I always had a thing for Terri (Priscilla Barnes).
Her character was a professional woman, not an airhead or a klutz (What the hell did Krissy and Cindy do for a living?)
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To be fair, some parts of America STILL think it’s cool to do so… and her fault, too.
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Between your endorsement and references to it on Venture Brothers this season, I have to watch it now.
Henry Silva is such a great villain actor!
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IIRC, Chrissy was a receptionist at a law office, and her cousin, Cindy, was a farm girl… whatever that means in 1970’s L.A.
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Let’s not forget he was in an excellent episode of Alfred Hichcock Presents.
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Silva’s magnetic in it, and so over-the-top – in a good way. Great ensemble cast (Brian Keith, Bernie Casey, Charles Durning, etc.), and Burt acting “serious,” but still charming. The political corruption/sex scandal plot feels as fresh as last month’s headlines. I hope you enjoy it!
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Surprised that no one has mentioned Evening Shade, a TV show with an excellent ensemble cast. Not to mention his role as Quint in Gunsmoke.
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He played a Marlon Brando clone in an amusing episode of the Twilight Zone
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I don’t think I’ve seen that one.
I came to post this - but NVM, job handled.
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getting ready to watch smokey and the bandit.
using wikipedia to get me in the mood.
The year 1977 saw the release of Smokey and the Bandit , the third-highest-grossing film of that year, beaten only by Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind .[14] Protagonist Burt Reynolds as “The Bandit”, who escorts “The Snowman” in an effort to deliver contraband (or “bootleg”) beer, envisions trucking as a “hedonistic joyride entirely devoid from economic reality”.[3] Breaker! Breaker! was another 1977 action film focused on truck drivers, starring Chuck Norris and displaying movie posters with the tagline “…he’s got a CB radio and a hundred friends who just might get mad!”
from the professionally detached antics of
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The hour-long episodes don’t get as much airplay on cable rerun channels and holiday marathons.
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Breaking In was a wonderful movie written by John Sayles and directed by Bill Forsythe, the dream team. And his X-Files episode was amazing.
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I remember many years ago I was watching Blazing Saddles with some friends when one of them said, “you know I haven’t seen Cleavon Little in anything in a while” not realizing he had long since passed on. The whole “so-and-so hasn’t been in anything in a while” became a bit of a dark inside joke from that point on.
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Yep. There’s a difference between a playboy and a creep.
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This reminds me that I’ve never seen Sharky’s Machine, one of the few movies he directed. It came out when I was in elementary school and some kid claimed to have seen it and invented the whole story for us, so it took on a sort of allure as the most dangerous movie of all time back then. 30-something years later, I’ve just watched the trailer for the first time, and I find out that my roommate’s cousin is in it. Life is weird.
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Also, and honourable mention for Saints Row 3, where he played himself, as the Mayor. Something which the player only finds out part way through, prompting the only time myself and my character have said the exact same thing, at the exact same time; “Burt fucking Reynolds?!”
The Blues Brothers is the same way now too, off the top of my head there’s just Dan Ackroyd and a few of the band left.
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I liked The End, a comedy that Burt directed where he plays a man, diagnosed with a terminal illness, who tries to speed things up by killing himself. With the aid of mad Polish assassin, Dom DeLuise, who easily steals the film.
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OK, I definitely need to see that.
I remember reading about Burt Reynolds recording his voice for All Dogs Go to Heaven. They had been recording him alone with Dom DeLouise in a separate studio (which was standard practice), and he hated the script, kept threatening to quit, and it was awful. Someone had the bright idea of bringing Dom in to the studio and recording them together, and all of a sudden Burt was having a wonderful time and the two were ad-libbing and recording lines that were better than the original script was. Those two are just magical together.
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