The Omen (1976)

The film seemed to fall victim to a sinister curse. Star Gregory Peck and screenwriter David Seltzer took separate planes to the UK...yet BOTH planes were struck by lightning. While producer Harvey Bernhard was in Rome, lightning just missed him. Rottweilers hired for the film attacked their trainers. A hotel at which director Richard Donner was staying got bombed by the IRA; he was also struck by a car. After Peck canceled another flight, to Israel, the plane he would have chartered crashed...killing all on board. On day one of the shoot, several principal members of the crew survived a head-on car crash. The jinx appeared to persist well into post-production... when special effects artist John Richardson was injured and his girlfriend beheaded in an accident on the set of A Bridge Too Far (1977).

You can't control who views your account. When sending out invites or whatever, take a look to see when the person was last active...you may just be sending out messages to non-active accounts.

Might help to do more than just put a photo in your profile...

Watson was no idiot...Holmes was obviously his superior...the real question is:

Who was smarter...Moriarty or Holmes?

Just went shopping today and OMFG have meat prices gone through the roof since I last left the house...

$8-a-pound for the 70/30 ground beef...

Was able to get a bunch of pork that was getting ready to pass the sell-by expiration tomorrow at half price and that still was well above its value. Just spent an hour grinding up the meat and got 14 meals worth...still at over $2 a meal for meat that shouldn't have sold for more than $1 a pound...full of fat and bone laced thru...

Later Holmes was truly brought back to life in The Adventure of the Empty House. At the start of the story Watson is alone. His wife is dead and he believes Holmes to be dead as well. However Watson learns that Holmes’s death was a ruse to hide from Moriarty’s associates.

https://www.conandoyleinfo.com/sherlock-holmes/the-death-of-sherlock-holmes/

The Internet is one of mankind's greatest accomplishments in history and it's used mostly for porn and watching kitty videos. We have the Library of Alexandria at our fingertips and where almost any answer to any question can be answered like we have our own personal Oracle of Delphi in our pocket.

The internet in itself may not be at risk,but the telecom industry sure is. Most telecom satellites are not heavily shielded and are open to the possible destruction via X-Class solar flares. We haven't been hit for a couple of centuries now. The last time was before all of the current technology existed so nobody is completely sure about how it will fare down here on the planet, but we do know that most of the non-military satellites will be fried when it eventually happens and the military ones won't be able to handle the civilian workload.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2150350-a-tech-destroying-solar-flare-could-hit-earth-within-100-years/#

“Back then, there was not very much technology so the damage was not very significant, but if it happened in the modern world, the damage could be trillions of dollars,” says Loeb. “A flare like that today could shut down all the power grids, all the computers, all the cooling systems on nuclear reactors. A lot of things could go bad.”

Loeb says an event as powerful as the 1859 one could cause about $10 trillion of damage to power grids, satellites and communications. A flare just a bit stronger could even damage the ozone layer.

Previous work has shown that such an event seems likely to occur in the next century, with a 12 per cent chance of it happening in the next decade, but nobody seems to be all that worried, Loeb says.

The Covid-19 story is dead in America.

Oh, the media are still parroting numbers, but all the passion for the topic has gone out of their eyes. It won't last much longer before it's a forgotten topic. Unless all this protester commingling brings out a new wave of black death for the country.

It's all protests all the time now. That's the new crisis that has them looking like Mr. Dithers from The Simpsons.



The Media knows they need to rabble-rouse the black community to come out and support Joe Biden and this is their key to get them to the polls. He really hasn't been doing a good job of exciting them to action, that's why all the talk about putting a black woman on the ticket as VP. Now they need to hide his latest blunder. On May 22nd, Joe Biden told a black radio host that “if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black,” remarks his campaign characterized as joking but that some black Democrats said were dismissive of their concerns. https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-to-black-radio-host-if-youre-deciding-between-me-or-trump-then-you-aint-black-11590166629

We had 3 dry days in a row. Only 14+ inches up above average for the yearly rainfall total. Was able to go out and actually attack part of the jungle and get the dog's yard and the back yard before the pain got too intense. Severe weather is predicted for today and tomorrow. High should hit in the mid-80s before the storms hit this afternoon.

The Ann Jillian Story (1988)



Ann Jillian finds out she has cancer and the movie shows how she deals with that (the hospital treatments and impact on her life).

7 out of 10

Tim (1979)



A Heartrending Story of Courage and Devotion

Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she had found Tim. At first they are friends. But soon they become lovers, as Mary, drawn to Tim's innocence and magnetism, begins to teach him all about life - and love.

5 out of 10

Waco (1966)



They let him out of jail - to kill for them!

