Roundup: Ohio School Shooting, Oscars Leftovers and Ryan Braun’s Drug Test
Brooklyn Decker… on the Oscars … most overrated Best Picture winners … this dog is terrified and awesome … Ronald McDonald is going to kill us all … Tracy Morgan loves Benihana … proposal by steak … Stacy Keibler was a Ravens cheerleader … RFK’s son worried about baby snatching … the hottest women ever on The Simpsons … actress Sean Young arrested at post Oscars party … female inmate breaks into a house with no pants …. dogs allowed on restaurant patios in LA …
Ryan Braun’s innocence doesn’t pass the smell test. [LA Times]
One killed, 4 injured in an Ohio School shooting. [kwch]
A second victim has died. [CBS News]
Two victims still in critical condition. [CBS News]
The Ohio school shooter tweeted that he would bring a gun to school yesterday. [Washington Post]
Nick Mangold’s sister might be an Olympic weightlifter. [Columbus Dispatch]
The Top 10 Hip-Hop sneakers of all-time. OF ALL-TIME! [HipHopWired]
Chamique Holdsclaw is working through the problems that derailed her career. [New York Times]
Mike Sweetney has not lost weight. [Three Idiots on Sports]
The NBA All-Star game barely topped the Daytona 500 on Sunday. [USA Today]
How an SEC fan ended up making Undefeated won an Oscar. [Outkick The Coverage]
Bud Selig refused to make a decision on San Jose. [Murray Chass]
AJ Burnett will pay for college for Daniel McCutchen’s daughter in exchange for his number. [Larry Brown Sports]
Gammons on the Sawx new booze ban. [MLB.com]
Seth Rogen’s Independent Spirit Awards opening monologue.
Big Baby Davis is a good sport. [TBJ]
These iPhone commercials are the worst.
Bike crash followed by human crash.
- Bradley Beal Seems to Have Lost a Little Respect for Derrick Rose Because He Didn’t Try and Play
- Justin Verlander Not Sharp Again, But Detroit Fans Don’t Need to Panic
- A Russell Wilson Song Set to an Old Dolly Parton Hit? Yes, It’s “Russie” [Video]
- J.J. Watt Visits Kid With Leukemia Who Uses a Robot Named “Watt” to Go To School
- Dez Bryant is Prepared For Your Insults On Twitter, Will Probably Make Fun of You
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February 28th, 2012 at 8:03 AM
They took a 2nd kid off life support last night, so now it’s two dead with 2 in bad shape in that Chardon, OH high school thing.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:09 AM
They took a 2nd kid off life support last night, so now it’s two dead with 2 in bad shape in that Chardon, OH high school thing.
hear about the asst. football coach who chased the shooter out the building?
February 28th, 2012 at 8:11 AM
Incredibly brave guy. When i read about that all I could think was how did he not get shot??
February 28th, 2012 at 8:14 AM
Incredibly brave guy. When i read about that all I could think was how did he not get shot??
me too. dude has huge balls. i’m not happy to admit this, but i would have been hiding in a broom closet or something. and this dude was unarmed chasing a gunman out of the building.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:14 AM
sad update.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:18 AM
i was mugged about 10 years ago. one guy came up from behind and the guy in front of me had a knife. people would ask me why I didn’t run. it sounds like it is something I could have done and been successful with, but when you are in the moment, you have no idea what you will do.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:20 AM
Gods be good.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:23 AM
Well Kent, as of now the death count is zero, but it is ready to shoot right up!
DAMN YOU SNOW!
February 28th, 2012 at 8:23 AM
I would think this what most people to do. Instinct is to run away from the bullets, not towards them. It’s what makes what that guy did even more incredible.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:27 AM
Usually its a Rolex or something nice, but a college education? That is pretty awesome on AJ’s part.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:31 AM
is this groundbreaking? if you have a clean dog who isn’t as asshole I kind of thought they could go wherever as long as it was outside. one of my dogs rolls with me all over the place.
/poops in Lowe’s isle
February 28th, 2012 at 8:33 AM
Can’t wait.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:36 AM
Not me. I stay…writhing on the ground bleeding profusely.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:39 AM
“Shakespeare in Love”, definitely. Didnt realize “Dances with Wolves” won over “Goodfellas”.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:39 AM
/poops in Lowe’s islepees in Home Depot landscape departmentI actually witnessed this.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:40 AM
“The Oscars Not Unlike Teenage Sex”
I don’t remember teenage sex being old and cringeworthy, Then again, I wasn’t an altar boy.
/hey-ohhhh
But seriously the Oscars were terrible.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:42 AM
That’s why Roger Podactor is dead, he found Captain Winky!
February 28th, 2012 at 8:44 AM
Forest Gump over Pulp Fiction and Shawshank is also some major bullshit.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:44 AM
Good start to the Tuesday morning. Thank you.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:44 AM
I think people are guilty of some nostalgic editing regarding the Oscars. They’re ALWAYS terrible. Except for that one year when Adrien Brody tried to grab a boob.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:45 AM
Nick Mangold’s sister might be an Olympic weightlifter.
she should consider growing a giant beard
February 28th, 2012 at 8:46 AM
I was talking about this somewhere else yesterday. In short, I disagree. Shawshank and maybe even Pulp are better movies, but Gump more than deserved the Oscar. Those other films weren’t exponentially better than Gump, therefore it’s hard to say Gump winning is bullshit.
Crash was bullshit. Shakespeare was bullshit. King’s Speech was bullshit. But Gump? That will go down as one of the all-time classic films. Easily deserving BP winner.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:47 AM
Eh, I think Shawshank gained more steam a few years after it came out. 94 was just too fucking loaded with great films so you can’t go wrong anywhere.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:47 AM
Looks like Mike Sweetney should have been at the combine last week working out with the offensive lineman.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:48 AM
Donald Driver is the football entrant in the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars. Other contestants of note: Maria Menounos and Jaleel White (AKA Steve Urkel).
