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@magnetpi99 Many thanks!! Can't wait for PT 3 & PT 4 !!!

With all the praise for Eddie G., let's not forget Glenda Farrell's especially good performance as Olga. Her greatest role was as the fast-talking reporter "Torchy Blaine" in a series of very popular action-adventure B movies in the 1930's. Jerry Siegel, co-creator of "Superman", said that he mod...

Beginning at 9:33, what is the "push/pull" industrial machine that is displayed? It seems to be a manually-powered water pumping station, but I've never seen one where lateral motion is (so wastefully) converted in this way, in any pictures that I've seen of Victorian mills or factories. Any help...

@dagg67

True, true...I spoke too soon. "My bad."

Top billing, second billing, blah, blah blah. Edward G. Robinson once said that no one in the audience cares ONE LITTLE BIT who gets the top billing in a film!!

At 0:04 -0:06, Richard Burton glances at the cue-cards, but not "noticeably" so...

***VERY***VERY***SCARY***

Beginning at 2:21, the character "Paul" is the infamous Paul Blobel, who devised the method for efficient field-incineration of newly exhumed corpses (See Wikipedia article).These exhurmations and incinerations are shown in the film "Schindler's List". Blobel was found guilty of mass murder at t...

@lothartheterrible Many thanks for keeping the facts straight. It was a very long time ago. I should have written, "If memory serves..." before each sentence!!

The "Body Analyzer"must have had actual doctors sweating bullets, thinking, "HOW LONG BEFORE THIS IS A REALITY, AND DOCTORS BECOME OBSOLETE?"Ha!

Did Rach himself never record either of his Sonatas?

Pavel RICHTERUS!!!

One of my favorite observations: "It's strange how Life pays you back, isn't it?" This series profiles the Caesar's lives from Augustus to Nero, and their combined reigns (27 BC - 68 AD) total less than 100 years. "That family is beginning to resemble a Greek tragedy..." as Tiberius says, and how...

Why did you follow Take 5 by Dave Brubeck with the (super-yuck) banjo-theme from the movie Deliverance? None of the frescoes show anyone "squealing like a hog'" !

In addition to her many other accomplishments, Marlene invented the "Star" system for the movie industry...

And, just this past April, the great Philadelphia Orchestra went bankrupt!! Rach himself called them "the greatest orchestra in the world", and he should know! Culturally, how far has the American public fallen, in 'way in less than 50 years!! Read the book, "Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and...

If you want to see how Hollywood can totally screw-up your life, read "After Midnight: the Life and Death of Brad Davis". Strong stuff!!

**IMPORTANT HEALTH NOTE**: THE ONLY REASON THAT JACK LALANNE DIED (OF PNEUMONIA) IS THAT HE DIDN'T GET THE PNEUMONIA VACCINE!! AFTER AGE 60, MEN NEED TO GET THE PNEUMONIA VACCINE EVERY 5 YEARS. THE VACCINE WORKS BETTER FOR MEN THAN FOR WOMEN, BUT ALMOST ALL MEN NEGLECT TO GET IT. (EXCEPT FOR *ME*...

Absolutely True Story: Science fiction authors Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg were chatting with a (very young) fan at a convention. Asimov asked the boy what he wanted to be when he grew up. The boy replied, "I want to be exactly like Harlan Ellison!" Silverberg turned to Asimov and said, "L...

"He has his father's eyes..." The guy who plays the Prez in this episode is the same guy that played the Head Witch in "Rosemary's baby"!!

HEY PROFESSOR....WHERE'S GILLIGAN????

Thomas Edison quote: "We don't know one-tenth of one percent about anything." And, folks, that applies equally to ancient Rome. After 2000+ years of searching, there still aren't nearly enough original documents to give us a really clear picture of how the Romans lived. The best films on ancient ...

By its description in the text, Grendel could have been one of the Big Cats (lion, panther, leopard) that wandered across the land-bridge into England, during the warm interval between the Ice Ages, along with wooly rhinos and all the rest...

The surest sign of a true master...HE MAKES IT LOOK SOOOOOO EASY!!

ANOTHER WONDERFUL PERFORMANCE BY...PAUL HUBSCHMID?????