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Here's my question:
In the 1973 film "Charley Varrick," at one point Walter Matthau, playing Charley, is in a store buying the following items:
- Dynamite
- Time Delay Cap
- Mercury Switch and Emergency Compartment Lights, One, Two, and Three
The question is - How much did all that cost? (approximate cost)
Tetrachloride
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(Remember, this was back in 1973)
Beastly Boy
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JoseBalow
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(28,820 posts)Didn't Crazy Joe have nightmares about Huple's cat lying on his face and smothering him, and then he'd wake up and Huple's cat WAS lying on his face?
(The character I was thinking of was one of Yossarian's friends)
JoseBalow
(4,412 posts)He dreamed about the cat sleeping on his face, and woke to find that it was sleeping on his face, so he gets into a fistfight with the cat because of it - an all out knock-down, drag-em-out brawl.
That scene really captures the whole spirit and tenor of the book for me, the absurdity and circular reasoning. Like how Milo makes money for the syndicate by buying eggs from Malta for 7 cents and selling them for 5 cents. And the need to bomb their own base in order to turn a profit. Or the old man explaining how Italy is actually strong because it is so weak and poor...
The dream of the cat isn't a dream at all, even though he is dreaming it. I think that's my favorite book ever!
It's been a while since I last read it, or saw the movie (I really am overdue for both)... I can't remember which friend of Yossarian was written out of the film.
miyazaki
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(28,820 posts)("The Matchmaker" starred Janeane Garofalo, Milo O'Shea and Denis Leary)
Harker
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(28,820 posts)He was also in "Under Siege" among many other well-known movies.
Harker
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(28,820 posts)Janeane Garofalo, Milo O'Shea, Denis Leary & David O'Hara are all great in it, and it's a very funny movie.
I think you'd like it, Hark.
Harker
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What is one big difference between Jaws the Movie and Jaws the book?
Harker
(14,605 posts)I also think that Hooper was killed by Bruce in the book.
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(7,618 posts)"My daughter said that you're half Jewish ?"
JoseBalow
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(28,820 posts)VGNonly
(7,618 posts)of Major Stovall in Twelve O' Clock High?
Brother Buzz
(37,102 posts)who used all his civilian lawyer skills and legal skullduggery to keep things moving smoothly for Savage?
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(7,618 posts)A fine movie, my personal #1 WW2 film.
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(7,618 posts)Jack sang it in As Good as It Gets.