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I always wondered that too. You had to figure that he was staying in Olympic Village, in a dorm like setting, surrounded by this teammates. And they probably had a team meal before they got on the bus to go to the arena. At some point someone would have noticed he wasn't there and been banging on his door. Not to mention they would have a pre game warm ups and skate around.
1) I think most long time fans would say the show lost its edge a long time ago. When exactly, or how, or why varies depending on who you ask. Even if the show is good now, its no where near its mid to late 90's peak, which is among the greatest runs of any tv show in history.
2) You can't blame the Simpsons for being owned by Disney. They didn't sell themselves to Disney. 21st Century Fox was, which included 20th Century Fox Television, which owned The Simpsons.
3) Over the years The Simpsons never hesitated to take shots at Fox, even though that's who owned them. There's no way they could get away with not occasionally taking shots at Disney without people noticing and accusing them of selling out. Even the trailer that was mentioned at the start of the article was example of them taking a shot without making it too obvious what they were doing.
That's how she would look if you woke up next too her. I'm sure all of us would be willing to over look that if we were lucky enough to be in that position.
Thank you for that information dump.
I'm guessing most of the people who have commented on this didn't bother reading the article.
The episode itself wasn't groundbreaking, although it was very funny. As other people have said, it was a parody of "Who Shot J.R.", as well as many other shows and movies, including The Fugitive.
However the marketing around the show was groundbreaking. The promotion for the show, the sponsorship with 1-800-COLLECT, having fans guess the culprit as well competing for the chance to win a guess spot on show. Then having a special edition of American's Most Wanted dedicated to the show, and celebrities giving their predictions was something that had not been seen before
"...doing everything he could to be different from the WWE."
The first episode included
Hulk Hogan: WWE's biggest star ever to that point.
Ric Flair: While yes he was more famous for his Crockett and NWA time, he was with the WWE for two years in the early 90's, and held their belt twice.
The Macho Man, another huge star and former champion synonymous with WWE's heyday of the late 80's.
Lex Lugar, who was returning from the WWE, after an under performing run as a top babyface.
Was he introduced as "Pulitzer Prize Winner Alexander Knox"? Because he 100% deserved for his investigative work, not just on the Batman story, but on the Joker Crisis.
Why does everyone assume that Palpatine survived? We don't see him in the trailer. Perhaps he is just a force ghost, like Obi-Wan or Yoda.
Seriously people, how about watching a movie BEFORE you decide you hate it.
The same original fanbase that sat thru all the prequels, no matter how horrible they thought they were? And then sat thru the 4 Disney movies, just so they could scurry home to immediately trash it on a message board? And then signed up for Disney+ on the first day just so they could watch the Mandoloran?
I don't think anyone is worried about the "original fanbase." Their showing up, no matter what they put out. Its just a matter of getting new people to see it, which Solo didn't do.
So.…….. some guy on the internet, who claims to be a GM for a major movie theater chain, claims that a study that I can't verify actually exist, is predicting that Episode 9 will only make $120-$130 million its opening weekend. And that's his interpretation of their expectations, based on his "calculations".
Well since this guy doesn't think its going to be as big of a hit as it predecessors, so I shouldn't go see it.
Instead of looking at it as a 4 movie saga, I look at it as 2 pairs of movies.
The Burton/Keaton pair are definitely direct sequels. The tone and look of them are the same. Many of the same characters return, and the Batmobile and Bat Cave are the same. It even makes two references to Vicki Vale, and explains her absence.
The Schumacher pair: With the exception of Batman, most of the characters continue thru the movies. Much more kid friendly movies, with a very comic book style to them.
No.
Lost had possibly the greatest pilot episode of all time, and its first season stands as one of the all time best. But as a whole it is not the greatest show of all time. I think it suffered from being a network show, in that it was forced to do 22 episodes every year, which lead to a lot filler episodes, and questions being created and forgotten about. I believe it was season 4, where due to the writers strike was only 14 episodes, and was actually really good, and didn't waste time on pointless plots, like Jack's tattoos.