February 28th, 2012 at 8:48 AM
Forrest Gump really isn’t that bad. The David Fincher remake with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, however, left me cold.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:48 AM
BSanders, my girlfriend (a surgeon who has dealt with many bullet wounds) was amused by the story of your concerns as your pants were being cut off. Turns out vanity, in the face of death, is not uncommon. I relayed it to her when she presented me with my prized trauma shears (great for breaking down poultry!).
February 28th, 2012 at 8:48 AM
coffee without sugar in it is just plain gross.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:48 AM
These iPhone commercials are the worst.
If only Siri was that responsive. More often than not it’s “I’m busy right now. Try later” or “Let me look online.”
most overrated Best Picture winners
Crash.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:49 AM
I like all those movies. And will watch them whenever on TV. Can’t say that for the shitty french elitist movies that were up for best picture this year.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:50 AM
Black people just RUN.
/Cedric the Entertainer
February 28th, 2012 at 8:50 AM
It’s not the worst upset of all time (Shakespere in Love over Saving Private Ryan wins that one), because Forrest Gump was really really good. However, Pulp Fiction was huge back then. Everyone was talking about it.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:50 AM
You’re not wrong. I feel like in the 1990s though, the films in contention were better, more broadly accessible movies. And there was far less campaigning and pre-determined outcomes.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:51 AM
Jaleel White (AKA Steve Urkel).
aka Stephon Ur-kel
February 28th, 2012 at 8:51 AM
Sexual assault trial opens for former Broncos CB Perrish Cox
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February 28th, 2012 at 8:52 AM
slumdog millionaire
/milk and frost/nixon were better
February 28th, 2012 at 8:52 AM
Forest Gump over Pulp Fiction and Shawshank is also some major bullshit.
this conversation comes up so often here. You sort of had to be there on that one. For all the knocking of Forrest Gump, the achievement in filmmaking was quite a bit about how it integrated special effects into the movie without those special effects being explosions, and made the things they wanted (like Lieutenant Dan’s lack of legs) seem real, instead of just being a dinosaur.
It also absolutely dominated the spring box office, and then came back after being out for 10 weeks to return to #1 at the box office for like 4 more weeks.
Shawshank Redemption was the 13th Stephen King Story to be made into a movie in about 10 years. There was serious, serious Stephen King fatigue.
And as for Pulp Fiction, showing the movie out of sequence turned out to be a crutch that guy relied on.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:52 AM
Actually dying never really even crossed my mind. It probably should’ve. But I was 21 and thought I was invincible. When it was taking me 10 minutes to sit up and slide to the edge of the hospital bed to pee in a bottle shortly thereafter, that little fantasy was quickly shattered.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
Shit, Four Weddings and a Funeral getting a Best Picture nominee over Ed Wood is the real upset.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
The pic of her squatting was an above-the-fold, nearly half pager on yesterday’s Dispatch print edition front page.
/jarring
February 28th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
Terrifying. And pretty much the state of the female form in Ohio.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
You can thank the Weinstein’s for that one. The LA Times also had a pretty solid article about the membership of the academy. Overwhelmingly white old (60+ yr old) guys. Only about 12% are females. You will never see culturally relevant movies win.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
How is someone who works out that much that fat?
February 28th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
coffee without sugar in it is just plain gross.
coffee with sugar in it tastes like candy. Coffee without milk is hard to drink. It’s just about whatever you grew up with. I tried to train myself to drink it black, but it didn’t take.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:54 AM
Because it was the first true indie film to make an impact in decades. That movie put Miramax on the map. But it was too far ahead of its time. A Best Picture nomination is the best it could do. No way was the Academy giving that type of movie a BP award over Gump.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:54 AM
I’d rather listen to Mike and Mike for 20 minutes than watch any of those films.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:54 AM
Forest Gump over Pulp Fiction and Shawshank is also some major bullshit.
I like all three and won’t necessarily disagree with you.
I will say that for once, that year, they actually gave the best picture to the film with the broadest appeal.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:55 AM
This is a tough call. I enjoyed Goodfellas immensely, have it DVR’d and watch it from time to time. I’ve also seen DWW, and have to say I can see why the academy with this as Best Picture. I thought the story was great, incredible scenes, etc. Looking back now is hindsight, but everyone will agree both are great movies. I give two shits who got the Oscar between these two movies, but have to say Goodfellas is more enjoyable & a classic.
But I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown, I amuse you?
/Devito’d
February 28th, 2012 at 8:56 AM
I feel like in the 1990s though, the films in contention were better, more broadly accessible movies. And there was far less campaigning and pre-determined outcomes.
“The English Patient” beats “Fargo” (1996)
“Shakespeare in Love” beats “Saving Private Ryan” (1997)
The 90s were the heyday of Weinstein’s Miramax campaign machine. It’s how he got his movies to the award show.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:56 AM
Yeah, they started that train with Shakespeare and still haven’t gotten off.
I was trying to think of the last true “great” movie to win BP. Unless you consider Return of the King representative of the series, I think you have to go back to the 1990s to check that box. No Country is probably the one most people will list but I don’t think that’s a classic.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:57 AM
+1 “Did I do that?”
February 28th, 2012 at 8:57 AM
I really can’t stand Forrest Gump. I tried to like, and admit I even found the initial parts of the movie interesting. But, there was a distinct moment (when he runs across the country and “invents” the smiley face shirt) when I said enough was enough.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:57 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A
February 28th, 2012 at 8:57 AM
/Devito’d
Huh? Is this some sort of It’s Always Sunny thing, am I totally missing this?
