That's one hell of a corkscrew.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 10 September 2007 02:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I wonder if it's the same corkscrew Joe Pesci used on Tommy Lee Jones in the orgy sequende.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 10 September 2007 02:52 (sixteen years ago) link
That might of just been a corkscrew of anger. It's been a while so I don't remember for sure.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link
i was 5 feet away from tommy lee jones today ina hotel lobby. i saw him greet javier bardem.
― s1ocki, Monday, 10 September 2007 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link
After Three Burials Of Meliquades Estrada I have more love for Tommy Lee Jones than ever.
― da croupier, Monday, 10 September 2007 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought, "Yup, he barely survived after directing the script penned by the shithead who made 21 Grams and Babel."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link
is that winky-at-lbj photo real?
― pisces, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 00:04 (sixteen years ago) link
scott mcclellans crazy dad wrote a book about that wink!
― and what, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 11:47 (sixteen years ago) link
NUMA: Pillar of the community by day, gay bars at night.
Liz Garrison is the most shaken, as she pours a fresh pot of coffee.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 27 March 2008 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link
"more champagne!"
― latebloomer, Thursday, 27 March 2008 03:02 (sixteen years ago) link
-- pisces, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 00:04 (6 months ago
no really IS it??
― pisces, Thursday, 27 March 2008 03:13 (sixteen years ago) link
FLASHBACK TO Ruby's jail cell in 1964. Ruby talks to men with their backs to us. Lawyers and police clutter the cell, making Ruby hyper-nervous. The chief official's white hair and avuncular voice are all we see and hear of him; his back is to us.
RUBY Then do you understand that I cannot tell the truth here? In Dallas. That there are people here who do not want me to tell the truth... who do not want me to have a retrial?
OFFICIAL Mr. Ruby, I really can't see why you can't tell us now.
Ruby catches the stern face of Sheriff Bill Decker from the corner of his eye, the Assistant D.A. next to him.
RUBY When are you going back to Washington, sir?
OFFICIAL (looks at watch) I am going back very shortly after we finish this hearing - I am going to have some lunch.
RUBY Can I make a statement? If you request me to go back to Washington with you right now, that is if you want to hear further testimony from me, can you do that? Can you take me with you?
OFFICIAL No, that could not be done, Mr. Ruby. There are a good many things involved in that.
RUBY What are they?
OFFICIAL Well, the public attention it would attract. And we have no place for you there to be safe, we're not law enforcement officials, and many things are at stake in this affair, Mr. Ruby.
RUBY But if I am eliminated there won't be any way of knowing. Consequently a whole new form of government is going to take over this country, and I know I won't live to see you another time. My life is in danger here. Do I sound screwy?
OFFICIAL Well I don't know what can be done, Mr. Ruby, because I don't know what you anticipate we will encounter.
RUBY Then you don't stand a chance, Mr. Chief Justice, you have a lost cause. All I want is a lie detector test, and you refuse to give it to me. Because as it stands now - and the truth serum - how do you pronounce it - Pentothal - whatever it is. They will not give it to me, because I want to tell the truth... And then I want to leave this world.
The camera pauses on Ruby's face. The men rise and leave in the shadows.
CUT TO:
PARKLAND MEMORIAL HOSPITAL - (1967)
Jack Ruby is wheeled out of the infirmary on a gurnee, dead of cancer.
― omar little, Thursday, 27 March 2008 03:16 (sixteen years ago) link
JIM (V.O.) Perhaps a few more details about the evening will refresh your memory. Mr. O'Keefe told us dinner was served by a uniformed waiter - a colored man. He particularly remembers that you sat at one end and he at the other - which he found rather unusual because the table was so long. Does that bring back memories of Willie O'Keefe?
SHAW (in present) Not at all. But on the other hand, I do have a lovely Chippendale dining table and I often have a friend over sitting at one end while I sit at the other. That is precisely the point of a long dining table. The splendor of the meal adds to the enjoyment of it.
JIM I would imagine a uniformed waiter helps.
SHAW It adds a taste of elegance for which I must confess a weakness for now and then. I call him Smedley. His real name is Frankie Jenkins - but I could hardly imagine anything more uncouth during dinner than my turning toward the kitchen and hollering "Frankie!" ... Where is this leading to, Mr. Garrison?