Also at times it was very clear that the writers had no idea how long the show was going to go for. Even if they did know how they wanted it to end, they didn't know how long to drag things out for. This was very clear during season 3. Near the end of that season they announced the show would run 3 more years and things for the most part were better after that. But the last season still kind of sucked.
Lost was a great show, with many great episodes and amazing moments, but I would not consider it the greatest of all time.
If you can watch this movie and feel that way about Cousin Eddie, then I have a strong feeling that you are the Cousin Eddie of your family.
Rewatch the Walmart scene. First, the whole time Eddie is laying out his sob story about not having any money he is buying massive bags of dog food for his pride and joy Snot. And second, when Clark offers to buy Christmas presents for Eddie's kids, first Eddie pretends like he doesn't want charity from the Griswalds, but seconds later he is handing Clark a detailed list of what to give everyone.
Way to early to predict winners, but for nominees:
Definitely:
Best Picture
Best Supporting Actor (Pesci)
Adopted Screenplay
Make Up
Other possible ones:
Lead Actor for DeNiro and Pacino. I think both will be in the lead category.
Best Director, although I can see self righteous Hollywood not wanting to nominate Scorsese because he had no minorities in the movie, and barely any women. He even had an Oscar winner in it (Pacquin) and she barely had any lines. Also because he dared to have an opinion about super hero movies.
The newscast that Tony and Bobby are watching says it.
The flashbacks were hit or miss. There were some great ones, and some that were absolute duds. Some seemed like duds, but got bailed out by a great revelation at the end, or tying back to something from someone else.
The Best:
Locke's first 3 flashbacks were all great. The wheelchair revelation, giving his dad his kidney, and in season 2 when he meets his girlfriend.
Jack's in the first season were forgettable (thus me not remembering them, lol) but in the season 2 premier was the one where he met his wife and was able to make her walk again.
Charlie's first when they show his brother get him into drugs, but then his brother gets clean and Charlie is now an addict. Then his last one where he list his 5 best moments, ending with meeting Clare.
Jin's first where we see that Sun's father basically made him a mob hitman and the effect it had on him.
Desmond's first in the season 2 finale. And of course The Constant.
Benjamin's first, showing not only why he was evil, but what the Darma initiative was like, and its fate.
1) Two possibilities here:
a) They are stubborn old people who once they have it in their heads that someone is a crook, then they are a crook, and nothing can change their mind. Also if you've ever lived in a condo complex or somewhere with an HOA full of old people, then trust me, they love the ounce of power they have will use it in any way they can.
b) Highly unlikely this mostly senior community would have any kind of computer system for their book keeping, which means its being done by pencil and paper. It could be possible for Morty to be fudging some numbers and pocketing some cash. Or maybe he would say he needed $2000 in cash for landscaping, but in actuality he needed $1500 and pocketed the rest.
2) George finding out he had a shot at Marisa Tomei after he got engaged to Susan is perfectly the kind of thing that would happen to George.
3) Funny idea, and definitely something Kramer would do, but flawed execution.
It's not just the fact that he wasn't having sex, but that he wasn't even thinking about it is what made him a genius. So instead of wasting brain power thinking about sex, he was using it in more constructive ways. In high school he was probably thinking about sex all the time (like most of us) but just not getting any.
No, but a couple of close calls.
https://heavy.com/entertainment/2019/11/chuckie-obrien-fish/
To answer both your questions, because they both really happened (according to Sheeran).
Chucky O'Brien was actually Hoffa's foster son, and had a very close relationship to Tony Giacalone, whom Hoffa was on his way to meet. He was investigated by the FBI and when they asked him why he got his car cleaned that day, he told them about the fish leaking on the back seat. Also worth noting, he was driving Giacalone's car, and claimed his step father was never in it, even though they found Hoffa's hair in the car years later.
If we're believing that he didn't know it was hit, then the reason they would have him drive was because they knew Hoffa wouldn't get in a car unless it was with people he trusted, which is why his step son drove, and Sheeran came in with him.