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I think at the time, 1971, serial killers weren't as common as they would become as that decade and the '80's played out. Also, law enforcement agencies were remarkably bad at sharing information with one another. That was how Ted Bundy got away with so many murders in multiple states over so many years. After Bundy, local law enforcement agencies started doing a better job of sharing information. Also, the FBI got involved in helping state police forces understand the serial killer's mentality. This was the core theme of the miniseries Mindhunter.
So the D.A.'s aloofness could be the common understanding (or misunderstanding) at that time. Really shows how Dirty Harry (both the character and the movie) were ahead of their time.
He really did look too good. After the bandages were taken off he had no cuts, bruises, swelling, etc., except for his Biore strip bandaid across the bridge of his nose. No way he would have looked the way he looked for the final showdown no matter how much time passed between the beating that Curtis Mayfield-looking dude gave him and the school bus / quarry shoot-out scene.
You have to view this scene in light of the earlier one. In a previous scene, Harry is looking through binoculars at an attractive, nude hippie in a building across from where he and Chicao are staked out. He really has no reason to surveil this woman, but continues to look for sheerly voyeuristic reasons. he goes so far as to say to himself, "Well, Harry sometimes you just have to live a little." So in this scene he is a peeping tom, but there are no repercussions.
In the next scene where there is a bona fide belief that the Asian man carrying the case could be Scorpio, Harry is not peeping. He's genuinely surveilling the apartment because he hasn't yet witnessed that the voluptuous prostitute's john is not Scorpio. So when the local vagabonds in the alley think Harry is peeping on the local prostitute, they take the appropriate action. I think Harry felt he had it coming and therefore lets the bum off the hook for beating an officer because in the earlier scene he, in fact, was peeping with no consequences. He probably felt guilty about it and figured his punishment came in the form of letting those old bums beat him up in the alley.
I also was reminded of another 1971 film, A Clockwork Orange, when the elderly vagabonds exact their revenge on Alex (Malcom MacDowell) for beating one of the bums in the early scene of the film.
Thank you, ExTechOp (2465). I always thought his ex-wife, Rava, was Indian and that was why Sophie, their daughter, had that look. But thank you especially for confirming that that was the first time that was disclosed to us, the audience.
Palmer: If Bluejay would have been here, I would have been a hero.
Dalby: Well, he wasn't so you're not.
Her variety show really wasn't that bad. It showed how excellent a dancer she was, and that's not easy to do at 41-42. She also could sing; the show showcased that talent of hers too. Michael Keaton and David Letterman were funny. It was a good stepping stone for their careers, however short-lived it was. And frankly, she and the ensemble cast were funny. No, it wasn't laugh-out-loud humor like you might find on Saturday Night Live at the time, but the sketches at least made me smile. I certainly wasn't cringing.
That's a great strategy to avoid dealing with grief over the loss of people you are not friends with or related to for the rest of your life. It is possible that a person can touch our lives without even knowing it and without even knowing us. Mary Tyler Moore was one such person to many, many people.
I don't agree with you. I thought she was still smoking hot in the '70's during the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Toward the end of its run (1975 or '76) she was in an episode in which she had to wear a green 'gown,' that was really a bikini. She looked absolutely fantastic in it, and she would have been 38-39 at the time. She did not always have the best hairdo during the MTM Show, but in that episode, her hair, face, and figure looked terrific.
I think this was the case for two reasons:
(1) The character of Logan Roy was too discrete to make any kind of public display of affection with an employee, especially when married; and
(2) I think the actor, Brian Cox, didn't want to be shown in any sort of a love scene with a much younger woman, or the producers thought it wouldn't go over well with the audience. Inference, innuendo was enough, but maybe the audience would find it gratuitous to actually see him in a sexual act with Kerry (or dirty-talking with her.)
Exactly!
The only thing I'd add is that money was never the object for any of the three of them. It was always power. Power. Power. Power. That's why no matter how much Matteson was willing to pay, it would never be enough because all three would be relinquishing their chance to run their father's company.
I came too late to the table on this one! Anyhow, I just attempted to call the number and I received a recording saying "the number you have dialed is not in service." Oh well. Seemed like a great thing Ms. Strasser did pre-Twitter, Instagram, etc. But I thought I'd report the number as being defunct so no one else got their hopes up ...
The actresses who played Alexis (Joan Collins) and Abby (Donna Mills) were not too far apart in age. Collins was 48 when she first appeared on Dynasty as Alexis in 1981. Mills was 40 in 1980 when she first appeared as Abby.
I think Gary had more of a role in Sid'd death (and that caused him to backslide into alcoholism). If I recall correctly, Gary got involved with some shady characters that he thought would be able to enhance Sid's auto dealership. Sid was dubious and politely declined getting into business with these nefarious characters. Sid either found out what these guys were really up to or they wanted to get Sid out of the way so they could deal with Gary directly. Either way, Sid was at odds with these mobsters' agenda, so they screwed with his brakes (or sabotaged his car in some way to kill him.). I think Mac was the assistant district attorney who prosecuted the mobsters who killed Sid, and he and Karen fell in love.
