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Written by James M. Tate / 10/27/2022 / No comments / bert i. gordon , harvey jason , horror , interview , lee purcell , michael ontkean , occult , orson welles , rural , seventies , thriller , witch

ORSON WELLES, PAMELA FRANKLIN & LEE PURCELL 'NECROMANCY'

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for the <i>Rural Satanic Hippie Cult</i> flick, THE WITCHING actually/originally titled NECROMANCY, but he 
didn't know enough about WHAT he had in his stellar cast including the 
legendary Orson Welles as the leader of a colorful coven... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>He's yearning to reanimate
 his dead son using the lovely, vulnerable, and soul-troubled wife of new couple in town Pamela 
Franklin, married to passive tagalong Michael Onkean as both are semi-seduced into the realm by one of the few women more insanely gorgeous than Franklin...</p><p><span></span></p>

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ORSON WELLES, PAMELA FRANKLIN & LEE PURCELL 'NECROMANCY'

Pamela Franklin & Orson Welles in NECROMANCY Year: 1972 Rating: **1/2 Exploitation/Horror b-director Bert I. Gordon definitely knew WHO ...

CHARLES BRONSON IN 'MR. MAJESTYK' FEATURING PAUL KOSLO

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CHARLES BRONSON IN 'MR. MAJESTYK' FEATURING PAUL KOSLO

MAJESTYK YEAR: 1974 SCORE: **** Charles Bronson's different in Richard Fleischer's MR. MAJESTYK than in the early-seventies' M...

LEE PURCELL REFLECTS THE CULT CLASSIC OF 'BIG WEDNESDAY'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Actress Lee Purcell Interview on the John Milius surf classic BIG WEDNESDAY pictured here with Jan-Michael Vincent</u></td></tr>
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<u>How were you selected for the role of Peggy Gordon in BIG WEDNESDAY?</u>
 There is a funny story about my audition. I was given the script and 
invited to audition for the role Patti (d’Arbanville) ended up playing, 
but I had already recently played similar characters. So
 I asked if I could instead audition for the role of Peggy. John 
(Milius) said yes, but that I had to come into Warner Brothers Studio 
and show them how I looked in a bikini.<br>
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I was appalled 
since I was a “serious” actress, trained in London, etc. But, I wasn’t 
going to get the role if I didn’t, so I showed up in a trench coat with a
 bikini underneath. I told them to watch me carefully and not blink, and
 “flashed” everyone in the room then quickly closed the coat. They all 
laughed and I had the role then and there.<br>

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LEE PURCELL REFLECTS THE CULT CLASSIC OF 'BIG WEDNESDAY'

Actress Lee Purcell Interview on the John Milius surf classic BIG WEDNESDAY pictured here with Jan-Michael Vincent How were you selected...

THOR MARVELS THE HULK IN 'THE INCREDIBLE HULK RETURNS'

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THOR MARVELS THE HULK IN 'THE INCREDIBLE HULK RETURNS'

Jack Colvin wouldn't like Eric Allan Kramer angry either YEAR: 1988 The first and best of three post series Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno ...

