You may not know the name of W.G. Grace in the US, but it’s a sure bet that, if you’re on this board, you’ve seen his face.
Looks about as feminine as Hugh Laurie.
I was just visiting some friends who have Roku TVs, and I paid attention. I found three different clock towers in the panorama (two in the front layer, one in the back), and all three were showing different times, none of them right. I think one of them was the one from Back to the Future, so it makes sense that that one would show the time from the movie, but that doesn’t explain the other two.
Does the Roku background still have King Kong on a building and Mary Poppins floating around?
Are you talking about the “screen saver” that plays when you’re idle for a while, or the image at the top of the home screen? I never paid attention to the clocks in the former (if it’s playing, I’m probably not in the room), but the one in the latter is definitely showing the correct time for me.
I recently rewatched Crimson Tide. There’s a scene were Ramsey (Gene Hackman) is demanding the aptly-named Weps (Viggo Mortensen) to open the safe that contains a launch key (I think). Weps refuses, and Ramsey aims his sidearm at Weps’ head, then realizes it’s not going to do any good to threaten to shoot Weps. So he graps a nearby sailor and presses the barrel into his face, and tells Weps again to open the safe.
I never noticed before, but the sailor is Scott Grimes (Party of Five, ER, Band of Brothers, The Orville).
Staubach had previously used “Hail Mary” describing a against Michigan on (Oct. 5, 1963). Although it did result in a completion, it didn’t go for much–let alone a game-winning TD–so it didn’t catch on. Didn’t matter as Navy won rather handily 26-13.
He retreated, dodged, and raced from one side of the field to the other. Finally 20 yards behind the line of scrimmage, the Navy quarterback sighted fullback Pat Donnelly upfield and released a pass as he disappeared in a mob of tacklers.
Donnelly caught it 21 yards from where Staubach fell, and Navy had a one-yard gain to show for all that excitement.
“That,” Staubach told the TV announcer, “was a Hail Mary play.”
He’s also the voice of Steve Smith on American Dad.
I wasn’t in the Navy but I’m pretty sure “Weps” isn’t a name it’s a title. Short for Weapons Officer.
Or “Grimey,” as he likes to be called.
According to IMDB, the character is Peter “Weps” Ince.
I was talking about the screen saver. I’ve never paid attention to the home screen, and didn’t notice that it also showed a cityscape.
The screenplay introduces him as
…the WEAPONS OFFICER (known on board as WEPS) – LT. PETER INCE, in charge of the Trident Nuclear Missiles. WEPS is a classic American kid – cocky.
A few days ago, watching an episode that involved Steve singing. I realized most of his songs are 90’s-ish R&B type songs, but more importantly Scott Grimes is a really good singer. There’s quite a few youtube videos of him singing, going all the way back to when he was a kid.
A few days ago, I was watching some 30 Rock clips and ran across the one where Liz realizes she looks just like her (too young) boyfriend’s mom.
I was curious who was playing the mom and it turns out she’s in over a hundred episodes of 30 Rock, as Tina Fey’s stand in.
In the Kill Bill movies, Beatrix Kiddo had an almost perfect record in hand fighting and blade fighting — killing or maiming over 50 people. (She “lost” to her Master.) However she was successfully shot on three occasions, and very nearly shot two other times (in a suburban kitchen and through a door.)
The moral is that when fighting a super assassin, use a gun. (And don’t just shoot to incapacitate.)
Quote from a video game I play, “He who lives by the sword gets shot by he who doesn’t”.
Have I mentioned how Kill Bill, including some deleted scenes, was obviously inspired by Tarantino playing a lot of Bushido Blade? But that you realize not after the millionth time, but the first time.
(Now, on second (or millionth) thought, what influenced Bushido Blade? More likely, he was familiar with the OG stuff)
It’s significant that in Akira Kurasawa’s classic The Seven Samurai it’s the Master Swordsman Kyuzo (Seiji Miyaguchi) who dies by being shot with one of the few rifles the bandits have.
Interestingly, his counterpart in the Western remake, The Magnificent Seven is played by James Coburn, who looks surprisingly similar to Miyaguchi. They didn’t have swordsmen in the Old West, but Britt, Coburn’s character, is a knife thrower as well as a gun slinger. And, although he significantly outdraws his gun-wielding opponent in his first encounter onscreen, he gets killed by being shot by bandits, too, his last knife throw going uselessly astray.
Well…
Nitpick: Musket, and a matchlock musket at that.
IIRC there were only two and Kikuchyo (Mifuni’s samurai wannabe) stole one when he visited the bandit camp.
From what I’ve read, it was supposed to be a bullwhip vs. scimitar fight but Ford was sick with the flu that day and didn’t feel up to it. He told Spielberg, “Look, he’s not that stupid, he’s rescuing his girlfriend, and he’s yet to use the pistol he carries.”