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I also remember the Jonestown Massacre: all over the newspapers, even in Africa.

ET did not bankrupt Atari. Atari had been hurting for a couple of years; when 3rd parties started making games it cut into their sales. They needed ET to revitalize their sales, like Space Invaders did in 1979, so they over produced it. The game sold well, but not well enough to sell out; Atari wound up with millions of extra carts, so they disposed of them in a desert landfill. Also, they didn't just dispose of ET; Atari had been overproducing carts for awhile, trying to inflate their sales by forcing more product down the line.

And Atari didn't go bankrupt; they were owned by Warner Communications, who split the company up & sold it off in pieces. The home computer & video game division went to Jack Tramiel, former head of Commodore.  The arcade division was sold to Namco, who used it as their U.S. division for awhile. A small telephone division was sold to Mitsubishi, who wanted the technology. None of these separate companies went bankrupt.

Eventually, the rights to use the Atari name on home video games was sold to Infogrames, a large publisher of video games out of France. Realizing they had a more recognizable name, Infogrames changed their name to Atari...then went bankrupt in 2013, nearly 30 years after the original company was split up.

That's dreadful. She's been in so many cool B movies, the likes of which fuel this website and forum.  I hope she gets the best treatment and is well looked after.

Someone complaining about the loud sound of ocean waves in Cape Town.. 

The room otherwise was reasonably sized and very light. It is worth noting however that there is little to no sound proofing, so the sound of crashing waves below were very loud – which may or may not be a good thing, depending on how well you sleep.

I didn't get much sleep last night, but when I did I had a strange dream involving Trevor.

I was travelling back in time, and eventually got to the bit before the creation of the universe and there was Trevor and his underpants.

He gave me the chance to ask one question, and no matter what it was he would be able to answer it. I woke up just as he was about to answer the only question I could think of at the time.

"Did the underpants create you to wear them or did you create the underpants?"

 

The answer is "42" 

This was the first Western made in Africa:

In the movie The Ice Pirates there was a robot who craps itself 

"Cleopatra" with burton and taylor was such a huge failure it forced fox to sell off huge amounts of it's property to survive. False. While the movoe was a strain fox was selling off parts od its lots 3 years before itwas made due to soaring property values inntbe LA area. 
http://www.lamag.com/did-cleopatra-really-bankrupt-its-studio-and/

The actor whomplayed the red power ranger murdered two people for a sex change operation. False. An actor who was an uncreited extra on MMPR murdered two people to raise money for a sex change operation,  not the actor who played the red ranger.  http://dailycontributor.com/skylar-deleon-murdered-the-hawks-for-sex-change/3370/

Later an actor who did play the red ranger was convicted on manslaughter.  https://www.elitedaily.com/entertainment/celebrity/power-ranger-six-years-killing-roommate/1844681

So no love for "the devil's bride"? Or was that not a hammer flick either?

I believe that was the other title for The Devil Rides Out.

It had james "the man with no xxxxing neck!" Grey in it.

In "the blob" they planned to show the doctor pull down the blind and be shown completely enVeloped by the titular creature but the scene was deemed too horrific for 1958 audiences.

http://www.monsterbashnews.com/Movie%20Night/The%20Blob%201958.html