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Monday, March 22, 2010

Bright Lights, Big City (1988)




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Bright Lights, Big City (1988)

106 KONGDT: Sunday, March 21 11:30 PM

1988, R, **, 01:50, Color, English, United States,

Dumped by his wife (Phoebe Cates) and aided by his buddy (Kiefer Sutherland), a young Manhattan writer (Michael J. Fox) goes on an alcohol/cocaine binge.

Cast: Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Swoosie Kurtz, Frances Sternhagen, Tracy Pollan, John Houseman, Charlie Schlatter, Jason Robards, Dianne Wiest, William Hickey, Kelly Lynch Director(s): James Bridges





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Caprica (New)

676 SYFYHD: Friday, March 19 6:00 PM

Science fiction, Drama

Ghosts in the Machine

Cast: Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson, Alessandra Torresani, Magda Apanowicz, Polly Walker, Sasha Roiz

Original Air Date: Mar 19, 2010





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Videos BETA > TV Episodes > "NCIS: Los Angeles" (2009)

NCIS: Los Angeles - Blood Brothers

Description: The investigation of a drive-by shooting has the NCIS team searching Los Angeles for the dead marine's younger brother who may be the next target and the one with the answers.

Related Titles: "NCIS: Los Angeles" (2009), Blood Brothers (2010)

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"NCIS: Los Angeles"

Blood Brothers (2010)

Original Air Date: 16 March 2010 (Season 1, Episode 18)

Plot: The investigation of a drive-by shooting has the NCIS team searching Los Angeles for the dead marine's younger brother who may be the next target and the one with the answers.










}}}}} JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/09/07 3:39 AM
I wonder if that pilot flying the A-6 I was in that was shot down on 2/14/86 was named Ken Morgan. In my symbolic "memories," Ken Morgan was a guy who lived off Hicks Road between our house and


I "remember" that Ken had some kind of little car that was not unlike Comet, but I can't "remember" the make Ken drove. It might have been a Mustang II, which I think was very different than the Mustang. But I "remember" it was a butt-ugly yellowish-green kind of color. I also "remember" that Ken liked to pull back the emergency brake when he was driving because it would cause the car to spin around a few times. I have this visualization in my mind of sitting there talking to him in that car and I can picture him half-looking at me as he had his hand on the emergency brake and saying he was going to pull it. But he must not have because I don't "remember" the car spinning around. What is really odd about that "memory" is that it is right around the point on Hicks Road where Michael died. He was driving in the opposite direction than we were. Michael drifted off the right side of the road, his right turned got caught in a narrow utility ditch that had been dug along the side of the road, he over-corrected, which then caused his pickup to spin around and off the other side. When his pickup hit a tree on the right side, he was thrown across the cab and broke his skull on the right side door. He was there a few hours before any one found him.

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1991 film "Flight of the Intruder" DVD movie:

00:23:44


US Navy Lieutenant Jake "Cool Hand" Grafton - USS Independence CV 62 US Navy A-6 Intruder pilot: All right, now listen, Doc. Don't touch anything. Keep your hands in your lap.

US Navy Lt. Commander "Mad Jack": Absolutely.

US Navy Lieutenant Jake "Cool Hand" Grafton - USS Independence CV 62 US Navy A-6 Intruder pilot: The only exception is if you have to eject.

US Navy Lt. Commander "Mad Jack": Eject?

US Navy Lieutenant Jake "Cool Hand" Grafton - USS Independence CV 62 US Navy A-6 Intruder pilot: Now, you got a yellow and black handle here and here - you pull it. The command will be "eject, eject, eject." Three times, you got it?

US Navy Lt. Commander "Mad Jack": Yes, "eject, eject, eject." Do I say roger or... just do it or what?

US Navy Lieutenant Sammy Lundeen - USS Independence CV 62 US Navy A-6 Intruder pilot: You even say "huh," you'll be talking to yourself because I'll be gone.










