Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Posts: 1170 Location: New York City Country:
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 9:44 pm Post subject:
blender1184 wrote:
Adam and Eve, duh?!
C'mon people...
my sisters boyfriend looks like a dolphin.....
anyway blender is right, now here is the plan blender,
you be adam and im eve, lets pretend like we have to repopulate the earth and the existance of man depends solely on us!
ready?
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 4:03 am Post subject: Godzilla Honored with Star on Walk of Fame
Godzilla Honored with Star on Walk of Fame
By Steve Gorman
HOLLYWOOD (Reuters) - Fifty years after he first lumbered from the sea to breathe fire, trample cities and thrill generations of filmgoers, Japan's most famous movie monster, Godzilla, was honored on Monday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The gargantuan reptile is the latest in a pantheon of famous critters, including Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny and Woody Woodpecker, to have his name enshrined on Hollywood Boulevard along with 2,200 flesh-and-blood stars, like Cary Grant and John Wayne.
Accepting the honor on behalf of the self-proclaimed "King of the Monsters" was the 5-foot-4-inch-tall (1.65-meter-tall) Japanese actor who plays Godzilla on screen, Tsutomo Kitagawa. The actor donned the fearsome rubber suit he wears in his latest picture, "Godzilla Final Wars," which opens on Dec. 4 in Japan.
The film is the 28th Godzilla adventure produced by Japanese studio Toho Co. Ltd. since the giant, prehistoric lizard, awakened by atomic bomb tests, first roared out of the Pacific to threaten civilization in the original 1954 movie.
A metaphor for the perils of the nuclear age, the film was made nine years after the end of World War II, when the firebombing of Tokyo and atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were still fresh in Japan's national consciousness.
Soon after it was released in Japan, Hollywood producers bought U.S. rights to the film and instead of dubbing it into English, they recut the original with new scenes starring Raymond Burr as an American reporter covering the monster's rampage through Tokyo.
Although Godzilla was a deadly and destructive force in his big-screen debut, the fire-breathing beast returned in subsequent films to save mankind from other monsters.
Several of his former outsized foes, including the giant moth-like creature Mothra, make comeback appearances in "Final Wars," which Toho is touting as its last Godzilla tale -- at least for now.
"So long as Godzilla can fascinate people, I believe he will be resurrected by new generations of filmmakers in the future," producer Shogo Tomiyama said.
Godzilla's star was unveiled outside Hollywood's landmark Grauman's Chinese Theatre, where his latest film was set for its world premiere.
A throng of onlookers shouted "We love you, Godzilla!" and "Viva Godzilla!" as the monster posed for pictures, spewed bursts of carbon-dioxide gas at photographers from his jaws and danced a few steps with Hollywood's honorary mayor, Johnny Grant.
"I do hereby proclaim this 'Godzilla Day in Hollywood'," Grant told the crowd. "He's loose, he's wild, and I'm getting the hell out of here."
Although the camera is said to add 10 pounds (4.5 kg) to most actors, Godzilla is considerably larger-than-life on the big screen than he appeared "in person" on Thursday. He towers more than 300 feet tall and weighs 55,000 tons in his latest film, producers said.
A number of Hollywood studios are in talks to secure North American distribution rights for the latest film, said Shozo Watanabe, general manager of Toho's Los Angeles office.
Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 8550 Location: California Country:
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 6:12 am Post subject:
Update: Jury recommends death penalty for Scott Peterson.
Quote:
(AP) - A jury decided Monday that Scott Peterson should be executed for murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, whose Christmas Eve disappearance two years ago was the opening act in a legal drama that captivated the nation.
Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 630 Location: In front of tv watching Drama's.
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 6:40 am Post subject:
Wow the Justice system works. _________________
From the Simpsons
Mr. Burns: I could crush him like an ant. But it would be too easy. No, revenge is a dish best served cold. I'll bide my time until ... Oh, what the hell. I'll just crush him like an ant.
Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 8550 Location: California Country:
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 6:49 am Post subject:
It seemed from the beginning that the jury was headed towards that decision. First they convicted him of first-degree murder (obvious prerequisite for the death penalty), and not a lesser charge. Then I heard reports that some jury members were staring at the ceiling when Scott's mother testified at the penalty hearings. But the defense only needed one juror to say life-imprisonment...that apparently didn't happen.
Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Posts: 700 Location: Hawaii! Country:
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:05 am Post subject:
well, didn't follow the case intimately, so i can't really judge him. but if he was guilty, then he deserves nothing less than about one zillion volts of electricity jolting through his sorry azz.
feel so sorry for laci, though, and the unborn child. pretty sad.
Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 8550 Location: California Country:
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:12 am Post subject:
The sad thing is that the actual execution (should it occur) won't happen for many years. With the appeals process and the fact there are many more on death row ahead of Scott, it'll be decades before it goes through.
@jholic: Incidentally, was this case followed closely by the local media? Of course the Bay Area (nah, northern California) news outlets had lots of coverage of the case. I don't know if the rest of the country's news stations followed it as much as the cable news orgs.
Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Posts: 700 Location: Hawaii! Country:
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:18 am Post subject:
dochira: i would say that it got a decent amount of coverage in our local news. i heard bits and pieces of the case, and the news stations were able to keep the hawaii citizens informed.
everything i saw made it seem that he was guilty as heck, but i'm pretty rational, and i would say that our news stations were presenting the case in the most unbiased manner that they could.
not to take over this thread, but the other case i'm hearing about is that 4th grade teacher that killed her husband w/ a hatchet??
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