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Garbage (2013)

Actors: Steven Bauer (actor), Michael Madsen (actor), Daryl Hannah (actress), William Baldwin (actor), Alanna Ubach (actress), Tim Colceri (actor), Serena Lorien (actress), David Danberg (miscellaneous crew), Vladimir Alenikov (producer), Lindsay Cohen (miscellaneous crew), Michael Weiss (miscellaneous crew), Michael Beardsley (actor), Jed Rees (actor), Shaun Gerardo (actor), Anya Avaeva (actress),

Plot: Lenny and Abbott are garbage truck drivers who service the homes of movie stars in Beverly Hills and Hollywood. They deal with the likes of 'Daryl Hannah' (qv), 'William Baldwin (I)' (qv) and 'Ben Stiller' (qv) on daily basis. During a routine landfill trip, they discover 'Cuba Gooding Jr.' (qv)'s Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "_Jerry Maguire (1996)_ (qv)". As they trace their steps back to Cuba's house, wondering how the Oscar got in the trash, the news breaks out in the media and they become overnight celebrities. As they get sucked into the Hollywood scene and celebrity world, Lenny starts to dream big and loses it completely when he sees his dreams go up in smoke, while jeopardizing his friendship with Abbott, their jobs and their lives.

Keywords: academy-award, agent, celebrity, dashed-hopes, dump-truck, fame, garbage, garbage-truck, hollywood-california, hollywood-sign
Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: Don't trash your dreams.

Quotes:

Lenny Eaton: I feel like they're all my little children and I have to clean up after them.

Abbott Smith: You're a garbageman too, man, the only difference is you have an Oscar!

Lenny Eaton: But that's just an Emmy! I have an OSCAR!

Hustler's Untrue Hollywood Stories: Oprah (2011)

Actors: James Bartholet (actor), Carlos Carrera (actor), Steve Crest (actor), Chad Diamond (actor), Criss Strokes (actor), Bruce Venture (actor), Aubrey Addams (actress), Bridgette B. (actress), Stuart Canterbury (producer), Stuart Canterbury (director), Hal Capone (miscellaneous crew), Dylan Ryder (actress), Misty Stone (actress), Scarlet Begonia (editor), Bella Moretti (actress),

Genres: Adult,

American Movie (1999)

Actors: Michael Stipe (producer), Billy Crystal (actor), Mark Borchardt (actor), Jim McKay (producer), Todd Bishop (miscellaneous crew), Chris Smith (director), Chris Smith (producer), Mike Schank (composer), Mike Schank (actor), Mike Schank (actor), Barry Poltermann (editor), Sarah Price (producer), Tommy Dallace (actor), Tom Beach (actor), Ken Keen (actor),

Plot: On the northwest side of Milwaukee, Mark Borchardt dreams the American dream: for him, it's making movies. Using relatives, local theater talent, slacker friends, his Mastercard, and $3,000 from his Uncle Bill, Mark strives over three years to finish "Covan," a short horror film. His own personal demons (alcohol, gambling, a dysfunctional family) plague him, but he desperately wants to overcome self-doubt and avoid failure. In moments of reflection, Mark sees his story as quintessentially American, and its the nature and nuance of his dream that this film explores.

Keywords: actor, actress, adult-lives-at-home, ambition, american-football, bath, bathtub, beard, beer, brother-brother-relationship
Genres: Documentary,

Quotes:

Mark's Uncle: That's all right, that's ok, umm...

Friend/Musician: Here is what it think of lottery... It's like, when you play the lottery, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose... But it better than using drugs or alcohol - Because when you use drugs and alcohol, especially drugs, you always lose.

Mark Borchardt: 'Your AT&T; Universal Card has arrived"? Oh God, Kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card. I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.

Mark Borchardt: They're making a mockery of my words, man. This whole thing is turning out to be a theatrical mockery. You understand that, Mike?::Friend/Musician: No,::Mark Borchardt: Well, you will.

Uncle Bill: It's alright, it's okay, there's something to live for... Jesus told me so!

Mark Borchardt: I'm gonna wake up to hell tomorrow, man. Those credit cards ain't gonna look nice, man. But I'm always a man for my word. Mike Schank, you happy?::Friend/Musician: Yeah, I'm happy.::Mark Borchardt: How happy are you, man?::Friend/Musician: I'm very happy.::Mark Borchardt: Well good, man, cuz don't drink. You're gonna set the world's record. OK, man. I'm cooled down, but... Hey I'm serious, man. If I missed somebody or anything, man, thanks a million for, uh, for helping out, man. Cuz I... I couldn't have, whatever, done it.

