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"First of all if you want to defend Schwarzegger, never ever forget Commando." Why? Is it good or bad?
1977 Oscars for 1976 films...Stallone nominated for Best Actor. Screenwriter Stallone nominated for Best Original Screenplay. Rocky wins Best Picture and Best Director ...John Avildson...with Stallone's performance and Screenplay. Arnold never achieved that.
"Our entire budget fifteen thousand dollars, and that includes the city swimming pool."
"There's no SWIMMIN' in my show!"
Photo doesnt match subject...or does it?Corrine Griffith was a silent movie star..listed in credits here. A guest on show? Arlene Francis and Hugh Downs were icons of their time...
Poston carried 2 movies in a row for producer-director William Castle...the 1962 American comedy Zotz! ( a rare non horror film for Castle, patterned on The Absent Minded Professor of 1961) and then this 1963 British co production. Perhaps a 2 picture deal? Perhaps Castle saw Poston as the new Fred MacMurray? Poston did have a funny face and a funny voice, some comedy star quality...he had debuted on the Steve Allen comedy show.
Laurie Metcalf played Annie on Broadway...with Bruce Willis as Paul.
In the book, Annie chopped Pauls foot off. Beatty said, "Ill play that, but the guy would be a loser for the rest of his life." They changed the script to breaking the foot. Goldman said, "Beatty never said no...he is still deciding years after the film came out."
Caan was having trouble getting work because of previous drug issues. He said to get this role, "I will pee in a cup for you" to prove he was clean. It didnt matter..so many male stars said no the producers welcomed Caan. He was right for the role -- a physical guy trapped, a guy strong enough to survive...
Marilyn Monroe
Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Lawrence and now Margot Robbie are on the list. Sandra is older but was on top for awhile.
Cate Blanchett is equal parts prestige actress -- like Meryl Streep -- and popcorn star like Julia Roberts. Sandra and Cate were the Brad and George of Oceans Eight..
Bump.
Glad to see Used Cars mentioned. Launched Kurt Russell for the 80s and showed comedy chops nobody knew he had. Hilarious cult classic...from Zemickis with Spielberg producing.
Yep. Its as if the whole movie was meant to answer critics of the first movie.. which was funny because a lot of us already knew those critics...led by Pauline Kael...were wrong about Harry.
Bump.
Harry's giant handgun rather resembled a Western six shooter and helped transform the Western into the cop action movie, using Spaghetti Western star Eastwood to make the transition. Which was pretty unintentional given that Harry was first offered to Frank Sinatra and then to Paul Newman when Sinatra pulled out over a hand injury...from the fight scene in 1962's The Manchurian Candidate. Sinatra had trouble holding the Magnum!
What an array of gun posters! The one I remember most.. as the best...is the second one down. Eastwood holding the gun straight up. Notice that the original Dirty Harry 1971 poster didnt quite focus on the gun so much. BTW another San Francisco cop movie opened against Magnum Force at Xmas of 1973...Walter Matthau in The Laughing Policeman..a newspaper had fun contrasting a photo of Matthau extending an itty bitty police snub nose versus Eastwood with his hand cannon. Steve McQueen as SF cop Bullitt also only used a snub nose..and very rarely...only once in his movie. CONT.
A hologram Brando....
Original charges were withdrawn without prejudice. New charges can be filed...
LOL
He was in enough films for Hollywood to completely reanimate him.
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It wasnt with AI, but CGI technology was used to insert Wayne, years after his death, into a beer commercial using footage from the WW2 movie Cast a Giant Shadow.