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Men have more character.

LIPH wrote:Men have more character.

Hardly.

Ok, here goes, my five in TV, in no order are....

Karen (Megan Mullally) Will&Grace

Phoebe (Lisa Kudro) Friends----hard to just pick one friend, but i chose her this time

Meridith (Ellen Pompeo) Grey's Anatomy

Lynette (Felicity Huffman) Desperate Housewives

Dr. House (Hugh Laurie) House

Everybody seems to eb taking the easy way otu and seperating Movies and TV so I shall do the same.....

TV:
Jack Bauer
Tony Soprano
Homer J. Simpson
Ralph Kramden
George Costanza

Movies:
Rocky Balboa
Darth Vader
Marty McFly
Indiana Jones
Frank the tank

LIPH wrote:

SMLCHNG wrote:MOVIES
“Hal” from 2001 A Space Odyssey

Do you know why they named the computer Hal?

Yes

pair8head wrote:

LIPH wrote:

SMLCHNG wrote:MOVIES
“Hal” from 2001 A Space Odyssey

Do you know why they named the computer Hal?

Yes

Some believe it and some don't.

What does HAL stand for?

"HAL". Something like Highly Advanced Lifeform, right?
Well, almost. The answer is given in black and white in Arthur C. Clarke's book of "2001: A Space Odyssey", Chapter 16, which is titled (ahem) "HAL" (note that in this case the book gives a specific answer to a specific question, whereas in situations that are more open to individual interpretation I do not necessarily take solutions out of the book).

Clarke writes:

"Hal (for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer, no less) was a masterwork of the third computer breakthrough."

Hal is commonly written as HAL, and in the film we only see it as "HAL 9000". This implies that three words are involved, as in IBM (see next question), and it is noticeable that in the book Arthur C. Clarke himself consistently refers to "Hal", not "HAL". So, therefore, do I.



That can't be right, H.A.L. is just I.B.M. shifted one letter to the left.

Yes, but Arthur C. Clarke won't hear a word of it (and having gone to so much trouble with Heuristic ALgorithmic, why should he?). IBM did indeed provide advice in the early stages of the film and their logo did originally appear in a number of shots; however, legend has it that when they realised that the computer in "2001: A Space Odyssey" was going to go around the Solar System killing people, they withdrew on the grounds that (to coin a turn of phrase or two) the kind of people who would still buy computers after that were not the kind of people they wanted as customers. There were even reports that IBM's chiefs instructed their staff to ignore the movie, though I have not seen any proof of that.
The official explanation has always been that HAL cf. IBM was entirely coincidental, although some with a more psychological bent have implied that Stanley Kubrick subconsciously hit on the name because of his feelings towards IBM (though I am not aware that he was recorded as expressing negative feelings about them). In response to my own enquiries a few years ago, when I was actually an IBM employee myself, nobody seemed to know what I was talking about. Their main focus then was on the much- publicised chess match between IBM's Deep Blue computer and world champion Gary Kasparov.

The truth? What you have above is as close as any of us will ever get, so take your pick. My own opinion? A coincidence? You must be kidding... but that does not necessarily mean there was any mischievous intent against IBM. At the time, a snappy three-letter acronym would probably have been considered convincing, and this was a computer, after all, so some similarity to IBM would not have gone amiss. Most other computers in the mid- sixties had distinctly un- snappy names. I mean, Clarke could have called Hal HPAC... but somehow it wouldn't have been quite the same.

Quiet and Shy wrote:Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones
James Bond

it's the fedora, isn't it, dear?

SMLCHNG wrote:

pair8head wrote:

LIPH wrote:

SMLCHNG wrote:MOVIES
“Hal” from 2001 A Space Odyssey

Do you know why they named the computer Hal?

Yes

Some believe it and some don't.

What does HAL stand for?

That can't be right, H.A.L. is just I.B.M. shifted one letter to the left.

That's the story I heard.

LIPH wrote:Men have more character.

Couldn't say that with a straight face, huh?

RinglingRingling wrote:

Quiet and Shy wrote:Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones
James Bond

it's the fedora, isn't it, dear?

That...and the fact no other great characters immediately came to mind ...so I gave him a bunch of votes.