LINDA BLAIR & LEE PURCELL IN WES CRAVEN'S 'SUMMER OF FEAR'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>year: 1978 cast: Lee Purcell, Linda Blair, Jeff East </u></td></tr>
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Poor Linda Blair – she just can’t seem to beat the devil... Here the iconic EXORCIST starlet plays the
 daughter of a wealthy couple. Her father’s a stockbroker and freelance photographer mom just lost her sister in a tragic car accident
 (that opens the movie). Dead Aunt left a daughter that needs a place to 
stay – and that’s the set up.<br />
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The original title, STRANGER IN OUR HOUSE,
 fits much better than SUMMER OF FEAR. A stranger indeed… Lee Purcell’s 
mousy Julia Trent is scared of her own shadow, and Blair’s Rachel Bryant has a
 friendly horse that turns demonic when Julia arrives. Other odd things 
occur including Rachel’s father,  beau and bro (Jeff East) falling into Julia’s spell (although Lee Purcell’s alluring enough for that to happen sans voodoo)...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lee Purcell in SUMMER OF FEAR Rates: ***</u></td></tr>
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So
 it’s up to Rachel, who found an assortment of suspicious items in 
Julia’s suitcase... from carven statues to manipulated photos... to prove to 
everyone her cousin’s a bonafide witch. But that won't be easy: Julia's got the popular vote all around...<br />
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You’d think, with 
future horror icon Wes Craven behind the lens, there’d be more spooks and scares.
 Perhaps the made-for-TV limited his ability to really frighten us. There are some fitfully suspenseful moments, and Purcell plays a shy 
loner slowly morphing into an evil woman with subtlety and wicked charm. Meanwhile, Blair's hit and miss as the victim, providing her usual intensity... Yet her horrendously dated mushroom hairdo, and all that whining, makes us, for the most 
part, want the witch to come out on top. Or maybe it’s that Lee Purcell makes such a wonderful villain – too bad she doesn’t 
“witch out” a lot sooner and for much longer.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u> Reagan McNeal got her horse? No, it's Linda Blair in SUMMER OF FEAR</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lee Purcell in SUMMER OF FEAR</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mirror, Mirror....</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Talkin' to me?</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Linda Blair watches her new guest arrive</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sexy witchy Lee Purcell</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lee Purcell SUMMER OF FEAR Lee Purcell</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lee Purcell takes over the family</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lee Purcell verses Linda Blair</u></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><u>LEE PURCELL ON ORSON WELLES</u>: NECROMANCY aka several other titles was an odd little low-budget movie. I think it was only my second film. As a very young actress I got to work with another legend – Orson Welles... </span><span style="background-color: white;">Since I played Orson’s warlock character’s young witch protégé, I had several scenes with him. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">His voice was such a thrill to hear. I also made some lifelong friends, Lisa James and Susan Bernard. We were later bridesmaids in Pamela Franklin’s real-life wedding to Harvey Jason... </span><span style="background-color: white;">I remember that Orson had a personal chef on the film set and we, the starving young things, would have to smell the delicious aromas of the fabulous meals he would cook for Orson while we ate our awful brown bag lunches of soggy tuna sandwiches and watched Orson being served Cordon Bleu dishes and fine wines! I also remember suffering a lot from having to “drown” in a polluted pond-over and over. No stunt doubles, just me and the pond scum. I wondered if I would catch a rare disease. And a</span> bit of trivia is that Michael Ontkean, the hunky guy in NECROMANCY, and dear Sam Melville (Bear in BIG WEDNESDAY) were both in the TV series THE ROOKIES together and I had the pleasure of working with them both. What a small town Hollywood is.<br />
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LINDA BLAIR & LEE PURCELL IN WES CRAVEN'S 'SUMMER OF FEAR'

year: 1978 cast: Lee Purcell, Linda Blair, Jeff East Poor Linda Blair – she just can’t seem to beat the devil... Here the iconic EXORCIS...

Written by James M. Tate / 6/02/2014 / No comments / bruno kirby , didi conn , high school , import , john friedrich , lee purcell , seventies , thomas carter , tim matheson

