...Oh, I realise you will say that you were talking about the FIRST 'USS' Enterprise. But as one was a 'United States Ship' and the other is a 'United Space Ship' and in Star Trek intended to represent a UNITED NATIONS craft made up of a variety of mixed nationals and species one can hardly say one is the same as the other! :p :p
Er, excuse me? A bit of an American-centric view there! In fact there were TWO warships named 'Enterprise' before that! The first was a French frigate named 'L'Entreprise' from the early 1700s, followed by the HMS Enterprise - featured in the 'Enterprise' series intro sequence - launched in 1709! :p
@Fobbit: Then they have done their job then! As you really shouldn't require a cash incentive just to be polite...So worrying about whether you might be forced into it would suggest that you normally aren't!
So wrong in so many ways. Wrong in that no-one needs to do this to Blade Runner - as it's Noir enough (...It doesn't have to be monochrome to be Noir)! And wrong, because even as a faux-retro trailer it is badly done - the pace is wrong, the cutting is wrong and the voice-over is wrong. It's just wrong, it's not big and it's not clever! :)
Co-incidentally the wife and I watched a documentary about Ford just the other night (the one Jonathan mentions above). The worst part - aside from his antisemitism - was his treatment of his son Edsel...
When Ford snr. eventually accepted that there should be a replacement for the Model 'T' and allowed Edsel to launch his design - the Model 'A' - he took all the praise - and credit - for it's subsequent success! What a way for a father to treat his son!
Er, take it from someone who lives in the UK (where stick shift is the norm) this would NOT do anything to stop teenagers being teenagers. Best one I saw here was an idiot rolling a cigarette while steering with his elbows! The real answer is to make teenagers drive little electric 2 person bumper cars until they are 28 (when their brains suddenly get into gear).
I was brought up in Dundee, Scotland, in the 1960s and our tenement buildings were similarly strewn. It's quite an ingenious system - the washing lines are attached to the poles in the center of the yards with pulleys. The housewives would reel the washing in and out like naval flags! In the basement of the buildings or in special out-houses would be the communal wash tubs, great big vats heated by a fire. Huge loads would be tipped into these vats and then stirred with a big wooden paddle or a washing 'dolly' before being scrubbed by the traditional wash-board. Mondays were indeed the traditional day for doing this, it was all part of the strage routine that went on in tenements and it was seen as 'bad form' to have washing hanging out on any other day. As the 1970s came and the tenements started to disappear - and electric washing machines became available - this way of life started to disappear. Although I still know older Scots who still abide by 'Wash Monday'.
One wonders at the legal implications on creating private 'militarized zones' (which is what this would be, in effect). I presume they would have their own private security force ('community police') so how compatible would that be with the local police force? I would also have reservations about the human rights of any child brought up in such a community as it may be perceived as a 'sanctuary' for some, but could be thought of as a prison by others.
It's interesting that from the American point of view that the emphasis on women's main contribution to the war was still non-military. In the UK and more so in the Soviet Union women had a more direct involvement in the actual fighting.
My mother was a 'Gunner Girl' with the British ATS, she worked on radar which directed the anti-aircraft guns in London during the Blitz. Many women in the UK contributed to what was a front line during the German's failed invasion attempt.
The Soviet Union famously had women that were involved in the fighting in an even more aggressive nature. Lyudmila Pavlichenko was one of the USSR's female snipers and was credited with a staggering 309 kills, and Lydia Litvyak and Katya Budanova were two of the only WW2 female fighter aces.
Obviously American was never invaded or suffered the prelude to possible invasion so women were not mobilised to the same extent, but never the less the contribution of female workers in the USA did so much for the war effort but also for the cause of feminism.
This does all smack of a clash of egos, with Fieri taking a 'do you know who I am' stance. The problem is how does all this really help the customer decide whether this is a good place to eat or not? It seems like the art of criticism has disappeared up it's own arse and a critique is no longer worth it's salt unless it is a piece of entertainment foremost in it's own right. I have never been a fan of critics - they seem to be too much like teachers ("those that can do - do, those that cannot teach") and I far prefer peer reviews or community reviews. In the end this is all just a big hissy-fit...Give them a balloon each and let them fight it out at dawn.
A bit of a subjective exercise here - as art is the tool whereby the artist projects his or her interpretation of events or a situation. The photographer no doubt got exactly the shot for each stage of this 'event' exactly as they wanted them to portray whatever it was they imagined they wanted them too. Given the control of lighting and the ability to pose the subject you could make all three shots look exactly the same or different. Another instance of civilians picking and choosing whatever message they want to hear coming out of Afganistan relevant to their political stance.
When Ford snr. eventually accepted that there should be a replacement for the Model 'T' and allowed Edsel to launch his design - the Model 'A' - he took all the praise - and credit - for it's subsequent success! What a way for a father to treat his son!
My mother was a 'Gunner Girl' with the British ATS, she worked on radar which directed the anti-aircraft guns in London during the Blitz. Many women in the UK contributed to what was a front line during the German's failed invasion attempt.
The Soviet Union famously had women that were involved in the fighting in an even more aggressive nature. Lyudmila Pavlichenko was one of the USSR's female snipers and was credited with a staggering 309 kills, and Lydia Litvyak and Katya Budanova were two of the only WW2 female fighter aces.
Obviously American was never invaded or suffered the prelude to possible invasion so women were not mobilised to the same extent, but never the less the contribution of female workers in the USA did so much for the war effort but also for the cause of feminism.
(Apologies for lowering the tone!)