(My notes say: dumb.) As we bleed into the sequence, Sonny asks Cher about playing a cowboy in their movie and finally, the kid says, Bang Bang! which would remind fans of Chers February 1966 hit, Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down). Lee Gambin tells us the character of Irving Ringo is based on the Ringo movies ( A Pistol for Ringo, The Return of Ringo, A Woman for Ringo , etc.) The sequence plays on many Cowboy Western tropes, for one Sonny is an Italian cowboy (Gambin reminds us how anglo American Western movies were until Spaghetti Westerns came along)
Wholesale purchases and tax calculations often use carton quantities
It may be intentionally added to increase the drugs weight, it could be due to contamination of the equipment used to process it, or the opium plant may have been grown in soil contaminated by lead
Environ Toxicol 31(11):13191328 Ding YS, Trommel JS, Yan XJ, Ashley D, Watson CH (2005) Determination of 14 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in mainstream smoke from domestic cigarettes
Perhaps unfairly, Notaro has also had to weigh in on sexual misconduct and it's not the first time she's worked on a project associated with a man implicated in #MeToo
