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In 1987, Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy), a car salesman from Minneapolis, Minnesota with financial troubles, hatches a plan to end his financial difficulties. Through his mechanic, a former criminal named Shep Proudfoot, he enlists the service of two hit men, Gaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare) and Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi), at a bar in Fargo, North Dakota to kidnap his wife, Jean, who will be returned unharmed for a payment of $80,000. Jerry's secret plan is to tell his wealthy but antagonistic father-in-law, Wade, that the ransom is $1,000,000 intending to use the large difference to settle unspecified debts he has accrued and to invest in a business venture involving a parking lot...another black comedy that i thought was terrific! I also got a kick out of how much and how often the local police chief, heavily pregnant Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand)and her sweet husband, Norm, ate!!
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Added: 15th July 2007
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A news clip from 1971 where then Philip Morris CEO Joseph Cullman vows to take any ingredients found to be dangerous out of cigarettes.
He also assures pregnant moms that smoking is safe and that cigarettes can actually be good for moms as "some women prefer smaller babies
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Added: 18th March 2009
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Probably the first real sitcom 'moment' in TV history was this episode of I Love Lucy from October 1952. Lucy comes up with a touching way of telling Ricky she is expecting a blessed event. Kind of sweet, wasn't it?
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Added: 24th November 2007
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Funny Girl Barbra Streisand as Fanny is now part of the Ziegfeld Follies. She tells Walter Pidgeon as Florenz Ziegfeld, she doesn't want to be in the finale because she finds the lyrics inappropriate but Ziegfeld insists. so the rest is history, in Hollywood - remember what happens as ONLY BABS Could pull off!
(BTW, the "pregnant bride" prank never actually happened - according to Jule Styne's widow, the bit was Garson Kanin's idea. And in reality, there's no record of Ziegfeld and Brice ever having had any disputes - they got along famously.)
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Added: 12th March 2009
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Bernard (Bernhard) Goetz was riding a New York City subway train on December 22, 1984. Four black youths, aged 18 and 19, menacingly surrounded him and demanded money. Goetz, who had previously been mugged twice, opened fire with a small-calibre handgun. One shot severed the spinal cord of one of the assailants, permanently paralyzing him. The other three were less seriously wounded. Goetz fled the subway car but eventually turned himself into police nine days later. Dubbed the Subway Vigilante by New York's newspapers, Goetz was hailed as a hero by crime-weary New Yorkers after it was discovered the four youths all had long criminal records and admitted to being on their way to steal money from machines at a video arcade. (At the time, an average of 38 crimes were committed in the New York subway system each day!) Goetz was only convicted of a third-degree gun possession felony and served eight months in jail. The three able-bodied felons all committed serious crimes afterwards. One was sentenced to 25 years for raping and sodomizing a pregnant woman.
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Added: 29th June 2008
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Lita Grey, born in 1908, became Charlie Chaplin's second wife in 1924. Charlie was born in 1889. Do the math. She was 16 while Charlie was 35. Lita was pregnant at the time and the couple married in Mexico to avoid a scandal. (Chaplin could have been charged with statutory rape in California.) Grey had made Chaplin's acquaintance when she played a dancer in a dream sequence in The Kid (1921) when she was 13. The two had virtually nothing in common and divorced in 1927. Chaplin was ordered to pay a financial settlement of $600,000 plus another $100,000 in trust for each of the two children the marriage produced. It was a record divorce settlement at the time.
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Added: 22nd August 2008
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Ricky is at the club, singing "The Lady In Red" THEN, as he is singing Lucy walks in, hands the man a note to give Mr. Ricardo, LATER, he reads the note...and finds out someones having a baby. BUTT Who???..he searches for the happy couple!
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Added: 31st January 2009
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