Mark Borchardt: Do you think this is a little bit cathartic for you?::Friend/Musician: Uh, very cathartic, Mark.::Mark Borchardt: Do you know what cathartic means?::Friend/Musician: No.

Mark Borchardt: Would you buy this movie for $14.95?::Friend/Musician: Yeah, hell yeah, man.::Mark Borchardt: If I can find 3,000 people like you across this country, man, I'm in business.::Friend/Musician: Of course, man, I mean... Shit, that's what "Rush" tickets were.

Mark Borchardt: [Reacting to an IRS notice threatening a lien on personal property for delinquent funds due] Luckily it's just $81.00. What are they gonna take, ya know, like my "Night of the Living Dead" book?

Joan: He wants to be somewhere where he's not. But then, don't most people want to be somewhere where they're not?

American Movie (1999)

Actors: Michael Stipe (producer), Billy Crystal (actor), Mark Borchardt (actor), Jim McKay (producer), Todd Bishop (miscellaneous crew), Chris Smith (director), Chris Smith (producer), Mike Schank (composer), Mike Schank (actor), Mike Schank (actor), Barry Poltermann (editor), Sarah Price (producer), Tommy Dallace (actor), Tom Beach (actor), Ken Keen (actor),

Plot: On the northwest side of Milwaukee, Mark Borchardt dreams the American dream: for him, it's making movies. Using relatives, local theater talent, slacker friends, his Mastercard, and $3,000 from his Uncle Bill, Mark strives over three years to finish "Covan," a short horror film. His own personal demons (alcohol, gambling, a dysfunctional family) plague him, but he desperately wants to overcome self-doubt and avoid failure. In moments of reflection, Mark sees his story as quintessentially American, and its the nature and nuance of his dream that this film explores.

Keywords: actor, actress, adult-lives-at-home, ambition, american-football, bath, bathtub, beard, beer, brother-brother-relationship
Genres: Documentary,

Quotes:

Mark's Uncle: That's all right, that's ok, umm...

Friend/Musician: Here is what it think of lottery... It's like, when you play the lottery, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose... But it better than using drugs or alcohol - Because when you use drugs and alcohol, especially drugs, you always lose.

Mark Borchardt: 'Your AT&T; Universal Card has arrived"? Oh God, Kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card. I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.

Mark Borchardt: They're making a mockery of my words, man. This whole thing is turning out to be a theatrical mockery. You understand that, Mike?::Friend/Musician: No,::Mark Borchardt: Well, you will.

Uncle Bill: It's alright, it's okay, there's something to live for... Jesus told me so!

Mark Borchardt: I'm gonna wake up to hell tomorrow, man. Those credit cards ain't gonna look nice, man. But I'm always a man for my word. Mike Schank, you happy?::Friend/Musician: Yeah, I'm happy.::Mark Borchardt: How happy are you, man?::Friend/Musician: I'm very happy.::Mark Borchardt: Well good, man, cuz don't drink. You're gonna set the world's record. OK, man. I'm cooled down, but... Hey I'm serious, man. If I missed somebody or anything, man, thanks a million for, uh, for helping out, man. Cuz I... I couldn't have, whatever, done it.

Mark Borchardt: Do you think this is a little bit cathartic for you?::Friend/Musician: Uh, very cathartic, Mark.::Mark Borchardt: Do you know what cathartic means?::Friend/Musician: No.

Mark Borchardt: Would you buy this movie for $14.95?::Friend/Musician: Yeah, hell yeah, man.::Mark Borchardt: If I can find 3,000 people like you across this country, man, I'm in business.::Friend/Musician: Of course, man, I mean... Shit, that's what "Rush" tickets were.

Mark Borchardt: [Reacting to an IRS notice threatening a lien on personal property for delinquent funds due] Luckily it's just $81.00. What are they gonna take, ya know, like my "Night of the Living Dead" book?

Joan: He wants to be somewhere where he's not. But then, don't most people want to be somewhere where they're not?

Terrorgram (1988)

Actors: James Earl Jones (actor), Shanna McCullough (actress), Gretchen Becker (actress), Angela Jones (actress), Mike Jacobs Jr. (actor), Kirsten Wagner (actress), Michael Hartson (actor), Linda Holdahl (actress), Jerry Baxter (actor), Bill Brinsfield (actor), Jerry Anderson (actor), Larry Omaha (actor), Nils Myers (editor), Jonathan Lawrence (actor), Tony Harras (actor),

Genres: Horror,
Taglines: When your past becomes a present... Terror will reign.

