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JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: DO I HAVE TO DO THIS ALL OVER A blubbering sycophantic LaRue finally convinced Guy for another shot, which turned out to be "Street Beef", which allowed Johnny only one camera and one microphone. Johnny begged for a crane, but Guy refused to relent. This series of gags ran through much of the first season, finally climaxing in the Christmas show, which found LaRue outside JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO WATCH AN His boss, Captain Sedford (Bruce Kirby), teams "Yoyo" with Alex Holmes (Richard B. Shull), a good cop with a talent for getting partners hurt. Only Sedford and Holmes know that Yoyo isn't a human being, which leads to allegedly wacky incidents like Yoyo taking English idioms literally or attracting wayward metal objects with his magneticpowers.
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GREAT TV EPISODES: CITY OF PASSION HUNTER's magnum opus, the three-part "City of Passion," based on a novel by real-life police detective Dallas Barnes, aired early in the series' fourth season.But the series almost didn't make it that far. Low ratings and massive pummeling by critics that labeled HUNTER a crude DIRTY HARRY ripoff nearly got the show cancelled during its first season in 1984. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: SAGA OF THE VICTIMS A six-part serial written by Skywald editor Al Hewetson and drawn by Jesus Suso Rego debuted in SCREAM #6, the June 1974 issue. And what a stunner it was. Called "The Saga of the Victims," the story arc featured Josey Forster and Anne Adams, sexy college students who returned to their Manhattan dorm after a double date, only to bekidnapped by
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: YOU WILL ACTUALLY SEE A MAN A prison ship sinks in the Caribbean in 1891. A handful of convicts and Claude (Claudio Cassinelli), the ship’s doctor, wash up on an uncharted volcanic island overrun by slimy man-sized amphibians that kill off most of the survivors. Claude and two others make it through the jungle to the home of Edmund Rackham (Richard Johnson), who lives JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GREAT TV EPISODES: TEMPEST IN A Judd, a slick-talking combination of Texas-bred Percy Foreman and F. Lee Bailey, is not roundly welcomed back in little Amos, Texas, where his sheriff father was murdered on the town square by a man who was acquitted of an earlier killing. The man’s attorney was Clinton Judd. Judd’s client is Brandon Hill, played by the enigmatic and JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BORED SHE HUNG HERSELF Bored She Hung Herself. "Bored She Hung Herself" (sic) is the rarest of the 284 episodes of HAWAII FIVE-0 that were produced during its 12-season run on CBS. It aired only once—January 7, 1970—and has not been broadcast since. It has never been rerun on CBS or in syndication, and CBS/Paramount, regrettably, omitted it from itsrecent HAWAII
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: WILLFUL SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF While watching 24 last night, I started thinking about "willful suspension of disbelief," and how important it is to have one to enjoy the way-out plotting of that show. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOTDEATH MERCHANTWKRP IN CINCINNATIHAWAII FIVE-0GREATEST AMERICAN HEROMOD SQUADMATT HELM An Australian co-production with producer Antony Ginnane (TURKEY SHOOT), DEMONSTONE puts Ermey and Vincent on the trail of a killer. The suspect is fellow Marine Tony McKee (Pat Skipper, Scully’s brother on THE X-FILES), but the murders are too vicious and gory to have been committed by one person. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: THE WILD WILD WEST #1 BYAUTHOR: MARTY MCKEE Under suspicion is American Knife (John Drew Barrymore), a Dartmouth-educated Cheyenne who claims to be taking the fall for the real killer, a white man. Wormser keeps the killer's identity a mystery until the final chapters, though--perhaps in the interest of time--"Double-Edged Knife" reveals it at the beginning of the thirdact.
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: DO I HAVE TO DO THIS ALL OVER A blubbering sycophantic LaRue finally convinced Guy for another shot, which turned out to be "Street Beef", which allowed Johnny only one camera and one microphone. Johnny begged for a crane, but Guy refused to relent. This series of gags ran through much of the first season, finally climaxing in the Christmas show, which found LaRue outside JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO WATCH AN His boss, Captain Sedford (Bruce Kirby), teams "Yoyo" with Alex Holmes (Richard B. Shull), a good cop with a talent for getting partners hurt. Only Sedford and Holmes know that Yoyo isn't a human being, which leads to allegedly wacky incidents like Yoyo taking English idioms literally or attracting wayward metal objects with his magneticpowers.
