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Written by James M. Tate / 4/20/2018 / No comments / claire trevor , elisha cook jr. , film noir or melodrama , forties , lawrence tierney

LAWRENCE TIERNEY CINEMA PRESENTS 'BORN TO KILL'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Release: 1947</u></td></tr>
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For better or worse, BORN TO KILL is the epitome of Film Noir. All to love and hate 
about the genre is here: the shadows, the melodrama, the erupting musical 
score, the love-struck, the love-wary, the gross (snoop Walter Slezak, who gets clues way too easy for suspense to build), the beautiful (Claire Trevor), the hammy (Esther Howard, an old bag deserving to die even more than James Woods <i>also didn't</i> in CASINO), the classy (bland Philip Terry) and, of course, the viciously vile...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>BornToScore: ***</u></td></tr>
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Enter Lawrence Tierney as a 
killer aptly named Sam Wild — and the only thing truly worthwhile: During 
the (way too few) scenes as our proverbial shark glides within a lavish goldfish bowl... with actors and actresses brimming with boundless 
stage-like energy... one thing becomes abundantly clear: this man, personifying the 
film's title, isn't messing around. Only there's not enough vent for the 
ventilator... <br>
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Tierney, with his usual understated, 
timeless acting style, seems like an intruder on the wrong set; as if 
he's waiting for everyone (except Elisha Cook Jr., a fellow ex-con that could have been used much better) to calm down a bit. Perhaps if it were 
made twenty years later, anti-hero-villain Tierney would've had more to
 do (and more to murder)...<br>
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Then again, the handsomely detailed 
time-capsuled aspects of this 1940's previously-neglected gem (overshadowed by Tierney's fun-to-watch thriller, DILLINGER), gorgeously directed by Robert 
Wise, makes BORN TO KILL, in its own unique way, a plush and cerebral, intoxicating 
journey: Only it needed more of the snake and less of the garden.
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claire trevor, elisha cook jr., film noir or melodrama, forties, lawrence tierney

LAWRENCE TIERNEY CINEMA PRESENTS 'BORN TO KILL'

Year of Release: 1947 For better or worse, BORN TO KILL is the epitome of Film Noir. All to love and hate about the genre is here: the ...

CLIMBING TO THE EPIC TELEVISION MINISERIES OF 'MASADA'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Clive Francis orders his men 'round YEAR: 1981</u></td></tr>
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It doesn't get much better than suffering along with Peter O'Toole as a vulnerable Roman general weeding out a small yet tight band of Jewish rebels that, because of the nature in which this true life story winds up, are <i>still</i> considered Zealots, a label usually only pinned on Christians... in Hollywood, that is...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peter O'Toole sits & sips with David Warner</u></td></tr>
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As the leader of that group, TV miniseries staple Peter Strauss uses a booming Shakespearian stage voice, seeming more driven on behalf of history than the story at hand — and not <i>only </i>while yelling down to the five-thousand-strong Roman army waiting beneath he and his 900 followers' mountaintop fortress of... MASADA — which is, like anything lasting six-plus-hours, a hit and miss venture...<br>
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The hits have mostly to do with O'Toole's Cornelius Flavius Silva, making judgments outside his tent or philosophizing inside with either sneaky friend-turned-foe David Warner or sexy slave love-interest Barbara Carrera. The latter, while nice to look at, seems exactly what her character is — fiction placed within a biopic, and that even includes Strauss's Eleazar ben Yair — only God knows who led these particular Israelites to hold their ground while <i>antagonizing </i>the opponents below (the teleplay's based on a historical novel titled THE ANTAGONISTS)...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lawrence of Arabia castmates O'Toole and Quayle return to the desert</u></td></tr>
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For example, in one scene, the rebels splash loudly in a pool within their unreachable haven — of endless food and water — while the beleaguered Romans are allowed only three drinks per day...<br>
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Meanwhile, Strauss's guttural rants are narrowed into clever (yet sometimes unrealistically fathomed) mind-game tactics...<br>
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A good thing because not only does O'Toole... a veteran of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA... fit the desert terrain, he can handle the stage-like dialogue naturally while another ARABIA veteran, Anthony Quayle, is a wise and patient Roman engineer, progressively building an earth-massed ramp to reach the fortress where a monstrous construction, looking like a Trojan Horse with a ram's head, awaits to finish the job.<br>

anthony quayle, biopic, clive francis, eighties, ken hutchison, miniseries, peter o'toole, peter strauss, tv movie, warren clarke

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Clive Francis orders his men 'round YEAR: 1981 It doesn't get much better than suffering along with Peter O'Toole as a vulne...

