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5 Places You'll Recognize from the Background of Every Movie
If you have sharp eyes and an observant mind, you're going to ruin a lot of movies for yourself. Mainly because you'll see a scene that takes place on some alien planet and notice that a mountain formation in the background is the same one you just saw in a movie set in the Old West. There's only a certain number of distinct filming locations within easy driving distance of Hollywood, so you see the same ones turn up again and again, if you look for them. So from now on, see if you can spot ...
#5. Griffith Observatory -- That Sculpture on the Front Lawn Should Look Familiar ...
Remember at the beginning of The Terminator when Arnold materializes in a time ball dressed in nothing but, well, his balls? And remember the building and the monument behind him as he met those young thugs and stole their clothes?
When James Cameron told Arnold his penis wouldn't be visible, Arnold asked for the biggest phallic symbol available.
That's the Griffith Observatory, which is located, perhaps unsurprisingly, in LA's Griffith Park. It turns out that those astronomy-loving tough guys Arnold beat up got off easy, because they were actually hanging out in MacGyver's backyard (according to his show's pilot episode).
CBS Television
"I built the place myself using a box of paper clips and a pack of gum!"
"Stop it, Mac. Just stop it."
Thanks to its futuristic look, Griffith Park has been a preferred location for sci-fi movies since 1935, including pictures like The Phantom Empire, The Man from Planet X, and Not of This Earth. We could show you pictures of those films, but you've never heard of them, so here are some Autobots clambering over the observatory in Michael Bay's Transformers instead:
DreamWorks/Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks/Paramount Pictures
Meanwhile, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu just can't get enough of the big pillar in Charlie's Angels 2.
Columbia Pictures
Herschel would later sue for sexual harassment.
This is the same place where Zooey Deschanel goes all Zooey Deschanel on some unsuspecting people in Yes Man.
Warner Bros.
Or Katy Perry goes all Katy Perry, we're not really sure.
Later, she makes out with Jim Carrey in front of everyone ...
Warner Bros.
... in the same part of the observatory where James Dean once got into a knife fight with a guy who called him "chicken" in Rebel Without a Cause.
Warner Bros.
"I'm going to turn you into the rebel without a spleen."
Someone else who resents being called a chicken is, of course, Marty McFly in Back to the Future. Well, as it happens, the observatory is right on top of Mount Hollywood -- and the Mount Hollywood Tunnel is where Marty got chased by Biff while trying to steal the sports almanac back in Back to the Future Part II.
Universal Studios, Universal Studios
"Almanac? I'm running him down 'cause of that fedora."
Where was Biff going in such a hurry, anyway? Toontown, apparently: This is the same tunnel Eddie Valiant went through to get there in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Walt Disney
Cheer up, Bob Hoskins, there are way worse places you could be transported to.
The tunnel has also appeared in shows like Charmed and The O.C. If time travel, living cartoons, and dumb TV characters aren't enough for you, how about full scale nuclear war? It's also the tunnel that leads to NORAD in WarGames starring Matthew Broderick.
Begin writing your Marty McFly/Jessica Rabbit/Ferris Bueller fan fictions ... now.
#4. Courthouse Square -- The Clock Tower from Back to the Future Appears in Dozens of Other Movies
Recognize the building above? No? Then simply picture Doc Brown swinging from a wire on top of it while Marty is about to reach 88 miles per hour in the DeLorean below, and it becomes one of the most recognizable settings from one of the greatest movies of the '80s.
Universal Studios
That's right. Top Gun.
And while many of you probably know the locations from Back to the Future better than your own homes, what you might not be aware of is that this particular set was actually built in the '40s and has been used in dozens of movies and TV shows since then.
Courthouse Square is located at Universal Studios in California and, as you can see, it hasn't changed a whole lot over the last 60 or so years -- in fact, during the opening credits of Back to the Future, you can see Marty skateboard past the same steps where villagers rushed to see a black man be wrongfully sentenced to death in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Universal Studios, Universal Studios
Clearly, Hill Valley's mayor doesn't care about black people ... Wait.
The courthouse has also been used in shows like the original Twilight Zone, Magnum, P.I., Weird Science, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, Ghost Whisperer, and House M.D. After appearing in a few undesirable movie sequels (Psycho II, Escape from L.A., Batman & Robin), it showed up in several scenes key to the plot of Bruce Almighty.
