Hands of fate
Hand of fate #1: "And what is that, John? What? Bad luck. That's all it is. I pray in your life you will never find it runs in streaks. That's what it does, that's all it's doing. Streaks. I pray it misses you. That's all I want to say." -- Shelley "the Machine" Levene in Glengarry Glen Ross.
Hand of fate #2: "So you've had a bad couple of months. Well, I'm sorry, but I'll tell you what you do and it's no different if you're J. Paul Getty or Irving the Tailor -- you ride it out." -- Lawrence Tierney's "Joe Cabot" in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs.
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on September 4, 2007 at 11:18 AM
comment #1
The Bandsaw Vigilante
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Too true, man.
"Fuck You. THAT'S my name."
Either ride the fire, hoping it'll peter out, or burn up. Been there, done that, got the exit-wound.
Posted by The Bandsaw Vigilante
at September 4, 2007 11:37 AM
comment #2
wayne76
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Caught the last 20 minutes or so of Glengarry last night on IFC. On my personal top 10, no question.
Jack Lemmon not even getting nominated for that film is reason enough to disregard the Oscars altogether. Idiots.
Posted by wayne76
at September 4, 2007 11:49 AM
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Devin Faraci
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Hand of fate #3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:TorgoManos.jpg
Posted by Devin Faraci
at September 4, 2007 11:52 AM
comment #4
Rich S.
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And while the first two may be given little heed, you ignore Torgo at your peril.
Posted by Rich S.
at September 4, 2007 12:27 PM
comment #5
The Winchester
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Wells, I miss when you used to have the "Guess the quote" from the old Poopshoot (and reel?) days.
Kudos Devin, for showing us the true hands of fate. Hands...the hands of fate.
Posted by The Winchester
at September 4, 2007 2:41 PM
comment #6
Midwest Doug
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Manos, one of the MST3K bravura performances...
Jeff, hope it's not you in said rut.
Posted by Midwest Doug
at September 4, 2007 3:14 PM
comment #7
Joe Leydon
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"Richard Kimble looks out at the world for the last time, and sees only darkness. But in that darkness, fate moves its huge hand."
-- Original intro to "The Fugitive" TV series.
Posted by Joe Leydon
at September 4, 2007 3:51 PM