STACY KEACH & SCOTT WILSON IN 'THE NINTH CONFIGURATION'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Good guy, Bad guys, and Linda Blatty YEAR OF RELEASE: 1980</u></td></tr>
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Writer/Director William Peter Blatty, whose novel THE EXORCIST was made into a groundbreaking horror masterpiece by THE FRENCH CONNECTION Oscar-winner William Friedkin, takes personal, independent pride in his very own picture, THE NINTH CONFIGURATION...<br>
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Mostly because the critics deemed how insanely original it is since "Robert Loggia sings Al Jolson in blackface" and "Jason Miller rehearses HAMLET using dogs" and "Moses Gunn wears superhero spandex" or "a man dressed as a nun tries exorcising a soda machine" or "an image of the crucifixion on the moon," and on and on the weirdness goes but, in the reality of this surreal anti-war, existentialist vs religion fable — set inside a castle that serves as an insane asylum, there could have been even more nutty stuff... Anything goes in a story about human beings who are seemingly without logic or limits... And in that, NINTH is actually an extremely grounded vehicle...<br>

eighties, jason miller, military, richard lynch, robert loggia, scott wilson, stacy keach, thriller, william peter blatty

STACY KEACH & SCOTT WILSON IN 'THE NINTH CONFIGURATION'

Good guy, Bad guys, and Linda Blatty YEAR OF RELEASE: 1980 Writer/Director William Peter Blatty, whose novel THE EXORCIST was made into ...

WONDERMENT OF 'ROLLER BOOGIE' STARRING LINDA BLAIR

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Our very own screen-capture YEAR of Release: 1979</u></td></tr>
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B-movie/drive-in director Mark L. Lester takes a simple script and throws in enough distractions to make it, at the very least, entertaining enough to forget the novice acting of real-life skater Jim Bray, who always seems on the verge of laughter, blowing his lines, or both... yet his genuine skating talent gets him through: after all, that's why he's in this at all...<br>
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Enter EXORCIST starlet Linda Blair who... often seeming a form of pop culture exploitation by merely being cast... turns in a decent if idyllic performance as a pouting rich girl who'd rather hang around the sun-soaked beach than her parent's stuffy mansion, which includes a big preppy jerk with a crush...<br>
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But she falls for the poor dreamer underdog Bray, who teaches her how to skate and dance (hence the title), and eventually the duo, along with their skater friends, discover that mobsters are trying to extort the owner of their disco-haven rink...<br>
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Thus the low budget, formulaic, chase-around action ensues... director Lester in his action element... all the glorious camp rolling smoothly till a predicable ending. And if you expected more from a movie titled ROLLER BOOGIE, that's your problem. Because it's all about the good times of the glossy late seventies era, the skating, and seeing Linda Blair dressed for summer beach weather.<br>
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WONDERMENT OF 'ROLLER BOOGIE' STARRING LINDA BLAIR

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TIM CONWAY IN 'THEY WENT THAT-A-WAY & THAT-A-WAY'

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<span style="font-size: large;">Back in the days of movie tie-ins, or what was mostly referred to as novelizations, the rural buddy comedy THEY WENT THAT-A-WAY & THAT-A-WAY made for good reading since the story, much like the Dana Andrews' courtroom thriller BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT before and Sylvester Stallone's ESCAPE PLAN after, used the same primary template...</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In this case, two guys are sent to prison undercover and only one person... the governor... knows about it and, when said sole witness dies, the boys are completely screwed: locked-up possibly for good, and, strangely enough, the dullest scenes take place there in lockup, with character-actors such as Lenny Montana, Dub Taylor and "Jaws" from THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, Richard Kiel, as the big, tall, scary tough guy...</span><br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Score: ***1/2</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here it's an old school Southern CHAIN GANG setting while the team is Tim Conway, only given first billing for his popularity and the fact he wrote the story... </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, like when opposite Tom Bosley in GUS, the alpha male has more lines and overall input, as in recently departed Chuck McCann, more of a bully to Conway's usual deadpan idiot: the latter with the expression of a loyal dog waiting for scraps from the table that never come...</span><br>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br></span><span style="font-size: large;">The boys are hick town policeman who don't know their "asses from their elbows" in a setting popular during the 1970's with cars kicking up dirt </span>—<span style="font-size: large;"> and eventually, during the final act, there's an all-out chase scene that the title gives away: Here's IT'S A MAD MAD (etc.) WORLD styling that keeps the entire ride entertaining enough to where you may not have to suffer-through with the queasy feeling, "What was I thinking for ever liking this movie?" Time's spent (served) well enough here. </span><br>

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TIM CONWAY IN 'THEY WENT THAT-A-WAY & THAT-A-WAY'

Year of Release: 1978 Back in the days of movie tie-ins, or what was mostly referred to as novelizations, the rural buddy comedy THEY WE...

LESLIE MANN & JOHN CENA GET CAUGHT INSIDE 'BLOCKERS'

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In BLOCKERS, three parents try messing up... or attempt to <i>block.</i>.. each daughter from partaking in the plot of almost every 80's sex comedy, especially LITTLE DARLINGS since this particular "lose our virginity by the end of the movie" movie is about the girls, who all act in what's usually the cinematic "guy minded mode," wanting it more than their dull, reluctant dates and especially (and of course) their parents...<br>
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Never has a comic-relief-within-a-comedy been as horrendously ineffective as screwy-toothed Ike Barinholtz, whose five-o'clock shadow hardly covers up the fact he's also terribly miscast — resembling more of a college fraternity clown, which doesn't make it all that ironic when he crashes a high school prom, and then a few parties: Though he's not alone as muscular "White Dwayne Johnson" John Cena<i> is</i> a realistic looking parental, getting more emotional than expected of such a giant, while mom, played by the usually-hilarious Leslie Mann, leads this complete disaster where instead of cocks being blocked... due to an awkward pace, stilted one-liners and a horrible lack of chemistry between actors... the <i>laughter </i>is, again and again: So avoid this Rooster — it's a real Turkey!<br>

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LESLIE MANN & JOHN CENA GET CAUGHT INSIDE 'BLOCKERS'

Year of Release: 2018 CockADoodyScore: * In BLOCKERS, three parents try messing up... or attempt to block. .. each daughter from partaki...