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GREAT TV EPISODES: CITY OF PASSION HUNTER's magnum opus, the three-part "City of Passion," based on a novel by real-life police detective Dallas Barnes, aired early in the series' fourth season.But the series almost didn't make it that far. Low ratings and massive pummeling by critics that labeled HUNTER a crude DIRTY HARRY ripoff nearly got the show cancelled during its first season in 1984. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: YOU WILL ACTUALLY SEE A MAN A prison ship sinks in the Caribbean in 1891. A handful of convicts and Claude (Claudio Cassinelli), the ship’s doctor, wash up on an uncharted volcanic island overrun by slimy man-sized amphibians that kill off most of the survivors. Claude and two others make it through the jungle to the home of Edmund Rackham (Richard Johnson), who lives JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GREAT TV EPISODES: 5 Great TV Episodes: 5. 77 SUNSET STRIP. "5". September 20 - October 18, 1963. ABC. Writer: Harry Essex. Producer and Director: William Conrad. 77 SUNSET STRIP was one of television's most influential drama series of the late 1950s. Based loosely on the 1947 novel THE DOUBLE TAKE by Roy Huggins and the film GIRL ON THE RUN, written by Marion JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GREAT TV EPISODES: CITY OF PASSION HUNTER's magnum opus, the three-part "City of Passion," based on a novel by real-life police detective Dallas Barnes, aired early in the series' fourth season.But the series almost didn't make it that far. Low ratings and massive pummeling by critics that labeled HUNTER a crude DIRTY HARRY ripoff nearly got the show cancelled during its first season in 1984. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: KILL OSCAR The three-part “Kill Oscar” episode is considered the magnum opus of the bionic adventures of spies Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner). Airing over eight nights on ABC in October and November of 1976, the shows’ most ambitious story aired first on THE BIONIC WOMAN with Part II on THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN and the conclusion back on BW. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GOING (NOT VERY) BERSERK Day concocts a plan to brainwash John using a playing card and writhing aerobicizers into assassinating his new father-in-law on his wedding day. GOING BERSERK’s major failure is a paucity of scenes of the SCTV actors together. Levy is sadly underused as a sleazy filmmaker named Salvatore DiPasquale, who hounds John to convinceReese to let
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: SATAN'S PRINCESS Just about everyone in Lou's life comes to a violent demise. His son is occasionally possessed by Nicole and driven to violent acts, including pounding an icepick into his old man's back and forcing a psychic to leap to her death. Cherney makes a call and picks up some homemade weaponry from a dude named Jilly, who's recognizable as actorDaryl
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BLOODFIST 2050 Roger Corman. Cirio H. Santiago. Kickboxers. Post-apocalyptic setting. Revenge plot. Tons of violence and nudity. It feels like 1984 a JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: WILLFUL SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF While watching 24 last night, I started thinking about "willful suspension of disbelief," and how important it is to have one to enjoy the way-out plotting of that show. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BULLSHIT OR NOT Anonymous said That was awesome. I want to see the "WMD evidence" episode of 'Bullshit or Not'. I happen to be a huge fan of P&T Bullshit, by the way. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN...THE I was surprised to see this pop up on YouTube, since I figured this episode ran once in the 1970s and then never again. It appears as though Game Show Network aired it at least once, bless their raunchylittle hearts.
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOTDEATH MERCHANTWKRP IN CINCINNATIHAWAII FIVE-0GREATEST AMERICAN HEROMOD SQUADMATT HELM An Australian co-production with producer Antony Ginnane (TURKEY SHOOT), DEMONSTONE puts Ermey and Vincent on the trail of a killer. The suspect is fellow Marine Tony McKee (Pat Skipper, Scully’s brother on THE X-FILES), but the murders are too vicious and gory to have been committed by one person. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: THE WILD WILD WEST #1 BYAUTHOR: MARTY MCKEE Under suspicion is American Knife (John Drew Barrymore), a Dartmouth-educated Cheyenne who claims to be taking the fall for the real killer, a white man. Wormser keeps the killer's identity a mystery until the final chapters, though--perhaps in the interest of time--"Double-Edged Knife" reveals it at the beginning of the thirdact.
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: DO I HAVE TO DO THIS ALL OVER A blubbering sycophantic LaRue finally convinced Guy for another shot, which turned out to be "Street Beef", which allowed Johnny only one camera and one microphone. Johnny begged for a crane, but Guy refused to relent. This series of gags ran through much of the first season, finally climaxing in the Christmas show, which found LaRue outside JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO WATCH AN His boss, Captain Sedford (Bruce Kirby), teams "Yoyo" with Alex Holmes (Richard B. Shull), a good cop with a talent for getting partners hurt. Only Sedford and Holmes know that Yoyo isn't a human being, which leads to allegedly wacky incidents like Yoyo taking English idioms literally or attracting wayward metal objects with his magneticpowers.
