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From: blake@pro-party.cts.com (Blake Farenthold)
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Subject: Die Hard 2 Dies on Telecom
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Date: 9 Jul 90 14:57:21 GMT
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Over the holiday I saw Die Harder: Die Hard 2.  When you go, leave
your telecom background at home.  You know you are in for it when you
see 2 telecom 'continuity' errors within the first five minutes...

        1) Bruce Willis uses a PAC*BELL payphone in what is supposed
to be Dullas airport in Washington DC.

        2) Bruce Willas uses the PAC*BELL payphone to make a call TO
an AirPhone (the phones that are springing up on airplanes that only
allow OUTGOING calls)

Later in the movie we see Willis FAX fingerprints to LA for
identification.  I wish my FAXes came in clear enough to ID a
fingerprint.  I can usually can barely read them ... and that's when
they are sent in FINE mode.

I can understand accepting the BIG flaws as a necessary 'willing
suspension of the little things' right.  I'll take the job for half a
mil on Die Hard 3 ... so if any of the Digest readers have some
Hollywood connections...


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