Well there you go. I stand corrected.
FTR, never having handled a professional baseballer's cup, I do not know if they are now metal or some really hard plastic, but the subtext of the Gary Bell story as I read it (in a memoir by Jim Bouton) is that, at the time -- 1969 -- there was nothing to be done and it was the ringing steel cup or none at all, and that this untenable situation has been somehow remedied in the decades since.
(Bouton does mention one game where he was sitting around the dugout not wearing his cup, because as ita notes it's not that comfortable to wear, and whoops got called in to relieve immediately, and spent part of an inning on the mound cup-free, and quite terrified.)
Returning to the original topic, it amuses me no end to think of evildoers attacking Batman and his crotch emitting a nice, resonant middle C as a bad guy tries and fails to incapacitate him.
Yes, because slack-jawed bewilderment and having to work to catch up to speed are SO qualities I associate with John Constantine.
This movie has demons all over the place, right? Couldn't it spark a wave of creepy supernatural happenings that drive people out of the business like The Exorcist did?
Yes, because slack-jawed bewilderment and having to work to catch up to speed are SO qualities I associate with John Constantine.
Preach it, Matt. The only time I remember JC being even remotely befuddled was when Morpheus tapped him to help retrieve his dust. Even when Constantine's in over his head, he usually KNOWS that going in.
If anyone knows what's going on, it's Constantine. And even when he doesn't know, he usually keeps up a front. I occasionally like Keanu, but casting him as Constantine is as wrong as casting one of the Olsen twins as Eleanor d'Aquitaine in A Lion in Winter.
I occasionally like Keanu, but casting him as Constantine is as wrong as casting one of the Olsen twins as Eleanor d'Aquitaine in A Lion in Winter.
AND Pauley Shore as Henry.
eta Damn you, Sting, for getting too old!
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Ms Hepburn would rise from her grave in righteous wrath. Or I would act on her behalf.
Cheesiest movie lines:
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1. "Titanic": Leonardo DiCaprio's "I'm the king of the world!"
2. "Dirty Dancing": Patrick Swayze's "Nobody puts Baby in the corner."
3. "Four Weddings And A Funeral": Andie McDowell's "Is it still raining? I hadn't noticed."
4. "Ghost": Demi Moore's "Ditto," to Patrick Swayze's "I love you."
5. "Top Gun": Val Kilmer to Tom Cruise: "You can be my wingman anytime."
6. "Notting Hill": Julia Roberts' "I'm just a girl ... standing in front of a boy ... asking him to love her."
7. "Independence Day": Bill Pullman's "Today we celebrate our Independence Day!"
8. "Braveheart": Mel Gibson's "They may take our lives, but they will never take our freedom!"
9. "Jerry Maguire": Renee Zellweger to Tom Cruise: "You had me at hello."
10. "The Postman": A blind woman says to Kevin Costner: "You're a godsend, a savior." He replies: "No, I'm a postman."
5. "Top Gun": Val Kilmer to Tom Cruise: "You can be my wingman anytime."
There was fic about this, right?