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GREAT TV EPISODES: CITY OF PASSION HUNTER's magnum opus, the three-part "City of Passion," based on a novel by real-life police detective Dallas Barnes, aired early in the series' fourth season.But the series almost didn't make it that far. Low ratings and massive pummeling by critics that labeled HUNTER a crude DIRTY HARRY ripoff nearly got the show cancelled during its first season in 1984. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: SAGA OF THE VICTIMS A six-part serial written by Skywald editor Al Hewetson and drawn by Jesus Suso Rego debuted in SCREAM #6, the June 1974 issue. And what a stunner it was. Called "The Saga of the Victims," the story arc featured Josey Forster and Anne Adams, sexy college students who returned to their Manhattan dorm after a double date, only to bekidnapped by
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: YOU WILL ACTUALLY SEE A MAN A prison ship sinks in the Caribbean in 1891. A handful of convicts and Claude (Claudio Cassinelli), the ship’s doctor, wash up on an uncharted volcanic island overrun by slimy man-sized amphibians that kill off most of the survivors. Claude and two others make it through the jungle to the home of Edmund Rackham (Richard Johnson), who lives JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GREAT TV EPISODES: TEMPEST IN A Judd, a slick-talking combination of Texas-bred Percy Foreman and F. Lee Bailey, is not roundly welcomed back in little Amos, Texas, where his sheriff father was murdered on the town square by a man who was acquitted of an earlier killing. The man’s attorney was Clinton Judd. Judd’s client is Brandon Hill, played by the enigmatic and JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BORED SHE HUNG HERSELF Bored She Hung Herself. "Bored She Hung Herself" (sic) is the rarest of the 284 episodes of HAWAII FIVE-0 that were produced during its 12-season run on CBS. It aired only once—January 7, 1970—and has not been broadcast since. It has never been rerun on CBS or in syndication, and CBS/Paramount, regrettably, omitted it from itsrecent HAWAII
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: WILLFUL SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF While watching 24 last night, I started thinking about "willful suspension of disbelief," and how important it is to have one to enjoy the way-out plotting of that show. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOTDEATH MERCHANTWKRP IN CINCINNATIHAWAII FIVE-0GREATEST AMERICAN HEROMOD SQUADMATT HELM An Australian co-production with producer Antony Ginnane (TURKEY SHOOT), DEMONSTONE puts Ermey and Vincent on the trail of a killer. The suspect is fellow Marine Tony McKee (Pat Skipper, Scully’s brother on THE X-FILES), but the murders are too vicious and gory to have been committed by one person. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: THE WILD WILD WEST #1 BYAUTHOR: MARTY MCKEE Under suspicion is American Knife (John Drew Barrymore), a Dartmouth-educated Cheyenne who claims to be taking the fall for the real killer, a white man. Wormser keeps the killer's identity a mystery until the final chapters, though--perhaps in the interest of time--"Double-Edged Knife" reveals it at the beginning of the thirdact.
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: DO I HAVE TO DO THIS ALL OVER A blubbering sycophantic LaRue finally convinced Guy for another shot, which turned out to be "Street Beef", which allowed Johnny only one camera and one microphone. Johnny begged for a crane, but Guy refused to relent. This series of gags ran through much of the first season, finally climaxing in the Christmas show, which found LaRue outside JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO WATCH AN His boss, Captain Sedford (Bruce Kirby), teams "Yoyo" with Alex Holmes (Richard B. Shull), a good cop with a talent for getting partners hurt. Only Sedford and Holmes know that Yoyo isn't a human being, which leads to allegedly wacky incidents like Yoyo taking English idioms literally or attracting wayward metal objects with his magneticpowers.