MICHAEL GREENE TAKES TWO TOP BILLINGS IN 'THE CLONES'

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<span style="font-size: large;">Who knew there was a genre called "Psychedelic Action"... Well there isn't, 
technically, but this 1973 super low-budget science-fiction film... </span><span style="font-size: large;">not even big enough for a decent cult following...</span><span style="font-size: large;"> can't really be described any other way. The camera angles and music alone give it that tag; and you won't be bored since there's plenty of action...</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The entire picture is one long multi-chase involving a scientist who's been cloned... or is
 he a clone who thinks he's the scientist? Visually you can figure it out so prick your ears since the sound quality is god-awful. Making otherwise talented actors tone down their skills to drive a story with expressions which are mostly worried, agitated, determined...</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enter Michael Greene playing dual-roles. He's one of those actors you've seen a million times: tall, storky: a unique character actor... This is his only 
starring vehicle... and if not, it's one of the very, very few... while other familiar faces Gregory Sierra and Otis Young play F.B.I. agents on his scurried tail. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">THE CLONES makes surprisingly apt use of a sparse story-line with an energetic pulse, effectively cutting back and forth to the hunted and the hunters </span>—<span style="font-size: large;"> from sneaking along rooftops, traipsing through rocky terrain, stalked on rural highways, in the desert, swamps, then busting into fist fights and, of course, car chases </span>—<span style="font-size: large;"> as if there was actually a budget in this Wrong-Man thriller including </span><span style="font-size: large;">an idyllically romantic sailboat scene, thus providing stolen shots of both land and sea...</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, the</span><span style="font-size: large;"> actors seem like they're merely collecting paychecks, sleepwalking through the roles while that same year, serving in heaven as opposed to this scant reign in hell, Sierra would be the hunted in PAPILLON; Otis Young would take THE LAST DETAIL with a never-better Jack Nicholson; and a year earlier, Greene bullied Woody Allen in PLAY IT AGAIN SAM. So they do have merit... The irony is, the paychecks were probably hardly worth slumming down to.  </span><br>
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action, gregory sierra, michael greene, otis young, seventies, thriller, wrong man

MICHAEL GREENE TAKES TWO TOP BILLINGS IN 'THE CLONES'

Year of THE CLONES is 1973 Who knew there was a genre called "Psychedelic Action"... Well there isn't, technically, but t...

DIANE KEATON STARRING IN 'LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1977 Cast: Diane Keaton, Richard Gere, Tom Berenger Score: ****</u></td></tr>
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A movie that can make even the most jaded viewer 
dead silent as the end  credits roll...<br>
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Following the sexual exploits of
 a newly independent woman, played by Diane Keaton,  beginning with an infidelity with her 
college professor then escalating  into a wild singles scene that 
includes a hopped-up gigolo (Richard  Gere), cocaine and a score of 
random sexual encounters...<br>
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IN COLD BLOOD director Richard Brooks juggles Keaton's wild nightlife (featuring a creepy Tom Berenger), her day job as a  deaf-school teacher, and her
 frustrating family squabbles with ease, sporadically 
glimpsing into her vividly morbid imagination as  if it were really 
happening. And while many films about a character's escalation  
into an out of control lifestyle will have a message intact, Brooks 
 brings the viewer so close to the madness it all seems normal somehow, 
 making the odyssey more energetically adventurous than foreboding.  
Meanwhile, Diane Keaton (who won an Oscar for ANNIE HALL that same year) has never been so good, flawlessly mixing determination,  
sensuality, stubbornness and vulnerability. So no matter how callous you 
are as an exploitation cinema buff: This one <i>will</i> stick with you.
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diane keaton, drug culture, exploitation, neo noir, richard brooks, richard gere, seventies, thriller, tom berenger

DIANE KEATON STARRING IN 'LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR'

Year: 1977 Cast: Diane Keaton, Richard Gere, Tom Berenger Score: **** A movie that can make even the most jaded viewer dead silent as t...

ORIGINAL ADAPTATION OF 'PAPILLON' W/ STEVE MCQUEEN

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<span style="font-size: large;">Director Francis J. Schaffner and scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo convert Henri Charriere's riviting biographical novel to the big screen, providing Steve McQueen with a more fleshed-out role than usual and rebooting Dustin Hoffman's minor character in the book to co-star/sidekick on screen... </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Both have a realistic aura, serving hell as they work a swampy chain-gang and eventually plan their escape and each scene is like a movie in itself, beginning with a slave ship to the initial prison (with Don Gordon, McQueen's partner in BULLITT).  </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As an examination of the hellish existence in the French penal colonies, and eventually Devil's Island, there's gritty realism held back for mainstream audiences, seeming at times like a television melodrama with some widescreen blood and guts thrown in... </span><span style="font-size: large;">But as a straight-out adventure flick there's plenty of eventful situations to keep the viewer interested, and completely entertained, in the struggling journey of one tough cookie who refused to stay-put.</span><br>

adventure, bill mumy, biopic, don gordon, drama, dustin hoffman, francis j. schaffner, prison, seventies, steve mcqueen, woodrow palfrey

ORIGINAL ADAPTATION OF 'PAPILLON' W/ STEVE MCQUEEN

Actually part of the Papillon sequel book cover PAPILLON Film: 1973 Director Francis J. Schaffner and scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo convert...

