TIM CURRY CLOWNING THE TV-MINISERIES OF STEPHEN KING'S 'IT'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK8n0P2o8D4Xchyphenhypheni3mexDbo1kLLZ7k7QCvtbuUDk1StsfCpZ9Fsi8RrVt4ISo5qJ_vfVbAd90NDDjjh3CdRzCLVqSmVADB68u_Y68jUfRJvhPK3TNZynwIrfI4ZTlWrF8o2DkmNVPnTkA-8H0cX91_sTQpLvwrdnlkfV_oNih0Z9wD_XV123m1UdtxucN0/s1600/unnamed.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK8n0P2o8D4Xchyphenhypheni3mexDbo1kLLZ7k7QCvtbuUDk1StsfCpZ9Fsi8RrVt4ISo5qJ_vfVbAd90NDDjjh3CdRzCLVqSmVADB68u_Y68jUfRJvhPK3TNZynwIrfI4ZTlWrF8o2DkmNVPnTkA-8H0cX91_sTQpLvwrdnlkfV_oNih0Z9wD_XV123m1UdtxucN0/s1600/unnamed.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Director: Tommy Lee Wallace Year: 1990 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The 1990 Stephen King adapted miniseries IT actually returned the multi-episodic genre to the glorious 1970's, when ROOTS and RICH MAN POOR MAN cast mostly actors and actresses from nearly every former famous television series that still haunted the syndicated airwaves...<br><br>It was usually the character-actors, while IT has the leading players as familiar faces: like a broodingly dramatic John Ritter, who was the hilariously clumsy Jack Tripper on THREE'S COMPANY... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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TIM CURRY CLOWNING THE TV-MINISERIES OF STEPHEN KING'S 'IT'

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace Year: 1990 Rating: **** The 1990 Stephen King adapted miniseries IT actually returned the multi-episodic genre t...

TV MINISERIES 'HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY' WITH STANLEY BAKER

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qla7LnDbRggENB7Os3YDgAqeOJe0arH7hpEOghBtMo_zlsWIufvESUIsT9RBXWfQ5cgpRZ0xAzAiaXVi5B4nk6KX7XeqjV4wfYSaGiECwmLaRcbqNDx1v9hTB543tvK7wmAm07w4cafsLRRu4xCcMUPcexrn-mE3JLngtDMhhlqvZyt9Yet8BZvkUKMK/s1878/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-09%20at%2012.35.55%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="1878" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qla7LnDbRggENB7Os3YDgAqeOJe0arH7hpEOghBtMo_zlsWIufvESUIsT9RBXWfQ5cgpRZ0xAzAiaXVi5B4nk6KX7XeqjV4wfYSaGiECwmLaRcbqNDx1v9hTB543tvK7wmAm07w4cafsLRRu4xCcMUPcexrn-mE3JLngtDMhhlqvZyt9Yet8BZvkUKMK/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-09%20at%2012.35.55%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Stanley Baker in HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY Year: 1975 Rating: ****</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1975, the BBC brought HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY... John Ford's 1941 Oscar winning film that somehow beat CITIZEN KANE for best  picture and (more insanely) best director... back home... </p><p></p><p>Here using the novelty of casting only Welsh actors in a miniseries about the hard-working 19th century Welsh people... primarily centering on an initially crippled son with his mine-working father, two brothers, two sisters and a strong mother involved in endless bad luck situations, taking up a total of six hours from six hour-long episodes... </p><span></span>

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TV MINISERIES 'HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY' WITH STANLEY BAKER

Stanley Baker in HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY Year: 1975 Rating: **** In 1975, the BBC brought HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY... John Ford's 1941 Os...

TOBE HOOPER DIRECTS THE TV VAMPIRE MOVIE OF 'SALEM'S LOT'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5bK2QdZk6eNrc2LFoc7C-OqUnNSr3nq3-3vIfWZohzDvD8sEJLy-o30FJgXFKh6uSfpMDaB0lEZUp4qLBkX930PTCd-y7GyGISg2O75vonqZyp9jbk262S-9iSc0z2cUN7XbVHoTxh267BeMkB1mcE-iBsEul-dPrAIDedrfy2pFhkHXrdkf4oG6sPQ/s1600/22.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="891" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5bK2QdZk6eNrc2LFoc7C-OqUnNSr3nq3-3vIfWZohzDvD8sEJLy-o30FJgXFKh6uSfpMDaB0lEZUp4qLBkX930PTCd-y7GyGISg2O75vonqZyp9jbk262S-9iSc0z2cUN7XbVHoTxh267BeMkB1mcE-iBsEul-dPrAIDedrfy2pFhkHXrdkf4oG6sPQ/s16000/22.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>David Soul in SALEM'S LOT Year: 1979 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Although groundbreaking horror/exploitation director Tobe Hooper is best known for and forever linked to the legendary low-budget slasher TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, his coolest, tightest and most accessible work is fulfilling and utterly frightful, unlike some other television movies/miniseries during the 1970's in which Stephen King's SALEM'S LOT rode the crest of... <br> <br>Involving an eclectic ensemble from several cinematic generations behind leading man David Soul as a second-rate author returned to the titular New England hometown, doing investigative research on the locally-infamous, spooky-looking haunted manor on a hill described to former English teacher/mentor Lew Ayres: "Can a house be evil in its stone foundations? In its wooden beams? In the glass of its windows?"</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

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TOBE HOOPER DIRECTS THE TV VAMPIRE MOVIE OF 'SALEM'S LOT'

David Soul in SALEM'S LOT Year: 1979 Rating: ****1/2 Although groundbreaking horror/exploitation director Tobe Hooper is best known for...

