LINK / CITE ADD TO WORD LIST. You reek of Darkyn's power. If zinc be heated to near its boiling-point, it catches fire and burns with a brilliant light into its powdery white oxide, which forms a reek in the air (lana philosophica,  philosopher's wool). They reek of decay and death. Its situation, general plan and literary associations suggested a comparison that gave Edinburgh the name of  the modern Athens ; but it has a homelier nickname of  Auld Reekie , from the cloud of smoke (reek) which often hangs over the low-lying quarters.
Melora Hardin lost the part of Marty McFly's girlfriend in Back to the Future when Michael J. Fox landed the lead role. Michael J. Fox wasnât supposed to be Marty McFly. The Back to the Future role originally belonged to Eric Stoltz, a hot young actor who got booted from the movie after weeks of footage were shot. Sci-Fi Topics.
The plot gets tangled -- by fixing one thing, McFly and Doc Brown (and the villainous Biff Tannen) create a number of new messes -- but what remains is the film's vision of a year that was still more than a quarter-century away when the movie was shot and released in 1989.