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Strands #69
"It's a date!"
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The sky lit up last night.

This movie is not gory...except the final scene, but it's not like his other movies. As Kurt Russell points out, it's a "love letter to LA", and literally takes you back to 1969 LA...the dying western genre, actors dealing with getting old and no longer A-listers, the hippie movement, lifestyle of actors and singers who lived in "The Canyon", etc. More nostalgia than mystery and deep plot. It just happens that it all took place when Hollywood was shaken to the core over the Manson murders. Walter Cronkite had a hard time on CBS telling of the murders and was visibly shaken and said that in his years of broadcasting, he had never had to bring a story of such inhumanity. The murders were just a couple weeks after Cronkite got to broadcast man taking his first steps on the moon, which was the highest point of his career. Anyway, it's a lot of nostalgia for a lost period of time in the center of entertainment

Interestingly, Sharon Tate was not a well known actress, unless you were part of the inner circle. She was close friends with Steve McQueen who did love her, but she never let it go anywhere. In fact, he was supposed to be at the house the night she was murdered, but he hooked up with a girl and spent the night with her rather than going over to Tate's house. It's highly possible he might have turned the tide on Manson, as he was an ex-marine, and a badass in real life. Guess we'll never know

Tarantino spent a lot of time with Sharon Tate's sister and Sharon's mother (who died a year after the movie came out), and out of respect, did not include her death in the movie and instead, created faux history by having some of Manson's people attack Pitt and DiCaprio's wife in which the Manson crew was killed. "Artistic Liberty", I guess. This was done as a softening to the Tate family when the movie hit the screen. Tarantino had great respect for Tate's family and didn't want to exploit their pain, but rather show what Sharon was really like

Sharon Tate had a part in "Valley of the Dolls", and of course "Wrecking Crew" where she starred alongside Dean Martin in a comedy. But her longest part of work was as Miss Hathaway's assistant at Mr. Drysdale's bank in the Beverly Hillbillies. She was Jethro Bodine's heart throb and vice versa; hence, Miss Hathaway tried to keep them apart because she herself was smitten with Jethro...LOL. In real life, she was a fun loving, happy go lucky woman who loved acting, but even more so, just wanted to have a family. She pleaded with Manson in real life of the night of the murder, to let her live, because she only wanted to have her baby and be a family. That of course, didn't stop him

Quote from: Painter on May 10, 2024, 10:24:53 AMA) If the shoe fits... B) It had nothing to with you no matter how you may choose to read it. C) It still applies to those for whom it was and is directed who quite obviously aren't bothered in the least by it.

Is that clear enough?

Cheers!

Yeah whatever.
Cheers

3rd base. The runner had already reached 1st base safely prior to the defense throwing behind him. It doesn't matter if he was then diving back to 1st. One from the mound and two from the field.

Maybe Daboll wrote the article for CBS as the ultimate motivational tool for Jones now that he has all these new receivers.  Would be a bold move.

Ric

As much as I would love to watch that last clip now, 1/2 hour is just a bit too long right now. I will do it at a letter time.

Without any real knowledge of what the clip says, and as to what you wrote about the missing Tate stuff--I tend to find Tarantino's movies just not what one would call 'Heavy'. Even though all his movies aren't comedies, they also aren't heavy drama, if you know what I mean. A movie like Pulp Fiction has many parts that you find humorous along with all the other stuff.
When the Kill Bill duo came out, I really didn't want to watch them as I heard there was massive amounts of blood. I am truly not what one might call a 'gore' enthusiast, but both my sons' said it may be bloody but it is all "Hollywood' blood and not gory at all. The blood is more like red paint and is used for effect rather than to scare people. And I can certainly agree with that. After my son's pleas, I watched both of the Kill Bill movies and I LOVED them with a capital LOVE. I have seen them maybe 5-6 times since and still if I see one on TV I will stop and rewatch certain scenes again and again. It sure won't win any wards but it was just great entertainment.
Reservoir Dogs is another. On paper, if you read the script you might think it would be a very "heavy' type movie and with all the blood, disgusting also, but it wasn't, and even though the true subject matter was high drama it wasn't played that way. It was sort of amusing in a sort of sick way.

 Let's expand on your knowledge now and give you another example.

Simple one now

The batter gets a single and makes a wide turn around 1st base. The defense sees this and tries to throw behind the runner in an attempt to get him going back to the base.  With the runner diving back to 1st base, the ball gets away from the 1st baseman and into dead territory.

Where do we put the runner?

OK, all good tries. So here is the ruling.

Makes no difference that the runner was off on the pitch, as I said, it is his position At the Time Of the Pitch, which means he was on 1st base. Since with 1 out and first base occupied, the batter is out no matter what the catcher does with the ball. As long as the batter swung at the 3rd strike, he is automatically out.

As for the runner, the rule of thumb is 1 base from the mound and 2 bases from the field if a ball goes into dead area. I added that the runner was beyond 2nd base when the ball went dead, but again it is his position At the Time of the Pitch, which was 1st base. Since the catcher didn't deliberately kick the ball into the dugout, the runner is entitled to ONE base and he will be on 2nd base and now it is 2 out.

Quote from: MightyGiants on May 10, 2024, 09:04:00 AMhttps://x.com/BigBlueVCR/status/1788916908861063247

 It's funny, I remember certain things about this game. Like 3 minutes before this great kick, Sunmeral missed an easy 31-yarder.
And to get to Sumeral's kick the Giants and QB Charley Conerly missed on 3 consecutive passes trying to get the Giants closer. Even Sumeral was surprised he was sent out to attempt the FG.