I was just seeing a lesser known caine caper film gambit with shirley mclaine as a eurasian? Woman who looks like the spitting image of herbert lom’s ex wife he playsa arab prince a variation on topkapi
He plays a thief kind of in the cary grant vein theres roger carmel harry mudd somewhere in the deal he is more like alfie or harry palmer then he looks initially
Today at the Samizdata blog, the best British blog you may not have heard of:
A progressive response to the massacre at the Nova music festival
I was taking a nap, as I was listening to this long, over two hour interview from over a year ago. When I woke up, I was moved to actually listen. Consciously to this theoretical physicist.
So, for fellow science geeks, you should, too. It’s a lot of new information, at least to me. And in genuine conversational style instead of unbroken talk like a lecture. And delivered with good spots of humor!
Now, let me share a spot on short comment that was posted up at YT.
PERSON ONE: “Nice to see Dr Leonard Hofstader getting on and doing well!”
ANOTHER REPLIES: “Bazinga!”
thats one of those classic blogs from the olden days that still lingers, it was like the coffee house era and then they put the ergot into it, and many went mad, this place, instapundit, i don’t recall if legal insurrection, started up at the same time,
the level of lunacy in those placards, is mindblowing, I mean no one willing lives in gaza until they are forced to, refugee camps 70 years later, in supposedly your own fiefdom and it’s not for lack of resources, well most of them are in qatar,
so I was watching the continental, prequel to john wick and you notice a few things amiss, there is no protagonist, like john wick, the fellow who is supposed to be a young ian mcshane, winston, is a very pale reflection, think a lesser known film, the terrorists, set in the 70s, based on a Swedish novel, where he plays an IRA ring leader, opposite Sean Connery, as a Norwegian Army Colonel (go with this, and they spent more time on the period soundtrack then the script, why do they do this, they hired the same show runners stahelski and kolstad to write, and then they fell down on the job,
Mel Gibson does seem to enjoy chewing the scenery, as the great villain, who will inevitably head for a fall, characterization is otherwise weak
Since this is an Open Thread, something entirely different
How Orb Webs Are Made – Spider Basics: Beyond the Eight Legs, Episode 3 – Travis McEnrey These Are The Spiders In Your House on YouTube.
I don’t know who could fill Ian McShane’s shoes in this day and age, i’m sure there are candidates, well it is NBC (Peacock) and they trip on their laces every other day,
well it’s an alternate universe, but one assumes the laws of physics, still apply I remember one of these science shows that illustrated how the giant creatures in films like them, couldn’t support themselves because the scale of their new dimensions would be too stressful on their appendages not to mention their exoskeleton,
it illustrate how the design by the all mighty perfectly follows function, and our attempts to replicate it often fails,
The movie version of the Terrorists took place in a fictitious country, not Norway.
This day in history the 54th clause of Magna Carta went into effect, along with the rest of them.
well they are going after Abu Ammar, before that was Arafat’s kunya it was Hitlers,
I love how he glosses over renormalization. What was happening with the SM is that it was giving when integrated, infinite self energies. So the trick was, in a nutshell, to change the limits of integration and thus avoid the infinities…ie, “renormalize” the integration. I, and others, have always thought that was “cheating”. As someone said, if you have infinities in your model, something is wrong. However, once the renormalization was used, everything else fell into place. I suspect that the renormalization trick was a hint that the overall model, while it works, is wrong conceptually. And that is why they have trouble with putting it together with GR. But what do I know, I’m “just” an experimentalist like Leonard, not a true genius like the theorists such as Sheldon. 😉
I keep going back to the Ptolemaic model of the solar system…it worked great for a long time. Perfectly predicted all the planet positions, and if there was a discrepancy, they just tweaked the epicycles a bit, and brought it back into complete agreement with the observations…..Yet it was totally wrong. What was needed was a paradigm shift brought about by Kepler, Copernicus and Newton. We need such a person(s) now.
much like feynman’s observation, that a theory might be proved right, if the proper test is devised, it takes an out of the box thinker, like an einstein don’t know of hawking really qualifies,
wait a black hole is a mirror, right there seems to be category error, of course something like a singularity is hard to observe except at a great distance, mostly for it’s effect
It seems it’s mainly Jewish progressives waking up after they’ve been attacked by fellow progressives – plus Bill Maher. Waking up is one little progressive track, hatred is the much bigger track it competes with. We shall see where this goes.
