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Anthony Hopkins was diagnosed with "high end" Asperger's syndrome in 2016/2017 at the age of 78/79, a condition that is on the autism spectrum.
He's one of us, fellas.
He's one of us, fellas.
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When Michael Cimino presented the rough cut of Heaven’s Gate to United Artists in 1980, it was reported to run 5 hours and 25 minutes.
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The NYPD raided the Stonewall in 1969 because of evidence to support the bar's connections to the Mafia, and the prostitution ( in same cases many underaged) that was being run through the bar and ajoining inn. It wasn't "homophobia" by the NYPD or a hate crime legalized by the law.
A half century later the NYPD stood by ready to come running to the defense of the degenerates as they paraded around downtown in fetish wear or almost nothing at all in some cases in front of children or with children in tow.
A half century later the NYPD stood by ready to come running to the defense of the degenerates as they paraded around downtown in fetish wear or almost nothing at all in some cases in front of children or with children in tow.
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Not fun but a fact: Desmond Napoles is a boy abused by his mom.
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Couple facts about the howling for Halloween
The special effects where originally going to be done by Rick Baker who left halfway through the production to work on An American Werewolf In London, Baker would still be credited as an effects consultant but the finished effects would be handled by Rob Bottin who would work with John Carpenter a year later doing the effects for The Thing.
Almost the entire production crew of the film piranha worked on the howling including director Joe Dante and John sayles
The screenplay was adapted from a novel by Gary Brandner, but he disowned the film and even asked Dante if he was the one who made the film. When Dante said he was Brandner reportedly told him "fuck you."
The special effects where originally going to be done by Rick Baker who left halfway through the production to work on An American Werewolf In London, Baker would still be credited as an effects consultant but the finished effects would be handled by Rob Bottin who would work with John Carpenter a year later doing the effects for The Thing.
Almost the entire production crew of the film piranha worked on the howling including director Joe Dante and John sayles
The screenplay was adapted from a novel by Gary Brandner, but he disowned the film and even asked Dante if he was the one who made the film. When Dante said he was Brandner reportedly told him "fuck you."
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Meet the 4-eyed fish.
In reality they only have two eyes that are horizontally split down the middle with a pupil on each side (so 4-pupiled fish would be more accurate). This allows them to see both under and above water simultaneously.
In reality they only have two eyes that are horizontally split down the middle with a pupil on each side (so 4-pupiled fish would be more accurate). This allows them to see both under and above water simultaneously.
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Several facts about MGM’s film library
- Their pre-1986 library (Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, Ben-Hur) is owned by Warner Bros through Turner, who sold back the studio to Kirk Kerkorian after debt started to fuck him up.
- Their library now is mainly United Artists films (West Side Story, James Bond, Rocky, Raging Bull)
- Speaking of UA, while they distributed Apocalypse Now and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, MGM doesn’t own this two movies. Amadeus and First Blood, which were also distributed by Orion, are also not owned by MGM.
- MGM got the pre-1996 Polygram library from Seagrams, Universal’s then alcohol-beverage owner who was buying the music operations, in 1998. This includes Fargo, The Usual Suspects, When Harry Met Sally, The Terminator, and Platoon, which Orion distributed the later two but were produced by Hemdale, which was part of the Polygram catalogue.
- Orion and it’s catalogue (which includes Dances With Wolves, The Silence of the Lambs, Robocop, and Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure) were bought by MGM in 1997 and when MGM bought the Polygram library in 1998, then merge those assets with Orion’s, who now holds the copyright to the Polygram films.
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The Flintstones once held the record of longest running animated series for it's run from 1960 to 1966 a meager six years. The Simpsons have gone on for 30 years and usurped the title from them with south park coming in at second place 1997-today with a possible conclusion in 2022 the latest the show's been renewed for. Family Guy and SpongeBob tied in third with both having run since 1999 with no sign of ending in the near future.
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How does Family Guy tie for 3rd when it was canceled and not running for a time?
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Technically it's been on for twenty years having run since 1999 even with the cancelation in between it came back and is still running with new episodes. I guess you could say it's tied for forth or so
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I would say that. And those are just American cartoons, I think Sazae-san wins the longest running animated series, it's been running since 1969.