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GREAT TV EPISODES: CITY OF PASSION HUNTER's magnum opus, the three-part "City of Passion," based on a novel by real-life police detective Dallas Barnes, aired early in the series' fourth season.But the series almost didn't make it that far. Low ratings and massive pummeling by critics that labeled HUNTER a crude DIRTY HARRY ripoff nearly got the show cancelled during its first season in 1984. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: SAGA OF THE VICTIMS A six-part serial written by Skywald editor Al Hewetson and drawn by Jesus Suso Rego debuted in SCREAM #6, the June 1974 issue. And what a stunner it was. Called "The Saga of the Victims," the story arc featured Josey Forster and Anne Adams, sexy college students who returned to their Manhattan dorm after a double date, only to bekidnapped by
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: YOU WILL ACTUALLY SEE A MAN A prison ship sinks in the Caribbean in 1891. A handful of convicts and Claude (Claudio Cassinelli), the ship’s doctor, wash up on an uncharted volcanic island overrun by slimy man-sized amphibians that kill off most of the survivors. Claude and two others make it through the jungle to the home of Edmund Rackham (Richard Johnson), who lives JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GREAT TV EPISODES: TEMPEST IN A Judd, a slick-talking combination of Texas-bred Percy Foreman and F. Lee Bailey, is not roundly welcomed back in little Amos, Texas, where his sheriff father was murdered on the town square by a man who was acquitted of an earlier killing. The man’s attorney was Clinton Judd. Judd’s client is Brandon Hill, played by the enigmatic and JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BORED SHE HUNG HERSELF Bored She Hung Herself. "Bored She Hung Herself" (sic) is the rarest of the 284 episodes of HAWAII FIVE-0 that were produced during its 12-season run on CBS. It aired only once—January 7, 1970—and has not been broadcast since. It has never been rerun on CBS or in syndication, and CBS/Paramount, regrettably, omitted it from itsrecent HAWAII
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: WILLFUL SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF While watching 24 last night, I started thinking about "willful suspension of disbelief," and how important it is to have one to enjoy the way-out plotting of that show. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: YOU WILL ACTUALLY SEE A MAN A prison ship sinks in the Caribbean in 1891. A handful of convicts and Claude (Claudio Cassinelli), the ship’s doctor, wash up on an uncharted volcanic island overrun by slimy man-sized amphibians that kill off most of the survivors. Claude and two others make it through the jungle to the home of Edmund Rackham (Richard Johnson), who lives JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GREAT TV EPISODES: 5 Great TV Episodes: 5. 77 SUNSET STRIP. "5". September 20 - October 18, 1963. ABC. Writer: Harry Essex. Producer and Director: William Conrad. 77 SUNSET STRIP was one of television's most influential drama series of the late 1950s. Based loosely on the 1947 novel THE DOUBLE TAKE by Roy Huggins and the film GIRL ON THE RUN, written by Marion JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GREAT TV EPISODES: CITY OF PASSION HUNTER's magnum opus, the three-part "City of Passion," based on a novel by real-life police detective Dallas Barnes, aired early in the series' fourth season.But the series almost didn't make it that far. Low ratings and massive pummeling by critics that labeled HUNTER a crude DIRTY HARRY ripoff nearly got the show cancelled during its first season in 1984. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: KILL OSCAR The three-part “Kill Oscar” episode is considered the magnum opus of the bionic adventures of spies Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner). Airing over eight nights on ABC in October and November of 1976, the shows’ most ambitious story aired first on THE BIONIC WOMAN with Part II on THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN and the conclusion back on BW. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GOING (NOT VERY) BERSERK Day concocts a plan to brainwash John using a playing card and writhing aerobicizers into assassinating his new father-in-law on his wedding day. GOING BERSERK’s major failure is a paucity of scenes of the SCTV actors together. Levy is sadly underused as a sleazy filmmaker named Salvatore DiPasquale, who hounds John to convinceReese to let
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: SATAN'S PRINCESS Just about everyone in Lou's life comes to a violent demise. His son is occasionally possessed by Nicole and driven to violent acts, including pounding an icepick into his old man's back and forcing a psychic to leap to her death. Cherney makes a call and picks up some homemade weaponry from a dude named Jilly, who's recognizable as actorDaryl
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BLOODFIST 2050 Roger Corman. Cirio H. Santiago. Kickboxers. Post-apocalyptic setting. Revenge plot. Tons of violence and nudity. It feels like 1984 a JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: WILLFUL SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF While watching 24 last night, I started thinking about "willful suspension of disbelief," and how important it is to have one to enjoy the way-out plotting of that show. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BULLSHIT OR NOT Anonymous said That was awesome. I want to see the "WMD evidence" episode of 'Bullshit or Not'. I happen to be a huge fan of P&T Bullshit, by the way. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN...THE I was surprised to see this pop up on YouTube, since I figured this episode ran once in the 1970s and then never again. It appears as though Game Show Network aired it at least once, bless their raunchylittle hearts.
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOTDEATH MERCHANTWKRP IN CINCINNATIHAWAII FIVE-0GREATEST AMERICAN HEROMOD SQUADMATT HELM An Australian co-production with producer Antony Ginnane (TURKEY SHOOT), DEMONSTONE puts Ermey and Vincent on the trail of a killer. The suspect is fellow Marine Tony McKee (Pat Skipper, Scully’s brother on THE X-FILES), but the murders are too vicious and gory to have been committed by one person. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: THE WILD WILD WEST #1 BYAUTHOR: MARTY MCKEE Under suspicion is American Knife (John Drew Barrymore), a Dartmouth-educated Cheyenne who claims to be taking the fall for the real killer, a white man. Wormser keeps the killer's identity a mystery until the final chapters, though--perhaps in the interest of time--"Double-Edged Knife" reveals it at the beginning of the thirdact.