A week or so ago Neo mentioned Day of the Jackal. Here is an article relating a writers recent interview with Frederick Forsyth, prominently dealing with the bowdlerization of paragraphs from The Fourth Protocol dealing with the ‘march thru the institutions’.
Incidentally, mentioned in the article is a recently, or soon to be released British TV series remake of the Jackal. I don’t remember if that was mentioned in the comments a week or so ago.
one can only look at the acolyte, like the subjects of mts 3k riffs, like the Clonus Horror or Manos of Fate, also they threw shade at an old lee van kleef the master, real Star Wars will endure not this inflated dei garbage,
he is not lia thomas, it is will thomas, who is stealing opportunities from women,
its’ interesting how they chose those particular passages, this was back in the era of the iron ladies, not these weak tories, who have surrendered her legacy,
the figurehead that the Soviets planned to install after the nuclear incident was much like Michael Foot or Tony Benn*, now they are entirely too unpigmented for leadership Corbyn is of that generation when he was groomed by the STB Czech security services,
*his daughter Aphra is likely to be Foreign Minister under Starmer, if the tsunami does eventuate,
Do Lesbian Space Witches wake up in the morning with their pillows stuck on their heads?
Those horns are tight!
Caine’s wife was in “The Man Who Would Be King” with him. I thought they met there.
In the progressive mind, Zionism has become a companion with white supremacy. But there’s a telling difference between the two specters: Progressives have long had imaginary klansmen dancing exclusively in their heads. Actual Zionists, however, are numerous in blue cities. Their fellow progressives have duly warned them to get out.
We know from history what comes after the warning.
that would be the next pitch meeting,
speaking of kathleen kennedy, what does she have on the disney board of director, thats keeps them from firing her, she has cost them 4 billion dollars, and rising,
Zionists means Jew, lets not pretend otherwise, those that lived in Baghdad in 1941, hadn’t a thought about Israel, but they were slaughtered all the same, by Haj Amin’s proxies the Golden Square,
Caine relates in his memoir, how he lived in Los Angeles, around the time he filmed those films but he didn’t have a car, I think he had done Alfie the year before Zulu the year after, Ipcress two years before,
When the blue city Zionism purge commences, Jews who dare defend themselves will be charged by blue city cops, then tried by blue city juries. Zionists will likely be screened out in the jury selection process.
We know how that will go.
in the link notes, Ridley Scott was the director of the coffee commercial that brought michael caine together with his wife, his work ethic was rather extraordinary even if his choice of roles was less choosy, as he said at one point’I never saw Jaws 4, (which was Mario Van Peebles first big role) but I do recall the house it bought me, most recently at 90 years old, he had a book ghosted by Matthew D’Ancona, where the protagonist, is a former Special Forces Operator turned police detective, considering all the thriller’s he has been in I expected a somewhat more plausible tale, it’s not terrible except for the twist at the end that belongs in an Austin Powers film, the story concerns an English lord, and a Russian oligarch who are at odds with each other, who have generational ties between them, Caine’s character tries to play them off against each other,
Dave (“Cornhead”) Begley: Caine’s wife was in “The Man Who Would Be King” with him. I thought they met there.
Nope, Shakira, already married to Michael, was a late fill-in for the original actress slotted for the part of Roxanne, a secondary character but crucial for the plot. Here’s Wikipedia:
The role of Roxanne (the only listed female character in the movie) was originally slated for Tessa Dahl, the daughter of Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal. Dahl, excited to take the role, had prepared for the part by losing weight and capping her teeth. However, at the last minute, director Huston had decided to cast someone whose appearance was more in keeping with natives of Kafiristan. “We’ve got to find an Arab princess somewhere,” he is recounted as saying over dinner with Caine. At that same dinner, Caine’s Indian-descended wife Shakira was present, so Huston and Caine persuaded her to take on the role.
For my taste, “The Man Who Would Be King” is the greatest movie ever made. I think it’s Steve Sailer’s favorite, too. Here’s his extended riff on it in the immediate aftermath of the Islamic crimes of September 2001, anticipating the U.S. going into Afghanistan: https://www.unz.com/isteve/what-will-happen-in-afghanistan/
I remember a number of years ago TCM had a series where an actor or actress, usually of some note, would suggest one of their favorite films and give pre and post movie commentary on that film. Sally Field’s pick was The Man Who Would Be King. What I remember about her commentary was that both she and the host agreed that the film, due to its theme, could no longer be made.