STEVEN SPIELBERG GOES FUTURE-PAST IN 'READY PLAYER ONE'

2018, new, science-fiction, steven spielberg

STEVEN SPIELBERG GOES FUTURE-PAST IN 'READY PLAYER ONE'

Real of Release: 2018 Years of Celebration: 1980's Most films begin slowly, and then open up into an adventurous middle with pockets...

JACQUES TOURNEUR DIRECTS A WYATT EARP TALE 'WICHITA'

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How great thou Western Movie art that — directed by the often dark, Gothic, shady, other times commercial yet always intriguing Jacques Tourneur — is as simple, basic and downright entertaining as they come, centering on what begins as a dot on the horizon upon a distant hill viewed by hardworking cowboys, camped on the plain surrounded by cattle and all on their slow, deliberate pace to the title town of WICHITA, a Promised Land harboring many saloons...<br>
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That dot is buffalo hunter Wyatt Earp, played by Joel McCrea, whose acting had improved throughout the years, his lanky build toned and muscular and a once spry face aged into raw experience, mellowing into a John Wayne meets William Holden countenance — perfectly suited for the real life legendary lawman, at first reluctant to become Wichita's Sheriff until the rowdy cowboys ignite drunken gun-blazing pandemonium.<br>
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It's not a perfect Western as the story is concerned, and hardly works as a genuine biopic, but it's a picture that takes many viewings to grow tired of since the formula keeps paying off with each new sequence...<br>
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Like what would happen in JAWS exactly twenty-years later... the mayor forcing the new Sheriff to ignore a killer shark to keep the paying tourists happily oblivious... as is Wyatt questioned by the very men (including a mayor) who'd initially hired him after a terrific bank robbery turnaround...<br>
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Then, later, realizing the drunken cowpunchers that Earp imprisoned for goading drunkenness all keep the town in a steady flow of cash. Wielding a firm stance and lone wolf determination, McCrae turns in an apt performance eclipsing what one would expect in a 90-minute mainstream, if sometimes cliché, programmer...<br>
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So it's necessary to throw in the usual faithful sidekick (a young future-famous journalist, Bat Masterson: an uncomplicated Robin to McCrea's beyond-capable Bruce Wayne) and a contrived romance with Vera Miles. But what's really needed for the audience flows steadily along with the action, including gun-fights and horse-stomping chaos with one great twist involving Peter Graves in this grand little B-Western that provides a subliminal lesson in the art of concise storytelling, sparse dialogue, headstrong performances (also including the genre's regular heavies, Robert Wilke and Jack Elam — plus Lloyd Bridges along with THE MAN FROM LARAMIE friendly stout old fella, Wallace Ford), all enveloped by tight and precise direction: You can say that the dark horse CAT PEOPLE and OUT OF THE PAST auteur Jacques Tourneur even sells-out majestically.<br>

fifties, jack elam, jacques tourneur, joel mccrea, lloyd bridges, robert wilke, warner archives, western

JACQUES TOURNEUR DIRECTS A WYATT EARP TALE 'WICHITA'

Joel McCrea rides smoothly, coolly into WICHITA Year: 1955 How great thou Western Movie art that — directed by the often dark, Gothic, s...

STANLEY KUBRICK'S FILM NOIR FABLE OF 'KILLER'S KISS'

boxing, felice orlandi, fifties, film noir or melodrama, frank silvera, jazz score, mobster, stanley kubrick, thriller

STANLEY KUBRICK'S FILM NOIR FABLE OF 'KILLER'S KISS'

Lobby Card for Killer's Kiss YEAR OF RELEASE: 1956 When it's not a primal, jazz piano, mamba-like rhythm as gangster/dance club ...

ROD STEIGER W/ FAY SPAIN IN THE SPARSE & DEADLY 'AL CAPONE'

al ruscio, biopic, fifties, gangster, james gregory, martin balsam, mobster, nehemiah persoff, neo noir, rod steiger, warner archives

ROD STEIGER W/ FAY SPAIN IN THE SPARSE & DEADLY 'AL CAPONE'

Year of Release: 1954 Like Jack Nicholson (intentionally or otherwise) displayed a little of pal Bruce Dern in THE SHINING , perhaps Mar...

JACQUES TOURNEUR FILMS DANA ANDREWS IN 'CANYON PASSAGE'

brian donlevy, dana andrews, forties, jacques tourneur, lloyd bridges, susan hayward, western

JACQUES TOURNEUR FILMS DANA ANDREWS IN 'CANYON PASSAGE'

Dana rides in from the rain in Canyon Passage YEAR: 1946 Before CURSE OF THE DEMON and THE FEARMAKERS , Jacques Tourneur directed Dana ...