Universal Studios
Yup, there actually was a plot besides "Jim Carrey and Steve Carell make strange sounds."
The set was also used as the town center in Gremlins -- you can even see the courthouse on the right during the opening credits.
Warner Bros.
Apparently Doc Brown never did bother to take down that cable.
And hey, remember the movie theater where the Gremlins were watching Snow White?
Warner Bros.
Turns out it's on the same street where Biff Tannen was acting all rapey toward Marty's mom in Back to the Future Part II.
Universal Studios
"This isn't over! You'll biff my tannen if it's the last thing I do!"
And where K.I.T.T. once drove in an episode of Knight Rider.
Universal Television
Another well-known sex offender.
#3. The Biltmore Hotel -- Home to Slimer, Tyler Durden, and Arnold Schwarzenegger's Erection
The Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles is one of the most famous hotels in the world. In fact, you probably know every corner of this place even if you've never been to LA, because it's shown up in almost a hundred movies and shows. Let's start with the entrance -- if you have a refined taste in movies, you probably remember the Ghostbusters walking into this place in their first movie. Yep, this is the swanky hotel where they catch Slimer.
Columbia Pictures
We knew it looked way too nice for New York.
You might also recall seeing Jamie Lee Curtis walk through those same doors as you fast-forwarded your VHS copy of True Lies to get to the striptease scene; this is just a few minutes before that.
20th Century Fox
The prelude to the moment that turned more '90s boys into men than an entire decade of bar mitzvahs.
Also, the final scene of the movie was shot in this hotel's ballroom. If Arnold and Jamie Lee stuck around for dinner after that, there's a good chance they got to taste some of Tyler Durden's urine in their soup, because Brad Pitt works here in Fight Club.
20th Century Fox
Or Edward Norton, whatever. Spoilers.
Back to Ghostbusters, there's a vertigo-inducing shot of the characters going up the stairs of the hotel ... which is pretty appropriate, since Alfred Hitchcock filmed some scenes of Vertigo here.
Columbia Pictures
Hitchcock's ghost was so moved when it heard about the homage that it signed on to play Slimer.
Anyway, after the 'Busters bust Slimer, they go back down to the lobby. See that clock in the background?
Columbia Pictures
Well, here's the same clock, or one a lot like it, in the scene from Beverly Hills Cop where Eddie Murphy pretends he's a writer for Rolling Stone and makes everyone feel racist.
Paramount Pictures
Now he just makes us hate donkeys.
And see those stairs back there? They're in the scene from Splash where Tom Hanks realizes that his girlfriend is a mermaid.
Touchstone Pictures
"Goddammit! This is the fifth time a fish has tricked me into fucking it."
Those stairs also allow us to perform history's first-ever segue from Splash to Mad Men, since they're in an episode where the Biltmore doubles for the Savoy Hotel in New York.
Lionsgate Television
In case you're wondering, it's episode 2.01, "The One Where Don Can't Get It Up."
Other movies shot here include Chinatown, Rocky III, Spider-Man, Independence Day, Ocean's Eleven, Wedding Crashers, Daredevil, Pretty in Pink, The Bodyguard, and Cruel Intentions. We're gonna go ahead and assume now that all those characters drank some Durden juice at some point.


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My work tends to involves using SSH to connect to various machines, and then using vim to edit files on those machines. The problem is that I have to constantly copy my .vimrc file around. It's very annoying to open vim and not have any settings. Is it possible to carry my vim settings around with me from machine to machine without manually copying it everywhere?
I feel your pain. I have all my ~/.*rc files under version control (Subversion), has worked great since I started in 1998, using CVS. One way to do it, is to check out all your rc files like this when you stand in your home directory:
This way the config files will also be synced and updated across the various computers when you run svn update.
Instead of bringing .vimrc to each server you need to work on, why not edit the remote files from your local vim:
In vim/gvim, run:
or start vim like this:
This opens the file seamingly in place (it actually copies the file locally), and when you save, it sends the edited file back to the server for you.
It asks for an ssh password, but this can be streamlined via ssh keys.
As others have mentioned the only drawback of this method is that you don't get path/file competion as you would when working directly on the machine.
For more info, check out the following tutorial.
