In Memoriam

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Damn. He was screamingly funny in that one. I remember an episode where the police were giving him on air reaction tests as the gave him booze in one of those commercials aimed at kids to tell them not to drink and drive. The joke was.....he got better and faster as he got more drunk.

He also has the unfortunate distinction of having been in the most unfortunate movie of all time, "The Other Side Of Midnight". Let's just say that one had the worst release date in movie history and leave it at that.

Had to google that film, and yeah, the timing WAS plenty bad.

RIP to the good Doctor!

[The Darknight Detective]

It was not a good movie, based on a trash novel.

So true. Nevertheless, every teenage boy of my age 40-something years ago saw it numerous times for one reason or another.

RIP Howard Hesseman

[achilles]

So true. Nevertheless, every teenage boy of my age 40-something years ago saw it numerous times for one reason or another.

RIP Howard Hesseman

Yes, I remember my older brother telling me how he ditched school to go see....um...."The Other Side Of Midnight". Many times, apparently. Must have been a riveting movie...

[The Darknight Detective]

Yes, I remember my older brother telling me how he ditched school to go see....um...."The Other Side Of Midnight". Many times, apparently. Must have been a riveting movie...

Don't even get me started regarding Porky's.

BTW, I should say that I saw The Other Side of Midnight on cable only, since I was only 12 in 1977.

[achilles]

Don't even get me started regarding Porky's.

BTW, I should say that I saw The Other Side of Midnight on cable only, since I was only 12 in 1977.

I've never seen it, just read about it. The unspoken other movie however, yeah, now THAT I've seen, many times. I like to think Hesseman sort of liked being a trivia answer.

[Iron Maiden]

True, but Fox thought it was going to be their salvation. Imagine their surprise. And I still think that being given the single worst opening date in movie history had to hurt.

Funny thing is that Fox feared that Star Wars was going to be a flop and that The Other Side of Midnight was going to be a big hit. So the only way a theater would get a print of The Other Side of Midnight was to also book Star Wars.

[The Darknight Detective]

I've never seen it, just read about it. The unspoken other movie however, yeah, now THAT I've seen, many times. I like to think Hesseman sort of liked being a trivia answer.

I believe that other movie is the only movie I saw in 1977 at a theater (actually a drive-in).

[achilles]

RIP to Bob Wall at 82. You may not know his name, but you've seen him if you're a fan of Bruce Lee movies. Yeah, he was O'Hara in Enter The Dragon, and also played in two other Lee movies. Evidently, Lee and Wall, a student of Chuck Norris, went at it full speed and full contact, and Lee broke several of Wall's ribs doing that seen. Yeesh, they were hard core back then.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...000340231.html

Here he is in that scene.



He was also in many Chuck Norris movies.

[Zelena]

Monica Vitti (born Maria Luisa Ceciarelli; 3 November 1931 – 2 February 2022) was an Italian actress best known for her starring roles in films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni during the early-to-mid 1960s.(Wikipedia)

[Deathstroke]

Renowned sportswriter William F. (Bill) Reed has has passed away.

[Kai "the spy"]

Margarita Lozano, Spanish actress best known internationally as the villainous matriarch Consuela Baxter in 1964's "A Fistful of Dollars", passed away one week before her 91st birthday.

[achilles]

RIP to Douglas Trumbull, the visual FX master and pioneer, who did 2001 among others. He was 79.

[Gaastra]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...Ig?ocid=msnews

[seismic-2]

Ian McDonald, the co-founder of two significant rock bands - King Crimson in 1968 and Foreigner in 1976 - has died of cancer, at age 75.

[seismic-2]

Ivan Reitman has died at age 75. He directed films including Stripes, Ghostbusters, and Kindergarten Cop, and he produced films including Animal House, Beethoven, and Private Parts.