The film was shot hardcore, and then a judge forced them to cut all the hardcore bits out. But apparently, the judge watched it on a really small screen, so when you view it on a big screen, you can see hardcore action in the wide shots. I still hold out hope to see the original version.
November 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The film was shot hardcore, and then a judge forced them to cut all the hardcore bits out. But apparently, the judge watched it on a really small screen, so when you view it on a big screen, you can see hardcore action in the wide shots. I still hold out hope to see the original version.
One of my all-time favorite podcasts, The Rialto Report, interviewed the director of this film:
@therialtoreport.bsky.social
pca.st/episode/3692...
@therialtoreport.bsky.social
pca.st/episode/3692...
R.I.P. Howard Ziehm: Mona... (and marijuana, music, and M.I.T.) - Podcast Reprise
pca.st
November 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
One of my all-time favorite podcasts, The Rialto Report, interviewed the director of this film:
@therialtoreport.bsky.social
pca.st/episode/3692...
@therialtoreport.bsky.social
pca.st/episode/3692...
Right, this was a film based on the Baum books, not a vehicle for a bunch of vaudevillians.
November 29, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Right, this was a film based on the Baum books, not a vehicle for a bunch of vaudevillians.
Some of the people that Epstein had presumably been blackmailing were billionaires and politicians, many of whom would not bat an eye at sending hitmen to anyone who would reveal their secrets.
www.yahoo.com/gma/fbi-agen...
www.yahoo.com/gma/fbi-agen...
FBI agents used a saw to open a safe in Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan mansion that held hard drives and diamonds
The FBI agent said a search of Epstein's mansion found numerous hard drives and CDs filled with photographs.
www.yahoo.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Some of the people that Epstein had presumably been blackmailing were billionaires and politicians, many of whom would not bat an eye at sending hitmen to anyone who would reveal their secrets.
www.yahoo.com/gma/fbi-agen...
www.yahoo.com/gma/fbi-agen...
"L'État, c'est moi." Louis XIV
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"L'État, c'est moi." Louis XIV
My favorite story from the making of the films, was Christopher Lee…former Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare commando…advising Peter Jackson that someone doesn't make a noise when you stab them, because the air is released from their lungs.
November 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
My favorite story from the making of the films, was Christopher Lee…former Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare commando…advising Peter Jackson that someone doesn't make a noise when you stab them, because the air is released from their lungs.
The lesson of Watergate was that "it's never the crime, it's the cover-up." And we have a bunch of criminals trying to cover up their crimes, and these are incredibly incompetent criminals.
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The lesson of Watergate was that "it's never the crime, it's the cover-up." And we have a bunch of criminals trying to cover up their crimes, and these are incredibly incompetent criminals.
The best advice I've ever had about intramuscular vaccines is to work your arm muscles after the shot.
Basically, do the chicken dance.
You don't have to do the stomping and clapping part, but flap your wings.
Since doing that, I've never had any residual pain.
Basically, do the chicken dance.
You don't have to do the stomping and clapping part, but flap your wings.
Since doing that, I've never had any residual pain.
November 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The best advice I've ever had about intramuscular vaccines is to work your arm muscles after the shot.
Basically, do the chicken dance.
You don't have to do the stomping and clapping part, but flap your wings.
Since doing that, I've never had any residual pain.
Basically, do the chicken dance.
You don't have to do the stomping and clapping part, but flap your wings.
Since doing that, I've never had any residual pain.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy was such a perfect convergence of everything - the right director, the perfect locations, genius collaborators and designers.
I see hundreds of films in the theater every year, and I will argue that they are, collectively, the greatest cinematic achievement.
I see hundreds of films in the theater every year, and I will argue that they are, collectively, the greatest cinematic achievement.
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Lord of the Rings trilogy was such a perfect convergence of everything - the right director, the perfect locations, genius collaborators and designers.
I see hundreds of films in the theater every year, and I will argue that they are, collectively, the greatest cinematic achievement.
I see hundreds of films in the theater every year, and I will argue that they are, collectively, the greatest cinematic achievement.
Here's what his Marketing professor at the Wharton School of Business said about him:
www.phillymag.com/news/2019/09...
www.phillymag.com/news/2019/09...
![It’s rare for a professor to disparage the intelligence of a student, but according to attorney Frank DiPrima, who was close friends with professor William T. Kelley for 47 years, the prof made an exception for Donald Trump, at least in private. “He must have told me that 100 times over the course of 30 years,” says DiPrima, who has been practicing law since 1963 and has served as in-house counsel for entities including the Federal Trade Commission and Playboy Enterprises. “I remember the inflection of his voice when he said it: ‘Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had!’” He would say that [Trump] came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything, that he was arrogant and he wasn’t there to learn.” Kelley, who passed away in 2011 at age 94, taught marketing at Wharton for 31 years, retiring in 1982.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ouhvkmqlxe75bnadjzbkxxwc/bafkreigh2p3wxqkedc2zqu67il36fqp7biqr6ibfrpa4ab636t6kv57wam@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Here's what his Marketing professor at the Wharton School of Business said about him:
www.phillymag.com/news/2019/09...
www.phillymag.com/news/2019/09...
