Just finished watching The Silence of the Lambs for the first time. Hannibal Lecter is one of the most chillingly brilliant villains I've ever seen. What other movies feature great villains?

nirdefchains91 · 2012-05-24T21:04:16.365198+00:00

Gary Oldman as DEA agent Stansfield in Leon: The Professional.

artman · 2012-05-24T17:46:53.190102+00:00

SEIZED IN DORE CASE-Two members of cycle c[l]ub stand handcuffed and facing wall after being arrested in an apartment during a narcotics raid.

artman · 2012-05-24T09:05:48.520024-07:00

Source.

artman · 2012-05-24T16:00:54.315975+00:00

Source.

DerpSalad · 2012-05-24T14:00:11.390784+00:00

These fellows remind me of one of my favorite television shows when I was a kid, The Rat Patrol, they were based loosely on the Long Range Desert Group.

josefonseca · 1 day

but NONE of them can build a decent website

I went to every company website listed and they all loaded and looked great. If you can do better, STFU and build one.

camilstoenescu · 1 day

The ghost of George Carlin speaks.

td; tr: “The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”

ron_leflore · 1 day

Here is the full news coverage from the moment Reagan leaves the hotel. I remember watching it live when it happened - still gives me chills.

artman · 1 day

Source.

pavel_lishin · 1 day

If SF's core message (to the extent that it ever had one) is obsolete, what do we do next?

Well, we don't have a base on the Moon, we don't have a colony on Mars, we don't have robots with AI worth worrying about yet and many other theories, events, places and things that are still decades from being in the here and now. So I think there is plenty to imagine and write about while the world waits. It doesn't have to be accurate - it hasn't made many of the books in the past any less readable, inspiring or entertaining. So neither will the present day books, as long as they are written well.

liltbrockie · 1 day

I read "Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human" and it wasn't that good at all. I like K. W. Jeter's original work (Dr. Adder, NOIR, Farewell Horizontal) but these movie/book sequels were just written in my opinion to pay the rent so he could carry on writing his own work.

artman · 1 day

Source.

Recent color photo of restored 1903 Pirate.

artman · 1 day

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Hine, Lewis Wickes,, 1874-1940,, photographer.

John Howell, an Indianapolis newsboy, makes $.75 some days. Begins at 6 a.m., Sundays. (Lives at 215 W. Michigan St.)

1908 August.

artman · 1 day

Newspaper reports gave sensationalized accounts of her arrest.

artman · 1 day

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ON 'LOCATION'--FOR 180 DAYS-- Frances Farmer, once glamorous actress, smirks as she is booked at County Jail for 180-day term. Deputy Sheriff Ward Hallinen "welcomes" her.

Wikipedia:

On October 19, 1942, Frances Farmer was stopped by the police in Santa Monica for driving with her headlights on bright in the wartime blackout zone that affected most of the West Coast. Some reports say she was unable to produce a driver's license and was verbally abusive. The police suspected her of being drunk and she was jailed overnight. Farmer was fined $500 and given a 180-day suspended sentence. She immediately paid $250 and was put on probation.

By January 1943, she failed to pay the rest of the fine and a bench warrant was issued for her arrest. At almost the same time, a studio hairdresser filed an assault charge alleging that Farmer had dislocated her jaw on the set. The police traced Farmer to the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood. Getting no answer, they entered her room with a pass key. They reportedly found her in bed (some stories include an episode involving the bathroom) and made her dress quickly. By all accounts, she did not surrender peacefully.

At her hearing the next morning, she behaved erratically. She claimed the police had violated her civil rights, demanded an attorney, and threw an inkwell at the judge. He immediately sentenced her to 180 days in jail. She knocked down a policeman and bruised another, along with a matron. She ran to a phone booth where she tried to call her attorney, but was subdued by the police. They physically carried her away as she shouted, "Have you ever had a broken heart?"

Newspaper reports gave sensationalized accounts of her arrest. Through the efforts of her sister-in-law, a deputy sheriff in Los Angeles County, Farmer was transferred to the psychiatric ward of L.A. General Hospital. There she was diagnosed with "manic depressive psychosis".

Monsieur-Anana · 1 day

This should also be read. A speech Philip K. Dick made in 1978, "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later"

It was always my hope, in writing novels and stories which asked the question "What is reality?", to someday get an answer. This was the hope of most of my readers, too. Years passed. I wrote over thirty novels and over a hundred stories, and still I could not figure out what was real. One day a girl college student in Canada asked me to define reality for her, for a paper she was writing for her philosophy class. She wanted a one-sentence answer. I thought about it and finally said, "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." That's all I could come up with. That was back in 1972. Since then I haven't been able to define reality any more lucidly.

I have read most of his work and his work always seems to be a struggle with what is real and what is not. It also was likely that many of his stories were autobiographical and they were a cathartic means of trying to come to terms with his internal and external events and things around him. He was a great writer, also an intelligent yet psychologically challenged man addled by delusions and drugs.

Another of his theories about what is real and not real.

artman · 2 days

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_C-1_(SS-9)

105 ft 4 in

These were more or less prototypes, held 15 officers and enlisted.

Orangutan · 2 days

Ahem...

artman

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