February 28th, 2012 at 8:57 AM
No Country is probably the one most people will list but I don’t think that’s a classic.
it was on the other night and I watched for five minutes and changed the channel.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:58 AM
I see no Best Picture Oscar for The Lion King.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:58 AM
I will agree with others here…Crash over Brokeback, Capote and Munich is definitely a bunch of crap. I barely made it through Crash.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:59 AM
Silence of the Lambs, Unforgiven, Schindler’s List, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Titanic, American Beauty. Even with English Patient and Shakespeare, that’s a pretty damn stacked run. If SPR wins as it should have the 1990s rival the 1970s as the best decade ever.
Also, Fargo was never, ever going to win BP. Not in the 1990s.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:59 AM
So what is this story about an assistant football coach going into hero mode during this school shooting?
February 28th, 2012 at 8:59 AM
I dunno, he just won a Best Picture Oscar for a silent movie with a bunch of French people. Granted, the competition was almost nil, but I think The Punisher is still chugging along.
February 28th, 2012 at 8:59 AM
I think he meant to say ‘Pesci’d'?
February 28th, 2012 at 9:00 AM
So what is this story about an assistant football coach going into hero mode during this school shooting?
Coach Frank Hall.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:00 AM
Having read the short story, the movie isn’t all that great to me. To this day I still don’t understand what all the fuss is about.
/Team books are always better
February 28th, 2012 at 9:01 AM
Tommy Devito. Does anyone know the characters names from Goodfellas. you’re killin’ me
February 28th, 2012 at 9:01 AM
I love Six Feet Under, but that is some serious suburban ennui claptrap, right there.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:01 AM
Gump winning doesnt bother me that much. Also Rocky over Star Wars
February 28th, 2012 at 9:02 AM
Tommy Devito. Does anyone know the characters names from Goodfellas. you’re killin’ me
Wow, totally went over my head. That really blew up in my face — in a related note, GQ had a really cool oral history of Goodfellas. I would guess it came out last summer, worth a read.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:02 AM
So the Godfather book was better than the movie? Same with Fight Club, Trainspotting and others where the movie was far superior to the book?
February 28th, 2012 at 9:03 AM
Turns out vanity, in the face of
deathchildbirth, is notuncommoncommon.I feel bad for women during childbirth. Everyone who passes by takes a look at your snatch, just because.
Funny story – 3rd child in process. At one point, there were literally 5 people staring at my wife’s crotch, her knees up in the air.
She looked at them all and said something like “Is there anyone in the waiting room that would like to take a look too!”
Like 5 minutes later, I said something like “That was funny. I guess you shudda trimmed things up a bit more – looks like you’re a bit behind schedule there.”
I swear I saw the devil himself. She never tells that story and does not allow me to tell it when she’s around.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:03 AM
Wait, what?
February 28th, 2012 at 9:04 AM
I know I’m the only one, but why do people always say books are better than a movie? I think reading pages and watching the big screen are two totally different forms of entertainment.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:05 AM
frost/nixon
That was actually a very good movie. Frank Langella was fantastic as Nixon.
Coffee with anything in it is gross, especially all the fancy flavors.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:05 AM
Se7en was on Spike last night. That movie is one of my favorites. Pitt and Freeman work very well together — and even though they fit archtypes of certian movie characters, they are much deeper than that. Also, one of my favorite endings in cinema history. I love dark endings.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:06 AM
a fucking travesty.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:06 AM
Brokeback Mountain is one of the most boring movies of the last 10 years. If that story was about a man and a woman no one would have cared.
I just started drinking coffee last year and it’s all black all the time.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:07 AM
Maybe not in every instance, but it’s been my experience when I read a book first, the movie never measures up. I spend the whole time comparing it to the book, casting, what they added/deleted, etc and you already know everything that will happen. hard to experience the movie the same as someone else who hasn’t read the book.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:07 AM
those things will cut a penny in half.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:08 AM
Star Wars sucked as a movie. It was a great spectacle. Empire Strikes Back was okay.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:08 AM
Reminded me of this
/coffee is disgusting – can’t drink it at all
February 28th, 2012 at 9:08 AM
When you say
people think of Danny.
I just remember Pesci as Tommy in Goodfellas. Not the character’s last name.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:09 AM
Like 5 minutes later, I said something like “That was funny. I guess you shudda trimmed things up a bit more – looks like you’re a bit behind schedule there.”
You’re lucky to be alive. I was in the delivery room for both my kids, and saw the doctor take a pair of scissors, and make a, ummmm, crosswise cut to get the kid out. I don’t know which was worse; that or the anesthesiologist administer and epidural with one of those horse needles.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:10 AM
Same with Fight Club, Trainspotting and others where the movie was far superior to the book?
Fight Club movie was aweomse — one of my favorites ever, to the point where you dont want to watch it with me because I know all of the easter eggs and it becomes very annoying. But the book is better.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:11 AM
I hate the “Books are always better” saying. Does anyone really dispute this? Does anyone really care?
February 28th, 2012 at 9:11 AM
For me, when I’m reading a book, the “movie” is kinda playing along. You have already seen what the story should look like and how it plays out. Then going to see the movie it never does. Not always terrible, it just takes something away from seeing the movie fresh IMO.
/The movie Fresh was cool btw
February 28th, 2012 at 9:12 AM
That school really needs to consider a new logo.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:12 AM
most overrated Best Picture winner
TBL’s vigorous defense of Crash is one of the more humorous things he did from the early days of this website. I can’t think of a movie that was more insulting to one’s intelligence. Just wretched.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:12 AM
agreed. I also think people that read fiction are dumbasses. so there’s that.
