For the past couple weeks or so I've had the DVD for the racketeering production the 1991 film "Backdraft" but I have decided only this night to watch it for the first time which isn't really a surprising call.
I can't recall the last time I watched it before. I might have referenced a time a few years ago when I was watching it on television but I cannot recall and I have not looked it up. I am generally familiar with the plot of the film. I haven't yet started watching the DVD tonight but I plan to in a short while.
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Backdraft (1991) [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Donald 'Shadow' Rimgale: So stop me if I got this wrong. Now the fire is almost out, you're upstairs on the unburned floor checking for heat, is that correct? And you've been told by your Battalion Chief, your Captain and by me not to do nothin', right? Not to do nothin' until ordered. That's correct, right?
Candidate: Yes, sir.
Donald 'Shadow' Rimgale: Ok. But now the itch starts. The 'Glory Boy' flash starts. 'Hey, I'm a hero. Heroes don't just stand around.' You can tell me, that's what it was, wasn't it?
Candidate: Yes, sir.
Donald 'Shadow' Rimgale: So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
[shouting]
Donald 'Shadow' Rimgale: Was that BEFORE OR AFTER you noticed you were standing in a lake of GASOLINE, YOU IDIOT?
Candidate: Before, sir.
Donald 'Shadow' Rimgale: You could have burned or killed or crispened half that company! To say nothing of the fact that you wrecked the physical evidence that I use to prove that it's arson, and you know how goddamned hard it is to determine the cause of these fires! Now you go home and you think about that!
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Backdraft [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Let me tell you about Ronald. Ronald likes telephones.
Likes to tape wooden matches to the bell strikers...
and then wrap it in cotton with gasoline.
Had a whole little thing goin', huh? And when you got bored?
What'd you do?
- He started makin' calls. - Never proved.
Tell him about us down on State Street.
Nah. Nobody cares about that one.
It was your basic warehouse torch I was doin' for the owner.
I mean, they were a cakewalk. I just--
I just lost my concentration and my animal turned on me.
Got the whole place going like hell.
My hair was on fire, my hands.
Everything. I was dead.
Then suddenly I was alive. I was pulled out of there...
by my hero, my Shadow here.
Except, he didn't see this big tub of phosphorous, did you?
Explosion lit him up so bright, left his shadow on the wall.
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The memorial features contemplative areas and a tree-lined approach with plaques narrating the tragic event.
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Seconds (1966)
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USA 5 October 1966
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Seconds (1966)
What if someone offered you the chance to begin again, with a new life that was organized to be exactly what you wanted it to be? That's what the organization offers some wealthy people. They find a life that is what their clients would have wanted, artist, writer, politician, kill the person who is to be replaced and surgically alter their clients to take their places. We follow a new client from first contact, through his staged death, to surgery, recovery and replacement. Of course thats when things become complicated.
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Backdraft [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Shadow, shadow
Hi, Shadow.
Hi, Ronald. How ya doin'? Stayin' comfortable?
- I didn't think you would make it. - I wouldn't miss this.
- Who's that? - He works for me.
Is he a fireman? I like firemen.
You like everybody, Ronald.
Brian McCaffrey. Yeah, sure. No, that's Stephen.
He's the little one with the hat.
Oh, what a treat!
- Hey, do I know you? - Your dad did.
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Lt. Steven McCaffrey: Who's your brother Brian?
Firefighter Brian McCaffrey: You are Steven.
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Backdraft (1991) [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
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USA 24 May 1991
UK 2 August 1991
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Backdraft (1991) [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Lt. Steven McCaffrey: The only problem is that in this job is there's just no place to hide. It's not like having a bad day selling log cabins. You have a bad day here and somebody dies... and that's just not fucking good enough.
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Timothy McVeigh, in full Timothy James McVeigh (born April 23, 1968, Pendleton, N.Y., U.S.—died June 11, 2001, Terre Haute, Ind.), American militant who carried out the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. The explosion, which killed 168 people, was the deadliest terrorist incident on U.S. soil, until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
McVeigh was the middle child in a blue-collar family in rural New York state, and he expressed an interest in guns from an early age. He graduated from high school in June 1986 and spent a short period at a local business college. Around this time he ... (100 of 664 words)
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Chapter 34
For a long time, for days (how many days? who knew? not the Trashcan Man, that was for sure), Donald Merwin Elbert, known to the intimates of his dim and confusing grade-school past as the Trashcan Man, had wandered up and down the streets of Powtanville, Indiana, cringing from the voices in his head, dodging away and putting up his hands to shield against stones thrown by ghosts.
Hey, Trashcan!
Hey, Trashcan Man, digging you, Trash! Lit any good fires this week?
What’d ole lady Semple say when you lit up her pension check, Trash?
Hey, Trash-baby, wanna buy some kerosene?
How’d you like those shock-treatments down in Terre Haute, Trashie?
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1995: Many feared dead in Oklahoma bombing
A huge car bomb has exploded at a government building in Oklahoma City killing at least 80 people including 17 children at a nursery.
At least 100 people have been injured and the number of dead is expected to rise.
In Context
The Oklahoma bomb killed 168 people, including 19 children, and injured more than 500 others.
It took rescuers almost six weeks to recover the bodies of all the victims from the rubble.
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"The Bold Ones: The Protectors"
A Case of Good Whiskey at Christmas Time (1969)
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USA 28 September 1969
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The Bold Ones: The Protectors: Season 1, Episode 1
A Case of Good Whiskey at Christmas Time (28 Sep. 1969)
Leslie Nielsen ... Deputy Police Chief Sam Danforth
Release Date: 28 September 1969 (USA)
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Backdraft [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
They ran the residue you scraped from both front doors.
It's a combination of plumber's putty and rayophene gum.
It burns almost completely away when you light it.
- So it was on both doors? - Yeah.
Something else I want to show you. You're gonna have to help me.
McCaffrey, why don't you come over and help us?
No, I don't think so. Not in my contract.
I just rewrote your contract.
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"Emergency!"
The Wedsworth-Townsend Act (1972)
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USA 15 January 1972
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Emergency!: Season 1
The Wedsworth-Townsend Act (15 Jan. 1972)
Release Date: 15 January 1972 (USA)
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There Is No Santa Claus (1920)
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USA 5 December 1920
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Navy Secrets (1939)
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USA 8 February 1939
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Backdraft [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Remember this, Ronald?
- Remember who it belonged to? - Mm-hmm.
What did you do to that little girl?
It's not fair, Shadow.
What did you do to that little girl?
I burned her.
You burned her.
What do you do to old ladies, Ronald?
Burn them.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:28 PM Pacific Time USA Tuesday 17 April 2012
