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There already is a Dirty Politics board here. The flame wars burned it to the ground.
Anything good in it was looted and posted elsewhere.
Read books by Robert McKee on screenplays. He has run a three-day seminar for decades:
Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting (1997)
Dialogue: the Art of Verbal Action for Stage, Page and Screen (2016)
Storynomics: Story-Driven Marketing in the Post-Advertising World (2018)
I've read the first book and it's excellent. That book and McKee's seminar were hilariously featured in the R-rated <i>Adaptation.</i> (2002), written by Charlie Kaufman and his fictional twin brother, Donald. The film is about a lovelorn screenwriter who becomes desperate, as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.
Flip the jar upside down, so the oil sitting on top sifts down to the bottom. Let it sit for a few days.
Peanut butter is good bait to catch mice in a mouse trap. Unless you do this instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk1ue1tolFc
<b>"I Heard It Through the Grapevine"</b>
First recorded by <i>The Miracles</i> (Smokey Robinson) August 16, 1966, but not released until 1968. Sorry, not first release.
First released by <b>Gladys Knight & the Pips</b> and released as a single in September 1967; it went to number two in the Billboard chart. At the time, it was the biggest hit in the history of Motown Records. This is more upbeat than the Marvin Gaye version. It's more of a dance version. Gladys Knight, now 76, had a popular new tour after recently finishing #3 in the first TV season of The Masked Singer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqmS961An4c
The <b>Marvin Gaye</b> version was on his 1968 album <i>In the Groove</i>, where it gained the attention of radio disc jockeys. Motown founder Berry Gordy released as a single in October 1968, when it went to the top of the Billboard Pop Singles chart for seven weeks from December 1968 to January 1969 and became at the time the biggest Motown hit single. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hajBdDM2qdg
<i>Creedence Clearwater Revival</i> made an 11-minute interpretation for their 1970 album, Cosmo's Factory.
The lyrics tell the story of the singer's feelings of betrayal and disbelief when hearing of their significant other's infidelity, only indirectly "through the 'grapevine'". The phrase is associated with black slaves during the USA's Civil War, who had their form of telegraph: the human grapevine.
The husband from the basement comes out and murders Ki-jung, Kim's daughter. The police would want to know who he was and where he came from. "Where did he live?" Why would his wife not tell them about the basement then? She and Kim's wife were the only ones, at that point, who could do that.
Nobody but Kim knew (at that point) that he'd gone to the basement to hide.
Don Jon (2013)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
I Am Not A Witch (2017)
It's showing Kawada_Kira one minute earlier on my screen.
Fruitvale Station (2013)
I just noticed that I wasn't posting a Reply to each guess, that a hint was added. The guesses got ahead of me and I just posted the new hints.
I got bogged down on "1917," It was too new, it had higher ratings, and lots of them, and I couldn't find much in common. I wasn't going to post "same director" to Taxi Driver, as it would be a dead giveaway. I wanted to post Comedy, but I didn't get a chance.
Since I only saw two of these guessing games, I didn't know if I could use Golden Globe nominations or Metascore rating. Martin Scorsese won Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival.
WINNER. I loved this film. A dark comedy directed by Martin Scorsese, run time 1 hour and 37 minutes!
New guessing game #1063 posted!
So when you set one up, there is no initial hint at all? It's just a wild guess by the first reply?
I looked at this game before anyone posted.
I was on IMDB's message boards for years, but I don't remember if I used this user name. I haven't logged in there since they closed the message boards.
I looked at one last night. I was about to post something, but someone else guessed the correct answer.
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
Singer/actor Bobby Sherman left the public spotlight and became an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). He volunteered with the Los Angeles Police Department, working with paramedics and giving CPR and first aid classes.
Too bad that he wasn't recently working with the cops in Minneapolis.
1. Alien (1979)
2. Goldfinger (1964)
3. Juggernaut (1974)
4. Galaxy Quest (1999)
5. High Noon 1951
6. Face/Off (1997)
7. The Getaway (1994)
8. Man on Fire (2004)
9. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
1. Alien (1979)
2. Goldfinger (1964)