/team read non-fiction and watch fiction
February 28th, 2012 at 9:12 AM
Flipped around, saw it was on, watched the last hour. Great movie.
Star Wars was an event back when it came out. One of the first major summer blockbusters. The special effects, characters, the music, everything. Empire was the better movie.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:12 AM
Miz, is your wife squeamish when it comes to movies? Mine does heart transplants but when Jim Carrey rips the dude’s heart out in Dumb ‘n Dumber, she gets grossed out. It’s like that with any non-surgical context guts. Amuses me to no end.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:13 AM
hear about the asst. football coach who chased the shooter out the building?
roids
February 28th, 2012 at 9:14 AM
That’s the point though, right?
February 28th, 2012 at 9:14 AM
Apparently you’ve never read the Bang Bus series? Waaaay better than the movies.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:14 AM
Completely disagree. For the 70′s, that was a killer freaking movie. May depend on how old you were and when you first saw it as well. Seeing it as a 12 year old in the theater was unbelievable.
And in what universe did Rocky win over Star Wars?
February 28th, 2012 at 9:15 AM
Crash is a great heist film.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:15 AM
I was doing some work from home last night and flipped it on. that movie has way to much going on during it to try and get other shit done so I had to turn it off.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:16 AM
great heist movie though.
/never actually seen it
February 28th, 2012 at 9:16 AM
“I don’t even have cable” is the new “the book was better than the movie.”
February 28th, 2012 at 9:16 AM
Shocker.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:17 AM
Forest Gump over Pulp Fiction and Shawshank is also some major bullshit.
IIRC, Shawshank was a complete bust at the box office. As was recently reported, Oscar voters are old and white. Thus, no chance for Pulp. Also, Forest Gump catered to the fucking annoying boomer crowd. Not really a surprise. Gump hasn’t held up well, but it was sort of revolutionary at the time in the way the story was told and some of the not so over the top special effects.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:18 AM
Bigger fan of the short story that Mike’s Apartment was adapted from.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:18 AM
Must be why it’s on every single weekend.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:19 AM
Se7en
Definitely all time top 20 movie. Spacey makes that movie, even though he’s really only in it for less than half.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:19 AM
how duffy of you this morning mr. banders
February 28th, 2012 at 9:19 AM
my mistake.
Star Wars was up for Best Picture a year after Rocky in 78, lost to Annie Hall.
/even worse
February 28th, 2012 at 9:19 AM
That’s the point though, right?
I suppose you’re right — imagine if in MI:4 Tom Cruise killed the baddie then made out with Jeremy Renner.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:19 AM
The Bourne books, aside from Jason Bourne’s character are TOTALLY different than the movies.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:19 AM
Agreed, love that movie. Funny enough, I just read an article yesterday about planned sequels to good movies that would have ruined it’s origional movie and se7en was on the list. Apparently there was an idea to develop a sequel called ei8ht with Morgan Freeman’s character as some kind of psychic/supernatural detective.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:19 AM
This is correct. Reading is for learning and deep thought, wizards and vampires are for movies.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:21 AM
Agreed, love that movie. Funny enough, I just read an article yesterday about planned sequels to good movies that would have ruined it’s origional movie and se7en was on the list. Apparently there was an idea to develop a sequel called ei8ht with Morgan Freeman’s character as some kind of psychic/supernatural detective.
I sincerely hope this is not true. Would he have to go to the sites of the 8 wonders of the world and solve the supernatural murders that occured there?
February 28th, 2012 at 9:21 AM
Damn Rex, how many monicles do you own?
February 28th, 2012 at 9:22 AM
Forrest Gump has just not aged well. At the time it won Best Picture, I don’t think (could be remembering incorrectly) there was a lot of dissent. Pulp could have won, but no one was surprised or raised a fuss, mainly because of Tom Hanks,
I kind of equate Forrest Gump winning BP to the NY Giants winning this year’s Super Bowl. At the time, the Giants winning makes sense – they likely could of even been favored to win the Super Bowl. But ten years from now, when people look back at the 2011-12 NY Giants Super Bowl Champs they’ll just say “WTF?”
February 28th, 2012 at 9:23 AM
This could be interesting / hilarious: a summer blockbuster where the hero is gay.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:23 AM
That’s up there with the 6th sense as far as movies I don’t think I’m ever going to see, in part because I know the twist. I’m still amazed I waited until I was 18 to watch The Usual Suspects and somehow that ending hadn’t been spoiled for me.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:23 AM
she is about blood. agreed that it’s kinda funny…I mean, she’s spent months in an anatomy lab surrounded by real dead people and then spent so much time during ER rotations working with bloody trauma victims and blood spatter in a Law & Order episode gets a reaction from her. also, something that doesn’t seem to bother her much is smell. she tells me stories of having these giant fatties that have shit growing in their folds and how bad it smells…like smell it out on the hall before you even get into the room. also, stories of draining junk out of boils and growths that reeks. those stories always turn my stomach but it doesn’t seem to bother her like fake blood in movies does.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:23 AM
I think that’s asinine but that is why we are all unique snowflakes.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:24 AM
Nice little spat between Ballz & TexansFans last night in the Nascar thread. In case anyone didn’t see it.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:25 AM
And cowboys bonin’, right Coop?
February 28th, 2012 at 9:25 AM
goodfellas is easily one of the most overrated oscar losers.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Only time I can drink coffee with no milk is when you throw a little whiskey in it.
