But isn’t there usually a branch or root growing out of the side of the cliff in which one can grab and then hang until rescued?
No, it’s always death in Film Noir.
I’ve even seen men doing this pulling the sheet up to the armpits thing. It’s weird.
OK, but its ubiquity in films is what gets me. Once in a great while, in a very cold room, etc. I might use a sheet to keep me warm, but in movies the lengths lovers go to in order to hide their bodies from someone they just had sex with is nutty.
Either that or she’s cold and using the sheet/blanket for warmth… but yeah, it’s a bit weird.
Mostly, it takes me out of the movie. “Hey, why the hell is she covering up her breasts from the guy she just–oh, yeah, because it’s a movie!”
I saw two mystery TV shows almost back-to-back where the murder took place while the person was performing on a stage. I thought of several other cases. They were bands playing a concert, an actor in a play or even a beauty pageant (Miss Congeniality).
Electrocuted while holding the microphone? I think that was done on Monk and one of the CSI series.
Les Harvey would disagree. As would Luyan Lopes de Aguiar and Keith Relf, although they were guitar and not mic.
I recently watched an early episode of Murdoch Mysteries, a show that takes place around the start of the 20th century and mixes fictionalized history with murder mysteries. There was supposed to be a public demo of the “dangers” of A/C power by electrocuting a dog, Edison-style, but the person who flipped the switch got fried instead.
There’s an onstage murder on Monk, but I think it was poisoning. There’s one on Murder, She Wrote, and I think it might even be the pilot.
Yes, I’m sure people have really died onstage-- there’s at least one graphic suicide on air of a news anchor, and some 70s talk show, like Merv Griffin, had a guest pass away quietly of heart failure on air-- or, at least in front of a live audience, albeit, I have a vague memory that back then these shows aired live.
The title of the thread is ALMOST never happens.
I have a cousin who is a Chicago States’ Attorney (what Illinois calls “district attorneys”), who told me that Law & Order: TOS is realistic within each episode, for the most part. What isn’t realistic is that each case is a “once in a career” kind of thing. No one would have case after case like that.
I thought that happened on Dick Cavett.
Dick Cavett wasn’t in any way like Merv Griffin? I was about 7 when they were on. They looked a lot alike to me. It’s not as though I said “like Jerry Springer.”
Yes, it was on Dick Cavett’s show. I remember Dick being interviewed another time by someone else (Merv Griffin, I think), where he was asked what his worst or most embarrassing moment was.
Cavett replied “I think it was having someone die on stage.”
Everybody laughed until he explained he wasn’t talking about a comic bombing during his routine. IIRC, the person who expired was there to talk about living a healthy life and keeled over pretty much in midsentence.
Merv Griffin - Daytime TV
Dick Cavett - Prime Time/Late Night TV
The difference between the two is like…wait for it…night & day.
My parents walked the B2B a few years ago (maybe 10?) and did see some naked runners. They were more impressed by the ones who dressed up like salmon and ran the race in the opposite direction.
Apparently the Merv Griffin show was a daytime show from 1962-1963. The syndicated version, which started in 1965 , was intended to be a nighttime show although some stations showed it during the day.
In any event, I don’t think daytime and nighttime talk shows were nearly as different in the 70s as they are today - they mostly had celebrity interviews and musical acts both in the daytime and at night. Dick Cavett might have been different from the other shows - but the Merv Griffin show was not terribly different from the Mike Douglas show. ( Daytime TV talk shows became very different after Phil Donahue started doing hour-long shows focused on a single topic and others followed)
A Midsommer too.
And Phantom of the Paradise, although a swinging neon lightning bolt was also a contributing factor.
For a time in the late '60s and early '70s, Merv Griffin had a late-night show with Arthur Treacher as his announcer sidekick.
There was a three-way late-night competition between Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon in The Tonight Show on NBC, Joey Bishop and Regis Philbin on ABC, and Griffin and Treacher on CBS.
Carson’s show was by far the one most popular and longest lasting.