Anyone know where the Fox Hills Crematory in the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "DEAD" (S2:E1) was filmed?
It looks an awful lot like the carriage house of the Bartow-Pell Mansion/Museum in the Bronx. The building, the driveway, the benches, the field beyond the driveway when the camera pans away from the building.
I tried googling but couldn't find anything.
From What's the Difference?: How to Tell Things Apart that Are Confusingly Close
A “story by” credit is given to the person or team who came up with the essence of a film (such as the plot or main characters) and who may have written a treatment, but who didn’t write the screenplay.
Similarly, a “screen story by” credit goes to a person or team who adapted other material such as a novel, a TV show, or a news article for film and made it substantially different from the source.
A “screenplay by” credit is given to the person or team who wrote the scenes and dialogue of a screenplay but didn’t generate the idea for the story.
A “written by” credit is given to the person or team who both conceived of the story and wrote the screenplay. It usually merges “story by” and “screenplay by”.
“And” indicates multiple writers or writing teams who contributed but did not collaborate directly—they may never have even met.
An ampersand (&) indicates multiple people or teams who wrote together.
Example:
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Perl
In this case Jay Wolpert was hired by Disney to write a script based on the theme park ride. Later Stuart Beattie was brought in to rewrite the script. After that Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio worked as a team on another rewrite.
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has a page with more details on Screen Credits.
As @Jared points out in the comments, differences in the color of lightsabers between the Star Wars episodes, can be attributed to post-production. There is no canonical (in-universe) reason for these color differences.
For example, and taken directly from the question that Jared linked to...
...before the last edited release on Blu-ray in 2011, it was made green (on the 2004 DVD edition). More than likely, if you are watching a copy of Star Wars that was released before 2004, you will find color differences from scene to scene. The 1997 Special Edition and original version, the same lightsaber in this scene is white.
The program you're talking about is a short-lived sitcom from Fox called "Second Chance" that aired in 1987. Matthew Perry (later to be famous on "Friends") played the teenage Chazz Russell, and Kiel Martin (previously on "Hill Street Blues") played Charles Russell - who is actually Chazz's future self from 2011.
In the pilot, Charles Russell dies in 2011 in a hovercraft accident and goes to St. Peter's office. St. Peter tells him that he's neither bad enough for Hell nor good enough for Heaven, so he's given the chance to go back and guide his past self onto a better path.
Back in 1987, Charles poses as "Charles Time" and tries to avert his teen self Chazz's most major mistake: trying to solve his family's pressing money woes by robbing a mini-mart of the cash it's collected from lottery tickets just before the drawing.
Charles is there at the mini-mart as the clerk and discourages the robbery; he also changes the numbers on the ticket Chazz buys, so that four of the six match and the ticket is worth a few thousand dollars (Charles was trying for a larger win, but he couldn't remember the last two numbers.)
He thinks he should go to Heaven now, but St. Peter explains that he only changed the circumstances; he's going to have to stay on Earth until he and Chazz both learn the difference between right and wrong ("That long?!", Charles exclaims.) Since he'll be staying longer than expected, Charles rents a room in Chazz's house to be on-site as a mentor.
The show only lasted nine episodes in this format; it was put on hiatus, and came back in a format that dropped the supernatural elements (and thus the characters of Charles Time and St. Peter) called "Boys Will Be Boys". The revamped show only lasted twelve episodes.
The pilot episode is on YouTube in three parts; you can see in the final segment most of the elements of your description.
Prime Minister Lama Su gives a pretty good insight into why Clones are preferable to droids
LAMA SU: They're immensely superior to droids, capable of independent thought and action.
As you can see throughout the shows, the clones are capable of cutting down dozens of droids for every clone casualty. Even when backed up by superior numbers, the droid armies are persistently pushed back by the Clone armies.