/tailgating tradition
February 28th, 2012 at 9:26 AM
Rock solid soundtrack, though
February 28th, 2012 at 9:26 AM
It was a spectacle. You can’t put the acting or dialogue up against the other power movies from the 70s. It was something completely different and I bet seeing it in the theatre was a mindblowing experience and I’m not taking anything away from that, but the special effects and idea of life in space are what made it.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:26 AM
That’s up there with the 6th sense as far as movies I don’t think I’m ever going to see, in part because I know the twist. I’m still amazed I waited until I was 18 to watch The Usual Suspects and somehow that ending hadn’t been spoiled for me.
I would say not to bother with the Sixth Sense because the twist makes the entrity of the movie. Se7en could have a completely different ending (Spoiler Alert: Where Pitt does not kill Spacey) and still be an awesome film. Fincher crushed it on Se7en — everything about it is awesome. You should still give it a go even though you know the ending.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
??
it was kinda a joke. but seriously though, I like to learn when I read. just a personal preference thing.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
Forrest Gump was a great movie, but I find myself hating the female lead character with repeated watching.
And yeah, Pulp Fiction should have won, no doubt.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
I read the first book when I was 12 or 13, and half way in I just lost all interest. Not sure if I want to revisit it or not now that a decade has passed
February 28th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
I don’t have time to read anyways unless it’s porn.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:28 AM
But ten years from now, when people look back at the 2011-12 NY Giants Super Bowl Champs they’ll just say “WTF?”
no, they won’t.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:29 AM
we are all unique snowflakes.
speak for yourself, softy. i’m hail.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:29 AM
Star Wars is not a good movie. Would have been far and away the worst Best Picture winner. Close Encounters should have won that year and wasn’t even nominated.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:29 AM
Nice little spat between Ballz & TexansFans last night in the Nascar thread. In case anyone didn’t see it.
just because I got tired of your faggot ass talking shit about Manning after the Saints Superbowl you think I’m a blackout drunk. So be it. You’ve admitted to being a junkie. Whats your point?
February 28th, 2012 at 9:30 AM
If you don’t have one for each day of the week, you’re simply a poseur.
After doing bowel resections, mine set a policy of nothing below the diaphragm.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:30 AM
bsanders: im curious how/why you were shot, I wasnt around when the story was told…if you dont mind
February 28th, 2012 at 9:30 AM
Forrest Gump was a great movie, but I find myself hating the female lead character with repeated watching.
you are supposed to hate her. and pity her, and want your turn for a nickel. And then pity her more when she finally gives in for stability with a rich retard. And then wish you had your nickel back when she gets the plague.
But she’s not a likable character.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:30 AM
just because I got tired of your faggot ass talking shit about Manning after the Saints Superbowl you think I’m a blackout drunk. So be it. You’ve admitted to being a junkie. Whats your point?
Yeah man, it got real in there — low blows all around
February 28th, 2012 at 9:32 AM
So she’s every woman ever.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:32 AM
Star Wars is not a good movie.
neither is Rocky
February 28th, 2012 at 9:32 AM
Star Wars is not a good movie
Maybe now its wouldnt be but for its time wasnt it far ahead of everything else?
February 28th, 2012 at 9:32 AM
it was kinda a joke. but seriously though, I like to learn when I read. just a personal preference thing.
UT message boards: offseason = fiction, in season = non-fiction
February 28th, 2012 at 9:32 AM
“The video game was better than the movie. Whats a book?”
February 28th, 2012 at 9:32 AM
Does Ballz just get on to instigate fights with people? Last few posts I read with him commenting sure as shit sounded like it.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:33 AM
well, outside the NY Metro/NJ area anyway.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:33 AM
February 28th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
But ten years from now, when people look back at the 2011-12 NY Giants Super Bowl Champs they’ll just say “WTF?”
Huh??
February 28th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
In case he’s not around, this is my favorite retelling.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:35 AM
neither is Rocky
Apparently it was deemed good enough for a city to erect a statue of him.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:35 AM
Does Ballz just get on to instigate fights with people? Last few posts I read with him commenting sure as shit sounded like it.
if the TBL comment section were the book Watership Down, he would be Blackavar. And I would be Vervain.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:35 AM
Good lord there are some negative nellie’s in here. Star Wars and Rocky were both great. No one came out of either of those in the theater back then and went “Meh”. I understand it’s hip and edgy to hate things that become popular, but it’s not always accurate.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:36 AM
/kicks rock
February 28th, 2012 at 9:36 AM
It was good enough for a city to erect a statue of a fictional white man based on a real black man FROM THE SAME CITY who they didn’t even give credit to in the movie. Because black people aren’t good enough for that city, because they’re racists cunts.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Where did I say I hated it?
I love Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back. The latter is a very good movie. The first drags like a mother fucker and has some really bad acting. Return of the Jedi, however, is unwatchably bad.
Star Wars winning best picture would be the exact same as had Avatar won.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Apparently it was deemed good enough for a city to erect a statue of him.
Forgot to use my sarcasm font when I wrote that.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
You guys really don’t think reading fiction can provide education and deep thought? Wow. Not all fiction is shit, you know.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:39 AM
That Super Mario Bros movie was terrible. Even the legend Bob Hoskins couldn’t save it.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:39 AM
n case he’s not around, this is my favorite retelling.
“Boy, I bet my penis looks really tiny right now.”
Not sure how I missed that I remember reading that post
bsanders=Legend
February 28th, 2012 at 9:39 AM
where are you getting this from? Stallone wrote Rocky and says he loosely based it on Chuck Wepner, who is a whitey. And not from Philly.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:40 AM
first time on this site a city outside of boston was called racist. mark it down.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:41 AM
It was good enough for a city to erect a statue of a fictional white man based on a real black man FROM THE SAME CITY who they didn’t even give credit to in the movie. Because black people aren’t good enough for that city, because they’re racists cunts.