You could make a bash script to copy it automatically every time you log in, like this:
You can call it ssh_vim, for instance. It's not an ideal solution but will solve your problem.
You can improve it to check first if there is already there. If you are not always running ssh from the same machine, you could change the script to get the file from scp from another machine.
On a related note, you could also mount the remote machine's filesystem with sshfs. That way you benefit from your environment and tools (not only .vimrc) and you have shell completion (which you don't have using scp://).
I just found out that you can source your .vimrc file using scp://, like this:
This works from the vim command line but at the moment I don't know how to automate it. It doesn't seem to work either with the '-u' switch nor in the .vimrc nor with $VIMINIT.
I found it! You can do this to start vim with a .vimrc taken from your host of reference:
Option '-c' executes the command right after launching vim.
You can create an alias in your shell of choice to avoid typing. In bash it would be like this:
A couple of solutions:
1) Create an NFS share for your home folder and map it in multiple locations.
2) Create a small script to push your .vimrc to the server you are connecting to with an identity/key file. It could look something like this (pseudocode):
The exact same answer as sunny256, but use git instead of SubVersion.
Keep one main branch with the files that is common for all computers, and have one branch for each new computer.
That way you can have almost the same files on most computers, and still not become to confused.
If you are like me and have many development machines (Virtual Machines as well) for various reasons you can combine ssh keys, a smart bash_profile, and an RCS of your choice.
I would second using nfs/samaba/sshfs. One draw back is if you don't have network access all the time then you can't access what you need (flying, no wifi, firewalls, routing issues, etc). The machines that I keep in sync are not all reachable at the same time but I want to share information between them.
The following is how I went about it borrowing many ideas from the Internet.
.bash_profile could have something like this
I got this from a couple of places but can't find a link to it now. The shell_ssh_agent file:
Now on first login you set up your keys. Log out and in and it just made life easier.
Put all your scripts in an RCS, this makes keeping development machines in sync easier. I use git. Authentication with git is via ssh so ssh keys help here too. Note at this point you could have used something like nfs. I would still be a fan of an RCS for a reason which I mention below.
The use case is
Something I want to try next is wrap the initial login/setup in a makefile that I copy to the new machine. The makefile can then do the job of setting up your keys, RCS, etc. Obviously there is some overhead here but if you end up setting up a lot of machines this is:
I use a makefile that has a list of all the servers that I log on to and when I make a change on my local machine, 'make' is run using the makefile automatically which updates all the servers with any changes or any plugins
I know this is an old thread, But one way i do it is using sshfs which mounts the file system over fuse. The local vim does all of the editing, so there is no reason to copy .vimrc around.
THis does have the downside that another terminal will have to be open for any commands that need running on the remote server, But for editing i find this way the best.
It also has the added benifit of being able to use the system clipboard.
I'm using https://github.com/andsens/homeshick to manage my dotfiles, and storing them on github.
Homeshick is written in 100% bash, and helps you manage "castles" which are just git repos that contain a /home/ directory. It has commands to move existing dot files into the repo and replace them with symlinks. And to symlink all the files in the repo in to your home directory on a new machine.
So the general idea is keep your dotfiles in a version control system, and symlink to them from the real path. This way your repo doesn't need to start from your home dir and contain a ton of files you don't ever want to add.
You might consider an EXPECT script that allows you to set your path and environment (like EXRC variables) upon pressing a certain keystroke. Shouldn't be too long before someone posts a similar script.
When your server farms number more than a few dozen (think thousands) then having something easily setup your enviroment on a 'virgin' box is a real lifesaver
Often when I login to a box, it creates my homedir for the first time!
sshrc solves this problem. You put your .vimrc in ~/.sshrc.d/ and then add
If you're using public-key authentication, you can use this in your
I like it better than the script trick suggested above since it doesn't mess the invocation of the


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yo dudes well done dudes
yo dudes well done dudes
I'm a bit surprised, but congratulations!
CM was IMO the best computer game around in the late 90s and early 00s, so if such an award is given to the games industry, then the Collyers are certainly worthy recipients.
This is awesome news. Paul and Olivers games have been a very big part of my life ever since I got the first CM on the Amiga. Wonderful!