Dead Solid Perfect (1988)

Actors: Randy Quaid (actor), Rob Nilsson (actor), Bibi Besch (actress), John M. Jackson (actor), Jack Warden (actor), Bobby Roth (director), Henry G. Sanders (actor), Brett Cullen (actor), Bobby Roth (writer), Peter Jacobson (actor), Michael Laskin (actor), Tangerine Dream (composer), John Durbin (actor), Paul Haslinger (composer), Mary Malin (costume designer),

Plot: Made for Cable TV movie. A second-string pro golfer desprate for his shot at success tours the country. A realisting view of his adventures (or lack of them) while he tours the country.

Keywords: based-on-novel, female-full-frontal-nudity, female-nudity, golf, golf-movie, nudity
Genres: Drama, Sport,

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)

Actors: Leigh French (miscellaneous crew), Brad Stephens (miscellaneous crew), Cassandra Peterson (writer), Edie McClurg (actress), Lynne Marie Stewart (actress), Roger Corman (miscellaneous crew), Pat Crawford Brown (actress), Kurt Fuller (actor), Tress MacNeille (actress), Jeff Conaway (actor), Dick Miller (actor), William Morgan Sheppard (actor), Cassandra Peterson (actress), John Paragon (writer), John Paragon (actor),

Plot: When her Great Aunt dies, famed horror hostess Elvira heads for the uptight New England town of Falwell to claim her inheritance of a haunted house, a witch's cookbook and a punk rock poodle. But once the stuffy locals get an eyeful of the scream queen's ample assets, all hell busts out and breaks loose. Can the Madonna Of The Macabre find love with a studly cinema owner, avoid her creepy Great Uncle, titillate the town's teens and become a Las Vegas dance sensation all without being burned alive at the stake?

Keywords: actor-playing-multiple-roles, b-movie, breaking-the-fourth-wall, burned-at-the-stake, camp-humour, character-name-in-title, cleavage, council, cult-film, cult-film
Genres: Comedy, Horror,
Taglines: Elvira makes her Big Screem Debut in her Hot New Comedy. Unpleasant Dreams... Here comes elvira... there goes the neighbourhood!

Quotes:

Bob Redding: I, ah... I can only play G-rated movies.::Elvira: Oh well, there's nothing wrong with G-rated movies, as long as there's lots of sex and violence.

Chastity Pariah: I don't know who you are or where you came from but you most certainly don't fit in this town. Why, you don't even fit in that dress.::Elvira: Listen sister, if I want your opinion, I'll beat it out of you.

Elvira: Bloody Mary.::Bartender: No hard liquor served past eight o'clock. Do you want a virgin?::Elvira: Maybe, but, ah... I'll have a couple of drinks first.

Mrs. Morissey: Oh Mister Talbot, your sister was like a mother to me.::Vincent Talbot: She was a mother to me too, dear. Well, now that we've dispensed with the obligatory display of bereavement, you may begin the proceedings, Mister Bigelow.

Patty: Seems to me it's all this cheap little tart's fault.::Elvira: Cheap. Who are you callin' cheap? What's that perfume you're wearing, catch of the day?

Vincent Talbot: I must apologize for my behavior in the office, it's just that your appearance was a bit of a shock to me.::Elvira: It's OK. My appearance is kind of a shock to everybody.

Elvira: Revenge is better than Christmas.

Bob Redding: How's your head?::Elvira: I haven't had any complaints yet.

Chastity Pariah: Well, if she's morally unfit, then we have every right to do anything we can to get her out of this town. Are we agreed?::Mr. Clotter: I never laid a hand on those sheep, so help me.::Elvira: I have seen the People's Court. I'm entitled to one phone call and a strip search.

Elvira: Grab a tool and start banging.

Network (1976)

Actors: Lane Smith (actor), David Susskind (actor), William Prince (actor), Gerald Ford (actor), William Holden (actor), Howard K. Smith (actor), Lance Henriksen (actor), Ned Beatty (actor), Ken Kercheval (actor), Walter Cronkite (actor), Robert Duvall (actor), Darryl Hickman (actor), Peter Finch (actor), Faye Dunaway (actress), Michael Tucker (actor),

Plot: In the 1970s, terrorist violence is the stuff of networks' nightly news programming and the corporate structure of the UBS Television Network is changing. Meanwhile, Howard Beale, the aging UBS news anchor, has lost his once strong ratings share and so the network fires him. Beale reacts in an unexpected way. We then see how this affects the fortunes of Beale, his coworkers (Max Schumacher and Diana Christensen), and the network.