Steve, scary article.
Not sure it wasn’t to be expected, though.
Winston Smith’s world has indeed arrived…
Re: Michael Caine
For me it was Michael Caine in “The Ipcress File” (1965), an anti-Bond spy film. I was 13 when I saw it and I was transfixed. He played Harry Palmer (ho-ho), a canny young soldier who got caught in the black market, then dragooned into spy work.
His working-class concerns about pay and rank when he deals with his upper-class superiors are hilarious. Caine himself was working-class, the son of a cook and a fish market porter. He had the Cockney accent to prove it.
Caine also had the unfortunate legal name, Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Good name change.
Palmer isn’t trying to stop Dr. Evil from starting WW3 or anything so glamorous, though “The Ipcress File” was maybe the first major film based on the MK-ULTRA rumors using sensory deprivation and hypnosis to achieve mind control.
I’ve watched it many times since. In addition to the sensational Michael Caine, the cinematography and film score were brilliant. I’ve been a fan ever since.
One might think kingsman is the bookend to ipcress caines is the boss of the above named organization in league with the villain with egerton as a teen version of palmer the villain in ipcress is a mandarin with albanian roots if memory serves
He played an upper crust figure in zulu but usually working class blokes
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I was just seeing a lesser known caine caper film gambit with shirley mclaine as a eurasian? Woman who looks like the spitting image of herbert lom’s ex wife he playsa arab prince a variation on topkapi
He plays a thief kind of in the cary grant vein theres roger carmel harry mudd somewhere in the deal he is more like alfie or harry palmer then he looks initially
Today at the Samizdata blog, the best British blog you may not have heard of:
A progressive response to the massacre at the Nova music festival
https://www.samizdata.net/
*Natalie Soylent, author of this post and a regular contributor to Samizdata, is the British version of neo.
Andrew Strominger: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and Theoretical Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #359
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3cw_9ELpQw
I was taking a nap, as I was listening to this long, over two hour interview from over a year ago. When I woke up, I was moved to actually listen. Consciously to this theoretical physicist.
So, for fellow science geeks, you should, too. It’s a lot of new information, at least to me. And in genuine conversational style instead of unbroken talk like a lecture. And delivered with good spots of humor!
Now, let me share a spot on short comment that was posted up at YT.
PERSON ONE: “Nice to see Dr Leonard Hofstader getting on and doing well!”
ANOTHER REPLIES: “Bazinga!”
thats one of those classic blogs from the olden days that still lingers, it was like the coffee house era and then they put the ergot into it, and many went mad, this place, instapundit, i don’t recall if legal insurrection, started up at the same time,
the level of lunacy in those placards, is mindblowing, I mean no one willing lives in gaza until they are forced to, refugee camps 70 years later, in supposedly your own fiefdom and it’s not for lack of resources, well most of them are in qatar,
so I was watching the continental, prequel to john wick and you notice a few things amiss, there is no protagonist, like john wick, the fellow who is supposed to be a young ian mcshane, winston, is a very pale reflection, think a lesser known film, the terrorists, set in the 70s, based on a Swedish novel, where he plays an IRA ring leader, opposite Sean Connery, as a Norwegian Army Colonel (go with this, and they spent more time on the period soundtrack then the script, why do they do this, they hired the same show runners stahelski and kolstad to write, and then they fell down on the job,
Mel Gibson does seem to enjoy chewing the scenery, as the great villain, who will inevitably head for a fall, characterization is otherwise weak
Since this is an Open Thread, something entirely different
How Orb Webs Are Made – Spider Basics: Beyond the Eight Legs, Episode 3 – Travis McEnrey These Are The Spiders In Your House on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U5KKdhXsgA
He has nothing to say about Spider Pig.
His work is uniformly excellent.
