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By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, September 10, 2023 - 02:02 pm: Edit

REQUEST FOR CROWDHELP

I remember watching an old movie or tv show, might have been an episode of Hawaii Five Oh. There was a trial about a woman played by a famous actress. Jack Lord was in it. The woman claimed she had a machine that could tell lots of things about your health from one drop of blood. She was accused of fraud. At the key dramatic moment of the trial, she offered to prove her machine worked. She got Lord’s character to put a drop of his blood on a white card. He does so but accidentally fumbled the card and dropped it on the floor. He reached down and picked up the card and gave it to the actress who stuck it in the machine. Moments later she read off a report predicting future medical issues and an early death. Case proven! Then Jack Lord revealed that the card he had given her was stained with red vegetable dye in front of witnesses hours earlier. The real card was still with him. She was sentenced to prison.

If this sounds like the Theranos/Holmes fiasco, you see why I am asking. Help me find it please.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, September 10, 2023 - 02:21 pm: Edit

I think it was Hawaii Five-0 episodes 1-21/22 Once Upon A Time in February 1969 starring Jack Lord and Joanne Linville.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, September 10, 2023 - 02:33 pm: Edit

Yes, confirmed, that is it.

By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Sunday, September 10, 2023 - 02:50 pm: Edit

And Joanne Linville was the Romulan commander in the TOS episode "The Enterprise Incident."

--Mike

By Mike Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Saturday, September 23, 2023 - 02:47 pm: Edit

Reminds me of when Petrick threatened to wear bicycle shorts for a flight.

https://boingboing.net/2023/09/22/tsa-officer-gives-invasive-pat-down-to-man-in-skin-tight-shorts.html

By Michael F Guntly (Ares) on Tuesday, September 26, 2023 - 09:38 pm: Edit

I did not see it till now, but I just saw that yesterday we lost David Mccallum, aka Ilya Kuryakin, aka "Ducky" Mallard from natural causes at age 90.

I will miss him.

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Wednesday, September 27, 2023 - 10:44 am: Edit

Ashley-Pitt. The Great Escape.

Sapphire and Steele.

Thank you for your body of work. May you rest in peace.

By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Wednesday, September 27, 2023 - 06:11 pm: Edit

My wife is very sad as well.. She had the Hots for him as a teen...

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, October 19, 2023 - 02:39 pm: Edit

STAR TREK CONTINUES
I may be the only one who doesn't know about this already but if there is anyone else who doesn't know...
There are eleven episodes of "Star Trek Continues" on YouTube. These were done with Paramount blessing and are more or less canon TOS episodes. Same characters, new cast. The guy playing Kirk is good, the guy playing Scotty is the son of the guy who played Scotty, Grant Imahara from Mythbusters plays Sulu.
Episode 3 is all in the mirror universe and is Spock's revolution played out.
The ship now has a holodeck (unlikely) and a counselor (might be plausible).
It is very good, very true to TOS, well worth the time to watch.

By Shawn Hantke (Shantke) on Thursday, October 19, 2023 - 03:37 pm: Edit

The holodeck first appeared in the Star Trek The Animated Series episode "The Practical Joker."

A set tour is on my bucket list. https://neutralzonestudios.com/set-visits/

By Nick Samaras (Koogie) on Thursday, October 19, 2023 - 04:14 pm: Edit

And there were to be more episodes before Paramount made the fan productions shut down in favor of their own inferior product called Discovery.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, October 19, 2023 - 05:31 pm: Edit

I have said before, were I running Paramount my idea of "fan production guidelines" would be "You will sell them to me, I will put them on Paramount Plus, you will be paid a royalty, we're gonna have to approve scripts in advance."

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Friday, October 20, 2023 - 09:14 am: Edit

Last weekend Todd and I attended the Star Trek II theatrical review of the movie with W. Shatner coming out to talk post show. It was great however the garbage actor/writer strike converged on the 92 year old before the show and told him he was not to say the names of the movie/show. This really negatively affected the experience for many who paid to come see.

They really want to tighten the screws on a 92 year old man who was in a 40 year old movie / 60 year old TV series from answering questions about working with actors and production teams who are mostly dead? What is wrong with the world?

When asked what was the funniest things that ever happened on set his answer was diverted to the non-trek episode where he chased Terry Bradshaw after opening a can of fermented fish. Funny to be sure but the crowd was there to talk about the show.

The main point for me was spending time with buddy Todd (as he and I learned SFB together in the 1980s and F&E together in the 1990s), so that was achieved...we don't see each other much now that I live on the West Coast and he is still in the Midwest.

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Friday, October 20, 2023 - 11:19 am: Edit

Sadly for anyone who would like to see more episodes of STAR TREK CONTINUES, Grant Imahara passed away from an unexpected stroke about a year ago, IIRC.

By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Friday, October 20, 2023 - 06:17 pm: Edit

A nice tribute to Grant Imahara:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPJuB9a-QqM

--Mike

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, October 28, 2023 - 10:58 am: Edit

Snow White (the new Disney movie) has been delayed to 2025, maybe due to the strike or maybe to totally rewrite the script and replace the entire cast.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Saturday, October 28, 2023 - 03:51 pm: Edit

There was a story posted by a main stream media site referencing the Snow White (New Disney Movie) explaining why the movie had to be delayed to 2025.