Keywords: adultery, anger, assassination, banquet, bare-breasts, bed, bedroom, black-comedy, board-meeting, boeing-747
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: "NETWORK"... the humanoids, the love story, the trials and tribulations, the savior of television, the attempted suicides, the assassination -- it's ALL coming along with a galaxy of stars you know and love! Not since the dawn of time has America experienced a man like Howard Beale! Television will never be the same! Prepare yourself for a perfectly outrageous motion picture!

Quotes:

Diana Christensen: Hi. I'm Diana Christensen, a racist lackey of the imperialist ruling circles.::Laureen Hobbs: I'm Laureen Hobbs, a badass commie nigger.::Diana Christensen: Sounds like the basis of a firm friendship.

Diana Christensen: I'm interested in doing a weekly dramatic series based on the Ecumenical Liberation Army. The way I see the series is: Each week we open with an authentic act of political terrorism taken on the spot, in the actual moment. Then we go to the drama behind the opening film footage. That's your job, Ms. Hobbs. You've got to get the Ecumenicals to bring in that film footage for us. The network can't deal with them directly; they are, after all, wanted criminals.

Diana Christensen: The time has come to re-evaluate our relationship, Max.::Max Schumacher: So I see.::Diana Christensen: I don't like the way this script of ours has turned out. It's turning into a seedy little drama.::Max Schumacher: You're going to cancel the show?::Diana Christensen: Right.

Louise Schumacher: Do you love her?::Max Schumacher: I don't know how I feel. I'm grateful I can feel anything. [his wife flinches] I know I'm obsessed with her.::Louise Schumacher: Then say it. You keep telling me that you're obsessed, you're infatuated. Say that you're in love with her.::Max Schumacher: [pauses] I'm in love with her.

Louise Schumacher: Then get out, go anywhere you want, go to a hotel, go live with her, and don't come back. Because, after 25 years of building a home and raising a family and all the senseless pain that we have inflicted on each other, I'm damned if I'm going to stand here and have you tell me you're in love with somebody else. Because this isn't a convention weekend with your secretary, is it? Or - or some broad that you picked up after three belts of booze. This is your great winter romance, isn't it? Your last roar of passion before you settle into your emeritus years. Is that what's left for me? Is that my share? She gets the winter passion, and I get the dotage? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to sit at home knitting and purling while you slink back like some penitent drunk? I'm your wife, damn it. And, if you can't work up a winter passion for me, the least I require is respect and allegiance. I hurt. Don't you understand that? I hurt badly.

Nelson Chaney: All I know is that this violates every canon of respectable broadcasting.::Frank Hackett: We're not a respectable network. We're a whorehouse network, and we have to take whatever we can get.::Nelson Chaney: Well, I don't want any part of it. I don't fancy myself the president of a whorehouse.::Frank Hackett: That's very commendable of you, Nelson. Now sit down. Your indignation is duly noted; you can always resign tomorrow.

Nelson Chaney: The affiliates won't carry it.::Frank Hackett: The affiliates will kiss your ass if you can hand them a hit show.

Howard Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

Diana Christensen: By tomorrow, he'll have a 50 share, maybe even a 60. Howard Beale is processed instant God, and right now, it looks like he may just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.

Max Schumacher: You need me. You need me badly. Because I'm your last contact with human reality. I love you. And that painful, decaying love is the only thing between you and the shrieking nothingness you live the rest of the day.::Diana Christensen: [hesitatingly] Then, don't leave me.::Max Schumacher: It's too late, Diana. There's nothing left in you that I can live with. You're one of Howard's humanoids. If I stay with you, I'll be destroyed. Like Howard Beale was destroyed. Like Laureen Hobbs was destroyed. Like everything you and the institution of television touch is destroyed. You're television incarnate, Diana: Indifferent to suffering; insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality. War, murder, death are all the same to you as bottles of beer. And the daily business of life is a corrupt comedy. You even shatter the sensations of time and space into split seconds and instant replays. You're madness, Diana. Virulent madness. And everything you touch dies with you. But not me. Not as long as I can feel pleasure, and pain... and love.::[Kisses her]::Max Schumacher: And it's a happy ending: Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife, with whom he has established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell; final commercial. And here are a few scenes from next week's show.::[Picks up his suitcases and leaves]

The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)

Actors: Creighton Hale (actor), Dabbs Greer (actor), Roy Gordon (actor), Chet Brandenburg (actor), Paul Birch (actor), Eugene Borden (actor), Griff Barnett (actor), Paul Brinegar (actor), Robert Burton (actor), Erville Alderson (actor), Marc Connelly (actor), Robert Cornthwaite (actor), Jack Daly (actor), Richard Deacon (actor), Murray Hamilton (actor),

Plot: Biography of Charles Lindburgh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in 1927.