}}}}} JOURNAL ARCHIVE: August 10, 2006


Amanda was wearing a white dress, as I recall, when I saw her on the Wainwright after we returned from the Gulf. I remember the stuff I wrote a couple years ago about that experience and I wonder what it really means.

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}}}}} JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 9/25/2006 6:42 PM
I wonder why I remember that girlfriend named Amanda Busch.


As for Amanda Busch, I remember she fell off a bar stool the night I met her in a bar in downtown Charleston back in 1987.

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}}}}} JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 06/11/07 11:30 PM
DAMN!!! The name of the character Phoebe portrays is "Amanda" in this movie. That was the name of my girlfriend in 1988. Amanda Busch, from Aberdeen, Scotland. Still haven't quite figured out what Aberdeen means. Phoebe portrays the wife of the star of the movie.

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Bright Lights, Big City (1988)

Release Date: 1 April 1988 (USA)

Plot Outline: A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

Phoebe Cates ... Amanda

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day


1:10:40
Are we learning yet?










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Praying_Mantis

Operation Praying Mantis

Operation Praying Mantis was an April 18, 1988 attack by U.S. naval forces in retaliation for the Iranian mining of the Persian Gulf and the subsequent damage to an American warship.

On April 14, the guided missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts struck a mine while deployed in the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Earnest Will, the 1987-88 convoy missions in which U.S. warships escorted reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers to protect them from Iranian attacks. The explosion put a 25-foot hole in the Roberts' hull and nearly sank it. The crew saved their ship with no loss of life, and Roberts was towed to Dubai on April 16.

After the mining, U.S. Navy divers recovered other mines in the area. When the serial numbers were found to match those of mines seized along with the Iran Ajr the previous September, U.S. military officials planned a retaliatory operation against Iranian targets in the Persian Gulf.

The battle, the largest for American naval forces since World War II, sank two Iranian warships and three armed speedboats. It also marked the first anti-ship surface-to-surface missile engagement in U.S. Navy history.

The attack by the U.S. helped pressure Iran to agree to a ceasefire with Iraq later that summer, ending the eight-year conflict between the Persian Gulf neighbors.


U.S. naval order of battle


Officer in Tactical Command: Commander Joint Task Force Middle East (aboard USS Coronado)

Battle Group Commander: Commander, Cruiser/Destroyer Group Three (aboard USS Enterprise)


Surface Action Group Charlie

OSC: CO, USS Wainwright

USS Wainwright (DLG/CG-28) - guided missile cruiser

USS Bagley (FF-1069) - frigate

USS Simpson (FFG-56) - guided missile frigate

SEAL platoon










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New Kids on the Blecch

Original Airdate on FOX: 25-Feb-2001


% Bart asks everyone to "ball-walk," and the audience does so. In Lt.
% Smash's mind the children, dancing in unison, turn into soldiers
% marching in formation. They do battle with hippies riding a giant
% praying mantis. The hippies, shouting anti-American slogans, fire
% flowers back at the soldiers. One man takes a hit.
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% One of Smash's superior officers jolts him back to reality.

Admiral: Lieutenant! Lt. Smash!

Smash: Oh, Admiral.

Admiral: That hippie fantasy again?

Smash: They're getting less frequent, sir.

Admiral: Excellent.










}}}}} JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 14:24:34 -0700 (PDT)

From: "Kerry Burgess"

Subject: Re: Sleep journal 4/6/06

To: "Kerry Burgess"


Kerry Burgess wrote:

Details about my recent sleep are very fuzzy today. Can't remember for sure when I woke up. 3 am maybe. Or maybe shortly after midnight, can't really remember as I usually can. Remember dreaming something about driving my Jeep. Then I returned to it where it was parked in a parking lot after I was traveling through some passageways, hallways in a transit facility maybe. The only part I remember clearly is where a woman, I assume was my imaginary girlfriend asked me out for drinks or something. I told her we needed to keep it really casual though because all I had to wear was sweatpants. Kind of the downside to dating a homeless person I reflect now as I write this. She told me she would wear something with holes in it. I hope that was her in my dream, although the woman in the dream seemed to be someone unfamilar though. But I have noticed that happening with other people I know. They are represented, somehow, by a different person, but I think of them as someone specific. I feel like that is part of the manipulation. I have noticed something similar in real dreams, but I don't think it is the same here. I think they are disquising themselves in my dream for some reason. Anyway, if it really was her, she actually doesn't have to worry about dressing down if we were to go out. Of course, if I have my way, it would be a moot point because why would I want to go out with her when I am in such an ugly situation? At the minimum, I would want to be back to work so that I have regained some independence.