Speaking to the question of why the Republic doesn't have a large, standing droid army, the answer is that they rely on the Jedi to keep peace and order, something they've accomplished handily for a thousand generations. It's only in the few years of the Republic's existence that an army was suddenly needed. I think we can be reasonably sure that if the Kaminoans had offered a million-strong droid army, the Republic would have accepted that just as readily.
I've already searched Wikipedia's list of time travel stories in hopes of finding it, but no such luck.
This is the basic plot of the story:
In the future, criminals are sent back to the Renaissance as this is considered a humane form of punishment. One man is wrongfully accused by one of his rivals/enemies and punished in this fashion. He resolves to take revenge on his opponent and writes a letter addressed to him. He passes the letter on to his descendants, along with information proving his innocence and the other man's guilt. In this letter he tells his opponent that he will be convicted and sent back in time just as the protagonist was, and that he will be waiting for him. He also tells him that he is certain his plan will work, because the man arrived just a few hours after the protagonist did, and that he killed him.
I remember this being a part of a collection of short stories. It's probably fairly old. Unfortunately, I don't remember much else about it.
1. Jockey is the diminutive or pet-form of Jock, originally Scots and northern English. Jock is the Scotch equivalent of Jack.
OED, Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins (by Julia Cresswel), Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (by Eric Partridge) and A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable (by Ian Crofton), all give the same etymology.
Hence, the origin of the word is also the original meaning and OED defines as below:
A diminutive or familiar by-form of the name Jock or John, usually with the sense ‘little Jock, Jacky, Johnny’; hence, applicable (contemptuously) to any man of the common people (chiefly Sc.); also, a lad; an understrapper.
OED's earliest citation is from a1529:
Kynge Iamy, Iemmy, Iocky my io.
J. Skelton Against Scottes (1843) 90
A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable (by Ian Crofton) adds that the word Jockie was originally (in the 16th century) applied to stable lads, before coming to denote a professional rider. In the 17th and 18th centuries it was also used in English broadside ballads as a name for a Scottish soldier.
2. The informal meaning of jockey, (someone whose work involves the use of a particular object or machine) in expressions like computer jockey, desk jockey or disc jockey is an analogy to a horse jockey. It doesn't directly derive from the original meaning of jockey.
OED's earliest citation for this meaning is about driving a car and it is from 1912:
Some are, so to speak, ‘gentlemen jockeys’, and own, enter, and drive their own cars for the fun of the thing.
Collier's 28 Sept. 11/2
Additionally, the slang meaning of jockey is a driver as mentioned in a 1936 reference below:
Here is a short list of busmen's slang phrases:..Jockey (Driver).
Daily Herald 5 Aug. 8/4
3. Disc jockey was not the first expression where the term "jockey" was used to refer to someone outside the horse racing contexts.
The 1912 citation from OED has "gentlemen jockeys" that refers to the car drivers but it is not a set phrase.
Then, OED gives the following slang terms from The American thesaurus of slang (by Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van Den Bark) from 1942:
- Automobile racer, auto or buzzer jockey,..speed jockey,..suicide jockey.
- Motorcycle racer, broadsider, jockey,..motor jockey.
- Commercial driver (bus, taxicab, truck),..jockey, motor jockey.
- Truck driver, truck jockey or spinner... Spec. juice jockey, a gasoline-truck driver; grunt-and-squeal jockey, a stock hauler;..suicide jockey, a nitro-glycerine hauler.
OED's earliest citation for disc jockey is from 1941:
Disc jockey solves vacation. Turning a program over to the public while the emcee is vacationing is big stuff from a listener's angle, WEBR is finding.
Variety 23 July 34/4
OED says that there is no evidence for the 1935 reference:
It has sometimes been suggested that the U.S. journalist and radio commentator Walter Winchell first used the term in 1935, but there does not appear to be any evidence for this.
OED also mentions the term record jockey (defined as n. U.S. colloq. temporary = disc jockey) which is from 1940 (slightly earlier than disc jockey):
[Quoting J. Kapp] The name bands are come on for the record jockeys who ride herd over not only Decca records but all the others.
Variety 3 Apr. 39/3