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From: optilink!cramer@uunet.uu.net (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: Pac*Bell Phones at Dulles?
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In article <9549@accuvax.nwu.edu>, tneff@bfmny0.bfm.com (Tom Neff) writes:

> In this summer's movie DIE HARD 2**, which supposedly takes place in
> Dulles International Airport (Washington DC), the payphones have a
> prominent Pac*Bell logo on them.  Do they really provide the service
> in Dulles?  Or was this an unavoidable glitch due to shooting in LA?
> Or just a plug for the highest bidder?  (GTE was featured prominently
> on the in-flight public phone, and hundreds of other vendors had their
> little plugs too -- this has become par for the course in movies.)

Somehow, I suspect it's because people in Hollywood don't realize that
the whole world isn't California, and therefore didn't catch this
minor flaw.

The movie also references a plastic pistol undetectable by airport
metal detectors, called the Glock 7, made in West Germany.  (For those
of us read Time, Newsweek, or one of the other major sources of
falsehood in America, there is no Glock 7 -- there are Glock 17, 19,
20, and 21 models); it is completely detectable by metal detectors and
X-ray machines; and it's made in Austria, not West Germany).


Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer
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