Written the other day there in the vein that films are actually real life:
Also, if you find yourself as the villain in a Bond Movie, just shoot the smug twat when you have the chance and stop fannying about, trying to show how clever you are or whatever.
In Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, for me the best gag was when Dr Evil decides to have Austin & Co lowered slowly into the tank of mutant sea bass and his son pops the question about just shooting him. To which Dr Evil responds:
'No Scott, we're just going to walk away and
assume he's dead'.
And in A bond documentrary, Jonathan Pryce (Tomorrow Never Dies) actually mentioned that he had a gun but didn't shoot Bond
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In the Dr Who episode 'Blink', the two female characters are surnamed Sparrow & Nightingale.
'Very ITV' I recall one quips...
But back to the action....this whole drama has to be set in a sleepy fictional county with a population of about seven people and it has a murder rate outstripping LA & New York combined....Everyone in these shows always lives alone in huge mansions with massive gardens too.
Columbo is by far the best telly tech. At least you know who did it but the fun comes from the cat & mouse games Columbo has with them, despite probably figuring out the villain in the first ten minutes. Its always the guest star
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In the first story, the writer decided that he should nick the murderer in one scene rather than return later to nab him but in the days of typewriters, no Word etc, the scene was written with Columbo leaving the room. Rather than go back & re-write several pages, he just had Columbo stop in the doorway & the famous line 'Just one more thing' was born.
Fun pub quiz trivia: A now world-famous movie director did the first episode...Steven Spielberg.