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}}}}} JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess

To: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Mon, May 22, 2006 1:54:42 PM

Subject: Journal May 22, 2006


I went to see that movie An Officer And A Gentleman with a girl with the initials RR. Maybe I once dated Ronald Reagans granddaughter.

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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/daughter+in+law

daughter in law

the wife of one's son.





http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/grandson

grandson

a son of one's son or daughter.










From 11/8/1970 ( my first ascent to Mount Everest summit ) to 7/21/1979 ( my wife Phoebe and I are married ) is: 3177 days

From 7/21/1979 ( my wife Phoebe and I are married ) to 4/1/1988 ( premiere US film "Bright Lights, Big City" starring my wife ) is: 3177 days


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Bright Lights, Big City (1988)

Release Date: 1 April 1988 (USA)

Plot Outline: A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

Phoebe Cates ... Amanda










From 11/8/1970 ( my first ascent to Mount Everest summit ) to 7/21/1979 ( my wife Phoebe and I are married ) is: 3177 days

From 7/21/1979 ( my wife Phoebe and I are married ) to 4/1/1988 ( United States President Ronald Reagan - Proclamation 5788—National Former Prisoners of War Recognition Day 1988 ) is: 3177 days



http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=35638&st=&st1=

Proclamation 5788—National Former Prisoners of War Recognition Day, 1988

April 1st, 1988


It is truly fitting that America observe April 9 in recognition of our former prisoners of war; that date is the 46th anniversary of the day in 1942 when U.S. forces holding out on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines were captured. Later, as prisoners of war, these gallant Americans were subjected to the infamous Bataan Death March and to other inhumane treatment that killed thousands of them before they could be liberated. In every conflict, brutality has invariably been meted out to American prisoners of war; on April 9 and every day, we must remember with solemn pride and gratitude that valor and tenacity have ever been our prisoners' response.

That is clear from the words of then-Captain Jeremiah Denton, USN, when he and other U.S. prisoners of war were freed in 1973 after years of captivity in North Vietnam. "We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country under these difficult circumstances," Captain Denton said. Implacable and incredible courage, endurance, faith, and patriotism were behind those words—eloquent and immortal testimony to the spirit of America's Armed Forces in the Vietnam War and throughout our history.

The term "difficult circumstances" referred to nothing less than physical and mental torture, starvation, disease, separation from loved ones, and deprivation of medical treatment—an ordeal that for some, in every conflict, did not end until death. To their brave families we offer solace and salute. To our former prisoners of war who endured so much, we say that with your example and with God's help we will seek to meet the standards of devotion you have set; we will never forget your service or your sacrifice.

The Congress, by Public Law 100-269, has designated April 9, 1988, as "National Former Prisoners of War Recognition Day" and authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this event.

Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim April 9, 1988, as National Former Prisoners of War Recognition Day, and I urge all Americans to observe this day of remembrance with appropriate ceremonies and activities.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eightyeight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twelfth.

RONALD REAGAN










From 11/8/1970 ( my first ascent to Mount Everest summit ) to 7/21/1979 ( my wife Phoebe and I are married ) is: 3177 days

From 7/21/1979 ( my wife Phoebe and I are married ) to 4/1/1988 ( premiere US film "The Seventh Sign" ) is: 3177 days


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The Seventh Sign (1988)

Release Date: 1 April 1988 (USA)

Plot: Around the world, the signs of the apocalypse--as outlined in the Book of Revelation--seem to be coming to pass in the wake of a mysterious wanderer