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16 posts. Alias of Ambrosia Slaad.


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gran rey de los mono wrote:

Cats:

In the 1930s, T.S. Eliot wrote a book of cute little cat-themed poems for his godchildren. 40 years later, Andrew Lloyd Webber found one of the poems that had been cut from the book because it was "too sad" for kids. He thought "Woah. A cat that's sad? That's deep. I wanna make a musical out of this." The producer assigned to the project was like "Okay, I guess you could see this as some kind of satire on 1930s British society. We could probably do something sort of interesting with that. So we need, what, like 5 or 6 actors, and a few simple sets?" Then Webber was all "NO! Screw the satire. I want a cast of dozens and the most advanced special effects ever seen on stage! I've already taken out a second mortgage on my house to fund this." So the producer asked "Well, do you at least have a plot for the show?" He didn't, so Webber gathered a bunch of writers and artists, and spent about 5 weeks doing cocaine workshopping ideas, and then came back and said "The plot is that a bunch of cats are having a dance contest to decide who gets to take a UFO to cat heaven".

And then it made two billion dollars.

Still objectively less terrible than ALW's Starlight Express.

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Sony still owns Columbia.

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Rysky wrote:
Matt Filla wrote:
Rednal wrote:

"Despite winning the second debate in a landslide (every poll), it is hard to do well when Paul Ryan and others give zero support!" -Trump's Twitter account

Every poll, huh?

He also had a graphic citing a bunch of the totally unscientific online polls that he won, from such respected polling organizations as Breitbart, Drudge, Local 4 Detroit, and Fox 5 San Diego. He's like a terrible movie that has to fill its ads with quotes like "Best film of the year!" - Tom Wilson, Omaha Weekly Shopper.
Don't forget the tactic of omitting parts of the review, "Best ... Performance ever" - credible source

Nonsense, poppycock, and rubbish. I, David Manning, am the official poll researcher for the Trump Campaign.

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Lemmy wrote:
Besides, in the books, they find Cat's corpse by the river, 3 days after the Red Wedding... In the show, it's been years since that event. It's unlikely they'll ever find her corpse.

She costars with Gendry in the wacky new Westerosi sitcom, Weekend at Catelyn's.

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thegreenteagamer wrote:
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Darth Yesterday wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
Uh oh! It is Darth heshvaun! Run!

Come Sharoth, join the dark side.

It's really cool.

Seriously. Look at our weapons. You don't see the light side running around with double lightsabers, or cross-hatches, or planet destroying star bases. I haven't seen the new one; this may be untrue now.
Nah, don't think it's much of a spoiler to say the good guys still don't have access to that kind of ubertech.
Well, one of the major theories I remember was that the dude with the crosshatch was a Jedi infiltrating the Sith, so you kinda spoiled that by saying it's not...but I don't believe in b****ing about spoilers. If it matters enough to where you care, you should have seen it earlier, so since I didn't see it as early as you, clearly you care more and have earned spoiling rights.

I don't care if it's a spoiler or not: dubbing Idris Elba's voice over 3P0 completely destroys my immersion!!! Stupid sexy Elba.

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John Kretzer wrote:
I Blame Cosmo for a box falling onto the top of my head from no where yesterday at work. Usually he does not do anything as overt as making a box appear out of no where right above my head like that.

I blame Cosmo for Master Kretzer failing his improv audition for the new The Cos Must Be Crazy independent film.

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Drejk wrote:
Friend was giving us ride back after session of Star Wars... The car radio started to play Star Wars music.

Has the car owner been acting weird(er) lately? Is he or she starting to physically transform into a Wookie (or Rodian, Jawa, Droid, Gungan, etc.)? Was George Lucas ever the car's former owner? Be very careful.

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Krensky wrote:

Whedon has a habit of killing puppies in the third act to shock the audience and demonstrate that the situation is serious and ANYONE could die.

Well, if director Ming-Ming really wanted to surprise everyone...

I'm worried though that full-blast firehose of ecstatic pure happiness might cause some of Whedon's bigger detractors to choke to death on their giant theater-sized cups of Haterade.

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Sony and Marvel Studios have come to an agreement to share Spider-Man in the movies.

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Aberzombie wrote:
That's what I get for trusting IMDB.

Well, I trusted Wikipedia... so, it's very likely I'm wrong too. :)

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Aberzombie wrote:
Dame Maggie Smith is one of 12 actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy, and Tony); the others in chronological order are: Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Booth, Liza Minnelli, Rita Moreno, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Audrey Hepburn, Anne Bancroft, Vanessa Redgrave, and Ellen Burstyn.

...And Whoopi Goldberg.

And of those, only Goldberg, Hayes, Hepburn, and Moreno have unlocked EGOT.

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Stansfield: Bring me everyone.

Stansfield cohort: What do you mean "everyone"?

Stansfield: EVERYONE!!!

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Hmmm, Papal Bull, starring De Niro and directed by Scorsese would be pretty neat.

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The V.C. O'Bee is banned for getting the Black Beast of Arrrggghhh lost in the Caves of Caerbannog. Everyone knows you are supposed to take the left turn at Albuquerque.

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Captain Jack Sparrow's Official Rum Taster

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Spanky the Leprechaun wrote:
"Just,.....do me a favor; no Prometheus spoilers in this thread..."

Pssst... Zeus punishes him by having a giant eagle eat his liver every day.