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#94577
Topic
Who has caved?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/94577/action/topic#94577
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Originally posted by: Bossk
The official LFL DVD set has been available now for just about four months and I'm curious who has them. I'm also curious who said they wouldn't get them and wound up caving in.

Three options here, pick one...

1. You're still holding strong and you do not own them

2. You purchased them for yourself (if so, when did you get them in relation to their release date... right after they came out or later on?)

3. They were purchased for you as a gift

Personally, I stand at #1. Haven't even considered them. Haven't rented them or borrowed them from friends. Still happily watching my LD>DVD transfers.


I'm still #1! I pre-ordered them on Amazon.com, but I canceled the order before it was released. Nevertheless, I don't own the official DVD release. Just out of curiosity, I'll either borrow or rent them just to see the changes for myself, but I'd like to own a copy of the special features disc.
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#94415
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Flight Attendant Who Helped Airline Hostages Dies
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/94415/action/topic#94415
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Flight Attendant Who Helped Airline Hostages Dies

By JENNIFER BAYOT, The New York Times

(Feb. 24) - Uli Derickson, the Trans World Airlines flight attendant honored for saving passengers' lives in 1985 by both confronting and mollifying terrorist hijackers, died on Friday at her home in Tucson. She was 60.

Ms. Derickson was still working as a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines when she received a diagnosis of cancer in 2003, her son, Matthew Derickson, said in announcing her death.

On June 14, 1985, when a pair of Lebanese gunmen commandeered a T.W.A. flight from Athens to Rome, Ms. Derickson took the lead in protecting the 152 passengers and crew members.

Though the two hijackers spoke almost no English, Ms. Derickson was able to speak with one of them in German and occasionally calm him by singing a German ballad he requested. She won the hijackers' pity for one passenger by explaining that his daughter had been delivered by a Lebanese doctor.

She also intervened during beatings, often putting herself in harm's way.

"Don't you hit that person," she would shout, a passenger later told The New York Times. "Why do you have to hit those people?"

When a ground crew in Algiers refused to refuel the plane without payment, even when faced with the terrorists' threat to kill passengers, it occurred to Ms. Derickson to offer her Shell credit card. The ground crew charged about $5,500 for 6,000 gallons of fuel.

The most terrifying moment for her, she later told Glamour Magazine, was when the crueler of the two hijackers asked her to marry him.

At one point they asked Ms. Derickson to sort through the passengers' passports to single out people with Jewish-sounding names. Although various news organizations initially reported that she had followed their orders, she in fact hid the passports, her son said. "Everybody looked to her for courage and guidance," Tom Cullins, an architect in Burlington, Vt., who was a hostage on the plane, said in an interview yesterday. "She was clearly in control. She even made demands of the hijackers."

Mr. Cullins added, "We have nothing but the utmost respect for her and a debt of gratitude for really heroic acts."

After about 36 hours, the terrorists released a second wave of hostages, including Ms. Derickson and 65 others, in Algiers. They had already killed a Navy diver, Robert D. Stethem, but his was to be the only death. The hijackers released other hostages over the next 15 days, with the ordeal ending for the last 39 on June 30. It ended after Israel's release of 31 Lebanese prisoners, a fraction of the 766 the hijackers had demanded.

Ms. Derickson became the first woman to receive the Silver Cross for Valor, awarded by the Legion of Valor, a veterans organization. "The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story," a 1988 movie that appeared on NBC and featured Lindsay Wagner as Ms. Derickson, received five Emmy nominations.

Ulrike Patzelt was born on Aug. 8, 1944, in Aussig an der Elbe, Czechoslovakia, near the German border, and was raised in Bavaria. She worked as an au pair in Britain and Switzerland before immigrating to Connecticut in 1967.

She began working for T.W.A. a few years later and joined Delta in the early 1990's.

Her husband, Russell G. Derickson, a former pilot, died in 2003. She is survived by her son, of San Diego, and her mother, Marianne Patzelt of Nuremberg, Germany.
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#93790
Topic
What would you like to see in a scifi/fantasy web site? The time has come for a change...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/93790/action/topic#93790
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Originally posted by: Bossk
I'm just saying that I think LFL would want to see it all there right then and there and not have to contact anybody in order to view the rest of it. I would think they would want their interest to be as hidden as possible. I'm not saying it's "useless". And I have no idea what the hell you mean by all the commit/drop table stuff.