WHHHAAAAAA??? Wrong. So wrong. Its based on a WHITE man from Jersey. Not sure where you got that info
February 28th, 2012 at 9:41 AM
Oh sorry I meant the statue at the “Rocky Steps.” That scene is based on Frazier’s training.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:41 AM
+1 lime green polo
February 28th, 2012 at 9:41 AM
Serious question — do any other cities have statues of fictional characters?
February 28th, 2012 at 9:42 AM
Speaking of books/movies…
The Hunger Games trailer just looks like a mix between Running Man and Surviving the Game. Is this about right?
February 28th, 2012 at 9:43 AM
Battle Royale
February 28th, 2012 at 9:43 AM
My 5 year old is on a huge Star Wars kick right now. He even likes the prequel movies and even he thinks Return of the Jedi isn’t very good.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Out of the 10 movies that have won Best Picture that I’ve seen, half of them (A Beautiful Mind, Crash, Chicago, Forest Gump, and Ordinary People.) weren’t that great.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Serious question — do any other cities have statues of fictional characters?
Pawnee does. Springfield does.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Same thought here. Even reading Hunger Games reminds me so much of Running Man and Long Walk. Still mildly entertaining though.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Disagree. Star Wars is a great movie.
Go watch Out of Africa. (which won BP over The Color Purple. travesty)
February 28th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
I have friends that keep telling me I have to read this shit. One guy said he read it in less than a day. I have serious doubts that these books are anything beyond teener bopper twilight shit. Anyone have an opinion on them?
February 28th, 2012 at 9:45 AM
Robocop coming to the city in my Avatar.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:45 AM
I know Rio does.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:45 AM
The beginning of the Archer episode two weeks go where Sterling and Lana are anouncing their sarcasm back and forth reminded me of sarcasm font.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:45 AM
it’s nowhere near as bad as episode 1. best to worst:
V
IV
III
VI
II
I
February 28th, 2012 at 9:46 AM
fuck you, Ill!
/cause it’s true
February 28th, 2012 at 9:46 AM
That’s George Lucas’ greatest achievement. Your kid is 5 and he’s on a Star Wars kick. The first movie was released 35 years ago. I bet Lucas wipes his ass with thousand dollar bills
February 28th, 2012 at 9:46 AM
+1000
February 28th, 2012 at 9:46 AM
Rocky is based on the “Bayonne Bleeder” Chuck Wepner, who was a white dude.
And the statue was a movie prop from Rocky III. Please stop with the “city built that statue” nonsense. The people that run the Art Museum fought tooth and nail to keep that statue away from the steps and they were actually successful at first, because it was at the Spectrum for years.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:46 AM
I know Rio does.
oh, he was a real person. Just a real person who was mentally ill. He had some sort of Christ complex.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:47 AM
They made a movie out of that Toto song?
February 28th, 2012 at 9:47 AM
Serious question — do any other cities have statues of fictional characters?
I know Rio does.
Shut it down, we have a winner!
February 28th, 2012 at 9:47 AM
Raleigh, NC. Andy Griffith and Opie.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:47 AM
I thought this very thing as I was paying to watch “Phantom Menace” in 3D. I didn’t care for that film when I paid for it the first time and yet, here I was paying for it again.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:47 AM
it’s nowhere near as bad as episode 1. best to worst:
whatever the last one was (3, I guess) is the worst by leaps and bounds. I was disgusted that whole horrible movie.
I didn’t mind the one with C3PO’s ridiculous origin story that much. It took the pressure off waiting for the next two.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:48 AM
Sean Connery from “The Rock” (Mason) should have a statue on Alcatraz
February 28th, 2012 at 9:49 AM
Agree with all that. Jedi wouldn’t be unwatchable if it weren’t for the ending, it’d just be bad.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:49 AM
I could get behind this. The first two prequels are unwatchable.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:49 AM
Which is fucking retarded. They should be in Mount Airy. Raleigh has dick to do with that show.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:50 AM
The Bourne books, aside from Jason Bourne’s character are TOTALLY different than the movies.
Yeah – a bit too much detail for my taste. I like detail, but the minutia they plod through in the first one turned me off. Love the movies.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:50 AM
granted, i haven’t seen episode 3 in a few years so it will probably age about as well as phantom menace did for me, which was absolutely terrible.
what saved episode 3 were the special effects and the battles, w/o that it would be extremely bad. at that point when episode 3 came out, i didn’t really care about the story anymore.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:50 AM
Off the top os my head Pittsburgh has: Andy Rooney, Clemente, Stargell, Honus Wagner, Fred Rogers, I believe a Mario one is in the works
February 28th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
it probably does for some people, but what it doesn’t really provide for me is entertainment. like I said previously, it’s a personal preference thing. I don’t enjoy reading fiction. I enjoy reading non-fiction and learning about real stuff. it’s not a knock on anyone that reads fiction.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
Has anyone seen the original Bourne Identity movie from the eighties? Years ago it came on one of the thriller channels on cable and I watched a bit of it. A lot darker.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
You speak the truth
February 28th, 2012 at 9:52 AM
I don’t really follow this sentence…but I will assume the quadruple negative means you don’t like it.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:52 AM
after the first book, they all go down hill. i thought the movie makers did a really good job of picking a good story thread from the first book while eliminating the extraneous stuff, and then created some mostly original plots for the 2nd and third movie.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:52 AM
Go watch Out of Africa. (which won BP over The Color Purple. travesty)
Both of those movies are awful to sit through. In fact, I’ve never made to the end of either.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:53 AM
I’m sorry but Revenge of the Sith has three fatal flaws that cannot put it above even the tire fire of Jedi.
