#Jack Scalia

[camyfilms]

RED EYE 2005

You know what I think? I think you're not such an honest person. Because I've been following you for eight weeks now, and I never once saw you order anything but a fucking Sea Breeze!

[brokehorrorfan]

Fear City has been released on Blu-ray exclusively from Shout Factory. Limited to 1,800, the 1984 neo-noir exploitation thriller is available for $29.98.

Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant, King of New York) directs from a script by frequent collaborator Nicholas St. John (King of New York). Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, and Melanie Griffith.

Both the theatrical and unrated cuts have been newly scanned in 2K from the 35mm interpositive. No other extras are included.

Features:

Theatrical cut (95 minutes)

Unrated cut (97 minutes)

There's a psychopath on the loose in Manhattan who is stalking and mutilating beautiful strippers employed by booking agents Matt Rossi (Tom Berenger) and Nicky Parzeno (Jack Scalia). But when the madman targets Matt's ex-girlfriend, Loretta (Melanie Griffith), he must confront his own violent past to stop the sadistic killer. Welcome to Fear City, where thrills are cheap, and human life is even cheaper.

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Title: Red Eye

Rating: PG-13

Director: Wes Craven

Cast: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox, Jayma Mays, Jack Scalia, Robert Pine, Terry Press, Brittany Oaks, Laura Johnson, Max Kasch, Kyle Gallner, Angela Paton, Loren Lester, Suzie Plakson, Monica McSwain, Dane Farwell, Beth Toussaint, Adam Gobble

Release year: 2005

Genres: thriller, mystery

Blurb: An overnight flight to Miami quickly becomes a battle for survival when Lisa realises her seatmate plans to use her as part of a chilling assassination plot against the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. If she refuses to cooperate, her father will be killed. As the miles tick by, she's in a race against time to find a way to warn the potential victims before it's too late.

[oldtimesnew]

Sasson 1989

Jack Scalia

[movie-titlecards]

The Last Leprechaun (1998)

My rating: 2/10

Quite possibly the worst thing David Warner has ever been in, and that is a low, low bar to squeeze under.

[kwebtv]

The Star Maker - NBC - May 11 - 12, 1981

Drama (2 episodes)

Running Time: 192 minutes

Stars:

Rock Hudson as Danny Youngblood

Suzanne Pleshette as Margot Murray

Melanie Griffith as Dawn Barnett Youngblood

Teri Copley as Angel Parker

Jack Scalia as Vince Martino

Jeffrey Tambor as Harry Lanson

Cathie Shirriff as Susan Orwell

April Clough as Honey Potts

Kristian Alfonso as Kelly Blake

Titos Vandis as Edgar J. Winters

Ed McMahon as Lou Parker

Brenda Vaccaro as Dolores Baker

Frank Aletter as Harvey Denver

Fred Dryer as Milt Cooperman

Fred Sadoff as Dr. Don Gold

Jim Antonio as Fred Windsor

Dan Hamilton as Spiros Livadas

Lawrence Brame as Steve Brady

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The Last Leprechaun (1998)

[milliondollarbaby87]

Red Eye (2005) Review

When Lisa Reisert is kidnapped on a flight by stranger Jackson Rippner, she is threatened by the murder of her father to then help with the plot to assassinate a Homeland Security official. ⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Red Eye (2005) Review

[sesiondemadrugada]

Ferrari (Michael Mann, 2023).

[sgiandubh]

The Lady and the Unicorn

This made the news a while ago, with the usual imbecile speculation on trademark infringement (that particular troll has no idea, of course, and I shall immediately explain what I think). Today, though, there seems to be some ironic reaction from S to the fact that Beyoncé's own white label bourbon, a supposed nod to her family's past, seems to closely mirror The Sassenach's bottle design:

People did not seem to have understood it at all, as they should have considered also the other story he immediately added to this one:

And of course, the Gay Troll went with her sad, tired, mendacious couplet about The Unicorn in the Room, heh. That particular cretin seems to have forgotten that a unicorn also means...

Or, for our beloved Spanish Mafia girls...

Of course, SS is still frolicking somewhere around the Minicorn Pasture (meaning that its market value would be, in my book, evaluated somewhere between 1 and 3 million USD - based on absolutely nothing else but common sense and my personal hunch), but his pun is just about S being confident that his business ventures will be successful, nothing more - as shown in the medals' story also featuring an unicorn, of course. And mark me, I see absolutely nothing hostile towards Beyoncé: it's just ironic and well, it has no legal implications whatsoever, as a design similarity does not qualify as a trademark or copyright infringement, except in very precise situations, such as when iconic brands are involved.