― gr8080, Thursday, 27 March 2008 05:21 (sixteen years ago) link
great scene
― and what, Thursday, 27 March 2008 05:23 (sixteen years ago) link
tommy lee jones going 'frankieee!' = :D :D :D
http://www.jfk-online.com/jones.jpg
― gr8080, Thursday, 27 March 2008 05:32 (sixteen years ago) link
man, i still haven't rewatched this. i really need to.
― latebloomer, Thursday, 27 March 2008 06:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Remember, fundamentally people are suckers for the truth, and the truth is on your side, 'bubba. I hope you get a break...
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Monday, 3 August 2009 03:56 (fourteen years ago) link
You got the right ta-ta, but the wrong ho-ho
what does this even mean
― da croupier, Sunday, 21 February 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCkw8zWmQD8
― thread is p much urine (how's life), Saturday, 23 June 2012 11:39 (eleven years ago) link
He bows his head, holding it in his hands, and his wig starts to comeoff in his hands.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 23 June 2012 12:01 (eleven years ago) link
I watch Sutherland's monologue on youtube sometimes, its the kind of thing I use to cheer me up donchaknow!
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 23 June 2012 12:04 (eleven years ago) link
The truth is on your side, bubba!
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 23 June 2012 12:06 (eleven years ago) link
Coincidentally on TV at midnight last night - not sure what the schedulers were trying to say with that timeslot...
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 24 June 2012 09:12 (eleven years ago) link
i got back to the motel drunk with a bag of mcdonalds after a wedding in a smalltown last year and i turned on the tv and don-suth's monologue had just started and i was so happy
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Sunday, 24 June 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
<3
― fancy poodle (latebloomer), Sunday, 24 June 2012 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
has there ever been a better (non-Nazi) film with a wronger and more dishonest central intent?
― democracy defends capital (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 June 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
little miss sunshine
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Sunday, 24 June 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
good point well made
― democracy defends capital (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 June 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
im here to help
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Sunday, 24 June 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
hang on i've just realised i said "better"
― democracy defends capital (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 June 2012 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
i like how your sentence kind of implies all nazi films are so much better that it's unfair to even consider them
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Sunday, 24 June 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
triumph of the will is "better" than JFK but yeah my logical syntax is all over the place
― democracy defends capital (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 June 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
got sucked into this again yesterday. about twenty minutes in i went and got a notebook and just started writing down lines.
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
it's one thing to engage in badinage with all these youngsters, but this sort of thing could be so easily misunderstood.
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 23:53 (eleven years ago) link
sonabitch's got his hands on the chicken switch
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 23:54 (eleven years ago) link
Why don't we drop this thread? It's one thing to engage in badinage with these youngsters, but this sort of thing can be so easily misunderstood.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, November 22, 2006 7:51 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkmore champagne!
― gear (gear), Wednesday, November 22, 2006 7:57 PM (5 years ago)
ctrl-fing for "homosexual underworld" before i deploy the next one
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
ah fuck
Both brothers?!?
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
This thread is a whole nother kettle of fish.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 October 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
i just can't believe a man as intelligent as earl warren never looked into this.
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 18 October 2012 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
stone really needs to do the LBJ story
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 18 October 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
haha presumably if he did the whole middle bit would be lbj plotting the jfk assassination
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 18 October 2012 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
one of the quieter lols in the caro series is in book 1, wayyyyyyyyyyyyy back like in 1930 or something, when caro's on one of his lyrical tears about how ambitious and calculating johnson is, and says something like "it was clear he would do anything for power (short of assassination, of course)." glad we cleared that up early.
how about the bit where RFK gets shot on TV and Costner's so disturbed/turned on that he goes upstairs and weeps and fucks Sissy Spacek.
― gear (gear), Sunday, October 23, 2005 7:38 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 October 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
jasper
― da croupier, Thursday, 18 October 2012 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
The other night you didn't even notice Jasper.
― da croupier, Thursday, 18 October 2012 03:05 (eleven years ago) link
There's nothing wrong with feeling a little scared, Jasper. Telling the truth can be a scary thing sometimes. It scared President Kennedy, and he was a brave man. But if you let yourself be too scared... ...then you let the bad guys take over the country. Then everybody gets scared.
― omar little, Thursday, 18 October 2012 03:10 (eleven years ago) link
You never talked to me this way before, Jim.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 October 2012 04:04 (eleven years ago) link