3) “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
2) Portman dying of a broken fucking heart.
1, with a bullet) Not showing the massacre of the children Jedi.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:54 AM
They are definitely geared for young adults, but from what I’ve heard they are very easy to read, pretty entertaining books. They shot the movies right outside Charlotte and my Dad was actually an extra in the film. Don’t know how much screentime he will get until the movie is released. It definitely takes from other books like Running Man, Long Walk, Battle Royal but it’s its own story.
In kind of the same note, I can’t wait for the Ender’s Game movie to come out. That is probably my favorite Sci-Fi book ever.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:54 AM
Memphis does…some dude on a horse in Forrest Park.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:55 AM
Gotcha. The idea was seemingly being presented that you can’t learn from fiction, which is retarded. Big non-fiction fan myself, but I love plenty of fiction novels, and not only for entertainment reasons.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:55 AM
I love The Spirit of Detroit and Joe Louis’ fist statues
February 28th, 2012 at 9:55 AM
That always cracked me up for some reason
February 28th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
OT
I just watched a couple of episodes on Ben Franklin and Abe Lincoln on H2 last. It was basically about 10 facts most people don’t know about historical figures. For example, Franklin frequented sex shops for prostitutes dressed like nuns, or that Lincoln slept with men.
I think next week is on J. Edgar Hoover having the largest porn collection.
/OT
February 28th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
Milwaukee has the Fonz.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
Does Ballz just get on to instigate fights with people? Last few posts I read with him commenting sure as shit sounded like it.
Yeah – like last night, I never take the bait.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
For the Jedi Temple scene, I wanted something more like the “House of Blue Leaves” scene from Kill Bill vol. 1.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:57 AM
Running Man
Sub Zero! Now, Plain Zero!
February 28th, 2012 at 9:58 AM
Good to see that the History Channel is still the most ridiculous missrepresentation of the word “history” in all of … history.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:59 AM
what the fuck? Raleigh? I had no idea.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:59 AM
Milwaukee has a statue of the Fonz on the Riverwalk. Christ that city loves to live in the past.
February 28th, 2012 at 9:59 AM
Episode I when young Vader/Anikan jumps in the space fighter (whatever it was called), “accidentally” turns it on and flies away…then puts on a helmet that was sitting in the cockpit,that just happens to fit him perfectly .
Episode I is a disaster on many levels.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:00 AM
Nice. talk about something that doesn’t hold up well. Happy Days was must watch tv in my house growing up. The earliest episodes are still ok (before fonzie became the entire show), but mostly it is unbelievably lame.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:00 AM
I love The Spirit of Detroit and Joe Louis’ fist statues
Yeah – it fits. Everyone I ever meet when I’m up there is pissed about something and ready to fight.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:01 AM
There’s a statue of Ralph Kramden outside the Port Authority in Manhattan.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:01 AM
The Seth Rogen monologue is awesome.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:01 AM
You shut your mouth when talking about Ben Franklin
February 28th, 2012 at 10:02 AM
I think explaining the popularity of this show to kids today would be an impossible task.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:03 AM
Milwaukee has the Fonz.
Nice. talk about something that doesn’t hold up well. Happy Days was must watch tv in my house growing up. The earliest episodes are still ok (before fonzie became the entire show), but mostly it is unbelievably lame.
The worst part about it is they just built (sculpted?) the statue about 3 years ago. After the show had been off the air for 25 years.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:03 AM
I would prefer a statue of Henry Winkler’s principal character from Scream.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:03 AM
Interesting.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:03 AM
Anyone who says you can’t learn “stuff” from fictional books isn’t doing it right. You learn about yourself in many instances.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:03 AM
Still my favorite statue.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:04 AM
You mean Coach Kline.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:05 AM
Jaleel White has to be the favorite in Dancing With the Stars.
He used to come to open gym when I was in college. That cat can ball man.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:06 AM
It’s Black Boston.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:07 AM
Minneapolis has one of Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards along Nicollet Mall.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:09 AM
I remember seeing Winkler in another role after HD and I couldn’t get past it. “Fonzie is not a short nerdy guy”. Kinda like when kids discover their teachers are actual people.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:10 AM
We all know that, remember when he teamed up with Grandmama?
February 28th, 2012 at 10:11 AM
I loved in Scream that when he’s in the bathroom about to get killed he gives the double thumbs up to himself in the mirror.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:12 AM
Well, Barney did move to Raleigh to work as a detetcive when Don Knotts wanted off the show.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:13 AM
I loved the first two. Fucking loved them. The third one was awful, though. I loved the movies, but I almost wish they would have stuck a bit closer to the books as the concept of Spy vs Spy was so cool to me juxtaposed with the CIA back-stabbing and double-crossing.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:13 AM
Henry Winkler will always be Barry Zuckerkorn to me.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:14 AM
TV Land is responsible for a bunch of the television character statues.
They did a series of “TV Icon” statues. Andy Griffith, Mary Tyler Moore, The Fonz, Ralph Cramden, and Bob Newhart
February 28th, 2012 at 10:14 AM
I will also agree with the V-IV-III-VI-II-I ranking for the Star Wars saga. Joe Posanski put up a pretty cool link on twitter yesterday about the machete order for watching the saga… IV-V-II-III-VI. It’s intriguting and I’m gonna try to watch the movies that way.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:15 AM
It’s pretty damn dumb to say you don’t learn things from fiction, but whatever. You can’t tell me with a straight face that reading To Kill A Mockingbird (my favorite book) or Dante’s Inferno didn’t teach you something.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:15 AM
I just watched a couple of episodes on Ben Franklin and Abe Lincoln on H2 last. It was basically about 10 facts most people don’t know about historical figures. For example, Franklin frequented sex shops for prostitutes dressed like nuns, or that Lincoln slept with men.