I don't recall correctly if Abby was involved in Sid's death. It is possible that Abby either introduced the mobsters to Gary or that she was just as taken in by their business plans as Gary. Perhaps she urged Sid to get in bed with them. At that time in the series, Abby was obsessed with Gary and Gary was obsessed with Abby. The producers were often coming up with business ideas for Gary and Abby to partner with romance (sex) being the obvious result of the pairing.
It would be very compelling, but I don't think they can get away with it in the ear of podcasting or whatever you call those mini-documentaries after each episode where the writers and the stars opine about the plot. The lead writer, Brian Cox, and really all of them made some pretty definitive comments about this being the end of the Logan Roy character. They would have all had to be in cahoots to lie to their audience if they end up bringing Logan back as you describe. Soaps used to do this kind of thing all the time. Dallas was especially famous (or <i>in</i>famous) for it. But they didn't have the stars talking about the plot right after the show as they do now. And if the stars knew how the future episodes were going to play out, in interviews, they either didn't admit it or gave very cryptic answers.
I really, really hope they don't give Lucas that much power and that much screen time. I cringe every time he comes on the screen. He's a paper lion as was revealed in the last episode. When Shiv confronted him on his India sales, he showed his weakness by dodging the question with "I hate talking about this," or some such sniveling, childish response.
I was actually thinking maybe this was an elaborate set-up on the parts of Ebba and Lucas to make them think that Gojo was in bad shape when it really wasn't. Like maybe the 'fight' between Ebba and Lucas was staged and she intentionally went onto the balcony hoping Kendall and Roman would 'comfort' her so she could dole out some disinformation. But then I was thinking, how would Lucas gain from that lie. If there is no 'India' problem, and Roman and Kendall are enticed into buying Gojo, wouldn't he get less money if it sold at a bargain basement price vs. the true value assuming no actual problem with India sales?
No, my hope was that as boring as last episode was, it served to educate all three Roys that Lucas is a phony, they must do everything they can to prevent him from buying Waystar Royco (and ATN), and if they buy Gojo, fine, as long as it rids the show of Lucas as the main villain so that he could be replaced by a more compelling one (since the producers/writers in their 'infinite' wisdom killed off the best TV villain since JR Ewing, Logan Roy.)
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The film was melancholy. He has all the money in the world, but he is alone. He is divorced, "she kept the kids." He has a beautiful girlfriend who he can take to Joseph's and watch him fly his Cessna, but he is completely bored and unfulfilled ... to the point that he hatches a plan to rob his own bank for kicks. Then it is doubly sad at the end because he gives up the love of his life. The one character who is his intellectual rival. He's clearly depressed on that plane in the final scene. I thought the song captured thefeel of the movie perfectly, and it was a deserving winner of 1968's Best Song Academy Award.
As the consummate Faye Dunaway fan, she indeed looked the best in this movie, 1968's The Thomas Crown Affair. A lot of it had to do with fashion. And I think the late-60's one piece dresses and mini-skirt w/matching blazers suited her better than the fashions of the late-70's. From what I know about Ms. Dunaway's own fashion sense, I think the neutral tones of her wardrobe in Eyes of Laura Mars met with her personal sense of style, but I thought she looked even better in the costumes designed for her in TTCA. I also really liked her blond hair pulled back and her eyes really popped in TTCA. Her eyes seemed downplayed in Eyes of Laura Mars, ironically enough!
When the guys keep moving he car forward when Tony is trying to open the door, and on one of these attempts, he hurts his finger on the door handle and yells, "That's my pussy finger!"
I can't believe 9 years after this question was posed I'm the first to mention it! Hands down the funniest line in the movie. A buddy and I have been imitating that line for over 20 years.
I think they all saw it as giving the heirs enough rope. If they agreed that it was an underline and not a cross-out, Kendall would be given the helm, and Frank/Geri/Carl figured he'd implode and pave the way for one of them to take over. If Sioban or Roman question the underline vs. cross-out issue, that creates doubt and resentment among the siblings. As it happened, Sioban took up the mantle on that one. Any discord between Logan's kids can only mean good things for the three of them. I think they saw the holographic will as more advantageous than not. Plus, they ingratiate themselves to the siblings by actually presenting it to them (as opposed to letting it blow out the window or flush down the toilet.) They wanted Logan's fake will to be executed as though it were a legally enforceable document. It is not legally enforceable, so the only way it could be enforced was by showing it to the kids with the hope it will be followed out of the childrens' moral obligations to their father's last wishes.
It's also possible isn't it that Frank forged the will himself. We don't actually see him discover the will in Logan's papers, so we? He would have had ample time to forge that one page dicument (or hire a forger to do so) between Logan's death and the date it was 'discovered.' He then shows it to Carl and Geri because that's what they would expect him to do if he truly discovered a holographic will of Logan's. They each read it and implied within their dismissals of the idea of 'letting it blow away,' is their opportunistic desire that the 'will' be carried out as it was written. The co-CEO result was better than even Frank had envisioned!