I can’t remember the last time I saw someone hail a taxi by shouting “TAXI!”
I guess you’ve never seen me in downtown Toronto. That’s how I hail cabs there. I’ve also done it in New York and Chicago.
Whenever an NPR style radio show is portrayed on TV, they always show the guest physically in the studio with the host. Like in certain SNL sketches, and the first season of Orange is the New Black. I’m sure there are some exceptions, but my understanding is that in real life when they interview someone they usually conduct the interview over the phone, using a special high quality phone line. At most, the interviewee might be sitting in a studio in their home city, talking to the interviewer via said high quality phone connection. It’s probably easier to just show everyone in the same studio for storytelling purposes, but I really doubt everyone Terry Gross interviews travels to Philadelphia.
They do not. I heard an, ahem, interview of Terry Gross in which she said that she never had the guest in the same room, so that there would not be invisible-to-the-audience communication between them.
I have but it was just off the edge of the roof into the recycling can… I went to get a ball and the ladder I was using fell over … luckily it didn’t go as wrong as it could of…the trash can could have fallen over with me in it and since I’m taller than the trash can, my noggin could have bounced off the walkway on the side of the house
I took a 10 minute lecture on how dumb it was …
A visitor (police, attorney, friend, priest, or whatever) being allowed to see a prisoner in his or her cell at the correctional facility. For some reason, this is very common on TV and in movies. I’ve known prisoners/inmates, police investigators, and correction officers, all of whom say it never happens. I’m willing to admit it MIGHT happen, but I have strong doubts. I’ve gone to visit at prisons hundreds of times and never seen it.
That’s a good one for this thread. I, too, have visited prisoners many times. Usually in a room with glass partition and a phone. For more important visits, they put us in the same little “conference room.” I’ve never been to their cell.
Never been to a cell. Typically , I was at the jail to serve the inmate with legal documents and most of the time that would happen in the counsel visit area, where there were small individual rooms. But more than once, I was sent up to the housing unit to meet with the inmate in the day room.
I visited a friend and it was in a large common room with a lot of others at tabled visiting other inmates.
My friend said he enjoyed the visit, but would have to go through a cavity search to get back to the cell block.
It was an ordeal for me getting into the prison, one of the tough ones in Pennsylvania. I had to strip down pretty far for the search.
Seems to happen more frequently in British series, especially when the suspect has just been arrested and is in the local jail or police station. All discussions seem to take place at the cell door, including seeing friends, family, and clergy.
It’s easier to do a cell set. You don’t need any other actors besides one guard. You can imply that other people are simply out-of-sight. A more realistic setting, like a room with lots of tables, and lots of people, means a bigger set, more people on the lighting crew, and more actors, even if they don’t have lines, so you can use non-union and pay them peanuts.
One show I did once see do this was Mom, and that show already probably had a lot of walk-on actors standing around, because it uses them for the AA meetings.
A lot of legal shows had the kind of set where there were lines of plexiglass, or bars, and a counter on each side, and sometimes phones. They had a standing set probably. You don’t need as many walk-on actors. Maybe just two, plus the guards.
One show that did seem to have a lot of interviews in cells was Criminal Minds. But that show makes up an awful lot of crap; I think the writers think that implying a criminal is confined to his cell 24 x 7, he’s that dangerous, is really badass, and not stupid.
Can anyone actually name a “world famous celebrity detective” of the likes of Sherlock Homes, Hercule Poirot, or Benoit Blanc IRL?
Jay J. Armes was famous for about 15 minutes in the 1970s.
Mark Fuhrman, but famous for all the wrong reasons.
Miss Marple? I like her books more than Hercule Poirot’s, although I read both. Don’t like the others, except a few of the freestanding ones.
Not really; the closest I can think of is Allan Pinkerton.
We’re talking about real life detectives, not fictional ones.
An example of famous real-life detectives, there’s The Court of Last Resort, who were famous in the 1950s. A bunch of lawyers who investigated miscarriages of justice, and secured a number of acquittals of innocent people.
My bad. I don’t think I could name a real-life detective, other than a police detective I know personally, and he works in a college town.
Eliot Ness?
Ness was a federal agent, not a detective, private or otherwise.