Today for a criminal justice class I watched Reversal of Fortune, which is based upon Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz's book of the same title.
BACKGROUND: Reversal of Fortune was released in 1990 and is the story of how Dershowitz got his client, Claus von Bulow, off the hook for attempted murder of his wife, socialite Sunny von Bulow, with a poisonous, almost-lethal injection of insulin.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100486/combined
von Bulow has been described by some as a "serial killer,"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a90HwJ4BR9M
Dershowitz claims that von Bulow told him that he has been accused of being a necrophiliac. This was in the book and portrayed in the movie as well.
TIMESTAMPS:
At about 30:23, von Bulow's car pulls into Dershowitz's house/law practice driveway. Then it cuts to Inside the house, where we see Dershowitz in a small kitchen (30:37) with two other people who are seated at a table and eating what appears to be pizza (30:38). We hear the doorbell ring, which prompts Dershowitz to come out to answer the front door. He then ushers von Bulow inside and introduces him to the people in the kitchen.
At 30:55 we hear the first ping-pong sounds and can see the brown pizza boxes on the edge of the "bar" counter.
At 30:57 we see two people standing at a "bar" helping themselves to pizza out of pizza boxes. The "bar" area is on the side of the room where the ping-pong table is.
At 30:58 we see the ping pong players and table.
At about 31:00 a woman asks, "Where do you keep the paper towels?" (presumably to sop up the grease from the pizza or to use as napkins)
At 31:04 we see a shot of the "bar" counter with the brown pizza boxes stacked on the edge of it.
This "segment" ends at about 31:07.
AUDIO:
At my friend's house we watched the movie in stereo on the Amazon Prime player, and I could clearly hear a background voice say "Pizza" about the time that Dershowitz ushers von Bulow into the house and greets him. (On the Amazon Prime player, that occurred at about 00:40, I think.) Unfortunately, on my laptop at home I was unable to make it out, even with Sony stereo headphones.
(ENLARGE TO FULL SCREEN FOR BETTER PICTURE)
Reversal of Fortune, Full Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI9X0r5_zq4&t=1837s
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Singleservename ago
Pizza, ping pong and perversion among elites gaming the legal system to get away with anything. Strange coincidence again. Also is that a little girl (Sarah) peeking through the kitchen door?
I know they always like to rub it in our faces but this (1990) seems very early for these references. Or maybe we are late getting wise to them?
equineluvr ago
Hi Single, It's the latter. It turns out that there were pizza/pong references in Speilberg's movie ET (1982) as well as in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100758/
2impendingdoom ago
And Speilberg was involved with the Clintons back in Arkansas (according to WJC wikipedia)
rooting4redpillers ago
Steven Spielberg and Hillary Clinton, more recently:
SEPT. 2015 - Ed Klein: Clinton Turned to Spielberg for 'Likeability Lessons' Hillary Clinton grudgingly enlisted Steven Spielberg at her husband's insistence for secret coaching lessons to improve her image on the campaign trail, but the former first lady junked the "likeability lessons" as the race heated up for the Democratic presidential nomination.
OCT. 2016 - Steven Spielberg gets bizarre shoutout from Hillary Clinton during presidential debate If you get the chance to namedrop Steven Spielberg, always take it. Hillary Clinton shouted out the three-time Academy Award winner during the second presidential debate Sunday night. The Democratic nominee used Spielberg’s 2012 film “Lincoln” in a discussion about needing a public and private position on certain issues.
FEB. 2017 - See Hillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg at Sunset Boulevard Clinton and Spielberg visited with the cast backstage at the Palace Theatre February 15.
2impendingdoom ago
I saw a reference to speilberg in a podesta email, can't remember which one, where HRC hung out with him at his house in the Hamptons (just to show the overlap in the DC/Hollywood circles