>>>>Yeah. It was a fun show. Brosnan's character was an old movie buff and used to slip in little odd bits from time to time. One show he used the pseudonym "John Robie" when he was pretending to be a thief.
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>>>>Often the allusion was never explained - either you got it or not. Like the Milo Minderbinder thing; it was never explained. I've always wondered how many I might have missed.
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>>>I loved that show! You might get a kick out of this:
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>>>http://www.klast.net/steele/film_cite.html
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>>In the end, it left a bitter taste.
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>>A website of someone in Chicago, tallies all the movie quotes mentioned in a series run on some US channels, and a few UK movies/serials. Entirely encapsulated in the common US/UK cocoon, its list of movie quotes is 100% within the cocoon. Any names beyond it are those who emigrated into it (Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman).
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>>The girl who put up the site isn't to blame at all, unless she is that market which drives the demand, and the rest of the world better get more commercial or get lost.
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>Bitch, bitch, bitch ;-)

Do they scratch each other's backs? Because, from here, that's how this cocoon culture looks. I'll quote you and you'll quote me and we'll make sure that we invent new places where we'd mention each other and our own. No new content required, just now forms which we'll fill with recycled, remade, regurgitated same old. There will be token presence of the rest of the world, so we can have something to show that blabbermouth. But we'll stick to our own. "[unspellable]" - "when you look, we are / enough to ourselves" - by [unspellable].