Holy shit, Sally Quinn! I’m reading this profile in Vanity Fair of the ever-sweet -and-easygoing Georgetown (DC) powermeister, Sally Quinn, when this pops up: “After the firestorm, she entered the concrete meditation labyrinth her husband had built for her on their country estate in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, to think.” Wha’? Concrete meditation labyrinth?
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Legend has it that there is a secret basketball court located inside…Disneyland’s Matterhorn. Truth or fiction? Truth. Instead of a secret Bondian evil villain lair with shark tanks and stolen Rembrandts, the secret room in the Disneyland Matterhorn is actually a half-court basketball court. Size and Placement of Matterhorn Basketball Court? As you can...
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Fail-Safe, the 1964 movie with Henry Fonda, Walter Mattheu, and yes, Dom DeLuise, is full of secret places. In fact, with the exception of the very beginning (when Walter Mattheu, tough guy that he is, slaps a woman and says, “You’re not my kind”), most everything takes place in the President’s bunker, the War...
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90% of this video is worthless–mostly, a slightly pudgy guy looking around suspiciously, as if someone were following him. There’s also the not-insignificant matter of the Indiana Jones soundtrack. But at the :48 second mark you do get to see how the interior latch of a secret door works. After the guy pulls the...
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