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GREAT TV EPISODES: CITY OF PASSION HUNTER's magnum opus, the three-part "City of Passion," based on a novel by real-life police detective Dallas Barnes, aired early in the series' fourth season.But the series almost didn't make it that far. Low ratings and massive pummeling by critics that labeled HUNTER a crude DIRTY HARRY ripoff nearly got the show cancelled during its first season in 1984. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BORED SHE HUNG HERSELF Bored She Hung Herself. "Bored She Hung Herself" (sic) is the rarest of the 284 episodes of HAWAII FIVE-0 that were produced during its 12-season run on CBS. It aired only once—January 7, 1970—and has not been broadcast since. It has never been rerun on CBS or in syndication, and CBS/Paramount, regrettably, omitted it from itsrecent HAWAII
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO WATCH AN His boss, Captain Sedford (Bruce Kirby), teams "Yoyo" with Alex Holmes (Richard B. Shull), a good cop with a talent for getting partners hurt. Only Sedford and Holmes know that Yoyo isn't a human being, which leads to allegedly wacky incidents like Yoyo taking English idioms literally or attracting wayward metal objects with his magneticpowers.
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GREAT TV EPISODES: THE DEADLY Great TV Episodes: The Deadly Silence. TARZAN. “The Deadly Silence”. October 28 & November 4, 1966. NBC. Writer: Lee Erwin and Jack H. Robinson (Part I); John Considine and Tim Considine (Part II) Director: Robert L. Friend (Part I); Lawrence Dobkin (Part II) Sy Weintraub deserves credit for bringing adults back to Tarzan. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: KILL OSCAR The three-part “Kill Oscar” episode is considered the magnum opus of the bionic adventures of spies Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner). Airing over eight nights on ABC in October and November of 1976, the shows’ most ambitious story aired first on THE BIONIC WOMAN with Part II on THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN and the conclusion back on BW. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BLIND AS TITWELL'S GOAT Cane bets that his man can knock out ten of Diggstown's finest fighters in less than 24 hours. The greedy Gillon takes the bait, even offering up his own son as one of his fighters. 22-year-old Heather Graham, who began a relationship with the much older Woods on this shoot, looks nice in cutoffs, but really isn't given much of a part asthe
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GOING (NOT VERY) BERSERK Day concocts a plan to brainwash John using a playing card and writhing aerobicizers into assassinating his new father-in-law on his wedding day. GOING BERSERK’s major failure is a paucity of scenes of the SCTV actors together. Levy is sadly underused as a sleazy filmmaker named Salvatore DiPasquale, who hounds John to convinceReese to let
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: DO I HAVE TO DO THIS ALL OVER A blubbering sycophantic LaRue finally convinced Guy for another shot, which turned out to be "Street Beef", which allowed Johnny only one camera and one microphone. Johnny begged for a crane, but Guy refused to relent. This series of gags ran through much of the first season, finally climaxing in the Christmas show, which found LaRue outside JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOTDEATH MERCHANTWKRP IN CINCINNATIHAWAII FIVE-0GREATEST AMERICAN HEROMOD SQUADMATT HELM An Australian co-production with producer Antony Ginnane (TURKEY SHOOT), DEMONSTONE puts Ermey and Vincent on the trail of a killer. The suspect is fellow Marine Tony McKee (Pat Skipper, Scully’s brother on THE X-FILES), but the murders are too vicious and gory to have been committed by one person. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: THE WILD WILD WEST #1 BYAUTHOR: MARTY MCKEE Under suspicion is American Knife (John Drew Barrymore), a Dartmouth-educated Cheyenne who claims to be taking the fall for the real killer, a white man. Wormser keeps the killer's identity a mystery until the final chapters, though--perhaps in the interest of time--"Double-Edged Knife" reveals it at the beginning of the thirdact.
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GREAT TV EPISODES: CITY OF PASSION HUNTER's magnum opus, the three-part "City of Passion," based on a novel by real-life police detective Dallas Barnes, aired early in the series' fourth season.But the series almost didn't make it that far. Low ratings and massive pummeling by critics that labeled HUNTER a crude DIRTY HARRY ripoff nearly got the show cancelled during its first season in 1984. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BORED SHE HUNG HERSELF Bored She Hung Herself. "Bored She Hung Herself" (sic) is the rarest of the 284 episodes of HAWAII FIVE-0 that were produced during its 12-season run on CBS. It aired only once—January 7, 1970—and has not been broadcast since. It has never been rerun on CBS or in syndication, and CBS/Paramount, regrettably, omitted it from itsrecent HAWAII
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO WATCH AN His boss, Captain Sedford (Bruce Kirby), teams "Yoyo" with Alex Holmes (Richard B. Shull), a good cop with a talent for getting partners hurt. Only Sedford and Holmes know that Yoyo isn't a human being, which leads to allegedly wacky incidents like Yoyo taking English idioms literally or attracting wayward metal objects with his magneticpowers.