The above was not invented by me, but stated by the US Supreme Court, in its very recent (June 2023) decision in Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products, LLC (you can read it all here, including Justice Kagan's very clear legal opinion on SCOTUS' interpretation: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-148_3e04.pdf). In a nutshell, the design of a product will always be protected by the provisions of the Lanham Act, only if unfair use (such as a parody of the product by a toy maker, as in Jack Daniel's decision, or a close copycat) could dilute a 'famous mark' (meaning by this either cause unjustified prejudice or cause confusion among the consumers). In all the other situations, the SCOTUS' legally binding precedent, in the Wal-Mart Stores, Inc v. Samara Brothers, Inc affair (2000), applies:

Or, in Justice Scalia's unanimous opinion: 'design, like color, is not inherently distinctive' . Neither that horse, nor that unicorn, are yet iconic and therefore the trademark infringement discussion is empty and void. As is the slanderous insinuation that SS copied a Japanese whisky brand's bottle design - Suntory's Hibiki being the brand quoted by the Mordorian experts.

If anything, Suntory's Hibiki eerily resembles that FMN gin bottle design - but why embarrass ourselves with facts, huh?

as compared to...

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Jay Acovone and Jack Scalia in "Hollywood Beat" (ABC, 1985)

[tofallatlastbutfair]

got an email, obviously hoped it was a comment on my fic bc that's my main source of serotonin these days, it's from fucking SCALIA LAW.

i will never look into Scalia Law School. I don't know jack shit about Scalia Law School and I prefer to keep it that way. I'd rather give up my lifelong dream and not be a lawyer at all than go to a school named after ANTONIN FUCKING SCALIA.

[byneddiedingo]

Tom Berenger in Fear City (Abel Ferrara, 1984)

Cast: Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, Melanie Griffith, Rossano Brazzi, Rae Dawn Chong, Joe Santos, Michael V. Gazzo, Jan Murray, Janet Julian, Daniel Faraldo, Maria Conchita Alonso, Ola Ray, John Foster. Screenplay: Nicholas St. John. Cinematography: James Lemmo. Production design: Vincent Joseph Cresciman. Film editing: Jack W. Holmes, Anthony Redman. Music: Dick Halligan. 

Abel Ferrara's style and ability to create an atmosphere almost manage to redeem the tawdry Fear City, but there's really no getting over the leaden familiarity of the story. Someone is mutilating and killing the dancers who work in New York City's strip clubs and the police, club owners, and managers of the women are unable to stop the carnage. Eventually, it falls to Matt Rossi (Tom Berenger), the co-owner of a talent agency that supplies the dancers, to search out the killer and deal with him. Rossi is a damaged man: an ex-boxer who killed a man in the ring and is tormented with guilt, but when the target becomes his ex-girlfriend Loretta (Melanie Griffith), he feels compelled to act. You can see from the start where the plot is going -- toward a showdown in a dark alley. It doesn't help that Rossi is at odds with the police officer in charge of the investigation, Al Wheeler (Billy Dee Williams), who hates Italians: "There's nothing I hate more than guineas in Cadillacs," Wheeler says, watching Rossi get in his car. Ferrara can sometimes be thuddingly obvious in exposition: We know from flashbacks what the cause of Rossi's guilt and depression is, but just in case we don't get it Ferrara needlessly inserts a scene in which we see newspaper clippings about the opponent's coma and death. More time might have been spent developing the character of the killer, who is just a figure out of a nightmare. The acting in Fear City is mediocre and there's more exploitative nudity than necessary in the dance club scenes, but the movie undeniably holds your attention. 

[ragnell]

Updated Time Travel To-Do List

Kill Hitler

Sabotage Reagan Campaign

Leave boombox playing "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" outside Ted Kaczynski's cell.

Drop Stalin in La Brea tarpits

Pants Scalia

Find out who Jack the Ripper is

Kick Jack the Ripper's ass

Throw Thomas Edison from a train

I am going to spit on Thomas Edison's grave

[oldtimesnew]

Jordache

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Red Eye

A woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in offing a politician. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Lisa Reisert: Rachel McAdams Jackson Rippner: Cillian Murphy Joe Reisert: Brian Cox Cynthia: Jayma Mays Charles Keefe: Jack Scalia Bob Taylor: Robert Pine Marianne Taylor: Terry…