PETER STRAUSS VS WILLIAM SMITH 'RICH MAN, POOR MAN BOOK II'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmPRzUKBzKlYQd1K0-nWwk0YySsgBYoC4sNsu-Zh9vY9qvAiLC-jYH5wIh3W9pchz_pCokT1CgAT2wxTbh3lGin_bmuJmsr4EwCahWT49Dd1uT-052ORgbSkT3TjFCUKXSlZBQbdIMphgM/s901/66.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="901" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmPRzUKBzKlYQd1K0-nWwk0YySsgBYoC4sNsu-Zh9vY9qvAiLC-jYH5wIh3W9pchz_pCokT1CgAT2wxTbh3lGin_bmuJmsr4EwCahWT49Dd1uT-052ORgbSkT3TjFCUKXSlZBQbdIMphgM/s16000/66.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: RICH MAN, POOR MAN BOOK II Year: 1976-1977 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While RICH MAN, POOR MAN BOOK II is no <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/02/RMPM1.html">RICH MAN, POOR MAN</a> being impossible to replace Nick Nolte after he dies in the original's climax, it's a pretty great sequel, mostly thanks to William Smith as crazy villain Anthony Falconetti who, while shaping-up and tearing-down the last four episodes of the first venture, is now a continuously formidable presence, not only stealing scenes but destroying anyone and anything in his wake...</p><p></p><p>And this time the POOR MAN are young <i>men</i>... Since there's no luckless boxer/sailor Nolte to contrast returning star and now sole headliner Peter Strauss as ambitious, sometimes idealistic Senator/businessman Rudy Jordache, Nolte's beloved son, Wesley (Gregg Henry) and con artist Billy (James Carroll Jordan), neglected son of Bill Bixby and Susan Blakely (the latter killed off/written out early), both take the POOR spot in different ways... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSrcuyKraM9Ms0Fp8Y2zTr6P3up2H9mOiHG59fhZVNH18hVCu8VwWlTvLvKmue7liO67rdtKLb-TZdMZGwcT3Qw51HHOSENb5W_Ot9U_r1A6nPvRD7VDIEKhA4PQlrYBqtXaPlhKZklNDW/s1876/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-06-13%252Bat%252B12.39.01%252BAM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1276" data-original-width="1876" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSrcuyKraM9Ms0Fp8Y2zTr6P3up2H9mOiHG59fhZVNH18hVCu8VwWlTvLvKmue7liO67rdtKLb-TZdMZGwcT3Qw51HHOSENb5W_Ot9U_r1A6nPvRD7VDIEKhA4PQlrYBqtXaPlhKZklNDW/s16000/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-06-13%252Bat%252B12.39.01%252BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Penny Peyser and Gregg Henry in RICH MAN POOR MAN BOOK II Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Wesley's broke despite being taken in by his RICH uncle while Billy fights to make it big in the music industry, so he's basically the young climber version of Peter Strauss while Wesley, blond and muscular like dad, takes Nolte's hapless workingman route, <i>almost</i> having an affair with tough, stubborn yet incredibly cute girl-next-door/union man's daughter Penny Peyser... until Billy gets in quicker and ignites an addictive whirlwind romance/love triangle...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And there are so many characters to cover, including a resilient, quick-witted Susan Sullivan as Rudy's girlfriend lawyer (particularly during senate hearings straight from THE GODFATHER II including a crooked G. D. Spradlin and Peter Donat), whose daughter Kimberly Beck is a flirtatious teenager smitten with Wesley when, by the 11th hour,<i> all</i> the characters wind up in Sin City Vegas to square-off against the show's two polar opposite antagonists...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxlkFKE2hU_1dX6BkYu8sFodrKy2FMtLW1TjxEh05dlnOCAsKizhQ_ioqrjMJpnwa4H-BD2Zn8JGVjsQ9DE3xCccuvHM-XiSE944oZH7Cvi0Zpu23FH1KgG-x_dqF5S4NlgHqGmLg9aQCa/s943/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="943" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxlkFKE2hU_1dX6BkYu8sFodrKy2FMtLW1TjxEh05dlnOCAsKizhQ_ioqrjMJpnwa4H-BD2Zn8JGVjsQ9DE3xCccuvHM-XiSE944oZH7Cvi0Zpu23FH1KgG-x_dqF5S4NlgHqGmLg9aQCa/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Smith and Kimberly Beck in RICH MAN, POOR MAN BOOK II</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Besides Falconetti is a callous yet still somewhat charming/monopolizing billionaire Peter Haskell as Charles Estep, who Strauss's Rudy is after and whose wife, the beautiful Laraine Stephens, holds an anticipated/game-changing secret...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The most fun's had with Billy and his up-and-down dealings working at then co-owning a once-great record company (owned by endearingly grouchy in-debt gambler Sorrell Booke); he basically sells his soul to protect a fickle and neurotic knockout version of Janis Joplin in Cassie Yates, taking the otherwise womanizer on a proverbial ride... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4VPX6bxx2UX7bgkO_ZiqLsWNbto63sbHbAp2tJCnzz4QbRyhEPWddZEqwwFX2eWG_sSSbZ6z8hdRIuevRGu3zsI5UNvRkCrQ1DIiGS2CbrKJ-QAsqBHvWfKXvGhfMv2UtPOuYm-wNoSqp/s960/196143560_1256252508137256_8637572101747373707_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4VPX6bxx2UX7bgkO_ZiqLsWNbto63sbHbAp2tJCnzz4QbRyhEPWddZEqwwFX2eWG_sSSbZ6z8hdRIuevRGu3zsI5UNvRkCrQ1DIiGS2CbrKJ-QAsqBHvWfKXvGhfMv2UtPOuYm-wNoSqp/s16000/196143560_1256252508137256_8637572101747373707_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Russell Johnson as a detective with Peter Strauss in RICH MAN POOR MAN BOOK II</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Meanwhile, William Smith's powerfully methodical method-acting is what really stands out (especially scenes with Vegas hotel manager Ken Swofford), shaking the dust off particular moments where the original series' edgy (semi-historical) drama becomes kitschy melodrama... He's busy too, fending off Nolte's vengeful returning partner Herbert Jefferson Jr., and, also returning is Kay Lenz, Nolte's sexy little widow, this time a kooky laughing girl in a contrived/forced affair with Strauss...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And yet, despite the soap operatic tropes and romantic distractions, like any good televised serial, the characters and situations leave viewers salivating for the next episode... while Peter Strauss is even more intense and dogged, likable, sympathetic and hardcore in the leading role (providing more than a few fantastic monologue-lectures)... making both RICH MAN, POOR MAN shows a "binge-watch" experience far before there was such a thing. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

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PETER STRAUSS VS WILLIAM SMITH 'RICH MAN, POOR MAN BOOK II'

Title: RICH MAN, POOR MAN BOOK II Year: 1976-1977 Rating: **** While RICH MAN, POOR MAN BOOK II is no RICH MAN, POOR MAN being impossible t...

ELYSSA DAVALOS IN 'HOW THE WEST WAS WON' TELEVISION SERIES

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglvOvoEWaVX2PZ0NBgRgA6tkqmWUrobrZGsLvLHwMZm2HQIYc2PZgw7nwJJNm1nUAwlRQvOHYbLYv5VhtPR5LYVLbMZt1NK1gXTdmT42_XzVbhGDpZz7gqx7FVL8HP9V_-BeQQt0YnIJm8/s1600/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1197" data-original-width="1490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglvOvoEWaVX2PZ0NBgRgA6tkqmWUrobrZGsLvLHwMZm2HQIYc2PZgw7nwJJNm1nUAwlRQvOHYbLYv5VhtPR5LYVLbMZt1NK1gXTdmT42_XzVbhGDpZz7gqx7FVL8HP9V_-BeQQt0YnIJm8/s1600/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elyssa Davalos in HOW THE WEST WAS WON Years from 1976 to 1979</td></tr> </tbody></table> After twenty years of GUNSMOKE, James Arness was ready to be a character-actor, while still remaining the lead. His gruff trapper Zeb Macahan is a success just for being better suited to the genuinely muscular role than the completely miscast James Stewart in the horrendous motion picture, HOW THE WEST WAS WON, which on the small screen makes for a pretty entertaining sequel miniseries-style TV series that was an early "binge" watch...<br> <br> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> But the best stories go to Zeb's war deserter nephew Luke, played by Bruce Boxleitner. While his Native American-friendly uncle deals with politically-correct "all white men suck" issues, young Luke goes from one roving adventure to the next, initially tailed by a formidable bounty hunter, and then captured and joining forces with an eclectic, <i>merry band </i>of mountain-holed criminals led by Richard Basehart and a quick-draw Tim Matheson...<br>

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ELYSSA DAVALOS IN 'HOW THE WEST WAS WON' TELEVISION SERIES

Elyssa Davalos in HOW THE WEST WAS WON Years from 1976 to 1979 After twenty years of GUNSMOKE, James Arness was ready to be a character-...