LEE PURCELL & TIM MATHESON IN ALMOST SUMMER

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>YEAR: 1978</u></td></tr>
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The same year Tim Matheson helped lead the Delta Fraternity to victory in ANIMAL HOUSE, he co-starred in a much smaller and far more subtle, less historically significant and practically impossible to find comedy that also involved a food fight, although his character, high school quarterback Kevin Hawkins, is nowhere to be found when the munchies fly… <br />
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Either is his on/off girlfriend Christine Alexander. Played by the lovely and talented Lee Purcell a year after the surf classic BIG WEDNESDAY, she desperately wants to become class president, a title pretty much in the bag: That is until political manipulator Bruno Kirby as Bobby DeVito, along with future WHITE SHADOW star Thomas Carter as sidekick Dean Hampton, discovers an underdog to possibly steal the election away from the energetic shoe-in, Christine, who's not only popular but can really deliver a heartfelt speech about obscurity and suicide...<br />
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Enter the film’s buried lead… As Darryl Fitzgerald, THE WANDERERS character-actor John Friedrich, usually cast as unstrung neurotic types, provides an everyman dark horse candidate that, like much of the cast herein, behaves more like college students than high schoolers... Although Didi Conn, the same year she played the endearing Frenchy in GREASE, fits the bubbly youthful aura to a tee. With her wide signature grin and an immense crush on the climbing Darryl, she’s the true diamond in the rough, perfectly acting her naïveté. <br />
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The breezy title, shown in neon licorice font during a frolicking beach party opening, makes ALMOST SUMMER seem like a free-for-all high school romp, when in actuality the plot is lean and contained, strictly adhering to the fairly serious election plotline.<br />
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And possibly caused by the fact many bootleg VHS-converted titles have been edited from their original source, the only real downside is that we never get to know the characters well enough before the ballots are counted... especially Friedman's Darryl: turning from unknown zero to popular politician, he should have been more fleshed-out for the transition to really matter... Also more interaction between John and polar opposite Lee Purcell, the two most interesting performers throughout, would have worked to energize the heated competition...<br />
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Instead, Purcell's sporadic spats with Tim Matheson are reminiscent of any high school melodrama, and her hinted-at romance with Bruno Kirby is as believable as Hilary Clinton hooking up with Karl Rove. Perhaps some party time groovin' to The Beach Boys would help alleviate the busy and stressful wheeling and dealing had on campus. Maybe the writers were making a grownup story within a youth oriented setting, on purpose, to show how politics can effect the youth culture, or something... But Either way, the talented actors and actresses make this SUMMER worth experiencing... at least once.<br />
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LEE PURCELL & TIM MATHESON IN ALMOST SUMMER

YEAR: 1978 The same year Tim Matheson helped lead the Delta Fraternity to victory in ANIMAL HOUSE, he co-starred in a much smaller and f...

Written by James M. Tate / 1/01/2014 / No comments / darrell fetty , gary busey , jan-michael vincent , john milius , lee purcell , retrospective , seventies , william katt

THREE RADICAL INTERVIEW REFLECTIONS ON 'BIG WEDNESDAY'

