[In Arthur Clarke""s novel, the mysterious monolithic stone slab is a technological machine belonging to aliens in space, one of hundreds of such monoliths sent to Earth to test, teach and transform he apes into higher-order, intelligent beings.]The creepy film ended with the devil""s flesh-and-blood baby being cared for by the mother! The incredible irony of the film was that the plot would be similarly played out a year later - Polanski""s pregnant actress/wife Sharon Tate would be terrorized and murdered by the strange cult of Charles Manson followers in her Benedict Canyon home.Ward""s formulaic sports comedy began with the inheritance of a perennially losing team - the Cleveland Indians by widowed, ex-showgirl wife Rachel Phelps (Margaret Whitton), who eagerly schemed to move he team to sunny Miami, FL - but only if the team""s yearly attendance dropped significantly (below 800,000); to her surprise, the recruited misfit players on her inept and underdog team began to win games, and ultimately they joined together to prevent her from sabotaging heir game-play, and found themselves in the comeback climax pitted against the rival NY Yankees in the pennant playoff game for the division titleThe movie-site in Dyersville, Iowa celebrated its 30th Anniversary in mid-June of 2019 to commemorate "one of the most popular sports movies of all time."" I asked him how he""d come, as I hadn""t heard a car.He said he""d left it on the road because he thought we might be in bed and didn""t want to wake us up.During an Oscorp board meeting, the new 20 year-old CEO Harry (while twirling his father""s cube-shaped device in his hand) was informed of the increased scrutiny on the $200 billion dollar company and its past scandals: "All the animal hybrid programs he was involved in were destroyed to restore investor confidence.