Yeah, but rats nibbling on your toes is always gross.

One thing that still bothers me is when the ice gives way and first we see the poor wolf scrambling pathetically to get out and failing, and then Matthew Broderick in the water with a panicking canine scrambling all over him. They were out in real nature, giant mountains, giant frozen lake, how was any of that safe?! I once had a little American Eskimo that would go swimming, but would always want to climb on me or whomever else was near and tear us to shreds just swimming near us, let alone trying to sit on our heads.

eep! (from the imdb trivia page)

In one scene, Navarre tells Philippe to ride his horse to Imperius' castle and slaps the horse's rear to make it ride. However, the first time the scene was filmed, Rutger Hauer (Navarre) slapped the horse too hard and it took off over the hill and off into the horizon. The horse was too powerful for Matthew Broderick to stop, so all everyone could do was sit and wait for him to come back.

Well, Rutger has always been...robust. A TVGuide reporter who interviewed him for Escape from Stobivor described him merely walking across the compound, looking like he was stamping out tarantulas. That's how I always think of Hauer--stamping out tarantulas.

Prospect Park, actually.

... I was at the same theater, assuming you mean the Pavilion on the west side of the park. Did you see the 2 pm showing? I don't remember anybody yelling about babies, though I do vaguely remember a baby.

I wasn't really paying attention to anything but the screen, though. Movie so good.

Yep, 2:00pm Sunday.

Ah, I was there on Saturday.

Oh, the unknown crossings that occur in NYC.

I really like that theater. I saw Slumdog Millionaire there too. I'll kind of miss it when the GF moves out of Park Slope.

Escape from Stobivor

Actually, it's Sobibor--seeing that TV movie got me into researching the Operation Reinhard death camps. The book the movie was based on is really excellent, BTW.

(Schlomo, the young goldsmith, escaped, joined the partisans, then moved to Brazil after the war. In his interview with the author, it is implied that he had something to do with the fact that one of the camp's head honchos, who had been arrested in Brazil in the 1960s but avoided extradition, died violently soon after his release from prison. Leon, the revolt leader played by Alan Arkin, was murdered in a pogrom and didn't live to VE day. The Soviet POW played by Rutger made it back to Russia only to be sent to the gulag simply for surviving the Germans.)

The Soviet POW played by Rutger made it back to Russia only to be sent to the gulag simply for surviving the Germans.

Ah, that Stalin, such a poster child for logic and reasonability.

Thank you Kathy. I relied on my spotty memory rather than looking it up, as I should have done. I'm glad you knew to correct it. It's historically important, and should be remembered correctly.