Amentep

Old thread - Also -

You still do that with voter rolls though, since you can only vote at that location. Extra layers sometimes just add more exploitable gaps rather than more security. It might, but it'd also theoretically gives people the ability to create airtight frames of innocent people if they're able to access your DNA profile.

Manga artist Kazuo Umezu aka Kazuo Umezz passed away Oct 28. Works included The Drifting Classroom, My Name is Shingo and Cat Eyed Boy. https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/obituaries/20241105-220631/

Hong Kong actress, Lily Li

The juror #2 trailer looked more interesting than its synopsis did to me when it was announced.

Just because he wants there to be a cast of exciting young people, he still has to motivate it with story.

I watched Megalopolis (2024). Part 70s arthouse film, part 70s does the 30s film (like The Great Gatsby (1974) or Day of the Locust (1975); it swings for the fences and I wouldn't say always makes it, but it was a fun watch. Also rewatched Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001). I saw the shorter release in the theaters so hadn't seen the director's cut which I think makes some little things clearer. I also saw Wing Commander on opening day, watched the whole thing and have never played a Wing Commander game. 😄 They're not really colonists in the sense of people colonizing a frontier though; they're families brought into an existing mining colony on a labor contract who decide that they want to escape their world for a system not run by Weyland-Yutani. Its not even clear if they actually accepted the terms of the work contract or were born into it since all of the youths had parents who worked on work contracts for the company and our heroine, Rain, seems to have inherited her dad's debts. Its also unclear if any of them can actually satisfy the work contract since Rain's was extended arbitrarily by the company without explanation.

I saw Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and Alien: Resurrection on a double bill when they were released. Lol.

Yeah Kazuo Umezz = Kazuo Umezu. Not sure why he gets credited both ways. I haven't read Orochi yet it's on my to read pile (with a couple of Ito books).

John Amos, a very good actor

Pete Rose, baseball player

I'm guessing then you've never read Kazuo Umezz? I quite enjoyed his Cat-Eyed Boy stories and The Drifting Classroom (Ito homages the later with his The Disolving Classroom). Have you tried any of Ito's short works? Maybe that would work better than long-form stories?

There's a time limit for editing, so after a certain point you'll need to just add a new post.

I think its Ito's best long form story, but then I'm a sucker for Cosmic Horror.

Dikembe Mutombo, baketball player

My memory is that he was a TV director who had a moneymaker lowbudget film (The Delinquents) that after a couple of middling results with other films got hired to direct M*A*S*H* which was a huge critical and commercial success. This led to a string of critically acclaimed but poor box office films (like Brewster McCloud, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, the Long Goodbye) mild hits (Nashville) and a major flop (Quintet). Because of the critical acclaim, he had a lot of admirers in Hollywood (like Ladd Company head, Alan Ladd jr) so continued to be sought after, but often with an attempt to attach him to a more commercial project. Comic based properties were hot in the late 70s. Robert Evans lost a bidding war over Annie which was already a popular Broadway musical, so decided to make his own comic strip movie musicsl and settled on Popeye. He hired Jules Fieffer, a well known cartoonist and fan of E. C. Segar's THIMBLE THEATER, where Popeye debuted. Evans planned for Dustin Hoffman to play Popeye, Lily Tomlin as Olive Oyl, and for it to be directed by John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy, Marathon Man). After all those people dropped out or passed (excepting Feiffer), Altman's people put him forward as the project was commercial but also playing to his strengths in ensemble storytelling. It was a huge hit but the troubles in production - clashes between Altman and Evans, between Altman and Williams (who threatened to walk), Altman and Harry Nilsson (who did walk), a number of script changes (including removal of the original end that would have had Bluto working for the Sea Hag, leading to a confrontation between her and Popeye), a storm that destroyed sets and a mechanical octopus that didn't work - would ensure that a sequel was never considered. Altman then settled into a pattern of critically acclaimed films with poor or middling box office punctuated by the occasional hit (Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Gosford Park, The Player, Prêt-à-Porter).