Also, in Superman:TAS Luthor's valet/bodyguard is name Mercy. In the script it's Misty. Is there a Mercy/Misty character in the comics?
Yeah, Mercy crossed over into the comics.
Where'd they get CAT scan from?... I mean, did they test it on cats? Or does the machine sort of look like a cat?
Dawn ,'Sleeper'
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P.M. Marc - Jul 06, 2006 12:12:32 pm PDT #2731 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Kalshane - Jul 06, 2006 12:22:59 pm PDT #2732 of 10001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Yeah, Mercy crossed over into the comics.
The DCAU, your number one source for female sidekicks to established villians!
I'm curious, then, why KS changed the name to Misty.
Polter-Cow - Jul 06, 2006 12:42:41 pm PDT #2733 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, Mercy crossed over into the comics.
She was also in a Smallville episode, I think.
Cashmere - Jul 06, 2006 12:44:07 pm PDT #2734 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I've noticed the first sign that I'm getting older.... the average age of men I'm attracted to (be they famous or no) is going up.
I figured I was in trouble when I saw Bill Nighy in Love, Actually.
megan walker - Jul 06, 2006 1:30:39 pm PDT #2735 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Snakes on a Plane in French poster
How sad that the tagline in French reverts to the plain-old "relax, sit back, and enjoy the flight" instead of the play on words.
DavidS - Jul 06, 2006 8:16:22 pm PDT #2736 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So we've got new movie channels in our digital cable thicket.
Retroplex! Iplex!
Retroplex picked up the stupidest movie but I had to get it for the title alone: Old Dracula.
(And yet it took me half the movie to realize this was a play on Young Frankenstein.)
David Niven. Dracula comedy. Except not funny. Except sort of Hammer Horror-ish. 1974. Groovy 70s London. Blacksploitation with Vampira played by Teresa Graves (Get Christy Love, I think). Great production values. Retarded script. (So, the opposite of BBC genre productions of the seventies.)
I didn't even know this movie existed.
Ailleann - Jul 07, 2006 3:42:05 am PDT #2737 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
When fandom collides... friend B left a voicemail at 2:30am about PotC... "There were monkeys! Terrifying space monkeys! It was the best movie ever! I don't remember much else, but... monkeys!!"
So... people who are seeing it today have that to look forward to...
IAmNotReallyASpring - Jul 07, 2006 4:02:04 am PDT #2738 of 10001
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
And just in case they don't like hotlinking
What exactly is hotlinking?
tommyrot - Jul 07, 2006 4:02:55 am PDT #2739 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
There were monkeys! Terrifying space monkeys!
Is there ever any other kind of space monkey?
Also, has there ever been a movie about a monkey sent into space that came back... wrong? Like, The Space Chimp's Wife ? And no, Burton's remake of Planet of the Apes doesn't count. Just because.
Fred Pete - Jul 07, 2006 4:04:02 am PDT #2740 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
One for the Unjustly Forgotten Screwball Comedies Department -- He Married His Wife.
Two years ago, Valerie (Nancy Kelly) and Randy (Joel McCrea) married. One year ago, she divorced him because he was obsessed with horse racing and his stable of race horses.
Now, Randy is tired of paying $1500 a month (in 1940 dollars) in alimony, which Valerie doesn't really need. So when Ethel Hilary (Mary Boland) invites Randy, Valerie, and Randy's old friend Paul (Lyle Talbot) -- as well as Randy's lawyer, Willie (Roland Young) -- to her country house for a long weekend, Randy decides to encourage Paul and Valerie to marry each other. Not that Paul needs much encouragement, having loved Valerie for years. But then mysterious Latin lover Freddie (Cesar Romero) becomes attracted to Valerie. Yoga buff Dickie (Elisha Cook, Jr.) and Ethel's niece Doris (Mary Healy) complete the menagerie. Comedy ensues.
Loads of fun. If you've seen The Women, you know Boland's style (she's the Countess who's always talking about "l'amour"). She's equally entertaining here as the much-married mistress of the huge country place. Cook has too few moments as the junior Gandhi. Kelly balances her pursuers nicely. McCrea fumes well when it looks like Freddie is getting somewhere -- and has a pratfall that rivals his getting out of bed in Palm Beach Story.
Main weaknesses -- The movie is of its time as to gender politics (especially when McCrea tries to put his foot down), but many movies are a lot worse. Talbot never shows any real presence, and it isn't clear why anyone thinks Valerie might want to marry Paul.
Still, it's a very entertaining hour and a half. And a chance to see Boland outside The Women.