Rock wrote:

The only nice thing I can say about Henry Kissinger is that his wife was really hot. Oh, and the fake Kissinger in the second Ilsa movie is pretty funny.

His taste in women is probably his only saving grace, but even that is bittersweet, because it's led me to lose a little respect for people like Candice Bergen and Barbara Walters.

Are you cunts waiting for me or something?




















 

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Jinnistan wrote:

crumbsroom wrote:

Are you cunts waiting for me or something?

Yes, that's exactly what I was doing.

Good. Because he's mine.

Or rather, was.

Norman Lear has succumbed to the fast life of endless blow and spank, burning out too soon at the lithe age of 101.

In addition to his classics, responsible for a complete revamp of the American sitcom in the 1970s, I hadn't realized that Lear also produced the seminal Fernwood 2 Night, the faux talk show with Martin Mull and Fred Willard.  I guess I was fooled into thinking that it was more of a home-grown venture.
 

My favorite Ryan O'Neal story is one of the less flattering.  Where he once drunkenly tried to pick up Tatum at a party because he failed to recognize her.

Would have made a great Paper Moon sequel.
 

Tom Wilkinson, veritably ubiquitous character actor of the past 30 years.  I think it suffices to point to his Oscar noms for In the Bedroom and Michael Clayton as an introduction.

Norman Jewison

I don’t think either of these is in vogue these days, but I only saw Moonstruck and In The Heat of the Night within the last few years and thought both were great/very good.

I suppose I should watch Rollerball soon, I’ve only seen John McTiernan’s terrible remake.

Rock wrote:

Norman Jewison

I don’t think either of these is in vogue these days, but I only saw Moonstruck and In The Heat of the Night within the last few years and thought both were great/very good.

I suppose I should watch Rollerball soon, I’ve only seen John McTiernan’s terrible remake.

Jewison made several good movies - Cincinnati Kid and Thomas Crowne Affair among the early ones; A Soldier's Story, In Country and The Hurricane among the later ones - but he did have a knack for mediocrity.  I think perhaps one of his best attributes is in grooming other talents, like Hal Ashby, as his editor, and John Patrick Shanley, the Moonstruck screenwriter who went on to other cult favorites like January Man and Joe Vs. the Volcano.

But, yes, watch Rollerball, and you'll probably like F.I.S.T. and And Justice For All as well.  And, hell, Jesus Christ Superstar is fun if you accept it as 70s camp.

No one talks about Soldier's Story any more and it deserves a revival.  Excellent performances throughout, Adolph Caesar doing a Black R. Lee Ermey before Kubrick ever hired Ermey.  Early turns from Denzel and Robert Townshend, and the mighty Howard Rollins, best known from the TV version of Heat of the Night, another underrated Black actor who died way too soon at 46.

“The garden is empty now. The fighters have gone home. The building is closed for the night. What have we discovered from all this? A new champion? Perhaps. A successor to Bruce Lee? I doubt it. You see, what most heir apparents to Bruce seem to forget is that to be the best, you must beat the best, and Bruce Lee was the best, and he can no longer be beaten, so all else is just speculation. And I for one am glad, for why should we try to topple his legacy? Its existence I think has such a positive influence. To sum it all up, I cannot help but recall Ron Van Clief’s remark about Bruce. ‘He was the prototype. Everything else is just an imitation.’”