Preacher Sam Stone and his new beautiful wife Jill stand by the grave of Sheriff Billy Kelly, who died trying to bring law-and-order to Emporia, Wyoming. Among the mourners are businessman George Gates, mayor Ned West and his daughter Patricia. The mayor rejects Gates' suggestion that he release gunfighter Waco from jail to clean up the town. When Patricia is attacked by a cowboy after leaving her boyfriend Scotty Moore, the mayor finally decides it is time accept the governor;s offer of amnesty for Waco. Jill Stone's first reaction, when learning that Waco has been released, is to leave town before Waco finds out that she, his former fiancée, has married the town preacher while Waco was in jail. Town boss Joe Gore is not overjoyed, either, but Ike and Pete Jenner eagerly await the chance to shoot Waco for the death of their brother.

6 out of 10

Father of the Bride (1950)



You're invited... to a hilarious wedding!

Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.

9 out of 10

The Main Event (1979)



A Glove Story

Hillary Kramer, successful Perfume magnate awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write off. She decides to take Kid Natural, (Eddie Scanlon) who is much more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists.

6 out of 10

Married Life (2007)



Do you know what really goes on in the mind of the person with whom you sleep?

A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too much – so instead he decides to kill her. A modern-day film noir movie in living color.

6 out of 10

Cloris Leachman sure looked fine in her stretchy pants in 1975...

no...for either question.

nice doubletalk...no answers.

The people demanding change are the same ones that have been running the show in these cities for decades...

Democrats have run Chicago since 1931...when do they get around to showing us how to fix the problems of society?

Philadelphia since 1952... Washington D.C. since 1961...Boston since 1930...St. Louis since 1949...New Orleans since 1872...Atlanta since 1879...

When do we get to see the magic? 150 years isn't enough time to bring about hope and change?

https://www.tmz.com/2020/06/01/george-floyd-cause-of-death-heart-attack-fentanyl/

a Xeric Cactus...

Arthur will always stand in one of my personal favorite movies...I just never saw him excel in anything besides that...Honestly, I think it was the material he was working with was the problem.

Unfortunately, he was a one hit wonder. He did a great drunk and Arthur was his only success IMO. I've watched many of his other works (Wholly Moses, 10, Santa Claus, Arthur 2) and he just didn't have the same pizzazz. His interaction and timing with Sir John Gielgud were OUTSTANDING. Perhaps it was the skill of Gielgud that brought out his best...He just never evolved beyond the happy drunk.

I expect to more likely find someone via active participation here in the forums rather than the meat market. I just delete 95% of every nudge, kiss and message I get anymore.

All Americans were rightly sickened by the brutal death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last week, President Trump says. “My administration is fully committed that, for George and his family, justice will be served. He will not have died in vain.”

Four days ago, another African-American man was killed, this time gunned down while standing outside the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, California.

Dave Patrick Underwood isn’t a household name. His death didn’t make nearly as many headlines. But his life mattered, too, and his murder should sicken every American.

Underwood was a law enforcement officer in the Federal Protective Service. He and a colleague were standing guard when the gunshots came, killing Underwood and sending his fellow officer to the hospital in critical condition. Oakland’s interim police chief says the shooting was most likely an attack that deliberately targeted uniformed officers.

All across America, violent domestic terrorists have exploited the real hurt and pain felt by thousands of peaceful protesters. The need to save innocent lives and protect our most vulnerable communities from these criminals should be obvious to every peace-loving citizen. Yet media talking heads and opportunistic politicians would rather keep exploiting fear instead of solving the problem and restoring order. That’s unacceptable.

“If a city or a state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them,” President Trump said in an address last night.

Ending domestic terrorism shouldn’t be a partisan issue that Democrats leave to Republicans. Neither should loudly supporting the thousands of decent, brave law enforcement officers who put themselves on the line every night to keep us safe.

Violence against police officers is an affront to everything America stands for. Stories about the assaults against them over the past week need to be told, even if corporate media executives decide that it isn’t the “right” narrative to push:
A Las Vegas officer is on life support after a gunshot to the head.

Four police officers were shot last night during riots in St. Louis.

An NYPD officer was struck by a vehicle in an apparent hit-and-run.

Violent thugs beat a police officer on the streets of New York.

How does any of this help our nation heal from the tragedy in Minnesota?

It doesn’t. No American, from any community, should ever feel unsafe on our streets—and that includes those who risk their lives to protect us. The rule of law applies to everyone, from bad cops who abuse their power to violent rioters who attack the police.

Everyone still gnashing their teeth and rending garments...

still waiting for all these Monday Morning quarterbacks who have never had a gun stuck in their face to give a solution to the problem.

Come on experts...we already reformed the police 8 years ago...what is the answer?