This spec spot puts us smack dab in a penitentiary with guards watching prisoners as they are let out of their cells for some recreation in the yard. We see inmates playing basketball, doing pushups, lifting weights, “socializing” and perhaps capering, with one guard in particular casting a suspicious eye on the proceedings.
Then an agile prisoner, who clearly has something up his figurative sleeve, makes an acrobatic leap, catapulting himself through the air to snatch the cap off the head of the vigilant guard without his knowing. Next we see this convict wearing the cap and what looks like an official guard’s uniform. The con saunters out the security gate with the sentry there assuming that the properly garbed man he sees in profile is indeed a guard.
It turns out that the prisoner gained his freedom by using a Pentel Pen to color one-half of this shirt (the half facing the sentry) a dark guard uniform blue. A Pentel pen is tucked in the shirt’s front pocket.
A parting super reads, “Free your creativity with Pentel Pens.”
TJ Hall of greatguns: usa, Santa Monica, directed, edited and co-wrote (with Ben Nott, a creative at Droga5, New York) “The Big House.” The DP was James Kniest.
Supreme Court Seems Likely To Uphold A Law That Could Force TikTok To Shut Down On Jan. 19
The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.
Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company's connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States.
Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours, Chief Justice John Roberts identified his main concern: TikTok's ownership by China-based ByteDance and the parent company's requirement to cooperate with the Chinese government's intelligence operations.
If left in place, the law passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April will require TikTok to "go dark" on Jan. 19, lawyer Noel Francisco told the justices on behalf of TikTok.
At the very least, Francisco urged, the justices should enter a temporary pause that would allow TikTok to keep operating. "We might be in a different world again" after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Trump, who has 14.7 million followers on TikTok, also has called for the deadline to be pushed back to give him time to negotiate a "political resolution." Francisco served as Trump's solicitor general in his first presidential term.
But it was not clear whether any justices would choose such a course. And only Justice Neil Gorsuch sounded like he would side with TikTok to find that the ban violates the Constitution.
Gorsuch labeled arguments advanced by the Biden administration' in defense of the law a... Read More