LEGENDARY TELEVISION MINISERIES OF 'RICH MAN, POOR MAN'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhokkqTT8ftgqfwxJ5ibnVkdrvf9YEQnc_JZTN3ttjmKA3X59TcFm2rhP3XFVlb_eMX13slSqA43Z4q8F2EnhSpJyFP2z85ACxFVphJwmxoUzndMaNmM-_uHZ6ITPWquD9RYrtmRp3GEbw9/s949/197665416_1255469021548938_2890333516275307322_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="949" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhokkqTT8ftgqfwxJ5ibnVkdrvf9YEQnc_JZTN3ttjmKA3X59TcFm2rhP3XFVlb_eMX13slSqA43Z4q8F2EnhSpJyFP2z85ACxFVphJwmxoUzndMaNmM-_uHZ6ITPWquD9RYrtmRp3GEbw9/s16000/197665416_1255469021548938_2890333516275307322_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Reed and star Peter Strauss in RICH MAN, POOR MAN Year: 1976 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table>The two title siblings from RICH MAN,  POOR MAN would have made the perfect singular male. Both having grown up very poor, one becomes rich and the other... other than poor... is outrageously cursed and unlucky: So the entire miniseries is about acquiring luck through hard work and/or being unlucky by following primary primal instincts...<br> <br> Although, soon enough, the bad luck, permanently stained on Nick Nolte's Tom Jordache, spreads onto everyone around him, including the series' true lead, Peter Strauss as Rudy Jordache, whose story of a delivery boy turned businessman turned aspiring politician intentionally clashes (albeit separately) with Nolte's hardboiled cross-country escapades...<br> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="756" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC2Ms42slBcaheWzsxoj5w5eavxRtVIpeTXwnbMBYkRnS_vKgBxrHISTJ6cj2kx_VSQDG_TAGE3oUnuvmUz4Tr-vGvLFPQDYI83OCXp0eaM3ZieoTto6OWMEj1-eYJhn2X68bUqZgqFKF4/s1600/53005035_656343948128118_6888418082906177536_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rudy Strauss and Nick Nolte in an 11th hour celebration in RICH MAN, POOR MAN</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> The best parts concerning Nolte's Tom occurs in the 11th hour, when he finally starts doing well... Working a charter boat with partner Herbert Jefferson Jr., his young son and perfect girlfriend turned wife Kay Lenz, life never looked better than all those low-rent dives he'd sulked around in, eventually chased by the mafia and thrown on a merchant marine steamer ship to get outta town, quick... <br> <br> And on that ship's where the most sinister and eclectically nefarious villain is introduced in William Smith's Anthony Falconetti: Not only bullying smaller guys onboard by beating them to the proverbial pulp, what he does to Jefferson's Roy, Tom's best friend, is liken to why men fear prison because of what "Bubba" will make them...<br> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxcKUK_0i_4mHDH8jn-HtXW-RrjeK0mYbMSlp8wDGJ3QW8pq-2iVyj1RnB_CzGOSDzoWhR8yiGD-NQTbp4TovVJeW7P5VIfoKHmGL3NfpfKGQuaquhDgEQz6k7Yv9-CBk57btc9H7iFpxI/s1600/90598494_934725910289919_4228674261037875200_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="942" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxcKUK_0i_4mHDH8jn-HtXW-RrjeK0mYbMSlp8wDGJ3QW8pq-2iVyj1RnB_CzGOSDzoWhR8yiGD-NQTbp4TovVJeW7P5VIfoKHmGL3NfpfKGQuaquhDgEQz6k7Yv9-CBk57btc9H7iFpxI/s1600/90598494_934725910289919_4228674261037875200_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nick Nolte as Tom Jordache in RICH MAN, POOR MAN </u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> While great actors, Strauss and Nolte seem ten years too old for playing teenagers, taking place in the first "chapter," literally seconds after World War II, living under their tyrannical father, played by award winning ham Edward Asner as a German baker with a bloody past and the kind of bad choices Nolte's Tom would inherit, almost to exact detail...<br> <br> Nolte winds up living with his even worse (although successful) uncle, and here his story really begins, having an affair with a voluminous older woman he'll eventually name his beloved charter boat after...<br> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJsVTAytyeCnGHBWZGTqVXAbnDn0piNEPnegrjkWiOgcxX4geYMx6nb8rP6AEYdWmnGd6dobB3kmCO0VGESFLreNwp7lUbwyy7RayQ-MDRk1IKw5VxR2_iYD5Mb5AV4D1zPqVOdvDp-6xm/s1600/52269861_656341961461650_4551937096285159424_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="883" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJsVTAytyeCnGHBWZGTqVXAbnDn0piNEPnegrjkWiOgcxX4geYMx6nb8rP6AEYdWmnGd6dobB3kmCO0VGESFLreNwp7lUbwyy7RayQ-MDRk1IKw5VxR2_iYD5Mb5AV4D1zPqVOdvDp-6xm/s1600/52269861_656341961461650_4551937096285159424_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>"I can bake bread to feed people; what can you do?" Rudy asks a spoiled hippie college kid, before going bonkers</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Meanwhile, the most intriguing scenes involve Rudy's initial climb to success, starting in his college days while working for Ray Milland at an old fashion superstore that desperately needs modernizing... <br> <br> The way Rudy climbs to the top is more intriguing and suspenseful than Nolte's roving Noir-inspired muscularity; the latter's story peaking once he's in the boxing game, which doesn't last long enough thanks to, again, horribly asinine (and downright frustrating) decisions. And in his own way, Strauss's Rudy is equally tough, providing a few wonderfully delivered lectures that, unlike his father (Asner), don't come across as overboard or melodramatic... <br> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTnmyelN_TrPg6GzlsqeZ85YGe_6ld2ykqkVo7_UyFlWTeuMrgD6ZXdihqzU96HAk0aC2GLItO3ytmE0FYtrIfHLpMQ-KcKBEnwWDS655KCMuHHWfin2pBMdawb2PKDxUajCDQBsCT9yUi/s1600/52392573_656361518126361_8439853870443659264_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTnmyelN_TrPg6GzlsqeZ85YGe_6ld2ykqkVo7_UyFlWTeuMrgD6ZXdihqzU96HAk0aC2GLItO3ytmE0FYtrIfHLpMQ-KcKBEnwWDS655KCMuHHWfin2pBMdawb2PKDxUajCDQBsCT9yUi/s1600/52392573_656361518126361_8439853870443659264_n.jpeg"></a></i></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Smith and Susan Blakely violently bond in RICH MAN POOR MAN the last chapter</u><i><br></i></td></tr> </tbody></table> But the glue connecting everything is Susan Blakely as Rudy's "childhood" semi-girlfriend Julie Prescott, the only of the three leads fitting the younger, teenage scenes as she curiously glimpses into the "mysterious side" of life with a tempestuous older-man affair (Robert Reed), and then, much like Tom, making her own path (in New York City) no matter the consequences.... <br> <br> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> A progressive young woman ahead of her time, she unfortunately finds the wrong man in a horribly cast Bill Bixby, delivering each line straight out of community theater. His random imitations of Jimmy Stewart and others, supposedly personifying an omnipresent charm, are so cringe-worthy, time practically stands still while he's on screen (you'll wish he'd turn into the Hulk simply to kick his own ass)... </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu6IgboTEJFSc-tC0txVTsHmY_cixs-fuj5wqfyzpiX6QMcwGTe4B2X_EHKfrWe7zs_Nq5A61pjGgGMQHxMNyNeR6t8Z2rKCxGSWZXdgWjIAC2FZPdYZ4Qw5MT1lpqrpQ05DrxCW1pG_4b/s1600/52594341_656329081462938_7998427160509415424_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu6IgboTEJFSc-tC0txVTsHmY_cixs-fuj5wqfyzpiX6QMcwGTe4B2X_EHKfrWe7zs_Nq5A61pjGgGMQHxMNyNeR6t8Z2rKCxGSWZXdgWjIAC2FZPdYZ4Qw5MT1lpqrpQ05DrxCW1pG_4b/s1600/52594341_656329081462938_7998427160509415424_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kay Lenz as Kate Jordache in RICH MAN, POOR MAN</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Towards the end of this, the original RICH MAN, POOR MAN miniseries... followed by an actual full-season series, BOOK II, sans Nolte and with Strauss fighting political corruption and especially William Smith's demonic madman Falconetti... Blakely's Julie, married to would-be politician Rudy, amounts to boozing and complaining, even more of an albatross on Rudy than his brother ever was... <br> <br> At one point, before Tom's tragic yet predictable death, Rudy points out how much better the POOR brother's life is (even though Tom's sudden turnaround was all Rudy's doing), attributed to either contentment or a comparably perfect bedmate in Kay Lenz. But that, like everything else, relates to the personal choices from either of three central figures which is really, deep down, a "modernized" Greek tragedy about what paths<i> not</i> to take — and then what happens after willingly setting forth into an inevitable, self-fulfilled perdition.<br> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0v7vZV_tJYxgFDvp8kMPgKRMlG54p-YThBdHPse_8Z7YoguldVq8CrxjhmM_L2SHwJKmS2pEr9K29hd1jUZnqzNXufn2iHrypOwKHS9mQAwNeJOdwfEfJLjGfed4iu3NUEZZrNyTjHHaq/s1600/52466016_656844641411382_7955491948704301056_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0v7vZV_tJYxgFDvp8kMPgKRMlG54p-YThBdHPse_8Z7YoguldVq8CrxjhmM_L2SHwJKmS2pEr9K29hd1jUZnqzNXufn2iHrypOwKHS9mQAwNeJOdwfEfJLjGfed4iu3NUEZZrNyTjHHaq/s1600/52466016_656844641411382_7955491948704301056_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Two uncredited cuties in France in the 11th hour chapters of RICH MAN POOR MAN</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj99tvpIamwjIv-yU11pjGPkTZ3ktgxh24dJZR8VqNXqnwEDyixl6kXFOtchSVR2f2ILMLywME5InyTJjf93ifSUgsSBOwHKM7jPtlF2VU-Nyi56LLkCZBbZZ64paqOTxkKn1sZX5RjC09H/s1600/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj99tvpIamwjIv-yU11pjGPkTZ3ktgxh24dJZR8VqNXqnwEDyixl6kXFOtchSVR2f2ILMLywME5InyTJjf93ifSUgsSBOwHKM7jPtlF2VU-Nyi56LLkCZBbZZ64paqOTxkKn1sZX5RjC09H/s1600/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Falconetti Wants You... To Join The Merchant Marines: And on the Bottom Bunk You'll Stay</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>

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LEGENDARY TELEVISION MINISERIES OF 'RICH MAN, POOR MAN'

Robert Reed and star Peter Strauss in RICH MAN, POOR MAN Year: 1976 Rating: ****1/2 The two title siblings from RICH MAN,  POOR MAN would h...