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<span style="color: #cccccc;"></span>In the wake of DILLINGER and THE WIND AND THE LION, writer/director JOHN MILIUS set out on his next project, which turned out to be his most personal. Based on experiences growing up as a surfer in Southern California, he and fellow surfer Dennis Aaberg wrote BIG WEDNESDAY, a masterpiece that centers on three friends...
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MATT  JOHNSON (Jan-Michael Vincent), JACK BARLOW (William Katt), and LEROY  SMITH (Gary Busey) on their personal journey for big parties, big waves,  and good times eventually curtailed by the Vietnam War... Other  characters include BEAR (Sam Melville), the group's mentor who makes  boards on the pier until he's forced inland where he opens a board shop;  WAXER (Darrell Fetty), the party mascot who works for Bear and is  eventually shipped off to Vietnam; and ENFORCER (Reb Brown), a muscular  stud who defends the group from inland party crashers.<br />
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And  the TWO CENTRAL FEMALE ROLES are played by Lee Purcell (Matt's girl,  PEGGY) and Patti D'Arbanville (Jack's girl, SALLY). Other cast includes  Geoff Parks (THRASHER), Robert Englund (as FLY, who also narrates)...<br />
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And  co-writer Dennis Aaberg (as SLICK) with appearances by Steve Kanaly,  Frank McCrae, Joe Spinell, Fran Ryan, Michael Talbott, Perry Lang,  Charlene Tilton, Terry Bolo, Rick Dano, Perry Lang, and even John Millius himself as a Marijuana dealer in Tijuana.<br />
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<b>from LEE PURCELL ("Peggy Gordon"): WHAT MEMORIES DO YOU HAVE OF THE KEG PARTY SCENE?</b><br />
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"The  best part for me was in the bathroom when I tell a girl she should wear  a padded bra and she responds that she already is! Very funny and very  realistic female dialogue!"<br />
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GIRL AT PARTY: "You've got a great figure."<br />
PEGGY GORDON: "Thank you. You too."<br />
GIRL AT PARTY: "Is that a padded bra?"<br />
PEGGY GORDON: "No, this is all me."<br />
GIRL AT PARTY: "God."<br />
PEGGY GORDON: "You should try a padded bra."<br />
GIRL AT PARTY: "I have one on."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">with JM Vincent</td></tr>
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"When  Jan (Matt) and I were on the couch towards the end, and my character is  so drunk that I fall over sideways. That was my improv and John loved  it and kept it in. Of course, then I had to fall over and over, from  different angles, for many takes." Lee Purcell<br />
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from  TERRY BOLO ("Party Girl") WERE THERE GOOD TIMES BETWEEN TAKES? "The  party crowd led by the Pied Piper, Sam Melville, who played Bear, and  Darrell Fetty, hung out in Sam's motor home, dubbed <i>The Motor Hooter</i>. Some people would go home on Sun, back to LA, again...<br />
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"I  can't remember how long we were up there, maybe 3 weeks or more. Well,  the crew and extra bus, coming back from the location, was the place to  be. Word soon got out, and even the principal actors and some of the key  crew, would pass on their privately driven cars, and join the party  bus."<b> </b><br />
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<b>GOING BACK TO BEAR</b><br />
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MATT  JOHNSON is the epitome of a star surfer. In his time he was the top dog.  After hitting the skids and becoming a heavy drinker, he causes a  traffic accident and gets kicked off the beach by Jack, now a  responsible lifeguard.<br />
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Matt returns to Bear's inland shop. Bear tells him an idea to make a Matt Johnson model surfboard. Matt wants no part of it:<br />
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MATT  JOHNSON: "I don't wanna be a star. Have my picture in magazines, have a  bunch of kids looking up to me. I'm a drunk, Bear, a screw up. I just  surf cause its good to go out and ride with your friends. I don't even  have that anymore."<br />
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Bear  was played by the late Sam Melville, best known for his part as a cop in THE ROOKIES television show.<br />
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His character Bear is the baseline of  the movie: both father figure and mentor, and during the party is a very liberal chaperone.<br />
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There is a epic quality to this  character. In a movie centering on young people running wild, he is the  safety net.<br />
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The pivotal Bear wedding scene is the film's centerpiece, as Jack and Matt become friends once again.<b>  </b><br />
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"I  loved working with Sam Melville (Bear); he was a wonderful person and  terrific actor. That scene has a wonderful bittersweet quality to it  that is so true of time passing, people growing up and the inevitable  changes of life." Lee Purcell<br />
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<b>ANYONE FEEL A DRAFT?</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Wild Bunch</td></tr>
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Matt,  Leroy, Waxer and several others are called to serve in Vietnam,  something they don't want to do. So they show up to the recruiting  station, each with their own way to get out of it.<br />
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Leroy the Masochist feigns insanity:<br />
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PSYCHOLOGIST: “I see here they call you a masochist.”<br />
LEROY THE MASOCHIST: “I like pain.”<br />
PSYCHOLOGIST: “Can you be specific? What kind of pain do you like?”<br />
LEROY THE MASOCHIST: “Any kind of pain.”<br />
PSYCHOLOGIST: “Such as?”<br />
