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tommytin3
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Law & Order: Trophy (1996)
Writers preferred drama to legal reality
Spoiler: they end up prosecuting a former prosecutor, one of Jack's previously off-screen lover/assistants. What did she do? She knowingly allowed false testimony in a criminal case she and Jack prosecuted. What's her obvious defense? Prosecutorial immunity under Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 US 409 (1976). What's wrong with mentioning Imbler on-screen? 1) A full analysis of Imbler includes yawn-inducing complexities; 2) A simplified approach to Imbler invites disbelief.
For recent, thorough (i.e. BORING), analyses of the issue of prosecutorial immunity, see Milstein v. Stephen L Cooley. 257 F.3d 1004 (9th Cir. 2001)(this case is on-going, and the 9th Circuit has added another opinion on top of this one), or McGhee v. Pottawattamie County, 547 F.3d 922 (8th Cir. 2008) (this case settled during appeal).
Operation Petticoat (1959)
I just spotted a continuity "goof"
I just watched this movie for about the 40th time and bless me if I didn't spot something I'd never noticed before. When the nurses first come on board, the Joan O'Brien character gets her left heel stuck in the deck and Cary Grant pulls it out. A moment later she attempts to climb the conning tower and he advises her to take off her other shoe, which she does. Only the "other shoe" is her left shoe, which Grant had apparently removed a moment earlier.
I'm not sure how much more I can write about this film. By way of noticing things I'd never noticed before, I noticed that Marion Ross played the fifth nurse, although she only had four or five lines. I thought that was quite a coincidence, see as I am Tivoing old episodes of the Gilmore Girls (I never watched it when it first came out) and Marion Ross played Lorelai the First (Lorelai's grandmother) in that show. Considering forty or more years had gone by, she looked remarkably the same.