I don’t know who could fill Ian McShane’s shoes in this day and age, i’m sure there are candidates, well it is NBC (Peacock) and they trip on their laces every other day,
well it’s an alternate universe, but one assumes the laws of physics, still apply I remember one of these science shows that illustrated how the giant creatures in films like them, couldn’t support themselves because the scale of their new dimensions would be too stressful on their appendages not to mention their exoskeleton,
it illustrate how the design by the all mighty perfectly follows function, and our attempts to replicate it often fails,
The movie version of the Terrorists took place in a fictitious country, not Norway.
This day in history the 54th clause of Magna Carta went into effect, along with the rest of them.
well they are going after Abu Ammar, before that was Arafat’s kunya it was Hitlers,
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rklj4msrr
TJ,
I love how he glosses over renormalization. What was happening with the SM is that it was giving when integrated, infinite self energies. So the trick was, in a nutshell, to change the limits of integration and thus avoid the infinities…ie, “renormalize” the integration. I, and others, have always thought that was “cheating”. As someone said, if you have infinities in your model, something is wrong. However, once the renormalization was used, everything else fell into place. I suspect that the renormalization trick was a hint that the overall model, while it works, is wrong conceptually. And that is why they have trouble with putting it together with GR. But what do I know, I’m “just” an experimentalist like Leonard, not a true genius like the theorists such as Sheldon. 😉
I keep going back to the Ptolemaic model of the solar system…it worked great for a long time. Perfectly predicted all the planet positions, and if there was a discrepancy, they just tweaked the epicycles a bit, and brought it back into complete agreement with the observations…..Yet it was totally wrong. What was needed was a paradigm shift brought about by Kepler, Copernicus and Newton. We need such a person(s) now.
much like feynman’s observation, that a theory might be proved right, if the proper test is devised, it takes an out of the box thinker, like an einstein don’t know of hawking really qualifies,
wait a black hole is a mirror, right there seems to be category error, of course something like a singularity is hard to observe except at a great distance, mostly for it’s effect
Progressives Realize They Have an (Oldest Hatred) Problem
It seems it’s mainly Jewish progressives waking up after they’ve been attacked by fellow progressives – plus Bill Maher. Waking up is one little progressive track, hatred is the much bigger track it competes with. We shall see where this goes.
A week or so ago Neo mentioned Day of the Jackal. Here is an article relating a writers recent interview with Frederick Forsyth, prominently dealing with the bowdlerization of paragraphs from The Fourth Protocol dealing with the ‘march thru the institutions’.
Incidentally, mentioned in the article is a recently, or soon to be released British TV series remake of the Jackal. I don’t remember if that was mentioned in the comments a week or so ago.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/14/how-legendary-spy-novelist-frederick-forsyth-discovered-hed-been-bowdlerized/
Re; So much winning
* “The Acolyte” audience score on Rotten Tomatoes is down to 16%! Brutal. That’s a record for any Star Wars show.
I dunno. I thought Lesbian Space Witches would be a winner. 🙂
Disney, we hate you, we really hate you!
* Lia Thomas has been rejected for a chance to screw up women’s swimming at the Olympics!
–“Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas out of Olympics after being dealt fatal legal blow”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-13522953/transgender-swimmer-lia-thomas-olympics-legal-battle.html
one can only look at the acolyte, like the subjects of mts 3k riffs, like the Clonus Horror or Manos of Fate, also they threw shade at an old lee van kleef the master, real Star Wars will endure not this inflated dei garbage,
he is not lia thomas, it is will thomas, who is stealing opportunities from women,
its’ interesting how they chose those particular passages, this was back in the era of the iron ladies, not these weak tories, who have surrendered her legacy,
the figurehead that the Soviets planned to install after the nuclear incident was much like Michael Foot or Tony Benn*, now they are entirely too unpigmented for leadership Corbyn is of that generation when he was groomed by the STB Czech security services,
*his daughter Aphra is likely to be Foreign Minister under Starmer, if the tsunami does eventuate,
Do Lesbian Space Witches wake up in the morning with their pillows stuck on their heads?
Those horns are tight!
Caine’s wife was in “The Man Who Would Be King” with him. I thought they met there.
“Anne Pasternak Brooklyn Museum White Supremacist Zionist.”
In the progressive mind, Zionism has become a companion with white supremacy. But there’s a telling difference between the two specters: Progressives have long had imaginary klansmen dancing exclusively in their heads. Actual Zionists, however, are numerous in blue cities. Their fellow progressives have duly warned them to get out.
