fine whine

For the vast wealth of information bouncing around the internet there aren't many links between the individual (tid)bits. I can find reams of biographical information on the life, political and professional, and even his entire filmography (as himself and otherwise) of former wrestler, actor and governor Jesse Ventura. That's not enough, though.

Tonight as I am watching Ricochet, I was struck by something. In it, Jesse Ventura gets run through by a very, very mean John Lithgow (I hope I didn't give anything away). I thought back to the last two films I'd watched with Jesse in them, and in both cases (Running man and Predator) he doesn't live to the final scene (oops, there I go giving things away again).

Knowing those bits of information, I wanted to know more. Does Jesse Ventura ever live through an entire movie? As he is the star of Abraxas, guardian of the universe, through that one he probably makes it, but what about the others?

I could always put it out on Ask MetaFilter or Google Answers or Ask Yahoo, or send it to Cecil at The Straight Dope, but then I'd be asking a person, querying the collective knowledge of people, not the collected information among the databases.

I tried Asking Jeeves, but it was useless. I remember the days when that site was useful, but now it looks so unfamiliar and unfriendly and, well, useless that I doubt I'll try to use it again in the near future. I shouldn't need something like Ask Jeeves, though, should I?

It's all out there somewhere, so why haven't wse connected all the dots and dotted all the Ts? Inquiring minds must know.