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Negative. (And someone helpfully put up Midnight Cowboy!) Porn films wanted to use 'X', but it was trademarked by the MPAA, so they used 'XXX' instead. Then 'X' in general got associated with hardcore porn, so the MPAA wanted to move away from that and they came up with NC-17.Spaceman Spiff wrote: BTW, "X" was never an official rating; it simply meant it wasn't rated at all by the MPAA, which most theater operators took to mean "adults only."
Interesting culturalism -- as someone from The Deep South, the first thing that comes to mind with XXX is moonshine, not porn!!Volante wrote:Negative. (And someone helpfully put up Midnight Cowboy!) Porn films wanted to use 'X', but it was trademarked by the MPAA, so they used 'XXX' instead. Then 'X' in general got associated with hardcore porn, so the MPAA wanted to move away from that and they came up with NC-17.
I could swear I've seen one or two games where none of them were.BobF wrote:Is one a record for fewest daily doubles revealed in an entire show?
There's a great scene in the otherwise mostly forgettable "The International" set at the Guggenheim. I couldn't have named the movie the scene was in without looking it up, but that scene is the first thing that comes to my mind w.r.t. the Guggenheim.Spaceman Spiff wrote:I made an educated guess on the Guggenheim based upon its circular shape (the wedding cake part pointed me there), which I recall from two movies -- one a recent chic flick (When in Rome maybe?) which had its climax there, and from a parody of it in the original Planet of the Apes -- the museum sequences with the "stuffed human" (one of the astronauts) was in a circular ramp-type museum.MarkBarrett wrote:For the FJ clue I wrote Guggenheim since the descriptions looked like they had to be leading there. If I was playing Guesstimania I never would have been close to 1959 for the opening. Based only on the pictures I've seen I would have thought the thing was more modern around the same time Space Mountain at Disneyland opened.
What? Not the Men in Black chase scene?Turd Ferguson wrote:
There's a great scene in the otherwise mostly forgettable "The International" set at the Guggenheim. I couldn't have named the movie the scene was in without looking it up, but that scene is the first thing that comes to my mind w.r.t. the Guggenheim.
Yes! That's how I've always remembered it, I wondered if it would come up.Woof wrote:
What? Not the Men in Black chase scene?
Maybe it's the Wolf Blitzer Effect.omgwheelhouse wrote: I'm a little surprised that there seems to be a notable dropoff in difficulty for these games. I kinda thought that being "power players," they might be given more respect than ordinary celebrities.
I'd say he was a different part of mammalian anatomy.bomtr wrote:And Karl Rove was 'everybody's brain.'
I'm sure he knew; in the early 1970's, when Lew Alcindor of the Milwaukee Bucks converted to Islam and changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, there were no Muslim butchers in the city selling meat prepared according to Islamic Halal dietary laws could be purchased, so he became a regular customer of Milwaukee's Kosher markets. If you eat kosher food long enough, you've got to know what days of the year those stores are going to be closed, and why.nlw44 wrote:To be fair to Kareem, I think he did know that yom meant day but misspoke. The others, not so much.
All singers sing with their voices; part of what distinguishes one from the other is the instruments that they use to accompany them.MarkBarrett wrote:If someone had said voice for Billy Joel's main musical instrument that would have been ruled incorrect?
You just don't like movies with gladiators in them.Bamaman wrote:For someone who has been in the public eye for almost 50 years and played a grueling position in a professional sport, Kareem has very little charisma. I've seen him in a few acting jobs and he was boring in all of them (sorry Rex).
It is for this reason I have no interest in DAR membership even though I have 3 revolutionary ancestors.What Alex hasn't mentioned (big surprise!) is that Constitution Hall, where the show taped, is rather infamous for its proprietors, the Daughters of the American Revolution, having denied the great African-American opera singer, Marian Anderson, the opportunity to give a concert at the venue in 1939, prompting First lady Eleanor Roosevelt to convince the National Parks Service to offer the front steps of the Lincoln Memorial to Anderson. There she sang, the press's cameras clicked, and the DAR has had egg on its face ever since.
My dad took me to see Diana Ross there when I was nine or ten -- so 1990 or 1991.Sage on the Hudson wrote:I'd say he was a different part of mammalian anatomy.bomtr wrote:And Karl Rove was 'everybody's brain.'
I'm sure he knew; in the early 1970's, when Lew Alcindor of the Milwaukee Bucks converted to Islam and changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, there were no Muslim butchers in the city selling meat prepared according to Islamic Halal dietary laws could be purchased, so he became a regular customer of Milwaukee's Kosher markets. If you eat kosher food long enough, you've got to know what days of the year those stores are going to be closed, and why.nlw44 wrote:To be fair to Kareem, I think he did know that yom meant day but misspoke. The others, not so much.
What Alex hasn't mentioned (big surprise!) is that Constitution Hall, where the show taped, is rather infamous for its proprietors, the Daughters of the American Revolution, having denied the great African-American opera singer, Marian Anderson, the opportunity to give a concert at the venue in 1939, prompting First lady Eleanor Roosevelt to convince the National Parks Service to offer the front steps of the Lincoln Memorial to Anderson. There she sang, the press's cameras clicked, and the DAR has had egg on its face ever since.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Kareem is the first African-American to ever appear on stage there.
According to the Hall's website, Marian Anderson herself appeared there. (The History page doesn't mention the controversy.) According to Wikipedia, it was in 1943 and again in 1964, when she chose it for her farewell tour.kristinsausville wrote:My dad took me to see Diana Ross there when I was nine or ten -- so 1990 or 1991.Sage on the Hudson wrote:I'd say he was a different part of mammalian anatomy.bomtr wrote:And Karl Rove was 'everybody's brain.'
I'm sure he knew; in the early 1970's, when Lew Alcindor of the Milwaukee Bucks converted to Islam and changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, there were no Muslim butchers in the city selling meat prepared according to Islamic Halal dietary laws could be purchased, so he became a regular customer of Milwaukee's Kosher markets. If you eat kosher food long enough, you've got to know what days of the year those stores are going to be closed, and why.nlw44 wrote:To be fair to Kareem, I think he did know that yom meant day but misspoke. The others, not so much.
What Alex hasn't mentioned (big surprise!) is that Constitution Hall, where the show taped, is rather infamous for its proprietors, the Daughters of the American Revolution, having denied the great African-American opera singer, Marian Anderson, the opportunity to give a concert at the venue in 1939, prompting First lady Eleanor Roosevelt to convince the National Parks Service to offer the front steps of the Lincoln Memorial to Anderson. There she sang, the press's cameras clicked, and the DAR has had egg on its face ever since.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Kareem is the first African-American to ever appear on stage there.
Evidently, none of them could recall it!davey wrote:The one I was most surprised they couldn't get...recall election...
Fixed that for you.Paucle wrote:Evidently, none of them could...davey wrote:The one I was most surprised they couldn't get...recall election...
*sunglasses*
recall it!
YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAH!!!!
Yes, whenever I'm a guest in someone's home, i like to insult them by bringing up bad things their long deceased ancestors did. Perhaps Alex should have mentioned the 9/11 attacks perpetrated by Kareem's fellow Muslims. I'm sure he had as much to with them as the DAR members today had to do with denying Anderson the right to sing there.Johnblue wrote:So Alex is supposed to mention some nefarious business from 60 years ago? Ridiculous!
I guess I shouldn't honor my great-grandfather's service in the Union Army because said army was segregated.bpmod wrote:But, ya gotta realize we're talking about TRD's reality here.
Brian