BLOODY REMAKE OF 'DEATH WISH' STARRING BRUCE WILLIS

2018, action, bruce willis, elizabeth shue, exploitation, new, remake, suspense

BLOODY REMAKE OF 'DEATH WISH' STARRING BRUCE WILLIS

Bruce Willis in what looks like a golf swing follow-thru YEAR: 2018 The difference of the original Charles Bronson crime exploitation cl...

WILLIAM HOLDEN & KIM NOVAK STAR IN A CAMPY 'PICNIC'

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"At a PICNIC, everybody disappears." This line from one of the creepiest-of-schlock, unintentionally strange and eerie motion pictures ever, proving that, in many cases, Film Noir or Science-Fiction are the purest, safest forms of cinema when delving into the 1950's...<br>
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Starring William Holden, ten years too old for the part of a grownup-kid-type, about a decade out of college visiting the small town where old pal Cliff Robertson romances local beauty Kim Novak, whose little sister, played by future PSYCH-OUT starlet Susan Strasberg, innocently flirts with Holden's mysterious gentleman nomad who's been around the block more than anyone in the conservative setting: where the titular PICNIC is the centerpiece including Novak being worshiped in a swan boat while the town sings a dirge-paced "Ain't She Sweet" along with a barber shop quartet lined across, before and beyond a storybook bridge...<br>
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The stagey (clumsily based on a play) dialogue is godawful, including a description of dusk being clouds having one last "scrap" in the sky, or when Holden — after his (as seen in every poster) shirt's torn to partially display his famously muscular SUNSET BLVD bod (itself looking decades younger than his handsomely devilish, timeworn mug) — says, "She saw through me like an X-Ray machine," or, to Novak, about to wait beneath her window till the promise of a technicolor dawn, "You make me feel important... No! You make me feel... Patient!"<br>
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cliff robertson, fifties, kim novak, romance, susan strasberg, william holden

WILLIAM HOLDEN & KIM NOVAK STAR IN A CAMPY 'PICNIC'

Year of Release: 1955 "At a PICNIC, everybody disappears." This line from one of the creepiest-of-schlock, unintentionally s...

REBOOT NOT REMAKE PSEUDO SEQUEL OF 'JUMANJI 2'

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A hybrid of TRON (humans inside a video game), RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (a pulpy jungle mainline) and... well... JUMANJI... that ironically has the least to do with its sequel tag-titled WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE...<br>
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Which can't be held in our usual 80's-kid contempt of using CGI as opposed to classic practical effects since the original Robin Williams comedy adventure rode the wave of JURASSIC PARK's amazing computer technology, with rhinos, monkeys and other creatures replacing dinosaurs, only this time, instead of the jungle encroaching upon reality, four eclectic teens get pulsated inside of a JUMANJI video (as opposed to board) game...<br>

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ROBYN HILTON BLAZES A STRANGE TRAIL IN 'VIDEO VIXENS'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robyn Hilton in Video Vixens the same year as Blazing Saddles: 1974</u></td></tr>
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The Anthology of Comedic Parodies, already done in several Woody Allen "old funny movies" and tackled later in KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE, revels with exceptionally bad taste in VIDEO VIXENS, centering on an award show co-hosted by cult starlet Robyn Hilton, best known as the Governor's bimbo i.e. the bubbly blonde "bitch" at actor/director Mel Brooks's side in BLAZING SADDLES...<br>
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It's impossible to say which character came first since, while Hilton is no method actress otherwise, her high-pitched, airhead-bubbly voice is exactly the same as the comedy Western satire, only here she's the star VIXEN despite the fact her role is eventually limited to introducing each vingette, along with a porn director played by John Carpenter's future regular's regular George "Buck" Flower, whose producer wants their maligned and far-from-mainstream industry to be respected, thus forcing an uppity Felix Unger type critic to serve as the Master of Ceremonies, reacting woefully to each skit/sketch that are all tortuously unfunny, un-sexy, and unbelievably awful — yet it's great seeing Robyn Hilton in what might have landed her her BLAZING role. With an (opening) line from another actress, irritated at the director before a pornographic scene, shouting, "Easy on the beaver, you toilet pole!" it's a no-brainer it took no brains for the infamously awful Troma to make VIDEO VIXENS, and it takes even less to watch.  <br>

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ROBYN HILTON BLAZES A STRANGE TRAIL IN 'VIDEO VIXENS'

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MICHAEL O'KEEFE SURROUNDED BY COMIC GODS IN 'CADDYSHACK'

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MICHAEL O'KEEFE SURROUNDED BY COMIC GODS IN 'CADDYSHACK'

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MAKING A 'SPLASH' OUT OF 'THE SHAPE OF WATER'

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MAKING A 'SPLASH' OUT OF 'THE SHAPE OF WATER'

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GERARD BULTER STARS BIG AND BEARDED IN 'DEN OF THIEVES'