AMAZON PRESENTS HUGH GRANT IN 'A VERY ENGLISH SCANDAL'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKPgQUPuCyeryg-9QP2JFT2rMDKAUCItCZR98g0FcyXnBvTUvbTAUZ7l9cP7zA_UdmLNBbdl0GWFYKxh9f6PlOJ8MRt0Rk3btFAjwhL9Qg78rrTF8aMjbXRkYXLOb1i-6S9GJsAtDdYDj36jWFvuB_SvsxC2Rzha2c8vzd9rZoIJCsOzGJ6i01NUw6hVdT/s1520/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-16%20at%206.11.55%20PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1390" data-original-width="1520" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKPgQUPuCyeryg-9QP2JFT2rMDKAUCItCZR98g0FcyXnBvTUvbTAUZ7l9cP7zA_UdmLNBbdl0GWFYKxh9f6PlOJ8MRt0Rk3btFAjwhL9Qg78rrTF8aMjbXRkYXLOb1i-6S9GJsAtDdYDj36jWFvuB_SvsxC2Rzha2c8vzd9rZoIJCsOzGJ6i01NUw6hVdT/w400-h366/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-16%20at%206.11.55%20PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Old Music Covers A Risque Romance 2018 Score: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Has a nice binging style for half of three-episode limited series (i.e. miniseries), after which it becomes much too obvious what the agenda is i.e. whose side the creators are on, with full steam: The supposed hired killers are keystone cops, shown so vapid and clumsy it's impossible to believe they'd ever be considered for the assignment had it been assigned in the first place. Hugh Grant seems to be doing an imitation of Jeremy Thorpe or the template of Jeremy Thorpe being a hypocritical English Liberal Party member who is gay while trying to have his former gay lover killed...<br> <br> If Grant played the role more naturally or likeable, or realistic, it might seem like he was taking the wrong side in the matter, which would be contrary to the ultimate conclusion that, once you see the old, contented, real life, openly-gay "victim" Norman Scott smiling into the same camera that'd shot the recreated quirky-drama, it's obvious that A VERY ENGLISH SCANDAL was, all along, one man's story and his story alone. The problem is: The best moments, during the show's addictive, rudimentary stages, had the old and young, powerful and powerless Jeremy and Norman both shown as flaky/flawed, desperate individuals and, for that, they were initially and equally intriguing. Meanwhile, the scene-stealing middle-ground is in Thorpe's shifty yet still ambiguous defense lawyer (Adrian Scarborough0: In him, both the good and bad elements of human nature blend and flow like the entire series should/could have.<br> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Ao4xKwnovQutGU_6ktkxwKntu8kt3W6EPL8CJrn4qY73gm-wif-hrEG3IyTm_HojMm7p0oNtdlvkVues8SQIkqP5ePC6hOof4m2bU_612MWe9D3oJc747-DP586UG0KM5NXbbnIvIbR1/s1600/1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="839" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Ao4xKwnovQutGU_6ktkxwKntu8kt3W6EPL8CJrn4qY73gm-wif-hrEG3IyTm_HojMm7p0oNtdlvkVues8SQIkqP5ePC6hOof4m2bU_612MWe9D3oJc747-DP586UG0KM5NXbbnIvIbR1/s1600/1.jpg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Hugh Grant pours on the scheming fiend in his Very English Scandal series</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaR3k5ZER8pXywW-Ixp3gKOO5xrqzCNq_YA2yTDZa3nTLiSGObj_x_iEQ4P0UnAyrUxCHD_lRK-XxIOSeC73U5mIkdoj00kRp7Pph9QePI4jBrjm9O9wQFTLhdYKXn91JyTKXqijQhaOnR/s1600/2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="897" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaR3k5ZER8pXywW-Ixp3gKOO5xrqzCNq_YA2yTDZa3nTLiSGObj_x_iEQ4P0UnAyrUxCHD_lRK-XxIOSeC73U5mIkdoj00kRp7Pph9QePI4jBrjm9O9wQFTLhdYKXn91JyTKXqijQhaOnR/s1600/2.jpg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u> Adrian Scarborough steals the show as George Carman QC</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1d2o7j0YGtrodtzifw3OmaKoSe9ent0qRRp-qC_5enNWJc2RLpsHAO8YrlE6coHhJYlYfd2FL4lIBD7HLfQx6F7y_6F7DJ5mAixvI_DPoFNqT_yMw4TFNcnTW3V7TmAQ7rmrfHEJXX5P4/s1600/3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1d2o7j0YGtrodtzifw3OmaKoSe9ent0qRRp-qC_5enNWJc2RLpsHAO8YrlE6coHhJYlYfd2FL4lIBD7HLfQx6F7y_6F7DJ5mAixvI_DPoFNqT_yMw4TFNcnTW3V7TmAQ7rmrfHEJXX5P4/s1600/3.jpg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Our greatest underrated villain list headlines Paul Freeman from Raiders of the Lost Ark as Sir Joseph Cantley</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUFpTRMCqJkvbDgHffMn4Xr0VOPjf2U8P88l47Ib93YOb_2-eYUex8QaYxfvrrN9mpkFsNH727EatRARgmqh9wzGZpfxqvtHgbrnjL7lfBufM3MBo5BhZUJ8k5rbL-Xrh44lIqkEYv_Xo7/s1600/33.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="882" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUFpTRMCqJkvbDgHffMn4Xr0VOPjf2U8P88l47Ib93YOb_2-eYUex8QaYxfvrrN9mpkFsNH727EatRARgmqh9wzGZpfxqvtHgbrnjL7lfBufM3MBo5BhZUJ8k5rbL-Xrh44lIqkEYv_Xo7/s1600/33.jpg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ben Whitshaw, as the pretty boy version of the beak-nosed real life Scott, suffers through bouts of meantime</u></td></tr> </tbody></table>

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AMAZON PRESENTS HUGH GRANT IN 'A VERY ENGLISH SCANDAL'

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MICK GARRIS DIRECTS STEPHEN KING'S SICK SAGA 'THE STAND'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJxreh_a19_jjWiCU2q-bxRWT9dWZSG2coOwmCp7_wc2NKoW6Vt7nUsmMCaFq42MHz67uA2IE1MByYlhxPdlIZ6GVPHW4fBV7bC7VA35je5lTkbU-ooSBl4nNxEnj2aI845mWiDcuwXE-x/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-02-18+at+2.38.44+PM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1091" data-original-width="1383" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJxreh_a19_jjWiCU2q-bxRWT9dWZSG2coOwmCp7_wc2NKoW6Vt7nUsmMCaFq42MHz67uA2IE1MByYlhxPdlIZ6GVPHW4fBV7bC7VA35je5lTkbU-ooSBl4nNxEnj2aI845mWiDcuwXE-x/s400/Screen+Shot+2019-02-18+at+2.38.44+PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Adam Storke sits out a song in THE STAND Year: 1994</u></td></tr> </tbody></table><p> Miniseries for Stephen King's THE STAND directed by King's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/02/SWalkers.html">SLEEPWALKERS</a> collaborator Mick Garris is an epic's epic centering on an eclectic band of survivors from a deadly plague known as "Captain Tripps," eventually uniting around shared dreams of an old black Christian lady on a farm, playing an out-of-tune guitar, sharing a divine vision to lead the Chosen Ones; except for a few chosen rotten apples including a jealous teenage virgin, a sexy pill popper and a spastic psychopath: two are female, and both.... especially a fiendishly sympathetic Laura San Giacomo as this baby's targeted Rosemary... act better and far more realistic than Molly Ringwald's too-subdued and rather dull (yet genuinely sweet) performance as an old-fashion yet unwed, knocked-up ingenue...<i> </i></p><p>Despite her eventual significant-other Gary Sinise's fantastic role as a wise "country don't mean dumb" strong-silent East Texan, one of the coolest, most relaxing, subtly bad-ass heroes in television history. When some (not many) story-lines exceed their limit, it's always Sinise's anchoring Stu Redman who puts the puzzle back together... but in the cool dude department, he's got some beyond-capable assistance/competition...<br> </p>

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MICK GARRIS DIRECTS STEPHEN KING'S SICK SAGA 'THE STAND'

Adam Storke sits out a song in THE STAND Year: 1994 Miniseries for Stephen King's THE STAND directed by King's SLEEPWALKERS col...

