Wonderful news! I just spoke with the folks at MGM/UA Home Entertainment, who told me that the deleted Bond titles, including FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE and YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, will be re-released sometime "during the third quarter" of this year, meaning summer.

PS: While having lunch today in the restaurant on the 20th Century-Fox studio restaurant, who should walk in but Sir Sean Connery, who's in town to do post-production work on THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN (and, no, the Extraordinary Gentleman and I didn't have a tete-a-tete, much to my regret...)

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Originally posted by perfpitch:
...if the topic was sarted by us, anyway?).]

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"Sarted?" I thought it should be spelled started? Imperfect again, I see. How the unmighty have fallen from how low they were in the first place.

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..re-released sometime "during the third quarter" of this year, meaning summer.

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Third quarter = Fall. Autumn. NOT summer.

1st Quarter: January 1 - March 31 (Winter, extending ten days past Vernal Equinox)

2nd Quarter: April 1 - June 30 (Spring, extends nine days past Summer Solstice)

3RD QUARTER: JULY 1 - SEPTEMBER 30 (SUMMER, EXTENDS NINE DAYS PAST AUTUMNAL EQUINOX)

4th Quarter: October 1 - December 31 (Autumn, extends ten days past Winter Solstice)

Since 90.217% of the Third Quarter takes place in Summer -- before the Autumnal Equinox -- only an self-inflated ignoramus like you would assert, as you have above, that that quarter constitutes Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere.

As I said in a previous post elsewhere, some of the folks who contribute to this message board are in desperate need of remedial education. Pick up your pencils and study materials before you leave.

Do you even know those big words you're spouting? Words like "equinox," "solstice," etc? Let's debate astronomical constants for a while. You'll lose so big.

The Vernal Equinox was March 20 (in the Americas). That's 11 days until the 31st. So there you're wrong.

The Summer Solstice is June 21st, so I'll give you that one.

The Autumnal Equinox is September 23rd. That's surely not nine days until September 30th. Wrong again.

The Winter Solstice is December 22nd. Again, not ten days until December 31st. Hmm. That's three strikes now.

Now let's talk the "standardized conventionalism" of the seasons. If you've paid attention to many of the meteorologists (those are science people you know), among others, they will talk about "Meteorological Spring" (and summer, fall, winter). For this dataset, the seasons are as follows:

Spring: March 1 - May 31
Summer: June 1 - August 31
Autumn: September 1 - November 30
Winter: December 1 - February 28

This is also utilized by businesses and other areas of the community. They do not go by the "Solstice/Equinox" data.

There are many factors that go into this, but I'm sure you're not intelligent enough for me to waste my time explaining them to you. And certainly not the math.

So... now you want to discuss something else? The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? The Chandrasekhar Limit as it pertains to Hawking Singularities perhaps? How about the Thermodynamic Speed Limit? Planck's Constant?

Additionally, you're not the "education police" here. You weren't asked, and weren't invited. You going to start picking on everyone even if they have limited abilities? I'm dyslexic. You going to pick on me for that? For something I can't control?

Perhaps we should look into your background a bit. Wonder what we would find, if we talked to people who knew you? That you wet the bed until you were 15? That you live in your parents' basement? That you've never kissed a girl? Perhaps you have a speech impediment? Should we mock you for that?

And you still spelled started wrong (even if you have corrected it since then). So there.

No wonder they kicked you off FSM.

I'm not the one who started that name-calling, nor do I wish to match your pointless vulgarity epithet for epithet, but
it seems obvious that your chief intention is to prowl these pages trolling for toadies who'll reinforce your inflated view of yourself and hollow intellect. (Since this topic was started by me, and therefore carries my "byline" on the topics page, exactly why did you bother to click on it in the first place, since you knew beforehand that you were obviously not going to find anything with which you agreed?)

The solar year is divided into four seasons, each beginning with an Equinox or Solstice. The seasons are exactly as I noted above, with the wiggle-room that they do not always begin on the same dates very year owing to lack of coincidence between the Gregorian calendar and the movement of the Earth around the sun.

I repeat, the third quarter of this, or any other, year begins at the Summer Solstice, which occurs between June 20-23, and ends at the Autumnal Equinox which takes place between September 21-23.

We're not talking "meterological seasons," which have no more relevance to this discussion than the duration of the Atlantic hurricane season, or the way Americans treat Labor day as the unofficial start of summer. The definition of seasons is governed purely by the immutable mechanics of the Solar Year, not by some twaddle you gleaned from some illiterate TV weatherman.

All the imbeciles in the world believing something to be true doesn't make it so; you can't alter the turning of the Earth, make the equator cross the plane of the ecliptic a second sooner or later, or turn night into day by hewing to a false conviction.

Wake up and smell the cyanide.

Americans traditionally celebrate Memorial Day as the unofficial start of summer. Labor Day is traditionally the end of summer. Otherwise, you are correct as we discussed over the phone.

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Originally posted by James Phillips:
In fact, Sean had a better experience and working relationship with John Boorman on ZARDOZ than he had with Peter Hyams on OUTLAND.

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And, Lou, I'm a writer; I'm currently co-producing a dramatic film about the Blacklist that is, at least nominally, still at the Showtime network, though we're about to go into what's known in Hollywood as "turnaround," in which we'll be seeking a new home for our project.

In the meantime, I also write bonus materials for DVD's, most recently those that appear on the new 2-disc Disney set from 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA.

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Originally posted by Timmer:
Great use of the second movement of Beethoven # 7 at the end of ZARDOZ, anyone know who's version it was?

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I will check the DVD and get back to you.