There is 6 on the Gillette Fusion, but it’s five on one side for the “main shaving,” and a single blade on the back for trim work. I own one but only because it has that lone blade on the back. It makes trimming around the mouth, nose, and sideburns much easier.
In the opening scene of the first episode of Get Smart, an audience at a concert is disturbed by a phone ringing among them. It’s Max’s shoe phone, but the problem is now a real one.
Demolition Man also had Scott Peterson as one of the prisoners in cryo-freeze.
The movie is probably way off about President Arnold Schwarzenegger and the constitutional amendment that let him take the office. As I recall the amendment was somewhere up in the fifties while the actual constitution is only up to 27 amendments right now.
The whole premise of the Twilight Zone’s famous Eye of the Beholder episode seems ever more paradoxically real in the wake of what seems like the entire world’s unhealthy obsession with plastic surgery and a neurotc dysmorphia. I can point out Michael Jackson as the most recent example in popular consciousness… but the madness has no end…
On the “Burns and Allen” radio show George wanted to market frozen yogurt and diet beer, to everyone’s laughs.
On the Aussie soap opera “Prisoner” (AKA “Prisoner: Cell Block H”) in 1979, I wonder if this is where Ted Turner got his idea?
Noeline) How come she made the news? I never made the news
Bea) 'Cause if they put every petty crim on the news it’d be on 24 hours a day.
My wife sure can rehydrate a pizza.
In the 1984 movie Bachelor Party there’s a chase through a multiplex theater with 36 screens, at the time a funny extrapolation of theater complexes that had up to six or so screens. Today there are apparently a number of theaters with 30+ screens.
Eaton Center in Toronto had a multiplex with that many screens in 1979. It’s not even an extrapolation, although I don’t know of any such multiplexes in 1984 in the US.
In the episode of the show ‘Extas’ in which Kate Winslet plays herself she, at one point, states that the only way to get an Oscar these days is to be in a holocaust movie or to play a retarded character. Three years after the episode Kate Winslet got her first Oscar for her role in “The Reader”, a holocaust movie.
As mentioned, the final season of West Wing.
The charismatic first-term congressman (who happens to be not-white) against a senator with a liberal reputation who plays to his party’s greater demons to secure the election.
The Simpsons did an episode in which gambling was legalized in Springfield. German magicians performing at the casino were attacked by the white tiger in their act.
Huh. The theatre I go to has 30 screens. I didn’t even realize that was a big deal.
Was San Angeles even still part of California or United States? Cocteau was refered to as the Mayor-Governor and he was the one that rebuilt society after the great quake. Was it whole country supposed to be a nanny state gone while like SA?
I was trying to find a link to an Isaac Asimov short story, but for the life of me I can’t remember the name of it. The gist of the story is this - A man works as a pyschologist for the police department of some future nation/state. In this future world, everybody is equipped with a transmitter device that sends messages - voice or written - instantly to anybody. They’re like wristwatches, but with super-advanced computers and video screens installed.
The story starts by describing the man’s walk through the lobby of his office building. He gets a message from his wife reminding them of a social engagement. His son calls to beg some money from him. A supervisor reminds him to attend an important meeting, and so on, and so on.
Anyway, the man’s first patient is to be evaluated after being arrested for destruction of property and belligerent outbursts. The patient describes that he started his “rampage” when he threw out his “instant message” device, which had overwhelmed and dominated his life. He goes on to narrate how he felt free from constraints, and how he only attacked machines that he felt were ‘imprisoning him’ with their demands on his time.
The patient is led away, the man diagnoses him as mentally unbalanced - because anyone with a rational mind KNOWS how much these instant message devices have VASTLY IMPROVED the lives of everyone. EVERYBODY knows that!
The ironic end of the story is that the man is (by his own choice) bombarded with a perpetual stream of “instant messages” and thus, really is a slave to communication device.
Excepting the fact that the device Asimov described came strapped to the wrist, this story perfectly nails the “iphone/twitter” generation. But I can’t seem to find a link to it. This must ring a bell with somebody - I swear I’m not making this up!
I don’t remember it as an Isaac Asimov story, but I do remember seeing an almost identical story on one of those anthology series on TV once. I’m almost certain it wasn’t Twilight Zone (any incarnation), Night Gallery, or Outer Limits; for some reason I’m thinking Ray Bradbury Theater, although it doesn’t strike me as a Ray Bradbury-type story.
Okay, this was driving me nuts so I started searching. The show I saw was “The Murderer”, based on Bradbury’s story of the same name.
That might be it. I was sure it was an Asimov story, but then again it I read it in a faded, old SF anthology that had stories by both authors (and Heinlein and others from that era.) But the description of the story sounds spot on.
And given that it was written circa 1960, it’s pretty uncanny how accurately he predicted not just twittering, facebooking, etc., but the mindset of pro-IMers & anti-IMers that exists today.