Trump tests positive for coronavirus

[Ann Launay]

Honestly, I never heard of that guy before.

He was in a lot of 80s movies like Spaceballs, Ghostbusters, Little Shop of Horrors, and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. He left the public eye for a long time to raise his children after his wife passed.

 

[Free]

One question left:
Who is Rick Moranis?

 

[Sredni Eel]

 

[Sredni Eel]

One question left:
Who is Rick Moranis?

Hie thee to a streaming site, DVD store, or torrent site and get a copy of Spaceballs, Ghostbusters, Strange Brew, and Little Shop of Horrors circa 80s, and then get back to us.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Thread

 

[Sredni Eel]

So many questions.
Is Kim Kardashian trying to contour makeup his face and failing miserably?
Why Is his right eye so puffy?
When did his face get so lopsided?
Is the dex making his face fatter than normal?
Who put The Will of Vaal lipstick on his mouth?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

So many questions.
Is Kim Kardashian trying to contour makeup his face and failing miserably?
Why Is his right eye so puffy?
When did his face get so lopsided?
Is the dex making his face fatter than normal?
Who put The Will of Vaal lipstick on his mouth?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Kara Spengler]

Honestly, I never heard of that guy before.

You never saw the original ghostbusters movies? Or little shop of horrors? Or plenty of other things.

 

[detrius]

This thread is now about Sid's pop culture deficit. Move with the flow!

 

[detrius]

You never saw the original ghostbusters movies? Or little shop of horrors? Or plenty of other things.

The thing about Rick Moranis is that while many people will instantly recognize his face, they won't necessarily be able to connect it with a name.

He's a bit like Al Leong or Thomas F. Wilson in that regard - those names might not mean much to you, but if I had written "Biff Tannen" or "that Asian-looking henchman with the goatee (Uli from "Die Hard")", they're the people whose faces would have popped up in your head.

Moranis is the kind of actor who got cast to play the stereotypical target of a bully, somewhat timid, insecure and mousey. If his name is in the credits, you can almost be sure that there will at least (!) one bully in the movie who is going to pick on the character Mornis is playing - that is, until he gets pushed too hard and confronts his tormentor. "Spaceballs" is the rare exception to this rule, because Mel Brooks is a genius.

Moranis taught an entire generation of kids to stand up to bullies and it's really sad he disappeared from public life in the 1990s, even more so because of the reason behind this decision. I wish he had been able to continue his work, maybe it could have counter-acted the normalization of cruelty and oppressive behaviour that happened after Bush II became president and shows like "The Apprentice" became popular.

Which coincidentally brings us back to Trump.

 

[detrius]

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Trump says catching COVID-19 was 'blessing from God'

U.S. President Donald Trump declared that catching the coronavirus was a "blessing from God" that exposed him to experimental treatments he vowed would become free for all Americans, in a video address released on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

 

[Free]

I had some Pfizer injected into me once. Stung like a motherfucker. And I forgot 3 days of my life.

 

[Free]

Trump’s antibody treatment was tested using cells originally derived from an abortion

The Trump administration has looked to curtail research with fetal cells. But when it was life or death for the president, no one objected.

www.technologyreview.com

This week, President Donald Trump extolled the cutting-edge coronavirus treatments he received as “miracles coming down from God.” If that’s true, then God employs cell lines derived from human fetal tissue.

The emergency antibody that Trump received last week was developed with the use of a cell line originally derived from abortion tissue, according to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, the company that developed the experimental drug.

So what now, does God believe in abortions?

 

[Sid]

You never saw the original ghostbusters movies? Or little shop of horrors? Or plenty of other things.

I'm a complete movie barbarian.
Haven't been to a movie theater in decades. (Well, except with school classes a few times).
I think Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and One Flew Over The Cucko's Nest were the last ones I saw in a theater
I watched 2, maybe 3 movies a year on TV. Only when I'm really bored.
The plots in movies are most of the times so thin, childish IMHO. Not my beer.

And besides that, have you ever heard about Frank Lammers, Martin Koolhoven or Halina Reijn?

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Moranis taught an entire generation of kids to stand up to bullies and it's really sad he disappeared from public life in the 1990s, even more so because of the reason behind this decision. I wish he had been able to continue his work, maybe it could have counter-acted the normalization of cruelty and oppressive behaviour that happened after Bush II became president and shows like "The Apprentice" became popular.

Well the reason why he did it is very much common: "I'm a single parent and I just found that it was too difficult to manage to raise my kids and to do the traveling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn't miss it.""

Later though he added that he did not quit, but became selective about his roles. Anyway for sure he had made enough money when he entered his hiatus, that he could also have afforded a nursemaid and still act if he wanted to, I am pretty sure about. But instead he decided that it was more important to see his kids grow up and raise them then to make more movies. That's a decision not everybody can make, because not everybody has the necessary wealth to do so.

 

[detrius]

Well the reason why he did it is very much common: "I'm a single parent and I just found that it was too difficult to manage to raise my kids and to do the traveling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn't miss it.""

Later though he added that he did not quit, but became selective about his roles. Anyway for sure he had made enough money when he entered his hiatus, that he could also have afforded a nursemaid and still act if he wanted to, I am pretty sure about. But instead he decided that it was more important to see his kids grow up and raise them then to make more movies. That's a decision not everybody can make, because not everybody has the necessary wealth to do so.

Just to be clear: I was not criticizing him for his decision and actually think he got his priorities set straight. I could actually go on a lengthy rant about people who have acquired a certain level of fame and wealth and still keep longing for more.

I can still be sad about the lack of Rick Moranis films, though.

 

[Sean Gorham]

Typhoid Trump.

I'd been calling him "President SuperSpreader", but I like "Typhoid Trump" better.