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J.J. Tackles A MYSTERY ON FIFTH AVENUE!!
Merrick here...
Paramount has optioned Penelope Green's New York Times article (published last Thursday - find it HERE) that'll be adapted into a film under the guidance of the ever-ubiquitous J.J. Abrams.
The article...
describes an Upper East Side luxury apartment on Fifth Avenue that the occupants had redesigned to include hidden compartments, messages, puzzles, poems, codes and games for their four preteen kids.
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they hired young architectural designer Eric Clough, who devised an elaborately clever "scavenger hunt" built into the apartment that involved dozens of historical figures, a fictional book and a soundtrack. (Many of the secrets were included without the parents' knowledge, either.)
The project will be scripted by Maya Forbes (THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW) and Wally Wolodarsky (THE SIMPSONS).
Sooooo, it's like NATIONAL TREASURE...but up-scalier?
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they hired young architectural designer Eric Clough, who devised an elaborately clever "scavenger hunt" built into the apartment that involved dozens of historical figures, a fictional book and a soundtrack. (Many of the secrets were included without the parents' knowledge, either.)
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Although I did enjoy the Three Muskateers, but only because Oliver Platt is made out of cold forged awesome.
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I don't even know what Sudoku is.
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If you ever opened one up, all you would find is cardboard. Shopkeepers use them to make it seem like they have a larger selection than they really have. The same goes for Clark bars, 100 Grand, and those cherry filled chocolates. They're space fillers.
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If anyone is looking for a one eyed pete, I have one for you.
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this is almost as bad as the Spike Lee hateback one link down.
anyway i distinctly remember there being a 5th avenue candy bar. I saw a guy eat one on TV, and then everyone spontaneously broke out into street dance like a scene from Fame.
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H.H. Holmes' "murder castle" in Chicago had secret trap doors that lead to a furnace and pits filled with quicklime. He also had gas hookups that he could control from his room so he could asphyxiate the tenants in their sleep.
These should all be incorporated.
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or pits of death for these kids above.
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Damn You Michael Bay
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white chocolate, peanuts, caramel, maybe some nougat. its like an albino Snickers.
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is that more better?
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butterfinger!
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Sounds like it'd be a fun movie for kids... maybe JJ is venturing into new territory for a bit?
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...which are pure bliss. One is Choclair, like these mini-wafers with chocolate cream filling and a chocolate coating. The other is Coffee crisp, like a Kit-Kat bar but with a coffee-flavoured nougat. Real niiiice.
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that kid was obnoxious. he should have fallen into his own tiger pit.
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We need a four hour historical epic drama based on the life and loves of the creator of this most awesome snack.
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Swiss Family Robinson's house or the Ewok village?
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fight inept Stormtroopers or fight inept pirates?
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or was that too easy?
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get it?
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walked along 5th Avenue and strolled the Upper East Side! And now, only days later, I see a movie idea based on WHERE I WAS JUST WALKING AROUND A WEEK AGO! How unbelievably amazing is that?! I will DEFINITELY see this movie, and scream from my seat, "I actually saw that place!" or "I was literally walking on that street where the rich people live! The one right there on the movie screen! Can y'all believe it?!"
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Damn, someone on this site who's pretty funny. I enjoyed your list. Your excess free time = our comedic benefit.
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CreasyBear were you the person who, while i was watching Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End at the cinema screamed in a mutant sounding sloth from the goonies voice "keith richards, duh i saw him live" at the top of his lungs when the actor in question wobbled onto the screen. then talked about the joys of red bull for the second half of the film?
if so please never go the cinema again and stay chained in the Mama Fratelli's basement for all time. thankyou -
I had never heard of him. Did a Wikipedia search, found some other stuff . . . man, that would make a great movie. They should make that movie, screw Mystery on 5th Avenue.
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Gizmodo did a piece recently about this apartment and they had better pictures: http://tinyurl.com/4a2ozq
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...the realization was like the end of Usual Suspects.
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It really is fascinating. Not just because he was "The First American Serial Killer", but because his pathology is so different than most serial killers. What with the insurance fraud and cattle rustling.
There's a really good detailed biography on him called "Depraved." I picked up "Devil in the White City" a few months ago, but have yet to read it. I think that focuses more exclusively on the World's Fair, though. -
He's got hip-guy-hollywooditis.
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That was a great book. Half is on the World's Fair, half on Holmes. That guy was a multi-tasking monster, for sure.
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To when these little overpriviledged Paris Hiltons in training all become coke whores. Fuck this movie!
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Was an excellent book. Even the stuff on the World's fair was really interesting - more so than I expected. But Holmes is definitely a central player, and very disturbing.
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but good.
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...when they decide to make the companion film "Mystery at Jarvis & Greenview", a whimsical children's fantasy set on the North Side of Chicago, in a magical apartment filled with "cryptic messages from beyond" (past due notices from Ameritech), "puzzles" (Why does everything at Dominick's cost double what it used to?), and "fantastic contraptions" (space heaters to fend off Chicago winters). Until then, a big fat meh for stories about obscenely rich families and their conceits.
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Go get the keys to that fishing boat and throw them in the water! No- wait. They might have another set... Just blow it up.
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I hear that new Fringe show is pretty good
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Um, . . . it was a joke. I guess the sarcastic tone just doesn't translate in text.
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Jun 18, 2008 7:03:17 PM CDT
they should change the location to neverland and involve a sub p
by chipps
plus, you just can't beat tim tams. you can't.
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... a solid brick of pure caramel and peanuts, simple but oh so effective and satisfying. Unfortunately John Woo and the Fleck already fucked up that adaptation didnt they?
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... and just like that pos clowerfield w/ the young, hip yuppies. It will follow w/ the same type of rick fucks that live an entirely different life than 99% of the people that come to this site.
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whose life is surprisingly similar to my own.
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we will be in the midst of the great depression...and we poor will be eating these fucks on the upper west side
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Only use words you know the meaning of.
Amazing how AICN persists in hiring illiterates.
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