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Written by James M. Tate / 3/06/2026 / No comments / adventure , college , comedy , dan monohan , eighties , james b. sikking , jeff east , jennifer runyon , john hillerman , julia montgomery , stephen furst , tim matheson

JENNIFER RUNYON AND TIM MATHESON ARE GOING 'UP THE CREEK'

<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/AVvXsEhbtMlk38LVC2UluxkzhCPNuoBc8cgdpuE5sgJnHbKuYQ4uwMdm49XwsYorczldVm3qfcr-csPh7e2m5Uz9b4VJqXj5T8bThY3cDakhth8xZ9YJRRer5chXIyaM9yBS0Cf-pmRC7gdbJuoQ1ex-bejywWzuzP5T8NDIJrDj0tCLYXsqBYfgMc8oop6Ri2Xb/s2104/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-08%20at%206.25.22%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="2104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbtMlk38LVC2UluxkzhCPNuoBc8cgdpuE5sgJnHbKuYQ4uwMdm49XwsYorczldVm3qfcr-csPh7e2m5Uz9b4VJqXj5T8bThY3cDakhth8xZ9YJRRer5chXIyaM9yBS0Cf-pmRC7gdbJuoQ1ex-bejywWzuzP5T8NDIJrDj0tCLYXsqBYfgMc8oop6Ri2Xb/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-03-08%20at%206.25.22%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jennifer Runyon in UP THE CREEK Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A year following this neglected outdoor comedy, Tim Matheson would ask Chevy Chase to kill him in FLETCH. Chase was originally designed for OTTER in ANIMAL HOUSE, a part that made Matheson, a former child actor who was growing into various roles like a bad cop in MAGNUM FORCE, a household name... but only where cool people live...<br>
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In FLETCH, Matheson looked somewhere in 
his late thirties, playing an established businessman.  Here he's a broke, grungy college slacker 
and actually looks much younger than in  FLETCH but way too old to be a 
student. But that's probably intentional...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, college, comedy, dan monohan, eighties, james b. sikking, jeff east, jennifer runyon, john hillerman, julia montgomery, stephen furst, tim matheson

JENNIFER RUNYON AND TIM MATHESON ARE GOING 'UP THE CREEK'

Jennifer Runyon in UP THE CREEK Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 A year following this neglected outdoor comedy, Tim Matheson would ask Chevy Chase...

BRIAN KERWIN AND STEPHEN FURST ARE 'GETTING WASTED'

<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/AVvXsEgGBAlO2irHrjA8B_JVNFn2_Vx_NpLjFd9FmFMPIbILJVQViOSVlbTLKosYBI0a4yjnG5USUPqML-uBErSipDTsIMFGsrYlTrC4pozaQh3kTRDw2o8Jwhp-j3-LmkwjgoVCYwCbBgBsOMVD2xg_pUrDiqKSBpS-M2sHXuTj59mfVsNMytE4we43OAHvSg/s1717/Screen%20Shot%202022-12-26%20at%2010.13.06%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1010" data-original-width="1717" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGBAlO2irHrjA8B_JVNFn2_Vx_NpLjFd9FmFMPIbILJVQViOSVlbTLKosYBI0a4yjnG5USUPqML-uBErSipDTsIMFGsrYlTrC4pozaQh3kTRDw2o8Jwhp-j3-LmkwjgoVCYwCbBgBsOMVD2xg_pUrDiqKSBpS-M2sHXuTj59mfVsNMytE4we43OAHvSg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-12-26%20at%2010.13.06%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: GETTING WASTED aka SOFT EXPLOSTION Year: 1980 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Plenty of wild-party-flicks came out in the wake of ANIMAL HOUSE, and GETTING WASTED — trading college for a military academy — co-stars Stephen Furst, literally the biggest geek in HOUSE and one of many pot-smokers here that are... well... GETTING WASTED (or more like pretty buzzed)...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p>And when new guy Brian Kerwin shows up in the bunkhouse... after being driven to the academy while Buffalo Springfield's counter-culture anthem <i>For What It's Worth</i> plays... he gets along with the local cadets instantly, especially cool guy Cooper Huckabee and second-string sidekick Ken Michelman...</p><p><span></span></p>

brian kerwin, comedy, cooper huckabee, counter-culture, eighties, ken michelman, military academy, stephen furst

BRIAN KERWIN AND STEPHEN FURST ARE 'GETTING WASTED'

Title: GETTING WASTED aka SOFT EXPLOSTION Year: 1980 Rating: *** Plenty of wild-party-flicks came out in the wake of ANIMAL HOUSE, and GETTI...

BLOODY BAGFUL OF CHUCK NORRIS MOVIES REVIEWED

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Here's a score of Chuck Norris movies from the late seventies all through his kicking-ass eighties reign. These summary-size, one or two paragraph-long reviews are a decade in the making as... <br>
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Chuck Norris took Karate films to an entertainingly mindless and guttural, testosterone-driven level, and having appeared in RETURN OF THE DRAGON opposite/verses Bruce Lee, who knows where Chuck's career might have gone had the Chinese Kung Fu Master lived past ENTER THE DRAGON, but like comparing Edgar Rice Burrough's more realistic, cerebral and literary Tarzan to the spontaneous and fun theatrical Johnny Weissmuller adaptations, it's not as if Chuck took Lee's place. Instead, there was a phantom zone that desperately needed filling: Norris successfully delivered and, unlike most, maintained his American Brand of Karate to the large and small screen for nearly three decades... <br>

action, adventure, chuck norris, david carradine, donna gordon, eighties, jack o'halloran, karate, m. emmett walsh, mary-louise weller, richard lynch, seventies, sport, stephen furst

BLOODY BAGFUL OF CHUCK NORRIS MOVIES REVIEWED

Chuck's famous windshield kick from Good Guys Wear Black Here's a score of Chuck Norris movies from the late seventies all throu...

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