DOUBLE 'FIRESTARTER' FEATURE W/ ORIGINAL AND 'REKINDLED'

<div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB0GgJT0b2-Q-H6mP6VxBsslDIpHNcAfIavb4_Y7Slz7Hi3k5vzH-5rFKrTAxUTTTEWMKebpbAApaHbu7z_qJHr326X3zPLikCK3wmDZ5w_Vr-MXRYw3eag7ajX3bQAm4UpUmyzkjUuvjz/s1600/33727687_483549908740857_977438697194520576_n.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="466" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB0GgJT0b2-Q-H6mP6VxBsslDIpHNcAfIavb4_Y7Slz7Hi3k5vzH-5rFKrTAxUTTTEWMKebpbAApaHbu7z_qJHr326X3zPLikCK3wmDZ5w_Vr-MXRYw3eag7ajX3bQAm4UpUmyzkjUuvjz/s320/33727687_483549908740857_977438697194520576_n.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Heather Locklear and Drew Barrymore YEAR: 1984</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <u>FIRESTARTER</u>: During what looks like a five-dollar opening credit sequence, the synth score by Tangerine Dream, a hybrid of Pink Floyd and John Carpenter, provides a silk hat on a...<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji09Q36W9RFz5KFU9MeWylwSBwr9ODcyoUtE9yTvqH94GKXvm79BYUxOKRtWQU6MtPkxW9dX6l8E6I-9qqpey6CQQJVOZStE80moTrqxst_bteSjo7NVMBhi9yS2bGerouOArruxq5vIeK/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-01-06+at+3.33.45+PM.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="475" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji09Q36W9RFz5KFU9MeWylwSBwr9ODcyoUtE9yTvqH94GKXvm79BYUxOKRtWQU6MtPkxW9dX6l8E6I-9qqpey6CQQJVOZStE80moTrqxst_bteSjo7NVMBhi9yS2bGerouOArruxq5vIeK/s320/Screen+Shot+2019-01-06+at+3.33.45+PM.jpeg" width="200" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Love the spaceman on the right</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Well FIRESTARTER isn't exactly (or entirely) a dog: But based on a novel by Stephen King, it can mislead rabid horror fans as a droning Science-Fiction thriller without wraiths or psychos but nefarious government agents with black suits, like HALLOWEEN 3: SEASON OF THE WITCH compared to its famous, popular predecessors involving tangible killer ghost Michael Myers...<br /> <br /> Although, directed by capable b-movie/drive-in staple, Mark L. Lester, it's got a terrific look, produced by movie mogul Dino De Laurentis — plus the cast of otherwise great actors turning in good-enough performances: Particularly young lead, Charlie (short for Charlene), played by the ET-famous Drew Barrymore: She displays the right amount of possessive power and, most important, empathetic vulnerability in a picture that feels like a dark espionage mated with a pulpy and Gothic, coming-of-age melodrama — using random bouts of cringe-worthy dialogue along with a sporadic overdose of technical exposition...<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEYb-Ned_5lVVc-S7ky44OPesxFjmrVYDjd8KpQ3MRYZ1LOBrZVkqTN78l6XsjRxIHYAy9tGEwAFMBENnXFGgOU62CR06mhDgEz8KFBbrBJBUYfAYqJinmjUiigP3H_DcXFoKjpB7bHFtP/s1600/33748783_483560792073102_7345554348690112512_o.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="805" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEYb-Ned_5lVVc-S7ky44OPesxFjmrVYDjd8KpQ3MRYZ1LOBrZVkqTN78l6XsjRxIHYAy9tGEwAFMBENnXFGgOU62CR06mhDgEz8KFBbrBJBUYfAYqJinmjUiigP3H_DcXFoKjpB7bHFtP/s320/33748783_483560792073102_7345554348690112512_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Your bunny mug floweth over</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> Things tighten after being captured and separated by her father (played by) David Keith, who has Old Testament powers to make people see what he tells them — the proverbial Pharaoh's staff-into-serpent kinda deal...<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2CD0g4-vEhyafbFmckQq5YedNH6mNzop8e9mmvWBc7TSt7Q9bUACMzt14fe5GE8OzOPSBvUHOYkKPkaN_OT9EhOO1aVXQ9UGs7aN1i3sGYMEF7ak-gdl6JLWXq5RHkk89T5npeySYD9NO/s1600/414YZWMFN4L._SY445_.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="210" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2CD0g4-vEhyafbFmckQq5YedNH6mNzop8e9mmvWBc7TSt7Q9bUACMzt14fe5GE8OzOPSBvUHOYkKPkaN_OT9EhOO1aVXQ9UGs7aN1i3sGYMEF7ak-gdl6JLWXq5RHkk89T5npeySYD9NO/s320/414YZWMFN4L._SY445_.jpg" width="205" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Original Firestarter Score: ***1/2</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> This after Dad and Charlie are on-the-run (which includes well-done flashbacks leading to the present time) during an action-led first act act, befitting Lester's <i>appeal to a primal audience </i>style that made those old "cheap" vehicles so appealing (and would progress the next year with his popular-peak COMMANDO)...<br /> <br /> Then when dad and daughter are both "politely" sequestered inside contrived cozy living/bedrooms (including the usual steel wall behind a draped steel window) inside a rural government compound (which we never get an establishing shot of), it's the chemistry between Barrymore and assassin George C. Scott as Raintree, established earlier as a coldblooded killer and now pretending to be a friendly old orderly named John, that really works. He warms her heart with a hypnotic (for her) and comfortably creepy ruse (for us) in what's overall a <i>pretty good</i> film that doesn't try to be<i> really great</i>, and with just enough of the titular promise of torched/scorched bad guys while the characters, good and bad, develop between scenes that moves the story forward in an economic B-movie that has enough A-value to feel completely legit in the King-adapted galaxy.  <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwzT33_WDbBh1DskmKTMqnGV4Poi-0KBbXlMKtkHl_8-mNxDEJ0J8YaJuswNooTzSJjHxccS9PdNrFU8_Eq8ey6Kn9OJB4QFlY7NsnfaMj0oL5nMeieoSzo5nHCch6Ei4vPCqZbS7dSy8E/s1600/33869785_483563285406186_736763994240450560_n.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="700" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwzT33_WDbBh1DskmKTMqnGV4Poi-0KBbXlMKtkHl_8-mNxDEJ0J8YaJuswNooTzSJjHxccS9PdNrFU8_Eq8ey6Kn9OJB4QFlY7NsnfaMj0oL5nMeieoSzo5nHCch6Ei4vPCqZbS7dSy8E/s320/33869785_483563285406186_736763994240450560_n.jpg" width="236" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>McDowell with Not-Drew YEAR: 2002</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <u>FIRESTARTER 2: REKINDLED</u>: Better than one would expect from a miniseries of a sequel based upon a semi-famous Stephen King novel adaptation, especially after THE SHINING miniseries, which was the famously opinionated author's attempt to erase Stanley Kubrick's legendary classic off the chalkboard (nice try, Stephen, but WINGS star Steven Weber <i>don't know Jack</i>)...<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoKEwl6n8aHmIzWq-379Tp9oL1PkfLtLANPSIjvx6Js06q-eTJk4OEZMULlFgACa4ZyynHi3kmMFER0ag1hWVbWPTQjiSkH4QtCgmepnwL_lRxbcbOO7u_jpDPl1O6AP4q7RQxxgPEUOiu/s1600/GueRjn4.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="510" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoKEwl6n8aHmIzWq-379Tp9oL1PkfLtLANPSIjvx6Js06q-eTJk4OEZMULlFgACa4ZyynHi3kmMFER0ag1hWVbWPTQjiSkH4QtCgmepnwL_lRxbcbOO7u_jpDPl1O6AP4q7RQxxgPEUOiu/s400/GueRjn4.jpg" width="212" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>RekindledTVMovieScore: ***</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Same thing happens here as the child version of the second Charlie doesn't follow what happened in the first; that which was more logical and suspenseful...<br /> <br /> For example, Malcolm McDowell takes George C. Scott's role, with half his face burned from what seemed his scorching barnyard death, and instead of the aforementioned deception between the first Raintree and Charlie — in this case, after the father gets shot on the street, McDowell's simply walks up and grabs her hand, replacing daddy — and she doesn't freak out?! <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCxuICQZDZjZKniU8u1s_RkQaEfhGEdjTMtmuGiUPtg6djFrfawhIPywXvtlQY0ZdC-kELt5tJtLz040vRgPdsT7e6hhdymM-6ineu9X3WtWI8E7CrQjBYRtBYvyAnSHyFT_A8KPteLlQr/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-05-28+at+11.06.54+PM.