Exactly! They have provided us a thousand witnesses.
Also, Epstein's crimes happened in a huge number of jurisdictions, various states and countries. There's no way they can hide everything.
Also, Epstein's crimes happened in a huge number of jurisdictions, various states and countries. There's no way they can hide everything.
November 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Exactly! They have provided us a thousand witnesses.
Also, Epstein's crimes happened in a huge number of jurisdictions, various states and countries. There's no way they can hide everything.
Also, Epstein's crimes happened in a huge number of jurisdictions, various states and countries. There's no way they can hide everything.
I remember being in the theater for Fellowship. My late wife had never read the books, she was just there because it was the new Peter Jackson movie.
10 seconds into Galadriel telling us the story in pitch darkness, she was besotted.
10 seconds into Galadriel telling us the story in pitch darkness, she was besotted.
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I remember being in the theater for Fellowship. My late wife had never read the books, she was just there because it was the new Peter Jackson movie.
10 seconds into Galadriel telling us the story in pitch darkness, she was besotted.
10 seconds into Galadriel telling us the story in pitch darkness, she was besotted.
Kate Bush - Before the Dawn
Todd Rundgren - Todd/Healing
The Bulgarian Voices at St John of Rigla
Jane Siberry & Friends - A Choral Christmas
And most importantly, a free private concert as a last wish for my late wife, who was dying of cancer, by Happy Rhodes.
Todd Rundgren - Todd/Healing
The Bulgarian Voices at St John of Rigla
Jane Siberry & Friends - A Choral Christmas
And most importantly, a free private concert as a last wish for my late wife, who was dying of cancer, by Happy Rhodes.
November 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Kate Bush - Before the Dawn
Todd Rundgren - Todd/Healing
The Bulgarian Voices at St John of Rigla
Jane Siberry & Friends - A Choral Christmas
And most importantly, a free private concert as a last wish for my late wife, who was dying of cancer, by Happy Rhodes.
Todd Rundgren - Todd/Healing
The Bulgarian Voices at St John of Rigla
Jane Siberry & Friends - A Choral Christmas
And most importantly, a free private concert as a last wish for my late wife, who was dying of cancer, by Happy Rhodes.
As Anthony Bourdain said in "Kitchen Confidential"…if you go out to eat at a nice restaurant, "assume you've eaten an entire stick of butter."
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
As Anthony Bourdain said in "Kitchen Confidential"…if you go out to eat at a nice restaurant, "assume you've eaten an entire stick of butter."
American football is 15 seconds of actual sports, followed by a committee meeting.
November 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
American football is 15 seconds of actual sports, followed by a committee meeting.
Did you have to get the passport option with the extra pages?
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Did you have to get the passport option with the extra pages?
The first SpongeBob movie was hilarious!
"I rode the Hasselhoff!"
"I rode the Hasselhoff!"
November 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The first SpongeBob movie was hilarious!
"I rode the Hasselhoff!"
"I rode the Hasselhoff!"
He was best friends for years with someone bright enough to get away with some of the most horrific crimes imaginable; and then that criminal's tools and techniques fell into his lap.
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
He was best friends for years with someone bright enough to get away with some of the most horrific crimes imaginable; and then that criminal's tools and techniques fell into his lap.
He didn't have to be a criminal mastermind when decades of carefully gathered blackmail material is handed to him on a silver platter.
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
He didn't have to be a criminal mastermind when decades of carefully gathered blackmail material is handed to him on a silver platter.
I absolutely can't wait for Project Hail Mary!
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I absolutely can't wait for Project Hail Mary!
First thing I saw him in that I actually enjoyed was "Stranger Than Fiction".
November 27, 2025 at 3:47 AM
First thing I saw him in that I actually enjoyed was "Stranger Than Fiction".
So somebody crossed a box of chocolates with a model airplane kit?
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 AM
So somebody crossed a box of chocolates with a model airplane kit?
Maddie Barker: So, when you say date him, do you mean date him, or "date" him?
Allison Becker: Yes.
Laird Becker: Yeah, that's correct.
Maddie Barker: Date him.
Laird Becker: Date him hard!
Allison Becker: Okay.
[murmured to Laird]
Maddie Barker: I'll date his brains out!
Allison Becker: Yes.
Laird Becker: Yeah, that's correct.
Maddie Barker: Date him.
Laird Becker: Date him hard!
Allison Becker: Okay.
[murmured to Laird]
Maddie Barker: I'll date his brains out!
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Maddie Barker: So, when you say date him, do you mean date him, or "date" him?
Allison Becker: Yes.
Laird Becker: Yeah, that's correct.
Maddie Barker: Date him.
Laird Becker: Date him hard!
Allison Becker: Okay.
[murmured to Laird]
Maddie Barker: I'll date his brains out!
Allison Becker: Yes.
Laird Becker: Yeah, that's correct.
Maddie Barker: Date him.
Laird Becker: Date him hard!
Allison Becker: Okay.
[murmured to Laird]
Maddie Barker: I'll date his brains out!