Day: March 21, 2026
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Shady Tree’s campy comedy routine
Shady Tree’s stand-up routine in Diamonds Are Forever is one of the movie’s several eye-roll inducing scenes. I get that he was going for a vaudevillian style comedy routine, and maybe it’s just because it’s the 1970’s, but his watered-down… Read More →
Filed Under: Diamonds Are Forever -
Handle like eggs
This moniker on the atomic bombs in Thunderball may be humorous, but it’s apparently rooted in real-world terminology. The phrase has been used in avionics, including by the Royal Air Force, as a straightforward directive to emphasize extreme care in… Read More →
Filed Under: Thunderball