The Wicked Witch of the West was pretty cool stuff...

SchoolGirlHeart wrote: Thomas Magnum

I was waiting for him!!

TV

1. Homer Simpson
2. George Costanza
3. Tom Magnum
4. Peter Griffin
5. Michael Scott

Quiet and Shy wrote:Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones
James Bond

god i love harrison ford

Jerry Seinfeld
Chandler Bing
bridge keeper in monty python and the holy grail
indiana jones
james bond
han solo
chewebacca


yaaaaa

Quiet and Shy wrote:

LIPH wrote:Men have more character.

Couldn't say that with a straight face, huh?

Aw, what the heck-why not pick by gender.
My five favorite FEMALE characters on TV:
1)Lucy Lawless (Xena)
2)Lucy Lawless (Xena)
3)Lucy Lawless (Xena)
4)Lucy Lawless (Xena)
5)Lucy Lawless (Xena)
5a)Mary Ann (Gilligan's Island)

Wino you know wrote:Aw, what the heck-why not pick by gender.
My five favorite FEMALE characters on TV:
1)Lucy Lawless (Xena)
2)Lucy Lawless (Xena)
3)Lucy Lawless (Xena)
4)Lucy Lawless (Xena)
5)Lucy Lawless (Xena)
5a)Mary Ann (Gilligan's Island)

Top 5 female characters:
1. Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
2. Evangeline Lily (Kate from Lost)
3. Jennifer Love Hewitt (I don't know any characters she's played, but she's on TV and she wears tight sweaters )
4. Sabrina Lloyd (Natalie from Sports Night)
5. Dana Delaney (China Beach)

I'll definately agree with your #5 choice, Larry.

Lucy Liu (Doesn't Matter)
Ziyi Zhang (Doesn't Matter)
Joan Chen (Doesn't Matter)
Kelly Hu (Doesn't Matter)
Tamlyn Tomita (Doesn't Matter)

Ok Top5 female characters.....

Rollergirl (Boogie Nights)
Marge Simpson
The bride (Kill Bill)
Juliet (Love Actually)
Amanda Beckett (Jennifer Love from can't Hardly Wait for many fo teh same reasons Larry said)

job41475 wrote:Ok Top5 female characters.....

Rollergirl (Boogie Nights)
Marge Simpson
The bride (Kill Bill)
Juliet (Love Actually)
Amanda Beckett (Jennifer Love from can't Hardly Wait for many fo teh same reasons Larry said)

Yep, selection by gender is a new twist. Here ya go...

Favorite (female) characters.

1. Sway (Gone in 60 Seconds)
2. Erin Brockovich
3. Princess Leia (Star Wars - Return of the Jedi)
4. Ginger (Gilligan's Island)
5. Daisy Duke (Dukes of Hazzard)

Movies, No particular order:
1) Jeremiah Johnson (movie of same name)

"I ain't never seen 'em, but my common sense tells me the Andes is foothills, and the Alps is for children to climb! Keep good care of your hair! These here is God's finest scupturings! And there ain't no laws for the brave ones! And there ain't no asylums for the crazy ones! And there ain't no churches, except for this right here! And there ain't no priests excepting the birds. By God, I are a mountain man, and I'll live 'til an arrow or a bullet finds me. And then I'll leave my bones on this great map of the magnificent ...

2) Josie Wales with Lone Watie (Chief Dan George) (a close second) in the Outlaw Josie Wales.

"Josey Wales: When I get to likin' someone, they ain't around long.
Lone Watie: I notice when you get to DISlikin' someone they ain't around for long neither.

3) Gus McCrae & Woddrow F. Call from Lonesome Dove mini

"By God, Woodrow; it's been one hell of a party"

4) Harry Calahan in all Dirty Harry movies.

" I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky?....Well, do ya punk?

5) John Dunbar in "Dances with Wolves" with Kicking Bird & Wind in his Hair.

"We will shoot some arrows into the white man. If he truly has medicine, he will not be hurt. If he has no medicine, he will be dead".

6) Sorry but I can't leave the Duke out......
Reuben (Rooster) Cogburn in True Grit & other films

"I never shot nobody I didn't have to"

Do you see a pattern here?

I'll have to do TV later......