I wonder if the Queen plays? hehe
Congrats guys, well done
disgraceful yet our men are fighting n dieing for us overseas ..
yet the queen gives out M.B.E,s to someone for just making a game ..
Congratulations to the two C's. If someone had told me back in 92 that a couple of bluenoses would impact my life enough to have me spending hours upon hours, weeks and months over the best part of the next two decades enjoying thier interpretation of football, I would have told them to bugger off. Well deserved guys.
Just saw this on the BBC website, congratulations!
congratulations Paul and Oliver!
An amazing recognition and it couldn't have gone to two more deserving guys.
The Queen did say it would have been a knighthood if it wasnt for the superkeepers saving all her sides shots.
Congrats guys. Well done.
Allow me to add my congratulations on your "gongs". I've been washing dishes every night for fourty-four years of married life, trying to get mine. Where did I go wrong? Kindest of New Year regards.
Thanks for all the kind messages folks, much appreciated by my bro and I.
We certainly couldn't have got our games from what they were 20 years ago to where they are today without the support of the community. So cheers!
Wishing everyone a happy 2010, with an extra ten percent reserved for all fellow bluenoses around the World
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Congratulations guys!
Congratulations. Was good to see Captain Picard being given a Knighthood too
ive got a friend in afghanistan who is risking his life everyday , im sure he will have to wait till his 78 till he gets his , and kickballz go eat some veg u puwseeeee, services to killin ha ha ha
Agreed Kriss. The government often often praises the British video gaming sector and its global influence and it would like to see it even stronger, so no surprise that SI Games should be honoured.
The real scandal was when friends of the government used to get awards for being 'good old boys' rather than for any real achievement. That happens a lot less now.
Gratz to the lads!!
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Well done, not bad for a couple of Shropshire lads.
Brilliant. Well done guys.
I'd just like to say thank you for all the kind comments, and wish everyone a very happy new year'
It means a lot.....
Paul :-)
SI has always been a great company and I through the years I have even had save games "repaired" by Paul C and company...would never get something like that from anyone else.
Although I feel a lot of these awards and especially knighthoods are given out a little to easily.
Awesome, great news........ now start cracking on with FM11!! Chop chop.
Seriously, well done.
congratulations this is well deserved thank you for my 13 years of enjoyment and many more to come
Haha, wow. Didn't see that coming at all. What great news for the Collyers, Sports Interactive, Football Manager and the British games industry.
I don't really think I need to say "well done" when the Queen's just done it
Congrats guys.
A very pleasant surprise.
Is this a first for the UK gming industry?
Congrats indeed. Been playing since the original on the Amiga and still as addicted with a lass and a kid as I was in my bedroom when I was 13.
Congrats to you both! Thoroughly deserved for the hours of enjoyment that FM/CM has given to the masses over the years.
I remember my very first encounter with the CM Series well, CM Italia, a guy who I used to work with on niteshift used to rant and rave about a certain football manager game, to shut him up I told him to bring it in so I could try it out, at that time, sensible soccer was my fav game on the C64....well since that day I have been addicted and I am the proud owner of every CM and football manager game released, now FML is a big part of my life and will hopefully also be around for many a year to come, you guys deserve the awards for making so many football managers live that dream.....
Well done guys, you must be buzzing and so you should be.....
Congrats and well deserved. CM/FM has done much to expose world football (ahem..soccer) to many of us here in the US before the likes of the interweb, Fox Soccer and ESPN. Maybe we can get them The Presidential Medal of Freedom as well
Brilliant... Congrats guys.. and a very happy new year!!
Great news congrats guys!
Congratulations, well-deserved!
Like many I am proud to be a tiny part of this on-going project.
Long live Football Manager!
Wow well all i can say is thank you for giving me hours of fun and a chance to make new friends and play in a beta GW for FML and still get hours of fun out the FM series. Well deserved lads and enjoy your day out
Also i feel proud to say iv been allowed the chance to beta test a great game and be at the start of something historical
Well done,
cant be to many game developers who have been awarded by the Royals
Congrats guys very deserved even if you caused every man who plays fm to break up his relationship on the release date no but really well done
I wonder how many women agree with these nominations lol.
Congratulations on it all though.
