]

Director Dick Powell died of cancer in January 1963, seven years after the film's release. Pedro Armendáriz was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 1960, and committed suicide in June 1963 after he learned his condition had become terminal. Hayward, Wayne, and Moorehead all died of cancer in the 1970s. Cast member actor John Hoyt died of lung cancer in 1991. Skeptics point to other factors such as the wide use of tobacco — Wayne and Moorehead in particular were heavy smokers. The cast and crew totaled 220 people (although IMDB lists a much smaller number). By the end of 1980, as ascertained by People magazine, 91 of them had developed some form of cancer and 46 had died of the disease. Several of Wayne and Hayward's relatives also had cancer scares as well after visiting the set. Michael Wayne developed skin cancer, his brother Patrick had a benign tumor removed from his breast and Hayward's son Tim Barker had a benign tumor removed from his mouth.[12][13]

Dr. Robert Pendleton, professor of biology at the University of Utah, stated, "With these numbers, this case could qualify as an epidemic. The connection between fallout radiation and cancer in individual cases has been practically impossible to prove conclusively. But in a group this size you'd expect only 30-some cancers to develop. With 91 cancer cases, I think the tie-in to their exposure on the set of The Conqueror would hold up in a court of law." Indeed, several cast and crew members, as well as relatives of those who died, considered suing the government for negligence, claiming it knew more about the hazards in the area than it let on.[12][14]

However, the odds of developing cancer for men in the U.S. population are 43 percent and the odds of dying of cancer are 23 percent (38 percent and 19 percent, respectively, for women).[15] This places the cancer mortality rate for the 220 primary cast and crew very near the expected average; but, this would assume that few new cancers or cancer-related deaths have occurred among cast and crew members since 1980. These data are unavailable.

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#760444
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James Bond 007 Thread
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Warning: "SPECTRE" Movie Spoiler and Octopussy Novel Spoiler!

This information relates to a photograph and document shown in the new "SPECTRE" trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvQJbF2CXLQ

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Here is some information about the man with young James Bond in the partly burned photograph.  The custody document that is shown with the photograph tells us that a man by the name of H. Oberhauser at one time became the temporary legal guardian of a teenage Bond. It is suggested that the older man in the photo is H. Oberhauser, and the 3rd person in the photo (with head burned away) is his son F. Oberhauser.  

Here is some information about H. Oberhauser from the Fleming short story Octopussy.

Oberhauser taught climbing and skiing in Kitzbühel before World War II. He even taught James Bond during his youth while he was on term breaks while attending Fettes College. He formed a very strong paternal relationship with James, to such an extent that he later referred to him as his second father. After the annexation of Austria and outbreak of war with Great Britain he was drafted into the Gestapo, probably due to his ability to speak English.

One day, in the closing weeks of the war, a British officer arrived by jeep at Oberhauser's chalet and arrested him. He had told his weeping, protesting family that he was being taken to an interrogation camp in Munich. If the Oberhauser's record was clean he would be released within a week. If his family caused a drama it would just make things worse for Oberhauser.

The officer and Oberhauser drove off and Oberhauser was told that in exchange for assisting him climbing the Kaiser range, he would report to his commanding officer that he had been cleared at Munich. He guided the Englishman up the mountain to a hut where he was shot point blank in the back of the skull by the officer's Webley & Scott .45 pistol. His body was then pushed off the mountain onto a glacier below.

Twenty years later, Oberhauser's corpse was discovered by mountaineers and the case for his murder was re-opened. As serendipity had it, the case was noticed by James Bond, who set out to discover the one responsible for his friend's death.