Brand New Thoughts Series: If electrons orbit the nucleus of an atom like the planets orbit the sun, what if we’re all really just part of some atom in some whole other even bigger universe?
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October 22, 2014 | Permalink
Brand New Thoughts Series: What if we’re all living in a giant simulation within some enormous computer or something? how would we even know??
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October 22, 2014 | Permalink
Brand New Thoughts Series: We are all just a bunch of random beings living in this huge random universe with random outcomes that people call “luck” or “fate” but it’s really just the illusion of control
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October 22, 2014 | Permalink
TV intros: Sheep Dumpers (1990) and Austin Briggs, Child Detective (2004)
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September 30, 2014 | Permalink
A Cinematic History of 007: 52 Years of James Bond
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September 18, 2014 | Permalink
Deliverance (Director’s Cut)
Boorman had always understood the pivotal role of the character Little Gary in James Dickey’s story. It was the short-sightedness of Warner Brothers that caused the exclusion of Gary in the final edit. Even though principal photography had been completed, studio head Ted Ashley, after seeing a rough cut, demanded the removal of Little Gary. In an era before digital effects it was no small feat to remove a central character from a film, but as hard as he fought, Boorman was eventually forced to make the change or lose the film. After radical edits and some re-shoots, Boorman wrapped the cut in brown butcher’s paper and dropped it on Ashley’s desk, saying, “Tell the butcher his order is ready.”
Lynn Stalmaster reportedly told Little Gary before the release of the film “you may be a splinter now, but when people see your work in this movie, you’re going to be a sequoia!” With his part erased, Stalmaster’s prediction would not come to pass and Gary’s career stalled with only a few television parts to his credit before his disappearance in a 1981 Topanga Canyon bonfire.
A big thank you to research assistant Kyle McCulloch!
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September 15, 2014 | Permalink