You shut your mouth when talking about Ben Franklin
I am willing to believe everything about Ben Franklin. That Abe Lincoln factoid though…not so sure.
And Episode I blows.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:16 AM
ALso, New Orleans put up a statue of Creighton Bernette, but then it jumped into the river and drowned.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:16 AM
I loved the first two. Fucking loved them. The third one was awful, though. I loved the movies, but I almost wish they would have stuck a bit closer to the books as the concept of Spy vs Spy was so cool to me juxtaposed with the CIA back-stabbing and double-crossing.
/High Five
February 28th, 2012 at 10:17 AM
what a fucking travesty. Andy Griffith in color just isn’t worth watching.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:17 AM
Lincoln did share a bed with a male roommate at one time. That was pretty common back then, from what I understand.
/ Not homo
February 28th, 2012 at 10:18 AM
The Goober/Warren/Ken Berry years. Awful.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:19 AM
Seemed like he wasn’t ashamed to let his freak flag fly on occasion, but we probably would still be subjects of the king without him. BF was legit.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:19 AM
I am willing to believe everything about Ben Franklin. That Abe Lincoln factoid though…not so sure.
Section on Joshua Speed. Didn’t look like any boning was involved.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:19 AM
New Orleans does have a statue of Ignatius J. Reilly on Canal Street, standing under the clock at D.H. Holmes just as he does in the opening of A Confederacy of Dunces. They moved it out for Mardi Gras, though.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:20 AM
He was a right randy fellow, he was.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:20 AM
I’m completely on board whenever someone says a historical figure was gay. Dunno why.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
He definitely hunted vampires though.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
Jesus was gay. It’s a fact.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
Damn you. I was actually able to forget I read that unbelievably bad piece of shit until you brought that up. Easily the dumbest thing I have ever read. Confederacy of Dunces should be the people who enjoyed that book.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:23 AM
I am willing to believe everything about Ben Franklin. That Abe Lincoln factoid though…not so sure.
If he killed vampires he could be gay
February 28th, 2012 at 10:23 AM
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Napoleon … all gay.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:24 AM
It’s one of my favorite books. Maybe you have to be from New Orleans to get it.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:25 AM
One of the few books I have given up on.
HAHAHAHAHAHA FART JOKES OH MY GOD MY VALVE
Most fiction these days sucks ass. I think the last “new” fiction book I read was Shutter Island and that was one of the worst decisions I ever made. The last book I read published in the last 20 years that I really enjoyed (non comedic fiction) was the Berlin Noir series.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:25 AM
You’re kidding. Really? What am I missing? I want that guy dead the entire time.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:26 AM
Before someone bashes me for saying new stuff sucks, I think it’s because of the publishers, not the authors.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:27 AM
Most fiction these days sucks ass. I think the last “new” fiction book I read was Shutter Island and that was one of the worst decisions I ever made.
Just finished World War Z. That wasn’t too bad. That might qualify as “dumb fiction” though.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:27 AM
Napoleon? Don’t remember hearing that. He supposedly had a tiny penis though.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:27 AM
It’s fiction, yes…but when somebody says fiction doesn’t teach you anything, I think they’re referring more to the likes of entertainment novels, like you see at the top 25 in Barnes and Noble.
To me classical fiction is kind of in a category all its own. Be kind of interesting to see a century from now if any literature created during this time period is worthy of being deemed a classic. Or at least something you’d teach in high school.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:31 AM
/glares at Mole…
February 28th, 2012 at 10:31 AM
I enjoyed that. As well as his Zombie Survival Guide. Though yeah I wouldn’t put that in the normal fiction category with things like Shutter Island or Davinci Code.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:31 AM
Leo is a patient.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:36 AM
All this talk of 1994 and no love for “Quiz Show”?!
February 28th, 2012 at 10:36 AM
Though I have this “House of Leaves” book that is supposed to be pretty interesting.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:45 AM
i actually enjoyed Drew Magary’s book. Nary a fart joke to be found. A little dramatic and over the top but the kind of thing to be optioned for a movie.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:49 AM
The Hunger Games books are pretty fucking sweet. The third kinda wraps everything up a little too quickly, though.
February 28th, 2012 at 10:57 AM
Whoever put that together was reading my fucking mind.
I’m in the CoD camp. If it has to be explained….
February 28th, 2012 at 11:11 AM
I’m completely on board whenever someone says a historical figure was gay. Dunno why.
I’ve learned that history gets rewritten about every 20-25 years. A new generation of “researchers and experts” publish editions that often completely rebuke sections of a previous edition.
I had a girl swear to me, on Columbus Day, that Columbus did not discover the “new world” for Europe. He had a black guy who was the navigator, so it wasn’t Columbus. Whatever. Like I care whether he was black, anglo, asian, whatever. She got pissed that I didn’t care. Do they really have the ships’ complete manifests and crew?
Whatever.
February 28th, 2012 at 11:31 AM
To be fair, the Vikings “discovered” it for Europe long before Columbus did.
February 28th, 2012 at 11:35 AM
THe eccentricities of the characters like Officer Mancuso, Mrs. Reilly and her friend Santa Battaglia, and Burma Jones are very characteristic of some common New Orleans traits. If you grew up in the area any time from the 1940s through the ’80s, you’ll recognize this.
February 28th, 2012 at 11:39 AM
I recommend the following to everyone: All the Stars Came Out That Night. It encapsulates pre-integration baseball, Hollywood, mobsters, pre-Castro Cuba … vastly entertaining.