We know from history what comes after the warning.
that would be the next pitch meeting,
speaking of kathleen kennedy, what does she have on the disney board of director, thats keeps them from firing her, she has cost them 4 billion dollars, and rising,
Zionists means Jew, lets not pretend otherwise, those that lived in Baghdad in 1941, hadn’t a thought about Israel, but they were slaughtered all the same, by Haj Amin’s proxies the Golden Square,
Caine relates in his memoir, how he lived in Los Angeles, around the time he filmed those films but he didn’t have a car, I think he had done Alfie the year before Zulu the year after, Ipcress two years before,
When the blue city Zionism purge commences, Jews who dare defend themselves will be charged by blue city cops, then tried by blue city juries. Zionists will likely be screened out in the jury selection process.
We know how that will go.
in the link notes, Ridley Scott was the director of the coffee commercial that brought michael caine together with his wife, his work ethic was rather extraordinary even if his choice of roles was less choosy, as he said at one point’I never saw Jaws 4, (which was Mario Van Peebles first big role) but I do recall the house it bought me, most recently at 90 years old, he had a book ghosted by Matthew D’Ancona, where the protagonist, is a former Special Forces Operator turned police detective, considering all the thriller’s he has been in I expected a somewhat more plausible tale, it’s not terrible except for the twist at the end that belongs in an Austin Powers film, the story concerns an English lord, and a Russian oligarch who are at odds with each other, who have generational ties between them, Caine’s character tries to play them off against each other,
Dave (“Cornhead”) Begley: Caine’s wife was in “The Man Who Would Be King” with him. I thought they met there.
Nope, Shakira, already married to Michael, was a late fill-in for the original actress slotted for the part of Roxanne, a secondary character but crucial for the plot. Here’s Wikipedia:
The role of Roxanne (the only listed female character in the movie) was originally slated for Tessa Dahl, the daughter of Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal. Dahl, excited to take the role, had prepared for the part by losing weight and capping her teeth. However, at the last minute, director Huston had decided to cast someone whose appearance was more in keeping with natives of Kafiristan. “We’ve got to find an Arab princess somewhere,” he is recounted as saying over dinner with Caine. At that same dinner, Caine’s Indian-descended wife Shakira was present, so Huston and Caine persuaded her to take on the role.
For my taste, “The Man Who Would Be King” is the greatest movie ever made. I think it’s Steve Sailer’s favorite, too. Here’s his extended riff on it in the immediate aftermath of the Islamic crimes of September 2001, anticipating the U.S. going into Afghanistan: https://www.unz.com/isteve/what-will-happen-in-afghanistan/
And here’s a brief video about the movie, including commentary by director John Huston: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw9pRPVQPaY
I remember a number of years ago TCM had a series where an actor or actress, usually of some note, would suggest one of their favorite films and give pre and post movie commentary on that film. Sally Field’s pick was The Man Who Would Be King. What I remember about her commentary was that both she and the host agreed that the film, due to its theme, could no longer be made.
Pro-Palestinian Protesters Reportedly Firebombed a Building at UC Berkeley
Tsk-tsk.
Steve, scary article.
Not sure it wasn’t to be expected, though.
Winston Smith’s world has indeed arrived…
Re: Michael Caine
For me it was Michael Caine in “The Ipcress File” (1965), an anti-Bond spy film. I was 13 when I saw it and I was transfixed. He played Harry Palmer (ho-ho), a canny young soldier who got caught in the black market, then dragooned into spy work.
His working-class concerns about pay and rank when he deals with his upper-class superiors are hilarious. Caine himself was working-class, the son of a cook and a fish market porter. He had the Cockney accent to prove it.
Caine also had the unfortunate legal name, Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Good name change.
Palmer isn’t trying to stop Dr. Evil from starting WW3 or anything so glamorous, though “The Ipcress File” was maybe the first major film based on the MK-ULTRA rumors using sensory deprivation and hypnosis to achieve mind control.
I’ve watched it many times since. In addition to the sensational Michael Caine, the cinematography and film score were brilliant. I’ve been a fan ever since.
One might think kingsman is the bookend to ipcress caines is the boss of the above named organization in league with the villain with egerton as a teen version of palmer the villain in ipcress is a mandarin with albanian roots if memory serves
He played an upper crust figure in zulu but usually working class blokes