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[Runwildboys]

Little Rock Arkansas is bigger than Boulder Colorado.

LMAO!

 

[Runwildboys]

Little Rock Arkansas is bigger than Boulder Colorado.

Is it just a bizarre coincidence that you mentioned Boulder, Colorado just 19 minutes after I mentioned it in the 3 words thread?

 

[Londonboy]

Is it just a bizarre coincidence that you mentioned Boulder, Colorado just 19 minutes after I mentioned it in the 3 words thread?

I'm always watching

 

[Runwildboys]

I'm always watching

Stalker................You really are in London, right?

 

[Londonboy]

Stalker................You really are in London, right?

I'm Everywhere, welcome to the Cyber Age.

 

[Runwildboys]

Um, on a completely out of the blue, unrelated to anything note: I'm cancelling my internet connection.

 

[csirl]

Troy Aikman and Rodney Peete played QB in the January 1989 Hula Bowl college allstar game.

 

[timb2]

Troy Aikman and Rodney Peete played QB in the January 1989 Hula Bowl college allstar game.

I was at that game

 

[timb2]

In Victorian England, middle class people could not afford to hire artists to paint portraits of their families. So, when photography became popular, people decided to get family photos done. However, if someone died, and the family didn’t have a chance to get the photo done yet, they would prop up the dead body and take the family photo anyway----source Scary Facts That Will Give You Nightmares.


I won't post photos but I will give a link if you want to see for yourself
http://sfglobe.com/?id=17572

 

[timb2]

In the 1970’s and 80’s, over 100 healthy people suddenly died in their sleep. Their families couldn’t explain it. Wes Craven was inspired by this idea, and it helped him to create Nightmare on Elm Street, where the villain finds and kills people in their dreams.---source Scary Facts That Will Give You Nightmares.

 

[paladin]

Alien Trivia from IMDB
Ridley Scott stated that in casting the role of Ripley, it ultimately came down to Sigourney Weaver and Meryl Streep. The two actresses had been college mates at Yale. Ultimately, Weaver was offered the job because Streep was mourning the death of her partner John Cazale at the time of casting.

 

[DallasEast]

I'm Everywhere, welcome to the Cyber Age.

 

[DallasEast]

Alien Trivia from IMDB
Ridley Scott stated that in casting the role of Ripley, it ultimately came down to Sigourney Weaver and Meryl Streep. The two actresses had been college mates at Yale. Ultimately, Weaver was offered the job because Streep was mourning the death of her partner John Cazale at the time of casting.

That is extremely sad to read but I am also forever thankful Weaver won that legendary role. 'Streep as Ridley'? I... just threw up a little in my mouth.

 

[Runwildboys]

Alien Trivia from IMDB
Ridley Scott stated that in casting the role of Ripley, it ultimately came down to Sigourney Weaver and Meryl Streep. The two actresses had been college mates at Yale. Ultimately, Weaver was offered the job because Streep was mourning the death of her partner John Cazale at the time of casting.

THANK YOU!!!!

 

[cowboyec]

Steve McQueen was Spielberg's first choice to play the lead in Close Encounters.
McQueen turned him down saying..."I can't cry...and I think this character cries alot...I just can't get myself to cry."

 

[DallasEast]

Steve McQueen was Spielberg's first choice to play the lead in Close Encounters.
McQueen turned him down saying..."I can't cry...and I think this character cries alot...I just can't get myself to cry."

Trying to remember if Richard Dreyfuss (sp?) did a lot of crying in the film. I do recall him doing his fair share of gasping and grinning hysterically though.

I cannot imagine McQueen sculpting and landscaping a mountain on a family dining table either.

 

[Runwildboys]

Steve McQueen was Spielberg's first choice to play the lead in Close Encounters.
McQueen turned him down saying..."I can't cry...and I think this character cries alot...I just can't get myself to cry."

Trying to remember if Richard Dreyfuss (sp?) did a lot of crying in the film. I do recall him doing his fair share of gasping and grinning hysterically though.

I cannot imagine McQueen sculpting and landscaping a mountain on a family dining table either.

I don't think McQueen would've been a good fit for the movie. Glad he turned it down.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

Micronesia isn't the smallest country in the world.

 

[Xelda]

I don't think McQueen would've been a good fit for the movie. Glad he turned it down.

I think McQueen would have changed the entire feel of the movie. It could have been amazing. Dreyfuss was a fluid actor with a common touch. McQueen would have brought his own personal stamp much like John Wayne did in his movies. If Steve McQueen builds a mesa with mashed potatoes, you know something's going on. Richard Dreyfuss? Oh, that's just Richard being Richard. The only thing I'd have a problem with is McQueen didn't seem the yielding type to submit to aliens for what ever probing they had up their sleeves (not without a gun and several rounds of ammunition). You saw the people getting off that spacecraft. It's the same look people have when leaving the proctologist's office.

 

[Xelda]

In Victorian England, middle class people could not afford to hire artists to paint portraits of their families. So, when photography became popular, people decided to get family photos done. However, if someone died, and the family didn’t have a chance to get the photo done yet, they would prop up the dead body and take the family photo anyway----source Scary Facts That Will Give You Nightmares.


I won't post photos but I will give a link if you want to see for yourself
http://sfglobe.com/?id=17572

I can understand their reasoning as that's the only physical reminder they'll ever have of a deceased loved one. It's ghoulish to us because photos are common. I will from this day forward be forever grateful that no dead relative were stacked against me for a picture.