Keywords: 1920s, abbreviation-in-title, aeronautics, airmail, airplane-crash, aviation, aviation-engineer, bail-out, banker, based-on-book
Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History,
Taglines: The Story Behind the Story of Lindbergh's Incredible Flight to Paris! One of the Great Advnetures of Our Time ! This was the era that belonged to young people - but mostly it belonged to a shy, lanky guy... The screen has never come so close to the heart of a man!

Quotes:

[first lines]::Reporter: [checking his copy] Here at the Garden City Hotel, less than a mile from Roosevelt Field... less than three-quarters of a mile from Roosevelt Field... everyone is waiting, as they have been now for seven days and nights, waiting for the rain to stop...

[last lines]::Charles Lindbergh: [narrating] There were 200,000 people there that night. And when we came back home, there were 4 million people waiting.

Charles Lindbergh: [after politely trying to smoke a cigar given to him by an investment banker] The idea of committing suicide never crossed my mind except when I took this cigar.

Charles Lindbergh: Now, I don't propose to sit on a flagpole or swallow goldfish. I'm not a stuntman; I'm a flier.

Charles Levine, President Columbia Aircraft Co.: Look, Mr. Lindbergh, I don't mean to belittle you, but, after all, New York to Paris isn't like dropping off a mail bag in Keokuk, Iowa.

Charles Lindbergh: I take up a compass heading of 65 degrees out of New York, keep correcting the heading every 100 miles.::Benjamin Frank Mahoney, President Ryan Airlines Co.: What happens over the water?::Charles Lindbergh: Over the water I keep watching the waves, see which direction the wind's blowing in, allow for the drift...::Benjamin Frank Mahoney, President Ryan Airlines Co.: And hope the Lord will do the rest.::Charles Lindbergh: No, I never bother the Lord. I'll do the rest.::Benjamin Frank Mahoney, President Ryan Airlines Co.: Might need a little help up there, don't you think?::Charles Lindbergh: No, it will only get in the way.

Father Hussman: How come I never see you around church? You don't believe?::Charles Lindbergh: Well, yes, I believe. I believe in an instrument panel, a pressure gauge, a compass, things I can see and touch. I can't touch God.::Father Hussman: You're not supposed to! He touches you!

Charles Lindbergh: Did you wait in the rain all night?::Mirror Girl: Yes.::Charles Lindbergh: Are you from New York [City] ?::Mirror Girl: No.::Charles Lindbergh: Long Island?::Mirror Girl: No. I'm from Philadelphia.::Charles Lindbergh: You came all the way from Philadelphia?::Mirror Girl: I had to. You needed my mirror.

Charles Lindbergh: [Mentally calculating what navigational error he can expect by the use of dead reckoning] Six miles off course. That's six miles after 200 miles of water. If I held this margin of error, how far off course would I be when I hit Ireland? Let's see, it's 1,900 miles across the Atlantic. So that would... I'd be 60 miles off at Ireland. Well, I'll settle for that. And nothing too wrong with this dead reckoning navigation... except maybe the name.

Father Hussman: [Flying - quite clumsily - in a bi-plane with Lindbergh as his instructor pilot] I've got a special prayer for landings.::Charles Lindbergh: Don't you think you need a little more than that?::Father Hussman: I also have a prayer for takeoffs, for engine trouble, for rough air, all kinds of prayers. Would you like to hear the one for landings? It's out of the Psalms.::Charles Lindbergh: No, thank you, Father.::Father Hussman: Slim, don't you ever pray?::Charles Lindbergh: Well, I don't have to, I *know* how to land.

Mystery Broadcast (1943)

Actors: Edmund Cobb (actor), Emmett Vogan (actor), Frank Albertson (actor), Nils Asther (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Walter Tetley (actor), Kirk Alyn (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Jack Gardner (actor), Paul Harvey (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Francis Pierlot (actor), Addison Richards (actor), Ken Carpenter (actor), Alice Fleming (actress),

Genres: Mystery,