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1429" data-original-width="990" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCxuICQZDZjZKniU8u1s_RkQaEfhGEdjTMtmuGiUPtg6djFrfawhIPywXvtlQY0ZdC-kELt5tJtLz040vRgPdsT7e6hhdymM-6ineu9X3WtWI8E7CrQjBYRtBYvyAnSHyFT_A8KPteLlQr/s320/Screen+Shot+2018-05-28+at+11.06.54+PM.jpg" width="220" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>3/4ths of the DVD double feature</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> But this is really about the grownup twenty-something Charlie whose powers are sought to be REKINDLED by everyone but herself. The gorgeous (and yes, talented) former MIGHTY DUCKS child starlet Marguerite Moreau (coached by Emilio Estevez, first son of Martin Sheen, Barrymore's captor in the original) turns in a smooth performance despite way too many uneven, confusing, off-color flashbacks. And it's part romantic-soap as she's paired with a well-written but mediocre-acted standard handsome (and intentionally oblivious) employee of the agency tracking her down... <br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKOdTg2xHjPWahzjRym0M9sYKm2FM7uxecXVGd0k1VU9U03O4TKdf9qcYMoFawISbxqEZJxw1iRTRCT7Xhw92Qv_B0BWx69FG_F4rHlov4QJ0L5UsJ1bXAea_uu8vFOaijd0QiotfRjFi5/s1600/33780759_483553998740448_6132564067136569344_n.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="697" data-original-width="960" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKOdTg2xHjPWahzjRym0M9sYKm2FM7uxecXVGd0k1VU9U03O4TKdf9qcYMoFawISbxqEZJxw1iRTRCT7Xhw92Qv_B0BWx69FG_F4rHlov4QJ0L5UsJ1bXAea_uu8vFOaijd0QiotfRjFi5/s320/33780759_483553998740448_6132564067136569344_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>One of those devilish Stephen King adapted touches</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Whether taking place in a constructed small town main street, or the city that it purposefully mirrors (for the final battle), there's simply not enough fire... or victims of the flames... to go around...<br /> <br /> With sexy dark-grunge Charlie's powers more spoken and/or anticipated, the bedlam's handed to a group of boys who share her formidable gift, mentored by Raintree, yet are pretty weak in the antagonist department. Enough elements work, though, like an important cameo by Dennis Hopper (as a survivor of the initial test that screwed-up Charlie's parents); an effective hybrid of body count terror (still not horror); and with a more backseat yet still palpable element of sci-fi, this REKINDLED miniseries (with ten minutes trimmed for a movie-length DVD) is a ride worth burning through. At least once.<br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAOikTf55Cs7VwWmMscdCN67-HvmfeZ-Wre6xd2rep-DudA_UlxwBmNgv-BHIm7zaqZ9LedAESPNw9vFhd28KVQMx51MOvHwX-g3mcWHrxI-6PllnwywA8CQQf-nv5mNfiV3E05kDHCUeE/s1600/2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAOikTf55Cs7VwWmMscdCN67-HvmfeZ-Wre6xd2rep-DudA_UlxwBmNgv-BHIm7zaqZ9LedAESPNw9vFhd28KVQMx51MOvHwX-g3mcWHrxI-6PllnwywA8CQQf-nv5mNfiV3E05kDHCUeE/s1600/2.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Cult Film Freak amigo Antonio "Huggy Bear" Fargas in a thrifty but important cameo as a cab driver</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivBLIiqzDTAcO4-TVGDAhtXX-vDoNwPtbzoUr2JH67Xq8S-MDazX8sdfpcitVB1xKtPIgAZON-I9UdBbt6FYXTywwiRIio_H6X4iUKL9s8Qw_UnS_l2KxaBL_l7VooYNm_uABlwXoExwSi/s1600/1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="568" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivBLIiqzDTAcO4-TVGDAhtXX-vDoNwPtbzoUr2JH67Xq8S-MDazX8sdfpcitVB1xKtPIgAZON-I9UdBbt6FYXTywwiRIio_H6X4iUKL9s8Qw_UnS_l2KxaBL_l7VooYNm_uABlwXoExwSi/s1600/1.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Raintree warming up to our little Firestarter Drew Barrymore, which is the epicenter of the movie</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7gdpv5rWqCWpcwmKHCbYB7j8cif6w1emuotFSvjGAXFhIeAFYFmsL71bVDX6QnmDkaMa973b3OUTr_ztMBYZbtTrgEopR_IokcqWShdWtyVDxzUVN9IwjKL7VFh1H-cErscC86VxQv6Y-/s1600/3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="1297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7gdpv5rWqCWpcwmKHCbYB7j8cif6w1emuotFSvjGAXFhIeAFYFmsL71bVDX6QnmDkaMa973b3OUTr_ztMBYZbtTrgEopR_IokcqWShdWtyVDxzUVN9IwjKL7VFh1H-cErscC86VxQv6Y-/s1600/3.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>When she was the cutest thing in the world, Heather Locklear meets future husband David Keith during THE Gov't test</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9QedS8rlEn_gWIEggwiPUcRYmzCZcJACpeM4DHpwmoaNUo2qIKpZWsfaooboIlNKH3r6K3uWtEFco7PxsOcgPQXdow9bmCyxcJ91zRk5zzDlaBzaLvoFYrbSLPEKJvL5tDaUKebygkdV4/s1600/4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="789" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9QedS8rlEn_gWIEggwiPUcRYmzCZcJACpeM4DHpwmoaNUo2qIKpZWsfaooboIlNKH3r6K3uWtEFco7PxsOcgPQXdow9bmCyxcJ91zRk5zzDlaBzaLvoFYrbSLPEKJvL5tDaUKebygkdV4/s1600/4.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Drew Barrymore David Keith Firestarter Drew Barrymore David Keith Drew Barrymore Firestarter</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgPeqm5Pis7mBuS_OG9pP9T0y1q83DYReoDaoY_GAOGs0m17YpJv223J9m7GSTqTV0PaB64J8k8QNxA1_VqnBRW2CDICei3lefE1tExYUVUtNqPqDNeu2nQ-6tYw4tyG3nXJrR9iiPQNi3/s1600/6.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="947" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgPeqm5Pis7mBuS_OG9pP9T0y1q83DYReoDaoY_GAOGs0m17YpJv223J9m7GSTqTV0PaB64J8k8QNxA1_VqnBRW2CDICei3lefE1tExYUVUtNqPqDNeu2nQ-6tYw4tyG3nXJrR9iiPQNi3/s1600/6.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>George C. Scott's assassin's assasin Raintree takes aim at an unsuccessfully hidden away...</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlsMomY_hXH_sqHSPOa-ZAAAJQXSIa7Mc1ajf08Vdx8RxTr7Mue64lB_nGvLww63zVAPaKE63CKX9DZqYblpDllYYUbZ_kWLNS6LiUNBci-p2EdpQ0__FtofJxhF2MCtwwlTW9d_mVaxL3/s1600/7.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="747" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlsMomY_hXH_sqHSPOa-ZAAAJQXSIa7Mc1ajf08Vdx8RxTr7Mue64lB_nGvLww63zVAPaKE63CKX9DZqYblpDllYYUbZ_kWLNS6LiUNBci-p2EdpQ0__FtofJxhF2MCtwwlTW9d_mVaxL3/s1600/7.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Firestarter and father, who hid in a property that they own... Not very smart...</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT98y_WebR8x5onKYcVXEYI2P3TSj72gie7cmG2470KpA4Uqb5wHYLf-lxSlTlo72BJS00_-WgF2b5txeFJ8emZxQWYMwLA2cGhdUFU96Ilw1jwcs-03gHsrdsTRAaRtJK0G6qwhefKNPy/s1600/66.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT98y_WebR8x5onKYcVXEYI2P3TSj72gie7cmG2470KpA4Uqb5wHYLf-lxSlTlo72BJS00_-WgF2b5txeFJ8emZxQWYMwLA2cGhdUFU96Ilw1jwcs-03gHsrdsTRAaRtJK0G6qwhefKNPy/s1600/66.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>A terrific unfolding by director Mark L. Lester Firestarter as Agents appear out of trees... It's the evil E.T.</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2_0mA6z6BTJBTO6GUWXw3UMMP4IZ86uNbGcAfAiiYD5ADGo8N0-J8tKxeSBXCLa-Qd3WWMdyqMDlTWcraDGaA29FVK9O9xfRjs3klPYfzgnXJMzqeLJflV3VBZFJMjeV3YCfaHrtzq6es/s1600/33727687_483549908740857_977438697194520576_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="643" data-original-width="903" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2_0mA6z6BTJBTO6GUWXw3UMMP4IZ86uNbGcAfAiiYD5ADGo8N0-J8tKxeSBXCLa-Qd3WWMdyqMDlTWcraDGaA29FVK9O9xfRjs3klPYfzgnXJMzqeLJflV3VBZFJMjeV3YCfaHrtzq6es/s1600/33727687_483549908740857_977438697194520576_n.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>In The Shining, that power was compared to burning toast, so there it is, another King connection</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC_N4SBNUHazwGlghEDB6IclVsDDXddFDRNk1gewGc11PMpCBQFSIOIYFYVrCMZ6FRdlB3THFMcN7ea_49gutdlhX5tBBIoEXcWtdf6xdh4Ka1WprGWjjFVvlcxntUqFLJELQQXnXdcvAH/s1600/DeRII-mV4AA2mQE.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="884" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC_N4SBNUHazwGlghEDB6IclVsDDXddFDRNk1gewGc11PMpCBQFSIOIYFYVrCMZ6FRdlB3THFMcN7ea_49gutdlhX5tBBIoEXcWtdf6xdh4Ka1WprGWjjFVvlcxntUqFLJELQQXnXdcvAH/s1600/DeRII-mV4AA2mQE.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>"Ha! Thanks... I had some photos at one point but have no idea where they are now. Appreciate it!"</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibeI8yf0zkyUGMjdNs9fU52aff4U_Ef9l_VF8JlSbQzgdK3FKv9b_rkCAfAhlXLKOHkD1qSkshDeom3psWVzTKs5tr0GCjmXAYALY7IghyQuQyteGoA4dYDa40CbV0jMdgTPBVIA4akdyp1NLcwr_Pbganhl6_mMriCyJB8tBgxo3zFIh0K6ReDHyYnw/s1597/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-17%20at%2010.55.25%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="771" data-original-width="1597" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibeI8yf0zkyUGMjdNs9fU52aff4U_Ef9l_VF8JlSbQzgdK3FKv9b_rkCAfAhlXLKOHkD1qSkshDeom3psWVzTKs5tr0GCjmXAYALY7IghyQuQyteGoA4dYDa40CbV0jMdgTPBVIA4akdyp1NLcwr_Pbganhl6_mMriCyJB8tBgxo3zFIh0K6ReDHyYnw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-17%20at%2010.55.25%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u> Lisa Anne Barnes as Serviceman's Girlfriend in FIRESTARTER</u><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />

