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She's simply a dim bulb who was hired for her looks.
Now that she's old, the cute and charm are gone and what's left are her "thoughts" which are quite ugly.
The prosecution certainly was inept.
I haven't read the book, but what did he say would have been the method he would have used had he had "done it"?
There's truth to your jesting I think.
We conservatives are so far over the whole race bit but many leftists won't let it go as long as it suits their purposes, and fomenting division and hate works to their advantage.
Sad.
Belushi was great in this in the same way Diceman was in Casual Sex. Throwaway roles but they knocked them out of the park.
Interesting read. I don't know how much of that is true (a lot came from his autobiography which could very well be quite exaggerated), but I love this part interesting about Flynn's death:
[quote]Errol had a funeral service at Forest Lawn, Glendale. Pallbearers were Mike Romanoff, Jack Oakie, Guinn Williams, Raoul Walsh, Otto Reichow and asshole Mickey Rooney.[/quote]
"Asshole" Mickey Rooney? Not sure if it's a Hollywood term of endearment or maybe Rooney was in like Flynn with the author's mother...
I wonder who actually became offended by "Oriental". Was it Asians or was it sensitive Western "do-gooders" who want to right all the world's ills by changing definitions?
It's like Latinex. The percentage of Latins who are NOT offended by the term Latinex is small.
[quote] Like all instances of irrational, whiny, moving target, "political correctness," it's utterly absurd. [/quote]
"'Moving target"? If history has taught us anything, it's that lunacy never rests.
[quote]If I went to China, Korea, Japan, or any other Asian country, chances are that nine out of ten people there, just seeing me and hearing my accent, wouldn't be able to distinguish whether I was an American from Canada or the U.S., an Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a Welshman, an Australian, a New Zealander, a South African, or, for that matter, a German, a Frenchman, or a Czech. I certainly wouldn't be offended or accuse them of racism if they guessed wrong.[/quote]
Excellent point.
[quote]Rose could say anything about how the baby came to be.[/quote]
I think the question still comes down to whether Cal was bonestorming Rose or not. If so, then unless the child was clearly of a different "race", Rose could say it was Cal's.
If they were never dancing the forbidden polka, then Rose couldn't explain her pregnancy to Cal other than it wasn't his.
I'm thinking I would without hesitation pay $500 a pop for my wife and I to share a brandy from a bottle from the Titanic.
With hesitation? More, maybe a lot more - I'd have to think about it.
All answers are wrong, or at least uncorroborated.
The Rose/Jack part of the story is pure fabrication, and that means whoever wrote the screenplay gets to play God here.
If the writer says she was merely dreaming, she was dreaming.
If the writer says she died and her particular version of heaven was the grand staircase on the Titanic meeting Jack and the other passengers she knew and liked (but strangely not her husband), then she died and went to her heaven.
If the writer says Rose's brain was fabricating an illusion before death, than she was imagining it.
So the answer is there is no answer to your question.
What would you pay for a snifter of brandy recovered from the wreck? I have a figure in mind.
Hmm... sources say many bottles of alcohol could have survived the wreck to this day .
I don't know if calling it a dark secret past is fair. As you said, IBM was most likely unaware of how Germany was using imported technology, and I'm sure there were plenty of other countries who sold tech to Germany during those years.
Nazi Germany, as odd as it is now to think of it, was often admired by many nations during the rebuilding in the 1930s. What they accomplished was impressive. It wasn't until the mid 30s and later when news of the Holocaust became known and perception changed. Germany's sudden ignoring of the Treaty of Versailles and rebuilding their military machine also signaled Germany's change of direction.
If I sell my baseball bat to someone and he uses it to bash in his wife's skull with it, I will take zero guilt for whatever that nut did with the bat I sold him.
[quote]The nazis in most movies are portrayed as bumbling idiots with only a sense of "evil world domination".[/quote]
That and the genocide of anyone not of the father race.
While the bumbling part is exaggerated, they're otherwise pretty fair assessments actually.
Maybe, but her job was specifically to ensure the gun was safe when it was handed over the actor, so even if Baldwin is facing a sentence, it will likely be less than what Gutierrez received.
Probably in a strict liability sense perhaps he could be found guilty - it was Baldwin's circus. He would share culpability in her hiring surely. I think it's 50/50 Baldwin gets acquitted, and if he does get convicted, it will be a suspended sentence.
It was interesting to read the judge's comments that Gutierrez took no accountability in the accident. Given Baldwin's history, I wonder if he'll be smart enough to screw on a expression of remorse during his trial.
I don't totally disagree, but I can tell you that my sister in law has an adopted sister who came to their family at 13 years old (very old for an adoption) and that her upbringing was horrible although not one of physical abuse at least. She is one of the nicest and sweetest people you will ever meet.
I am not a fan of Pacino. At all.
But he was the right choice in this role. He hadn't yet turned into the hilarious caricature of himself (fortunately) until later.
I believe everyone is born with a conscience which is there, sometimes buried deeply admittedly, in any person regardless of their upbringing. As bad as his upbring was, the Thasians never taught him cruelty or to murder.
Charlie never showed an inkling of remorse for even the very horrible things he did until the Thasians were taking him back.