First, they had massive reshooting whole scenes to replace all of the Seven Dwarves. I may not repeat why, as it crosses into the swamp. ((Heck,it floods the swamp under many feet of political incorrectness.)

They also had to replace many computer graphics scenes with live action shots of costumed characters due to highly negative test screening numbers that were far outside of the expected results.

Apparently, Disney decided to retain the actress cast in the Role of Snow White. Jury is still out as to just how wise that decision will turn out to be.

What makes this odd, is that the Modern retelling of the Snow White story, including “new social norms” intended to educate modern audiences, failed every test screening that was conducted, so much so that had they released the movie as originally scheduled, the result would have been a legendary monumental flop that would have plunged to a new record depth in economic loss history.

Movie studios have been forced into bankruptcy before. It remains to be seen if the mouse kingdom will survive wokeness.

By Joseph Jackson (Bonneville) on Saturday, October 28, 2023 - 07:27 pm: Edit

Sounds like it will release about the same time as the Daily Wire's version of Snow White. Who knew snow white/snow white would be the next Dantes Peak/Volcano, or Wyatt Earp/Tombstone.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, October 28, 2023 - 08:22 pm: Edit

The story is all over the part of the media that reports on the media. In some versions, the actress was fired. In others, she hangs by a thread under threat of instant firing if she mouths off in front of a camera again. In some versions they will go back to actual dwarves. They won't restart shooting for months, as they need a new script with a love story and a prince charming, things eliminated from the original version, or the audiences won't accept it.

There was a very strong Snow White character on that TV show that was on for years about magical kingdoms and stuff (ONCE UPON A TIME) and the show was very popular because it was a love story with several strong but imperfect women, not just perfect women who never had to learn anything.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, October 28, 2023 - 11:23 pm: Edit

THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING (UK)
TARGET EARTH (US)
These two ancient scifi movies have the same synopsis if not really the same plot. They are both on YouTube.

In the US version, alien robots land north of a big city and march to conquer it. The government evacuates the city but a few people get left behind for various reasons. They band together to survive while the government seeks a way to deal with the robots.

In the UK version, aliens spread poison gas over a huge chunk of the UK or maybe the entire world. A few people survive for various reasons and band together. They figure out a plan to stop the alien robots and set out to give it a try.

Either one is worth the watch. Seeing them back to back is kinda fun.

By Alan Trevor (Thyrm) on Monday, November 27, 2023 - 03:44 pm: Edit

I saw the Joaquin Phoenix movie "Napoleon" over the Thanksgiving weekend.

Not recommended, if you care about actual history.

It's not the worst thing of its type I've seen, but it certainly wasn't good. In particular (and probably of most interest to people on this board), the battle scenes emphasized cinematography but displayed almost no sense of Napoleonic warfare, or about the course of the actual battles shown. They were clealy going for "spectacle", regardless of whether it had anything to do with how the battles were conducted. The Waterloo battle scenes were perhaps slightly less egregious. But that's a low bar.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Monday, November 27, 2023 - 04:47 pm: Edit

Alan Trevor:
In all honesty, thanks. I was quietly hoping I would have some opportunity to see it based on a report posted on my phone (a review) that said they had put the actors through a school so they would know how to act like soldiers. If they will not at least do that much, I am not interested.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Monday, November 27, 2023 - 06:21 pm: Edit

I also went to see the movie.

The term “very loosely base on true story” comes to mind.

There was a subplot concerning the need for a male heir of Napoleon that included a substantial amount of film time/footage.

Not the most explicit movie I have ever seen, but definitely not for children. They spent nearly as much time and film as they had of the various battles.

Concerning the battles depicted, it appeared that all the armies involved used virtually the same tactics. Massed lines of troops marching forward in unison.

Can’t recall a single case of the French troops attacking in column, which may be standard for “the thin red line” of the British, but doesn’t seem to be historically accurate.

Since the movie was set in the years between 1792 AD and 1821 AD, it seems odd that the early war French troops showed remarkable discipline given the purge the officer corps and the large mobilization of untrained personnel into the army.

But I could be wrong about that.

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 10:40 am: Edit

The Oppenheimer movie was more of the same. If, by some chance, someone on this board hasn't seen "Oppenheimer," then don't.

I know a lot about the real history (having grown up in a science-based household and having studied physics in college myself). The movie was absolutely atrocious, with total disregard for the truth and completely unnecessary and extended sexual content. The movie was also disjointed, jumping from time to time in the real Oppenheimer's life in a confusing morass that left little in the way of plot - other than "we are under a time pressure to build the bomb."

These so-called "biopics" ignore reality to simply maximize the amount of raw sex, violence, and social conflict with utterly no regard to reality.

So, THANK you Alan. You confirmed what I suspected, so I will waste neither my time nor my money on this drek.