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TRIBUTE INTERVIEW W/ DRUMMER & ACTOR MICKEY JONES

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Archived Mickey Jones Interview from 2008</u></td></tr>
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If
 you’ve seen Mickey Jones once, you’ve seen him a thousand times, only 
you might not realize it. Mickey is a character-actor that has appeared 
in so many films and TV shows (and even some commercials) that it’s 
impossible to name everything he’s done, at least not in two or three 
paragraphs. If you’ve seen a tough biker in a film or show – or a random
 badass with a thick beard who can kick the piss out of anyone at any 
given moment – that might just be Mickey Jones.
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But his acting talents aren’t limited to 
tough-guy/biker-villains. He has played sensitive, intelligent 
characters as well. The bottom line: Mickey Jones is the epitome of a 
character actor… He’s done pretty much everything.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>with Michael Ironside in V: THE FINAL BATTLE</u></td></tr>
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His
 career began as a drummer. He was behind the skins during the 
groundbreaking 1966 Bob Dylan concert where crowds booed Bob for going 
electric. He also played for a band called “First Edition” with Kenny 
Rogers on vocals. But it was in the late seventies when Mickey, tired of
 the road, branched into acting.</div>
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And he hasn’t stopped since.</div>
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<b><u>INTERVIEW</u></b></div>
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<b>What was your favorite TV  movie that you appeared in and why?<br>
      </b>My
 favorite TV movie was actually the  min-series "V: The Final 
Battle". Working with my best friend, Michael  Ironside, was the 
best. We became life-long friends and it was also the  highest rated 
mini-series in the history of television.</div>
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<b>One of my favorite character-actors  is Paul Koslo whom you appeared in several shows with… When did you first work  with him?<br>
      </b>Paul
 Koslo is one of our very best actors. We first worked  together and 
became friends on a pilot called, "Down Home".  I  was very new to the 
business and Paul sorta held my hand. He is the best.</div>
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<b>What was your favorite  theatrical movie that you appeared in and why?<br>
      </b>My favorite theatrical  movie was "The Fighting 
Temptations". It was exciting to get up  early and go to work on this 
film. Everyday was great fun. I will never  forget that job.</div>
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<b>Along with Dennis Burkley you  have been a biker in many films – have you two ever been in the same project?<br>
      </b>The
 only time Dennis  and I worked together was in the Kevin Costner film, 
"Tin Cup". We  used to go up against each other all the time but this 
was the only time we  actually worked together.</div>
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<b>What are some of the other  actors who you’ve played in Biker movies with (fellow “Biker role actors”)?<br>
      </b>Big Bill Smith  [William Smith], Charlie Dierkop, John Quade. It's hard to remember all of  them.</div>
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<b>When did you realize you  wanted to switch from musician to actor?<br>
      </b>I dreamed of being an actor when I was  8 years old but I
 did not believe that this kid in Texas would ever have the  
opportunity. I was at the movie with my dad when I was 8 and remember  
asking myself, "I wonder how you get to do that?”<br>
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It seemed so far  
away. After I moved to Los Angeles and got to know a  number of actors 
and people in the business, I then believed I could do it. I  say, 
"Never give up". I was tired of going to the airport  everyday on 
concert tours. I just had to get off the road so I gave up a  great 
career to try and get in a business that I loved but starting at the  
bottom.</div>
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<b>Was acting always something  that came natural to you?<br>
      </b>I think so. I never studied. I went to one  acting class 
with Jeff Corey, one of the best acting coaches in the business  who 
told me: "You don't need the class, you are a natural actor". I  think 
he was right.</div>
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<b>Who are some of your favorite  musician-turned-actors?<br>
      </b>I can't think of anyone except Rueben Blades.</div>
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<b>Who are some of your favorite  actor-turned-musicians?<br>
      </b>NONE! I think actors are all wannabe musicians.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mickey Jones in TOTAL RECALL</td></tr>
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<b>You worked on a memorable  scene with (Governor) </b><b>Arnold</b><b> Schwarzenegger in “Total  Recall” – how was it working with </b><b>Arnold</b><b>?<br>
      </b>Arnold
 is the classiest guy  I have ever met, let alone, worked with. I love 
Arnold. A few weeks  after I got home from Mexico City, where we shot  
"Total Recall", I got a large envelope in the mail with the return  
address reading, SCHWARZENEGGER. I guess the post office knows where  he
 lives. Inside were several photos of Arnold and me doing scenes  
together. He signed them and sent them to me. He did this jest 
completely  unsolicited… A CLASS ACT!</div>
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<b>In
 the movie “V: The Final  Battle”, when one of the good guys (Michael 
Wright as “Elias Taylor”) finally  casts the deciding-vote to nuke the 
aliens, your character “Chris” holds up his  hands and does a silent 
round of applause – it’s hilarious and a scene I love  to re-watch. Was 
that improvised or scripted?<br>
      </b>That silent applause  was just my way of saying THANK 
YOU for doing the right thing. It was  not scripted but it was the right
 thing to do as “Chris Farber”. </div>
