Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2009 February 7

= February 7 =

Choosing a wine
What wines pair well with Blind Guardian? Neon Merlin  03:22, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * A cheap Riesling with Red Bull back. --jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 16:34, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * When you say Red Bull, do you mean the energy drink or the malt liquor from Pabst? Neon  Merlin  20:00, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Whichever is most disgusting with a cheap Riesling. --jpgordon&#8711;&#8710;&#8711;&#8710; 23:58, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * That's very hard to call. Algebraist 00:05, 8 February 2009 (UTC)


 * "Rock & Roll Doctor, you're on the air..." —Tamfang (talk) 03:09, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Movie Posters
Why is the text at the bottom (that shows the title, stars, and director) so tall, narrow, and hard to read? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.36.208.176 (talk) 09:08, 7 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I have never seen it authoritatively stated anywhere, but there is an obvious explanation. The relevant unions secured an agreement at some time as to the minimum size of lettering to be used for credits on posters; but then someone designing a poster and annoyed at the amount of credit information they had to put on it realized that the agreement only specified the height and not the width of the letters. And everyone else copied that.  (But if this is correct, the obvious question is why the unions haven't negotiated a limit on the width of the letters too, and as to that, I have no idea.)  --Anonymous, 11:18 UTC, February 7, 2009.
 * My friend who works in cinema poster design tells me it's a standard font called either 'Bee' or 'Bee FC'. Although I can find nothing about it online, all I can find is this. I guess there's a few versions.91.111.67.60 (talk) 20:17, 7 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Similarly, there's this question (posted on Friday) that was by a different IP. Cycle~ (talk) 00:26, 8 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Fixed your link --Anon, 06:59, Feb. 8, 2009.


 * And there was one back in 2006 - Reference desk archive/Humanities/January 2006. --  JackofOz (talk) 02:13, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Is there any way to know when this film will be released on DVD? Thanks. (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 18:12, 7 February 2009 (UTC))


 * Netflix doesn't list a date for it yet. I'd guess that they won't decide on a release date until they've analyzed how it did in theaters. 23:16, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Typically DVDs follow 3-4 months after the theatrical release. Tomdobb (talk) 13:59, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * But I waited years for Double Indemnity! —Tamfang (talk) 03:22, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the input ... much appreciated! (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 20:32, 12 February 2009 (UTC))

Ice hockey
In ice hockey, is it allowed for a goalie to score a goal by throwing the puck from his glove into the opposing net? Also, is scoring own-goals punishable during the course of the match by the officials if deliberate (besides angry teammates)? Kurtelacić (talk) 20:05, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * According to the IIHF rules for ice hockey, "No goal shall be allowed... if an attacking player deliberately kicks, throws, bats with the hands or otherwise directs the puck by any means other than his stick into the goal net." (Article 471) So that's a big no to the goalie throing the puck into the net.
 * As to own goals, the rules state that a goal will be allowed "if the puck has been put into the goal net in any way by a player of the defending team." (Article 470) So the penalty for an own goal is that your team has a goal scored against it. (I think any additional sanction would just be adding insult to injury.) - EronTalk 05:03, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot :) Kurtelacić (talk) 13:30, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, a player who deliberately scores on his own net would certainly be punished by his coach (and likely by his teammates later...) Adam Bishop (talk) 14:16, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * As well as by the media. Here in Canada, when Bryan McCabe (then of the Toronto Maple Leafs) scored an own goal, the media criticized him about it for a few months. Every time he touched the puck in his own end it would come up. Thanks,  Genius  101 Guestbook  15:34, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, and that wasn't even on purpose! Imagine if it was, he would have been killed. Adam Bishop (talk) 16:11, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Killed like poor Andrés Escobar, I'd say. Kurtelacić (talk) 18:48, 8 February 2009 (UTC)