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Mrs. Doubtfire
1993 · Film · 125 min
Directed by Chris Columbus
Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids. When Daniel learns his ex needs a housekeeper, he gets the job -- disguised as a British nanny. Soon he becomes not only his children's best pal but the kind of parent he should have been from the start.
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In addition to the headline, this bill would also criminalize such popular movies as Hairspray, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Tootsie, for which Dustin Hoffman won a Golden Globe. (And quite obviously a fair bit of music videos and general entertainment industry content would also become illegal.)
>> The bill also includes a section that takes aim at transgender individuals by prohibiting material "that includes a disconnection between biology and gender by an individual of 1 biological sex imitating, depicting, or representing himself or herself to be of the other biological sex."
I often wonder if game level designers now play it too safe much like the movie industry does with its proven plot points.
I think about classic maps like de_dust being the Mrs Doubtfire of game level design..
>PA used to be a town where the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and the like got started. Harold and Maude was (partially) filmed here. But such things are now inconceivable.
I remember how in the 80's and 90's there were still movies like Mrs. Doubtfire with characters on minimum wage renting in downtown San Francisco lol
There are more than a few stories of things like this happening (or my favorite, outsourcing the actual dev work to China or india) but why would you when it's a lawsuit waiting to happen? Freelancing on the side a little bit is one thing (Basecamp's handbook which was recently posted on HN even had a section on this https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/moonlighting.md ), but working a full on second job? If either found out they'd probably extremely concerned about IP theft either direction.
Plus, why have the stress of two jobs and two sets of potentially colliding meetings? Mrs Doubtfire for the corporate world sounds like a funny movie, terrible life.
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