I would get rid of all of the unconfirmed signatures, except for the most recent ones. There's several thousand of them alone. If someone signs, and they haven't confirmed within a certain amount of time, it's either bogus, or the person signing will never have it figured out. But, either way, I'm sure the thousands of unconfirmed signatures alone take up a considerable amount of memory.
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#92723
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Total Signatures
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/92723/action/topic#92723
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Ok so make it 8 million dollars and he'll become as rich as Bill Gates.


Not even close. Bill Gates isn't a millionaire, he's a billionaire. And he had to step on quite a few toes to get where he is now. But getting back on topic...

59,162 confirmed signatures and counting....slowly....like sands in the hourglass.
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#92624
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What would you like to see in a scifi/fantasy web site? The time has come for a change...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/92624/action/topic#92624
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This site costs $1,000 a year to run? Damn, that's expensive. But anyways...

The petition is the reason this site was created in the first place, so I'd keep that. I think that these guys have some great ideas. I, as well, urge you to put banners and links to eBay and Amazon for any science fiction related stuff. But please don't add them annoying pop-ups on here. Another thing you could do to cover costs is add a "treasure chest" at the top of the page as a link for anyone who wishes to donate to the treasurer. As far as getting more people coming? If you're not the inventive type, do what seems to work for the others. But keep in mind, a person's primary reason for visiting a news website (no matter what type of news it is) is to be kept informed. If you're advertising something I'm interested in through a link, I'll definitely click on it. Whenever I buy a season set of a show on DVD, I click on one of Gord Lacey's links, if I buy it online. You could provide links for comic books, sculptures/statues, Master Replicas, etc...
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#90880
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Total Signatures
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/90880/action/topic#90880
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These days, I post mainly in the "Off Topic" section. But that's only because there's only so much you can say about what you like or dislike about a set of movies or their alternate versions. However, I never lost track of why I originally came to this website. It was to urge George Lucas to do the right thing, and release the original theatrical versions of the movies on DVD. I still to this day think that there's a slight chance it could happen. Maybe it's nothing more than wishful thinking, or maybe it'll actually happen some day. But I'm fairly content in knowing that the possibility is still there.
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#90876
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The CANTINA
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/90876/action/topic#90876
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Sometimes I have dreams and then eeirly similar situations happen to me in real life.


That has happened to me a time or two. In my dream, my friend and I were sitting at a booth on opposite sides of the table. It was against the front wall at his parens' old double-wide trailer. The setting in the dream was similar to a restaurant. Years later, in real life, we were at the bar inside the casino where we were both getting drunk. Later, when we were about ready to leave, we decided to go over to the restaurant inside the casino and have their 99¢ breakfast special (it was after midnight). As we were sitting at the booth, I got this feeling of dejá vú. The only difference between that time and most other times was I knew why I had that feeling. It was still weird, though.
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#90570
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MGM's DVD Class Action Settlement
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/90570/action/topic#90570
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Originally posted by: bad_karma24
This is half true. These films, while shot in the 1.33:1 ratio, were meant to have the tops and bottoms cut off for the widescreen version. Yes, you get less of a picture, but its what the director intends. Still, that doesn't change the fact that MGM was right to lie about it.


If this is the case, why not do the logical thing, and film the movie with a wide-angled lens? That's what Fox does! When you see the widescreen versions of their movies in the theaters and on DVD, that's the original aspect ratio in which it was filmed.
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#89539
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Jokes thread : Reloaded
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/89539/action/topic#89539
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Clever Those Women...

Three women and three men are traveling by train to the Super Bowl.
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At the station, the three men each buy a ticket and watch as the three women buy just one ticket.
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"How are the three of you going to travel on only one ticket?" asks one of the men.
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"Watch and learn," answers one of the women.
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They all board the train. The three men take their respective seats but all three women cram into a toilet together and close the door.
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Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the toilet door and says, "Ticket, please."
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The door opens just a crack, and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes it and moves on.
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The men see this happen and agree it was quite a clever idea; so, after the game, they decide to do the same thing on the return trip and save some money.
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When they get to the station they buy a single ticket for the return trip but see, to their astonishment, that the three women don't buy any ticket at all!!
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"How are you going to travel without a ticket?" says one perplexed man.
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"Watch and learn," answer the women.
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When they board the train, the three men cram themselves into a toilet, and the three women cram into another toilet just down the way.
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Shortly after the train is on its way, one of the women leaves her toilet and walks over to the toilet in which the men are hiding.
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The woman knocks on their door and says, "Ticket, please."