LEROY  THE MASOCHIST: “I like fights, I've dove through windows, I've eaten  light bulbs, I like sharks, any kind of blood. If you gave me a gun, I'd  shoot you in the face just to see what it looked like when the bullet  hit.”<br />
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Matt Johnson fakes a knee injury; Fly blindness... And Waxer had his own unique approach:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frank McCrea & Waxer</td></tr>
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SERGEANT: "Are you a homosexual?"<br />
WAXER: "Well, I guess I am. I wrote it down, 'Homosexual Tendencies: Yes.' Yes."<br />
SERGEANT:  "Well, you're just gonna love it in the United States Army. There's  lots of men there. And they get real close in foxholes and tanks, and in  combat. Get him out of here and process him in the Marine Corps."<br />
WAXER: "If you send me to Vietnam, I'll just die."<br />
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The  Drill Sergeant is played by character-actor Frank McCrae, who also  appeared in the Milius classic DILLINGER and a string of other movies  spanning many decades. The scene involving Frank McCrae and Darrell  Fetty is one of the most memorable in the film.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With director John Milius</td></tr>
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from DARRELL FETTY ("Waxer")<br />
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"John  Milius set it up so I'd be uncomfortable within that scene - I didn't  quite know what was coming when Frank was screaming at me. That's  actually one of the places where there was a little improvisation. In  fact, the line that buttons the scene 'If you send me to Viet Nam, I'll  just die!' was a pre-scene suggestion from Carolyne, my wife at the  time. I sprang it on John and Frank during the take, and John kept it  in, because as you know in the movie I do go to Viet Nam and get  killed."<br />
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<b>EULOGY FOR THE WAXER</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Darrell Fetty waxed</td></tr>
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The  funeral scene involving Matt, Jack and Leroy reflecting on their fallen  friend Waxer at a military graveyard is one of the most poignant in the  film, especially the eulogy given by Jan-Michael Vincent.<br />
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MATT  JOHNSON: "We're gathered here to say a few words about our friend Jim  King. We called him Waxer. I'd just like to say that… he was a good  surfer… and a really great guy. He had a nice cutback. He rode the nose  real well. He was kind of screwed up the way he treated women, but he  always got the one he wanted. So it doesn't matter anyway because he was  a good guy all the way around. He'd always give people waves... Just  give them a wave. He'd always stick up for his friends in a fight. He  wasn't worth a damn but he was always right in there. I don't ever  remember a big day that Waxer wouldn't go out and ride with his friends.  Old Waxer was our friend. He was a little part of us. And we're gonna  miss him."<br />
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Waxer is a very memorable, important  character. He's the number one party animal, the mascot: representing  the epitome of having a good time, which makes his loss the turning  point of the film.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Darrell Fetty</td></tr>
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"What's  surprising is that at film festivals and special screenings, quite a  few present-day surfers and younger fans come up to me to quote Waxer  lines…although they mostly quote lines that Jan, Gary, and Billy Katt  say about Waxer during that drunken cemetery scene." Darrell Fetty<br />
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<b>AND THE MOST IMPORTANT<i> </i>THINGS FOR LAST</b><br />
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from  Lee Purcell:  "I also loved working with Billy’s mother, Barbara Hale –  she is a great woman, a real trouper and very funny. " Before  the big day of surf, Matt has some business to take care of. He shows  at Jack's house, and Jack's mother (Barbara Hale) answers the door.  After a short surface conversation, Matt opens up with:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Both Katt and Jack's mom, Barbara Hale with Catch 22 book</u></td></tr>
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MATT JOHNSON: "You know, Mrs. Barlow, there's something I'd like straighten out."<br />
MRS. BARLOW: "What's that, Matt?"<br />
MATT JOHNSON: "Well, I did a lot of things around here I'm kind of ashamed of. I tore up your lawn with my '40 Ford..."<br />
MRS. BARLOW: "Many times."<br />
MATT JOHNSON: "Took my pants off in front of your friends..."<br />
MRS. BARLOW: "Oh, yes."<br />
MATT  JOHNSON: "And I even passed out in your closet, but I never... and I  don't know who could have if I didn't... but I never, and I repeat  never, ever pissed in your steam iron."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Big Wednesday</td></tr>
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"BIG  WEDNESDAY is a classic, now considered one of the great films of that  incredibly innovative 1970s era of filmmaking. Many say it's the most  authentic surfing movie ever made. I think it's been featured at more  film festivals, benefits, and retrospectives than any of John's movies. I  know I've made more personal appearances at various screenings as The  Waxer than for any other role I've done." Darrell Fetty<br />
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BIG WEDNESDAY RETROSPECTIVE BY JAMES M. TATE AND COMING SOON TO AN OCEAN NEAR YOU, THE ENFORCER HIMSELF, REB BROWN, SHARES ALL ABOUT THIS CLASSIC FILM AND ANOTHER JOHN MILIUS/A-TEAM PRODUCTION <i>UNCOMMON VALOR</i>...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Gary Busey and William Katt help Jan-Michael Vincent take the waves in BIG WEDNESDAY</u></td></tr>
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darrell fetty, gary busey, jan-michael vincent, john milius, lee purcell, retrospective, seventies, william katt