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You know that little slot under the model 1 super Nintendos?
In ntsc regions nothing goes inside this ext port. There was an accessory released in Japan for it but the main thing it was meant for was a CD based add on being developed by Sony and then Phillips. Neither company created any such peripheral but they made their own consoles the Sony PlayStation and Phillips CD-i respectively
In ntsc regions nothing goes inside this ext port. There was an accessory released in Japan for it but the main thing it was meant for was a CD based add on being developed by Sony and then Phillips. Neither company created any such peripheral but they made their own consoles the Sony PlayStation and Phillips CD-i respectively
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Quebecers and french canadians in general have a higher chance of being type 2 bi-polar due to all the cousin fucking they did since they're such an insular group.
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It was used for the BS Satellaview.
The Playstation 2 had a PCMCIA slot that was removed so quickly from the hardware that I had trouble finding an image.
(it's the top one with the ejection button on the left)
PS1 had a parallel port that, among other ports, was removed after a while.
And the PS2 itself took some heavy design ques from the Atari Falcon microbox.
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Why? Was it used or intended to be used for anything or just happened to be on whatever board they used for the box?
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When Kutargi was in charge he liked to be forward thinking and include shit like that and PCMCIA wasn't bad at the time, an external 133MB/s interface in 2000 when the PS2 launched, and there were tons of peripherals for tons of purposes, ethernet, wifi and storage might have been of interest. That needed drivers, poop, and it's not as standardized as with HDD. It boiled down into the expansion bay with their, from what I gather, half-propriatery connector running a slightly different ATA protocol for HDD and ethernet, or they just wired up the connector in a weird way.
But the USB ports supported most HID devices automatically from day, the ports themselves were a head scratcher initially but with SingStar and EyeToy they really found a use.
With the PS3 they removed, from unveil to release, one extra HDMI port, two USB ports and two out of three ethernet ports. After release they quickly removed the hardware backcompat and I don't know if the flash card reader made it to EOL.
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Homosexuality has an... interesting relationship with communist countries. After the 1917 revolution it was decriminalized, but only because the criminalization of homosexuality was seen as a symbol of the Czar and the rule of the Russian Orthodox Church. Then when Stalin took power he recriminalized it saying it was a symbol of the capitalist bourgeoisie of the 20s and then later of the fascists in Germany despite their own criminalization of it. (He literally called his enemies gay) after his death in 53 Nikita Khrushchev kept it Punishable by fines and imprisonment saying it was a mental disorder because gay men by definition do not contribute to providing the state with more workers and soldiers. And it stayed that way up till the collapse of the Soviet Union thought some gay rights were strived for in the 70s and 80s much like in the us but where slower to gain.
Oh and by the way in every communist regime in Asia from the people's republic of China,to North Koren, Vietnam and Cambodia...it's been forbidden and punishable by prison, forced labor, or death.
Oh and by the way in every communist regime in Asia from the people's republic of China,to North Koren, Vietnam and Cambodia...it's been forbidden and punishable by prison, forced labor, or death.
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Every communist regime, without exception, has been incredibly hostile, and often even genocidal, to anything that threatens a homogenous society. Any diversity whatsoever is completely anathema to a communist state, whether it's homosexuality, transgenderism, religious beliefs, cultures, or even different hairstyles or clothing fashions.
It's truly mind boggling idiocy that SJWs, who are obsessive to the point of pathology with their own imagined nonconformity, also broadly espouse what they believe to be communism without apparently knowing the first thing about it.
The only countries that have any tolerance at all for the multiculturalism SJWs claim to cherish have been liberal democracies, all of which have capitalist systems, albeit the "capitalism with a welfare state" variety that Austrian economics types detest.
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I was also going to mention Cuba under Castro, he was so blatantly hostile towards gays it's a wonder so many sjws praise him and their idol Che Guevara who had similar beliefs on the subject.
Oh and then there's Frida kahlo notice how she was safe being both a communist sympathiser and sleeping with women in countries that while either open to becoming Communist or begrudgingly tolerant of her never went full on communist in her lifetime.