david keith, dennis hopper, drew barrymore, horror, malcolm mcdowell, mark l. lester, miniseries, science-fiction, sequel, tangerine dream, TV, zeroes

DOUBLE 'FIRESTARTER' FEATURE W/ ORIGINAL AND 'REKINDLED'

Heather Locklear and Drew Barrymore YEAR: 1984 FIRESTARTER : During what looks like a five-dollar opening credit sequence, the synth s...

PETER O'TOOLE RETURNS TO THE DESERT-SET EPIC FOR 'MASADA'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGGuAg9P5FmsWFI2_ZOccL83T6VlknMWNqhWLsELH8C-YUunA9DAdHKr3jtHCnD0qs8R2mpdzoGD4AQVP0UukZmp81aKdmkjksGYrImzMH1N2r3MWdamkmr_gubM_RfGuZCNBGyDkLzAHOuFZf8VFzNVh-BX8IbBV4A2AQUf-XS_lto-eB6QTM8hbKEw/s320/91704644_938463719916138_5073433069042532352_n.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="286" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGGuAg9P5FmsWFI2_ZOccL83T6VlknMWNqhWLsELH8C-YUunA9DAdHKr3jtHCnD0qs8R2mpdzoGD4AQVP0UukZmp81aKdmkjksGYrImzMH1N2r3MWdamkmr_gubM_RfGuZCNBGyDkLzAHOuFZf8VFzNVh-BX8IbBV4A2AQUf-XS_lto-eB6QTM8hbKEw/s1600/91704644_938463719916138_5073433069042532352_n.jpeg" width="286"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1982 Rating: ****</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table>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 (albeit more like idealists), a label usually only pinned on Christians... <br> <br> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> 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...<br> <br> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqG3ITKYOoBpD3GNvpIQFvJiKmR9gmow3vziN2dq0vmUWTTwV7DYQBJN_JATfFCp_K33LoXzTixZzQNXcx6a8UUbGvGny9VUR2AKvMkcCPWjrxP4r8UoOJvP5cpADgtguLHz87O16U1XpL/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-03-31+at+2.30.45+AM.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1412" data-original-width="1280" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqG3ITKYOoBpD3GNvpIQFvJiKmR9gmow3vziN2dq0vmUWTTwV7DYQBJN_JATfFCp_K33LoXzTixZzQNXcx6a8UUbGvGny9VUR2AKvMkcCPWjrxP4r8UoOJvP5cpADgtguLHz87O16U1XpL/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-03-31+at+2.30.45+AM.jpeg" width="290"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peter O'Toole and David Warner in MASADA</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> 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 —like many TV epics, it's a hit and miss venture...<br> <br> 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...<br> <br> The latter, while nice to look at, seems exactly what her character is — fiction placed within a history biopic, and that especially 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 THE ANTAGONISTS)...<br> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br></div> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiR8Ecgg5GGyL2jk9VctxRHqBTYwoPyOT55ASqBN8MmwJe9eorNeL3kmerzg-igatpkViZATr28v-VwKHUqdr7KTxwv9ZPHxh6yQ3xwLJvCkOWlPFDySpFsaD5Qt0mEnDJNz27FKdSZoSh/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-03-31+at+2.34.37+AM.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1110" data-original-width="1499" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiR8Ecgg5GGyL2jk9VctxRHqBTYwoPyOT55ASqBN8MmwJe9eorNeL3kmerzg-igatpkViZATr28v-VwKHUqdr7KTxwv9ZPHxh6yQ3xwLJvCkOWlPFDySpFsaD5Qt0mEnDJNz27FKdSZoSh/s400/Screen+Shot+2020-03-31+at+2.34.37+AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Warren Clarke and Ken Hutchison in MASADA: ****</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> 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 in the scorching heat...<br> <br> Meanwhile, Strauss's guttural rants are narrowed into clever (yet sometimes unrealistically fathomed) mind-game tactics...<br> <br> 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, david warner, eighties, ken hutchison, miniseries, peter o'toole, peter strauss, tv movie, warren clarke

PETER O'TOOLE RETURNS TO THE DESERT-SET EPIC FOR 'MASADA'

Year: 1982 Rating: **** It doesn't get much better than suffering along with Peter O'Toole as a vulnerable Roman general weeding ou...

ORIGINAL 'V' MINISERIES WITH 'V: THE FINAL BATTLE' & TV SHOW

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAlVPMsy4Jf_uz0v_eVDYokZ9LXl6vhaziA6AMSvbI5N84S-rdbavfFydVn5vmXG0EiXvSTfOcC1TBCY4NnNdRDjzCgaZmXNhIJVMChIp8GxRKpveHAj3V0tH1CHDgYzUY1EOe5iyStAJT/s1600/3.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="955" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAlVPMsy4Jf_uz0v_eVDYokZ9LXl6vhaziA6AMSvbI5N84S-rdbavfFydVn5vmXG0EiXvSTfOcC1TBCY4NnNdRDjzCgaZmXNhIJVMChIp8GxRKpveHAj3V0tH1CHDgYzUY1EOe5iyStAJT/s1600/3.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Reviews of V: THE ORIGINAL MINISERIES with THE FINAL BATTLE and the TV SERIES 1983-1985</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><u><span style="font-size: large;">V: THE ORIGINAL MINISERIES</span> (1983):</u> About every five years it's time to rediscover the brilliance of a miniseries that, for a number of reasons, has gotten a bad rap as being pure, unapologetic camp: But it's wise not to mistake camp for cult, and to realize that every original vehicle with cheesy followups did begin with something worthy of being followed-up in the first place...</span><br>

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ORIGINAL 'V' MINISERIES WITH 'V: THE FINAL BATTLE' & TV SHOW

Reviews of V: THE ORIGINAL MINISERIES with THE FINAL BATTLE and the TV SERIES 1983-1985 V: THE ORIGINAL MINISERIES (1983): About every...