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<b>You appeared on the TV series  “V” (which 
came out after both miniseries) for two or three episodes, and then  
Michael Ironside (“Ham </b><b>Tyler</b><b>”) leaves the show… Question:  Was your part on that show as a special guest because of Ironside’s  departure?<br>
      </b>I was supposed to be a regular just as Ironside 
was. After  he knew that I was not going to be a regular, he decided to 
leave the show as  well. The miniseries was great but the weekly series'
 budget was cut to  nothing and there was no production value there. The
 series was an  embarrassment. It was time to go.</div>
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<b>What was your first acting  gig? Were you nervous filming it?<br>
      </b>My
 very first acting gig was in the Steve  McQueen film, "Tom Horn". I was
 a little nervous but the role I  got was great. It was the guy that 
Steve shoots down in the street later  in the movie after he shoots the 
guys foot at Brown' Hole. The assistant  director switched my role with 
one of the drivers that was his buddy. I  was relegated to playing the 
guitar at Brown's Hole. I was pretty  heartbroken. I got screwed on my 
first film.</div>
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<b>You have a classic cameo with  character-actor John Diehl in National Lampoon’s "Vacation" opposite </b><b>Chevy Chase</b><b> – any special or funny  memories of that shoot?<br>
      </b>National
 Lampoon's "Vacation" was early in my  career. When I read that script, I
 actually laughed out loud alone in my  room. I had no clue it would 
have the impact it has. I cannot go through  an airport without someone 
coming up to me and asking to say my lines from  "Vacation", you know, 
"ALL OF IT BOY". We shot that in  Cayenta, AZ. A few years ago,  I was 
on the Kyle Petty Motorcycle Ride Across America. We stopped in Cayenta 
 for gas and I pointed out our shoot location to Richard and Kyle 
Petty. It  was right across the street. Pretty cool to go there again.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>so... Don Johnson was a johnson</u></td></tr>
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<b>Were there any acting jobs that didn’t go that great?<br>
      </b>I can't think of any  of my jobs that did not go 
great. If it had gone bad, I would probably  been fired. The only 
situation where I loved the film but not the actor was  “Tin Cup” with 
Don Johnson.</div>
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<b>You’ve been involved in many  fight scenes in films – do you do your own stunts?<br>
      </b>I do my own fight  scenes but I do not do any of the motorcycle or car crashes. I let the  pros do that for me.</div>
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<b>Being a very confident and  talkative 
person (you’d mentioned in your Bob Dylan DVD that you could hold a  
conversation with a telephone pole), are you asked by directors to 
improvise a  lot?<br>
      </b>I  would say that the chance to get to improvise is maybe
 25% of the time. Most  directors like you to stick to the script. The 
writers like you to say the  words they wrote.</div>
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<b>Name a few directors that you  really liked working for – and why?<br>
      </b>I
 loved working with John Badham, of  "Drop Zone". No improvising there. 
My favorite was John  Frankenhiemer. He directed "The Train" with Burt 
Lancaster,  "Birdman of Alcatraz", "Ronin" and many more. I love  just 
sitting with him and getting him talking about the early days of the 
business  and the films he directed. Robert Benton directed "Nadine" 
with Kim  Basinger and Jeff Bridges. He won Academy Awards for "Places 
in The Heart"  and "Kramer vs. Kramer". A good old Texas boy.</div>
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<b>Name some of your favorite  actors you’ve worked with?<br>
      </b>Arnold, Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Cuba Gooding Jr.,  
Beyonce Knowles, Steve McQueen, Billy Bob Thornton, Michael Ironside and
 there  are too many more to remember.</div>
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<b>What gives you the most  satisfaction – music or films?<br>
      </b>Tough question. A few years ago, I would have  said 
music. Today, I think there is nothing better than doing a film. 
However,  I still like to pick up a guitar and play some blues.</div>
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<b>Have you ever worked with character-actor Tracy Walter?<br>
      </b>I can't remember ever  working with Tracy, although he was a  great friend of mine.</div>
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<b>Which of all the characters that you played can you relate  with the most (are most like)?<br>
      </b>I don't think I have ever just played  ME. I try to create a character. I never try just to be me.</div>
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<b>Around what time in your  acting career did you realize that you were really doing well (when the jobs  started rolling in)?</b> In the summer of 1978, I did a guest star role on "The  
Incredible Hulk". After that show aired, I started getting calls like  
crazy. That was the real turning point in my acting career.</div>
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<b>What was the final deciding  factor to go from music to film?<br>
      </b>Like I said earlier, I dreamed of acting since  I was 8 
years old. I had reached a point in the music business that I felt  like
 I had done everything there was to do and I wanted to get off the  
road. I was on an airplane 7 days a week, 10 months out of the year for 
23  years. I wanted off the road. I knew that nothing would ever happen 
for me  while I was on the road, so in 1976 made the decision to get off
 the road and  pursue an acting career. I did it at the right time.</div>
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<b>When people see you on the  street, what movie or show do they mention to you the most?<br>
      </b>When I meet people on  the street they always mention "Vacation", "Sling Blade"  and "Home Improvement".<b> </b></div>
