Well, yeah, but Louis XIV’s blue diamond was larger, so it’s obvious that they hacked off hunks of it to make the Hope.
Maybe they burned the pot roast.
The movie Gods & Generals begins with Robert E. Lee (Robert Duvall) riding in a carriage to D.C. where he’ll be offered command of the Army of the Potomac in the coming war. He looks like your… uh… general Lee pictures- dignified, gray/white beard, etc., except he’s in a blue uniform (perhaps they were going for the contrast). Any Civil War buff can tell you, though, that Lee didn’t look like that in early 1861. He’d have looked more like this- he didn’t have a beard until the winter of 1861, and his hair went gray during the war.
I’m always bothered when people cheat on their significant others while they’re close by. For instance, in Wilde, Oscar Wilde starts making out with and stipping another man while his wife is upstairs putting their kids to bed. I spent the entire scene cringing and expecting his wife to discover them since they didn’t even bother to find somewhere remotely private and they’re right at the bottom of the stairs. I seriously doubt that cheating spouses can get away with things like that in real life.
Turing Complete, I know this probably is an obvious one but:
Are you a mathematician by any chance?
[just asking out of interest, no quibble with your analyses]
It adds to the thrill, knowing that you might get caught.
Wilde’s wife was a Victorian lady. Maybe they were like those Indians who couldn’t see Columbus’s ships- when she saw two guys having sex she had no point of reference so she just saw the ferns and overstuffed sofas. 
In Finding Neverland there is a scene when a lamp in Kate Winslet’s home (ca. 1904) is obviously on a dimmer (the brightness comes and goes) that simulates Tinkerbell’s life-force while he’s telling her the story of Peter Pan. These didn’t exist in Edwardian homes (I don’t believe- if they did I’m sure somebody will correct me.)
Since it’s a gas giant, perhaps they were worried it would take out the Death Star with it, if it would take out the moon as well.
Because the Dark Side is clouding over, and probably because he has some way to mask his presence.
You mean like Axe body spray?
I haven’t seen the movie, but assuming this was an electric lamp (and not a gas lamp, which could certainly be dimmed by adjusting the gas flow), a proto-dimmer switch made from a rheostat is certainly possible, since the carbon rheostat had been invented some decades earlier, in 1872 by Edison.
The first recognizable dimmer switch was invented in 1892 by the altogether fascinating Granville T. Woods, for theatres. It’s not likely that a residential model was available in 1904, but remotely possible.
A nitpick of a nitpick of a nitpick in a nitpicking thread: Ashley Judd and Angelina Jolie are not interchangable (at least, not physically). Ashley is a bit shorter and has smaller breasts while Angelina has bigger lips and a lot more tattoos. (Yes, I know I care about this way more than I should.)
If we’re going to get anal about SNL sketches, there was this one show Alec Baldwin hosted that featured a “Family Feud” parody with Alec, the other Baldwin brothers, and the author James Baldwin (played by Tim Meadows) on one side. At no point during the sketch was it ever mentioned that James Baldwin had been dead for several years. When I saw it, I wondered how the SNL writers could have been so ignorant not to be aware of this fact but I then realized the sketch was so lame that I really shouldn’t let myself get so upset about it.
You didn’t notice Kim Basinger in there? What are you, gay?
Just kidding.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I did notice Kim Basinger in the sketch but I didn’t mention her in my post because the joke involved the last name “Baldwin” and the fact the only thing James Baldwin had in common with Alec, et al., was his last name (since James was an author rather than an actor, African-American, and–something the SNL writers apparently did not know–dead).
Oh, I dunno. Tim Meadows was dressed in an old-fashioned suit, so I guess they suspected.
I’m actually a high-school dropout. No really, I am.
Yes, thanks- it was 'sum of all fears" I didn’t like it that much… Like Ben, but he ain’t no Harrison Ford… no. nitpicking---- Angelina Jolie (ah, the joys of following her shenanigans are countless, thanks for all the fun moments AJ!!) wasn’t in double jeopardy, it was Ashley Judd, as was correctly pointed out. I’d be remiss if I didn’t add to that----- in the scene where Ashley Judd and Roma Maffia (her real name-great actress, too.) they were folding laundry- in the prison, and another time washing it…the clothes change colors as they are talking… that’s a goodie! (since when can you wear anything you want in prison?) Also there were some other small details I forget at the moment. Kudos to Bruce Greewood for going through the entire movie with a straight face! One up for JFK— he played him in "13 Days…
oh, this is good- it relates: Don’t you hate when they put taglines like this in the trailers, or reviews of movies?!:
Plot Outline: The film is set during the two-week Cuban missile crisis in October of 1962, and it centers on how President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and others handled the explosive situation.
I really do… 
Yes, thanks- it was 'sum of all fears" I didn’t like it that much… Like Ben, but he ain’t no Harrison Ford… no. nitpicking---- Angelina Jolie (ah, the joys of following her shenanigans are countless, thanks for all the fun moments AJ!!) wasn’t in double jeopardy, it was Ashley Judd, as was correctly pointed out. I’d be remiss if I didn’t add to that----- in the scene where Ashley Judd and Roma Maffia (her real name-great actress, too.) they were folding laundry- in the prison, and another time washing it…the clothes change colors as they are talking… that’s a goodie! (since when can you wear anything you want in prison?) Also there were some other small details I forget at the moment. Kudos to Bruce Greewood for going through the entire movie with a straight face! One up for JFK— he played him in "13 Days…
oh, this is good- it relates: Don’t you hate when they put taglines like this in the trailers, or reviews of movies?!:
Plot Outline: The film is set during the two-week Cuban missile crisis in October of 1962, and it centers on how President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and others handled the explosive situation.
I really do…
Sorry, didn’t mean to post that 2x…
Quote: Originally Posted by Superdude
Oh, who cares? They’re interchangable. And talentless.
ack!!! Not true. Though I do prefer Angelina, Ashley’s pretty good at times.
(there’s another new thread…lol.) 
Not to mention the fact that, in part two, they have a concert out in the desert. In Illinois.
It was a cultural desert.