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Is there anywhere I can find eyeglasses like those above that Gene Hackman wore in "The Conversation"?

Not that I know of, but you reminded me of three little bits of pop culture (OK, nerd pop culture, but there you go) trivia:

"Listen, listen, my name is Harry Call. Can you hear me? Don't be afraid. I know you don't know who I am, but I know you. There isn't much to say about myself. I...I was very sick when I was a boy, I was paralyzed in my left arm and my left leg. I couldn't walk for six months. One doctor said that I would probably never walk again. My mother...my mother used to lower me into a hot bath. It was therapy. One time the door bell rang, and she went down to answer. I started sliding down. I could feel the water. It started to come into my chin and into my nose. And when I woke up, my body was all greasy from the holy oil she used to put on my body. I remember being disappointed I survived. When I was five, my father took me to a friend of his, and for no reason at all I hit him right in the stomach. with all my strength. He died a year later. He'll kill you if he gets a chance. I'm not afraid of death. I am afraid of murder."

1: The 1974 movie The Conversation was the source of the extended monologue sampled in Clock DVA's 1988 song "The Connection Machine" (which was the B-side of The Hacker.)

2: The Connection Machine, of which there is a photo in the album art, was a real (and massively parallel) supercomputer.

3:  Physicist Richard Feynman was part of the project, and wore a company T-shirt, which reappeared when he wore it again for his book "What Do You Care What Other People Think?", and reappeared in 1998 for Apple's Think Different ad campaign.

Past, present, and future: all are one in Thinking Machines.

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Is there anywhere I can find eyeglasses like those above that Gene Hackman wore in "The Conversation"?


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MG118 Demi Amber Gold

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MG118 Black Silver

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Mario Galbatti MG 118    

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This site states the glasses are $136.78

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Dan