Murphy, its you !

[gzabetas]

Hey thanks for the compliment on the thread title.

Yeah Robocop is up there on my favorites too.
I have the book by Taschen on Paul Verheoven on my bookshelf. Great artwork on behind the scenes for that film.
Love the Christ metaphors in it (at one point he walks on water - at the gas station he is seen walking on spilled gas, but it is a clear metaphor) - I also teach semiotics in film, so I am biased
He is killed and resurrected. Only this is a Jesus of our times, carrying a weapon, so to say.

Fellow Greek Basil Polidouris wrote a great score (I love the strings when he enters his home that is up for sale, and he has flashbacks of his old family - that sounds so familiar to many of us LBS these days)
He cant cry, so the strings in the score cry for us. They tear at our soul at that moment.

Also on an interesting side note, my brother is a waiter in LA and brought Verhoeven his take out order to him a few years back. I was so jealous when he told me, as I would have loved to have met him in person.

Will read your sitch helpme12 to catch up.
I feel the same way about the wife/son vacation.
Tough love bur you are right, save him bigger heart ache down the road.