Police Academy?
Mission: Impossible, kinda.
Not actually a Halloween story, but close enough for country dancing: Some friends of the Mother Hen used to host a “Sound of Music” themed Christmas party every year. Their daughter was a pretty talented pianist and they would have a big singalong with food, warm cider and fellowship. Guests were encouraged to dress as someone from the show. So mama had dressed as Maria, a nun and a von Trapp girl in previous years. So, one year she decided to go as, I’m not making this up, Rolfe, the oldest girl’s love interest. Yeah, him. The Nazi. She even asked me if I thought it was in poor taste and I said something like “Mom, it’s all among friends, so don’t worry. No one thinks you’re a Nazi.” So Rolfe it is, including the armband w/ swastika. Well, whadoyaknow, as she’s dispatching she looks at her gas gauge and realizes it’s a little low. So she pulls in to a service station not really thinking about her armband. She called me the next day and said “I had the hardest time figuring out why the lady at the other pump was giving me the stinkeye.”
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John Barry was paid a flat rate for arranging the Bond theme and never got a penny in royalties as composer. All that money has been going to Monty Norman for all these years every single time it appears anywhere, which is a lot of places.
Who is Monty Norman, you may ask? He’s the guy who started work on the score for Dr. No and then bailed, leaving it to Barry to finish up. The Beat Girl soundtrack which precedes Dr. No by 2 years makes it pretty clear who was really responsible, although Barry lost the battle in court.
Barry went on to score the next dozen Bond films and a bazillion other highly regarded soundtracks. Norman never did anything else anybody remembers.
Here’s Barry’s best work in the franchise imo:
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Yikes.
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Need more Halloween kid pics.
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You gonna keep him?
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He’s shiny
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That’s dark.
https://twitter.com/InactionNever/status/1322693929045811200
I mean, it’s funny and all, but that dog is At Risk.
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I will share this with no editorial comment, except to say that it proves definitively that Sooners and Aggies are much stupider than Longhorns.
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PCL is pretty dreary, but the architecture library is very nice and the upper stacks of the life science library are a trip, jammed into the narrow tower of the main building.
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I can think of no quicker way to destroy my career than to appear in one of your crass adverts, except perhaps turning down the role of Morpheus in The Matrix, then of Gandalf in LOTR, then panicking and grabbing the first likely-looking franchise role of Alan Quatermain in fucking League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
You’re the man now dog,
Sean Connery
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He didn’t even open the hand for that slap.
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