Congrats guys and it is truly deserved
and i thought it was princes william and harry that play the game not the queen and they have nagged the queen to give them an award to show there gratitude for the way they have got the princes addicted to the game
I've just cottoned on that PaulC on the boards is Paul Collyer :o
Congratulations chaps, thoroughly deserved
Great to see, congratulations.
congratulations guys
congrats. well deserved
Don't think I ever ran into you guys at my time at SI but a massive congratulations on your achievement fellas; thoroughly deserved!
Johan and Coleman to be made CBEs next year, just you wait!
Amazing achievement. Awesome stuff. You guys have certainly kept me entertained over the last decade or so, and I couldn't be happier for you
Truly well deserved !! Congrats guys
My guess is that Prince Harry is an addict and told Nanny to do the right thing.....
Fantastic! Please pass on everyone's congratulations to both!
Makes me proud to be a Shropshire boy
thats excellent and well deserved well done
Ridiculous decision. How did the Queen not notice the bugs?
Well deserved, just waiting for their Knighthood's now.....there will be no living wiv 'em, LOL.
Well done lads keep up the good work.
This is just awesome news. By the way my game doesn't work.
That's excellent news, congrats to both
Thoroughly deserved, I am also think this is a fantastic slap in the face for those at Eidos who didn't allow you to proceed and create fantastic games (exception CM01/02). This is a brilliant reward and recognition of the fantastic sucess that you at S.I have had and every brilliant games in the now legendary Football Manager Series!
Its a shame about all the bugs this year or it may have been OBE's! Yes I am still sore about 3d not working properly, even after patching & upgrading my PC fully....BUT seriously, such awards should be given for many different reasons, and I feel the pleasure that the SI games have given to so many for so long is a just reason so congrats.
A little bird told me that they would've got knighthoods, but the Queen wasn't impressed with having to wait till mid-December for patch 2. :P
Seriously, congratulations to the pair of you!
Solid work fellas you deserve it!! Congratulations!!
nice one fellas, very deserving IMO.
Many congratulations guys! Well deserved.
just saw this on kotaku well done guys good to see you get recognision for all the hard work and effort put in to making one of the greatest games
Congrats Oliver & Paul, well deserved.
Congratulations! And thank you for FM
Congrats guys! Well deserved
So its Sir Ov now in Miller?
Well done guys, here's to many more versions of FM and FML in the future, I for one have grown up playing the game and it holds a special place in my heart, FML was the icing on the cake for me and I hope that can become as succesful as FM.
Im sure with the team you have at SI this is a certainty.
Congratulations and thoroughly deserved. I've followed and played this game since the first Championship Manager when my friend Paul Chaloner did the research for you.
One of the few games I will happily purchase each year.
WOW!!! Congrats!!! Well deserved!
M.B.E.s for ruining my life???
I'd like to know how they sleep at night - have they any idea how much time I've spent on this bloody game, sometimes just staring at the screen for hours teetering on the edge of insanity?
Joking aside - congratulations gentlemen
Well done lads, I've been shouting for MBEs for you guys for years and now its come true. I can still remember as clear as day my first game of CM1, it changed my life.
Congratulations, now I can claim that playing almost every version of your games since 97/98 has been worth it - RESPECT
Can I just add my congratulations too. Well done lads.
Yes, you have ruined my life, but in a nice way.
fully deserved after all the work and effort they put into this game series. nice one men.
I think congrats are in order for the both of you.....however my missus doesnt agree!!!!!!!
I have huge admiration for anyone who can take a classroom daydream and turn it into the phenomenol success story that your games have enjoyed. Other developers have tried to rival you and never got within touching distance!
Congrats to the both of you.
Fantastic news.
Making my gaming life a joy since 1993.
Big up guys, fully deserved!
Yeah guys well done
3 pages of congratulations says it all really. Very well done lads!
Congratulations, its a very deserved award, and i think its came late, but to come late is better then it never come.
congratulations from Spain
I'm not really sure what an MBE is, but congrats
Congratulations to you both.
As many have already said, much deserved.
Without the games you´ve put out, imagine how much fun, frustration and happiness we all would´ve missed out on since the early days during the 90s and all the way up till today. Thanks a million
Now I must play some more FM
i just wanted to be another to say congratualtions to you guys, definately deserve it. I dont want to even think how many... months of my life i have spent on this game (spent, not wasted ).
So congratulations again!