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GREAT TV EPISODES: THE DEADLY Great TV Episodes: The Deadly Silence. TARZAN. “The Deadly Silence”. October 28 & November 4, 1966. NBC. Writer: Lee Erwin and Jack H. Robinson (Part I); John Considine and Tim Considine (Part II) Director: Robert L. Friend (Part I); Lawrence Dobkin (Part II) Sy Weintraub deserves credit for bringing adults back to Tarzan. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: KILL OSCAR The three-part “Kill Oscar” episode is considered the magnum opus of the bionic adventures of spies Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner). Airing over eight nights on ABC in October and November of 1976, the shows’ most ambitious story aired first on THE BIONIC WOMAN with Part II on THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN and the conclusion back on BW. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BLIND AS TITWELL'S GOAT Cane bets that his man can knock out ten of Diggstown's finest fighters in less than 24 hours. The greedy Gillon takes the bait, even offering up his own son as one of his fighters. 22-year-old Heather Graham, who began a relationship with the much older Woods on this shoot, looks nice in cutoffs, but really isn't given much of a part asthe
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GOING (NOT VERY) BERSERK Day concocts a plan to brainwash John using a playing card and writhing aerobicizers into assassinating his new father-in-law on his wedding day. GOING BERSERK’s major failure is a paucity of scenes of the SCTV actors together. Levy is sadly underused as a sleazy filmmaker named Salvatore DiPasquale, who hounds John to convinceReese to let
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: DO I HAVE TO DO THIS ALL OVER A blubbering sycophantic LaRue finally convinced Guy for another shot, which turned out to be "Street Beef", which allowed Johnny only one camera and one microphone. Johnny begged for a crane, but Guy refused to relent. This series of gags ran through much of the first season, finally climaxing in the Christmas show, which found LaRue outside JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GREAT TV EPISODES: CITY OF PASSION HUNTER's magnum opus, the three-part "City of Passion," based on a novel by real-life police detective Dallas Barnes, aired early in the series' fourth season.But the series almost didn't make it that far. Low ratings and massive pummeling by critics that labeled HUNTER a crude DIRTY HARRY ripoff nearly got the show cancelled during its first season in 1984. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GOING (NOT VERY) BERSERK Day concocts a plan to brainwash John using a playing card and writhing aerobicizers into assassinating his new father-in-law on his wedding day. GOING BERSERK’s major failure is a paucity of scenes of the SCTV actors together. Levy is sadly underused as a sleazy filmmaker named Salvatore DiPasquale, who hounds John to convinceReese to let
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GREAT TV EPISODES: TEMPEST IN A Judd, a slick-talking combination of Texas-bred Percy Foreman and F. Lee Bailey, is not roundly welcomed back in little Amos, Texas, where his sheriff father was murdered on the town square by a man who was acquitted of an earlier killing. The man’s attorney was Clinton Judd. Judd’s client is Brandon Hill, played by the enigmatic and JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: SAGA OF THE VICTIMS A six-part serial written by Skywald editor Al Hewetson and drawn by Jesus Suso Rego debuted in SCREAM #6, the June 1974 issue. And what a stunner it was. Called "The Saga of the Victims," the story arc featured Josey Forster and Anne Adams, sexy college students who returned to their Manhattan dorm after a double date, only to bekidnapped by
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO Mr. Blue, the group’s leader, allows Garber one hour to deliver $1 million in old fifties and hundies, or he’ll begin killing a John Rocker nightmare of diverse hostages, which includes a jive-talking black man, a couple of screaming kids, an Hispanic woman who definitely doesn’t understand English, an undercover policeman, somehippies
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: 2015 McGavin gets involved when, while sacking out in the rear of the store, he overhears Kirsten and her friends frolicking after hours, trying on lingerie while waiting on some boys to arrive. Instead of their dates, a couple of Nazis break in to collect Kirsten, JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GREAT TV EPISODES: THE DEADLY George White said. It's interesting that the Weintraub Tarzans like the Universal horrors or/and Sherlock Holmes movies and Hammer horrors, and Godzilla movies, there was a sort of rep company - so, Mahoney gets promoted to Tarzan, Earl Cameron (one of the first black stars of British film - still going at 100, with credits in everything from the Prisoner to Inception to Thunderball and JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: RANDOM TV TITLE: MOST WANTED In the 1976 pilot movie for MOST WANTED, Stack again played a righteous cop leading a team of younger detectives against crime in the big city. Of course, being the 1970s, one of his new team was a woman, and the criminals were nastier and sleazier. Los Angeles is being ravaged by a series of rapes and murders of nuns. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: WILLFUL SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF While watching 24 last night, I started thinking about "willful suspension of disbelief," and how important it is to have one to enjoy the way-out plotting of that show. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN...THE I was surprised to see this pop up on YouTube, since I figured this episode ran once in the 1970s and then never again. It appears as though Game Show Network aired it at least once, bless their raunchylittle hearts.