THE BLUE AND THE GRAY

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvKScXuOJlNNUXhyphenhyphen6dRHteWzsNomRatPZamTDqrBi0IKR8GsAZZod9fMOEiRTfBC6AXkdlxYRr9VwUYL7-WtGmMoLE_s8HP5R7tm48OoupaFluB4BdU2VgGbcBxKCt8hISQYtwdciKwKA/s1600/blue+and+the+gray+1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvKScXuOJlNNUXhyphenhyphen6dRHteWzsNomRatPZamTDqrBi0IKR8GsAZZod9fMOEiRTfBC6AXkdlxYRr9VwUYL7-WtGmMoLE_s8HP5R7tm48OoupaFluB4BdU2VgGbcBxKCt8hISQYtwdciKwKA/s16000/blue+and+the+gray+1.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1982 cast: John Hammond, Stacy Keach, Gregory Peck, Penny Peyser, Bruce Abbott rating: ****</td></tr> </tbody></table> In making a story about the Civil War, where “Brother fought Brother” on American soil, what better medium than an artist to tell the Civil War saga from both sides. <br /> <br /> In this exceptional TV miniseries, we meet John Hammond’s passive John Geyser, who dreams of sketching illustrations in the big city. He lives on a farm in the South and his family’s bent on defending their land from the Northern Yankees. Although when THE BLUE AND THE GRAY begins and John (to the chagrin of his father and patriotic brothers) leaves home – traveling north to get a job from his cousin at a small town newspaper – there’s only the impending rumor of war… Which doesn’t last long.   <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMmRv67hFUCJPXGPJcj68xSqKE5omTby7wdaXj_mqQpPs62pC_NTiGgJ3TQMRlrCEJH1oW48lrQMS0sSbS6Z9Lr_VBU1Slmnrs7uqKSzq6zizNvDqQxuEuEk-QSVfyA9n4bgJl40FLHFpe/s1600/blue+and+the+gray+3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMmRv67hFUCJPXGPJcj68xSqKE5omTby7wdaXj_mqQpPs62pC_NTiGgJ3TQMRlrCEJH1oW48lrQMS0sSbS6Z9Lr_VBU1Slmnrs7uqKSzq6zizNvDqQxuEuEk-QSVfyA9n4bgJl40FLHFpe/s640/blue+and+the+gray+3.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Hammond's John Geyser sketching both sides</td></tr> </tbody></table> When the war begins, after his brothers and cousins have all signed up, Geyser has a meeting with Abe Lincoln – who saw him sketching he and wife Mary Todd. The 16th President gives John permission to sketch both sides of the war so he doesn’t have to eventually fight his own siblings. In a previous scene, John had turned against the South because of racism: his friend, a freed slave played by Paul Winfield, was lynched for harboring runaways. This was the last straw. <br /> <br /> The big battle scenes are shot well, and best yet, they're up close and personal. Of John’s four Yankee cousins (including Bruce Abbott and David W. Harper), Brian Kerwin as Malachy, who’s afraid of battle and surreptitiously runs away when things get hairy, is mainly centered on as he goes from “coward” to hero in the course of several campaigns.  <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy2yHkSHKT5gEOA8wBOJWO5rq9Rwc7OjQmEgv_OcRclFuIaLfrxMr4X3VPz5Ln7727no_y-toJ41ahFdj7FAFvumMbNbd6DHKWogkCxpqhTPb5ePnqFh3xfiRqKwxB2xp9S3cFx5IPo8C1/s1600/blue+and+the+gray+7.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy2yHkSHKT5gEOA8wBOJWO5rq9Rwc7OjQmEgv_OcRclFuIaLfrxMr4X3VPz5Ln7727no_y-toJ41ahFdj7FAFvumMbNbd6DHKWogkCxpqhTPb5ePnqFh3xfiRqKwxB2xp9S3cFx5IPo8C1/s640/blue+and+the+gray+7.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Penny Peyser's Emma Geyser loses her cool</td></tr> </tbody></table> Stacy Keach plays an intrepid scout named Jonas Steele – he works for Lincoln personally and has the dangerous job of riding to the front lines to check on what the South is up to. The always dependable Keach makes a worthy maverick and takes John under his wing, but his constant dreams of the future are annoyingly farfetched. These scenes (and a few subplots, mostly involving top men discussing strategies) are the only slight drawback to an otherwise perfect tale that, despite a three-part run time, is hardly searing or tedious. <br /> <br /> There are many locations and situations on and off the battlefield, like John’s romance with society girl turned front line nurse; Steele’s courtship with John’s pretty cousin; and John’s tough sister (Penny Peyser) slowly losing her sanity – yet the baseline remains at the rural Geyser home. The final stand takes place here, and as some exceptionally cutthroat Yankee soldiers attack his family, John must chose which side he’s really on.   <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Q-pb6JMW-3Gm55BF5hwYLPmg0f2rh3hHxFrk9sAqAfpNpUpcZoYR5vT9skVt0QyUp9_Hp0dWgHoZ9pKNAk15QPtP49lAF4JdsZXiFwtZ4-y_TzJXh4-WYVOXC-pD3oXVNVH8hn2G3NFU/s1600/blue+and+the+gray+8.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Q-pb6JMW-3Gm55BF5hwYLPmg0f2rh3hHxFrk9sAqAfpNpUpcZoYR5vT9skVt0QyUp9_Hp0dWgHoZ9pKNAk15QPtP49lAF4JdsZXiFwtZ4-y_TzJXh4-WYVOXC-pD3oXVNVH8hn2G3NFU/s640/blue+and+the+gray+8.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brian Kerwin (right) faces battle</td></tr> </tbody></table> An excellent miniseries that... despite the presence of bigger stars including Gregory Peck as Lincoln and Lloyd Bridges as the Geyser patriarch... never loses place of the important "smaller" characters, providing not only historic battles but involving undercover missions and plenty of suspenseful one-on-one fights, including a good old fashion duel.<br /> <br /> THE BLUE AND THE GRAY has everything for both historians and die hard fans of the <i>war movie</i> genre.<br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1GKk69W49JijVqJbgUMg8iArCTPBCasKv0-HqUJBwFzi9zePpUS2QYCw0R0AFZmJ8fgGHHh6-yHpcyPowne8_E_9FxQR6pG7Viq4HgRhdcN82g5NqFNylC9YlxwlYKWblKXoPRxgyRrE/s1600/blue+and+the+gray+9.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1GKk69W49JijVqJbgUMg8iArCTPBCasKv0-HqUJBwFzi9zePpUS2QYCw0R0AFZmJ8fgGHHh6-yHpcyPowne8_E_9FxQR6pG7Viq4HgRhdcN82g5NqFNylC9YlxwlYKWblKXoPRxgyRrE/s640/blue+and+the+gray+9.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stacy Keach as Jonas Steele</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ_b0NQXPx3eZ4T3JngPXxFUNNJ4cUxgGyT6h1ENAtY6ztbBr3CEFsldG8A5JrFWb_O7RzWfhMj8uxaVHZdbhU57ENOl6Y0GN_d9gzqXxeSCiB7RDLXbPJuiX93P_nYf8UJMZghK9swME/s1600/blue+and+the+gray+2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ_b0NQXPx3eZ4T3JngPXxFUNNJ4cUxgGyT6h1ENAtY6ztbBr3CEFsldG8A5JrFWb_O7RzWfhMj8uxaVHZdbhU57ENOl6Y0GN_d9gzqXxeSCiB7RDLXbPJuiX93P_nYf8UJMZghK9swME/s640/blue+and+the+gray+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lovely Kathleen Beller as Kathy Reynolds</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfPIWwHjR8l4FFWdMXe3zjgzoKEV9U-GmT8ZQnFcz7MRY8s3NLMEoA9HTy_55q5DAm5oEBiYLlqtkk0HNO6fK6mE7BW-yUZsLK-IqAki5tUhkAcYIHmfqXDZObyFAzq7XtCZXilXnkmB4/s1600/blue+and+the+gray+5.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfPIWwHjR8l4FFWdMXe3zjgzoKEV9U-GmT8ZQnFcz7MRY8s3NLMEoA9HTy_55q5DAm5oEBiYLlqtkk0HNO6fK6mE7BW-yUZsLK-IqAki5tUhkAcYIHmfqXDZObyFAzq7XtCZXilXnkmB4/s640/blue+and+the+gray+5.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Haymond as buried lead character John Geyser</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLMzuy8oUBaBS7g5vVyhMI1NtyX7Hsl_833YLa_eMnLhFjvPsZIV-fcXjyBI9CQOYWFrf2tLIfZHenL5OixBWXaZcnTYVFfqA9Zff4s5QSt0P8SXgxD3H48v82bVTR0KH11qX67JQ9-2k/s1600/penny+peyser+the+blue+and+the+gray.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLMzuy8oUBaBS7g5vVyhMI1NtyX7Hsl_833YLa_eMnLhFjvPsZIV-fcXjyBI9CQOYWFrf2tLIfZHenL5OixBWXaZcnTYVFfqA9Zff4s5QSt0P8SXgxD3H48v82bVTR0KH11qX67JQ9-2k/s640/penny+peyser+the+blue+and+the+gray.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lovely Penny Peyser rides a fast and furious stagecoach</td></tr> </tbody></table>

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THE BLUE AND THE GRAY

year: 1982 cast: John Hammond, Stacy Keach, Gregory Peck, Penny Peyser, Bruce Abbott rating: **** In making a story about the Civil War,...