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<b>You usually have a beard but in some shows you don’t… Do certain gigs require you to have a beard or to be clean shaven?<br>
      </b>I will always have my beard. The only shows I can think 
of  without my beard is the first "Incredible Hulk" and  "M*A*S*H". I 
wanted to do "M*A*S*H" so I shaved for  the two-parter that I did. My 
wife called her family in Las Vegas and told them  "to watch "M*A*S*H" 
tonight because Mickey has a real nice guest  star role". A half hour 
after the show was over, her sister called  and said, "We all watched it
 but he wasn't on". They had never  seen me without a beard so they 
missed me.</div>
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<b>You appeared in a great episode of THE 
INCREDIBLE HULK (titled "Ricky", named after your character) where you 
played a mentally-challenged, sweet natured mechanic… Being that you 
usually played tough guys, was this role difficult?<br>
      </b>That
 was a real  challenge and it was the big break of my career. Until 
then, I had only  done one or two line parts. In that script, I had 52 
pages of dialogue in  a 56 page script. On the first day of shooting our
 director told me that he had  read roughly 70 people for this 
role. Most of them read the character as  either a punch drunk fighter 
or a blithering idiot. He loved that I  read the character as a little 
kid in a big body. After the show aired, I  got tons of letters from 
parents and teaches of retarded kids telling me thank  you for not 
making this kid a dummy or a moron. I hit the bull's-eye  with this one 
and it jump started my acting career.</div>
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<b>What kind of roles on film do  you consider the easiest?<br>
      </b>Bikers.</div>
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<b>Which actor do you think  you’ve appeared in the most number of shows with?<br>
      </b>I appeared
 for 8  seasons on “Home Improvement” with Tim Allen. I did several 
"Dukes of  Hazard" as Cooter's cousin, B. B. Davenport and I did several
 episodes of  "The Incredible Hulk”, a different character every year 
after  the 1978 season.</div>
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<b>When you first got into  acting, what acting teacher did you study with and what kind of method (if any)  did you use?<br>
      </b>The only method I use is to learn my lines and try not  to bump into the furniture. A quote from Spencer Tracy.</div>
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<b>Do you like playing villains?<br>
      </b>I love  it. It's what I do best.</div>
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<b>Being an avid golfer… what’s  your handicap?<br>
      </b>I got down to a 12 but today, I am probably a 19 or 20. Getting  older SUCKS!</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Oxru4dfwNkA/Wn4SIIcM2UI/AAAAAAAA0jM/zGZu5v2BoSwg818uPjEknGY2fXufiPNKgCLcBGAs/s1600/8805d16114b4c334d119cc59786792aa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="393" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Oxru4dfwNkA/Wn4SIIcM2UI/AAAAAAAA0jM/zGZu5v2BoSwg818uPjEknGY2fXufiPNKgCLcBGAs/s400/8805d16114b4c334d119cc59786792aa.jpg" width="320"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>with Bob Dylan during the famous 1966 tour</u></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<b>During
 that famous Dylan show  where they yelled “Judas”, who was it who said 
“Play it f---ing loud!” Many  think it was Dylan… Was it?<br>
      </b>I
 know the answer to that. For over 30 years  everyone thought it was 
me. It was not me. In the  documentary, "No Direction Home", Martin 
Scorsese tried to  manipulate the film and sound to make it look like it
 was Bob. IT WAS NOT  BOB!<br>
<br>
If you check it out, the picture and sound do
 not sync up. The  answer is the true answer. In the film, Bob is 
whispering into  Robbie Robertson's ear. The voice shouting, "Play 
F------ Loud  was yelling LOUD. Bob was whispering...<br>
<br>
As I said, the film 
and  the sound do not sync up and here's the kicker. The person 
shouting,  "Play F------ Loud" has a British accent. My belief is that 
it  was one of our stage crew sticking up for us in the moment. We had 6
 road  and stage crew members on the film and I truly believe that is 
the person  responsible. I hate to open whole cans of worms but Scorsese
 got it  wrong. I will stick to that until the day I die.</div>
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<b>What are a few of your favorite Dylan albums?<br>
      </b>My favorite  is "Bringin' it All Back Home", then "Highway 61  Revisited" and of course, the album I played on, "1966 LIVE".</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wkAYWhM4SUM/Wn4Sq3U8I5I/AAAAAAAA0jc/heKDIlqSHpM0BQmJFWUqIaQEL9WLAfjYACEwYBhgL/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-02-09%2Bat%2B1.28.44%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="358" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wkAYWhM4SUM/Wn4Sq3U8I5I/AAAAAAAA0jc/heKDIlqSHpM0BQmJFWUqIaQEL9WLAfjYACEwYBhgL/s200/Screen%2BShot%2B2018-02-09%2Bat%2B1.28.44%2BPM.png" width="172"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mickey's Bookcover</u></td></tr>
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<b>Tell us a little about your book THAT WOULD BE ME?<br>
      </b>"That
 Would Be Me" took me 15 years to write. For several  years I wanted to 
get a real writer to write the book for me while I told the  stories. I 
finally realized that was never going to happen. I am  stuck with this 
mess and it's up to me and me alone to get this  done. The book has been
 out for a couple of months now and is  doing quite well. A lot of 
musicians are buying the book. If you  would like to check out the book,
 go to my website at <a href="http://www.mickeyjones.com/">www.mickeyjones.com</a>...<br>
<br>
There
 you can  click above and below the book cover, on the red letters and 
that will  take you to my page on the publisher's website. There you can
 read,  "About the Book", "About the Author", a review of the book  from
 a media consultant from San Diego and you can also "Read an  Excerpt" 
from one of the chapters on Bob Dylan. I hope everyone will  check it 
out.</div>

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