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOTDEATH MERCHANTWKRP IN CINCINNATIHAWAII FIVE-0GREATEST AMERICAN HEROMOD SQUADMATT HELM Scientists Dan Scott (Jack Kelly, who went from this to MAVERICK) and Richard Bach (Albert Dekker, who played mad scientist DR. CYCLOPS in 1940) live platonically with their elderly maid Hannah (Blossom Rock, Grandmama on THE ADDAMS FAMILY) in a mansion with a lab in LosAngeles.
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: THE WILD WILD WEST #1 BYAUTHOR: MARTY MCKEE James Reasoner said. I remember reading and enjoying this one when it was new. I was a fan of the TV show. The book is actually pretty late in Wormser's career, which JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BORED SHE HUNG HERSELF "Bored She Hung Herself" (sic) is the rarest of the 284 episodes of HAWAII FIVE-0 that were produced during its 12-season run on CBS. It aired only once—January 7, 1970—and has JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: SAVAGE STREETS Linda Blair, then 25 and at the height of her career in drive-in movies, is Brenda, a high school delinquent who smokes, curses, shows her principal (John Vernon, who is hilarious in a small role) disrespect, and gets into a fight with a bitchy cheerleader. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO WATCH AN YouTube currently has one episode of the shortlived sitcom HOLMES & YOYO available for streaming, so if you have an extra 25 minutes or so, you might want to see how crazy television could get in 1976. A combination of GET SMART and THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN, the Arne Sultan production starred John Schuck (just off MCMILLAN & WIFE) as Greg Yoyonovich, a somewhat dimwitted JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: KILL OSCAR The three-part “Kill Oscar” episode is considered the magnum opus of the bionic adventures of spies Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner). Airing over eight nights on ABC in October and November of 1976, the shows’ most ambitious story aired first on THE BIONIC WOMAN with Part II on THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN and the conclusion back on BW. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GOING (NOT VERY) BERSERK SCTV stars John Candy, Joe Flaherty, and Eugene Levy made this scattershot Canadian comedy the same year Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas brought their Great White North characters to STRANGE BREW. GOING BERSERK, which was written by Dana Olsen (THE ‘BURBS) and director David Steinberg (PATERNITY), would likely had been much funnier had it been penned by its stars, who each JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BLIND AS TITWELL'S GOAT DIGGSTOWN is one of the best movies of the last twenty years that you've probably never seen nor likely even heard of. It was directed by the late Michael Ritchie, a terrific filmmaker who made SMILE, THE BAD NEWS BEARS, THE CANDIDATE, SEMI-TOUGH and FLETCH. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: DO I HAVE TO DO THIS ALL OVER Welcome to Johnny LaRue's Crane Shot 2.0. I'm your host, Marty McKee. I presume most of you reading this post have followed me from the old Crane Shot over at Tripod, but if not, let me take this opportunity to say thank you for reading this far. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: SO LONG, DANNO James MacArthur, the youthful actor forever known as “Danno” after eleven seasons on HAWAII FIVE-0, died today in Florida at age 72. The cause of death given was natural causes. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOTDEATH MERCHANTWKRP IN CINCINNATIHAWAII FIVE-0GREATEST AMERICAN HEROMOD SQUADMATT HELM Scientists Dan Scott (Jack Kelly, who went from this to MAVERICK) and Richard Bach (Albert Dekker, who played mad scientist DR. CYCLOPS in 1940) live platonically with their elderly maid Hannah (Blossom Rock, Grandmama on THE ADDAMS FAMILY) in a mansion with a lab in LosAngeles.
JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: THE WILD WILD WEST #1 BYAUTHOR: MARTY MCKEE James Reasoner said. I remember reading and enjoying this one when it was new. I was a fan of the TV show. The book is actually pretty late in Wormser's career, which JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BORED SHE HUNG HERSELF "Bored She Hung Herself" (sic) is the rarest of the 284 episodes of HAWAII FIVE-0 that were produced during its 12-season run on CBS. It aired only once—January 7, 1970—and has JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: SAVAGE STREETS Linda Blair, then 25 and at the height of her career in drive-in movies, is Brenda, a high school delinquent who smokes, curses, shows her principal (John Vernon, who is hilarious in a small role) disrespect, and gets into a fight with a bitchy cheerleader. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO WATCH AN YouTube currently has one episode of the shortlived sitcom HOLMES & YOYO available for streaming, so if you have an extra 25 minutes or so, you might want to see how crazy television could get in 1976. A combination of GET SMART and THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN, the Arne Sultan production starred John Schuck (just off MCMILLAN & WIFE) as Greg Yoyonovich, a somewhat dimwitted JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: KILL OSCAR The three-part “Kill Oscar” episode is considered the magnum opus of the bionic adventures of spies Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner). Airing over eight nights on ABC in October and November of 1976, the shows’ most ambitious story aired first on THE BIONIC WOMAN with Part II on THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN and the conclusion back on BW. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GOING (NOT VERY) BERSERK SCTV stars John Candy, Joe Flaherty, and Eugene Levy made this scattershot Canadian comedy the same year Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas brought their Great White North characters to STRANGE BREW. GOING BERSERK, which was written by Dana Olsen (THE ‘BURBS) and director David Steinberg (PATERNITY), would likely had been much funnier had it been penned by its stars, who each JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: BLIND AS TITWELL'S GOAT DIGGSTOWN is one of the best movies of the last twenty years that you've probably never seen nor likely even heard of. It was directed by the late Michael Ritchie, a terrific filmmaker who made SMILE, THE BAD NEWS BEARS, THE CANDIDATE, SEMI-TOUGH and FLETCH. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: DO I HAVE TO DO THIS ALL OVER Welcome to Johnny LaRue's Crane Shot 2.0. I'm your host, Marty McKee. I presume most of you reading this post have followed me from the old Crane Shot over at Tripod, but if not, let me take this opportunity to say thank you for reading this far. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: SO LONG, DANNO James MacArthur, the youthful actor forever known as “Danno” after eleven seasons on HAWAII FIVE-0, died today in Florida at age 72. The cause of death given was natural causes. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: SAGA OF THE VICTIMS Skywald Publications was barely a blip on the comic book scene during the 1970s. Although something of a small cult is beginning to surround Skywald these days, the company lasted barely four years--their books cover-dated December 1970 to April 1975. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: KILL OSCAR The three-part “Kill Oscar” episode is considered the magnum opus of the bionic adventures of spies Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner). Airing over eight nights on ABC in October and November of 1976, the shows’ most ambitious story aired first on THE BIONIC WOMAN with Part II on THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN and the conclusion back on BW. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GOING (NOT VERY) BERSERK SCTV stars John Candy, Joe Flaherty, and Eugene Levy made this scattershot Canadian comedy the same year Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas brought their Great White North characters to STRANGE BREW. GOING BERSERK, which was written by Dana Olsen (THE ‘BURBS) and director David Steinberg (PATERNITY), would likely had been much funnier had it been penned by its stars, who each JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO It says a lot about THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE’s reputation that Hollywood has remade it twice, even though it isn’t the most well-known ‘70s thriller among casual filmgoers. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GREAT TV EPISODES: THE DEADLY George White said. It's interesting that the Weintraub Tarzans like the Universal horrors or/and Sherlock Holmes movies and Hammer horrors, and Godzilla movies, there was a sort of rep company - so, Mahoney gets promoted to Tarzan, Earl Cameron (one of the first black stars of British film - still going at 100, with credits in everything from the Prisoner to Inception to Thunderball and JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: 2018 Hello, all. Johnny LaRue's Crane Shot has been in service since the end of 2004, first on Tripod, then here at Blogger. Originally I blogged about a variety of JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: GREAT TV EPISODES: TEMPEST IN A Judging just from JUDD’s first episode, it wasn’t the quality of the drama that kept viewers away. “Tempest in a Texas Town” takes flamboyant defense attorney Clinton Judd (Betz) back to his hometown to defend a young man on charges of murdering two teenage girls. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: 2015 It seems crazy, looking back at THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL, that the Academy nominated it for three Academy Awards. Based on a helluva page-turner by Ira Levin (ROSEMARY’S BABY), this “gripping, suspenseful drama” (per VARIETY) is an absurd conspiracy JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: RANDOM TV TITLE: MOST WANTED michael said. The Wikipedia entry about this series claims Stack in his autobiography "Straight Shooting" wrote the series was a Top 10 hit and cancelled because of network politics. JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT: WILLFUL SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF While watching 24 last night, I started thinking about "willful suspension of disbelief," and how important it is to have one to enjoy the way-out plotting of that show. skip to main | skip to sidebar JOHNNY LARUE'S CRANE SHOT Trashy movies, trashy paperbacks, trashy old TV shows, trashy...well, you get the picture. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2019 ROBERT FORSTER: AN INTERVIEWAlthough
he often refers to his career as a "five-year surge" followed by a "25-year downhill slide," actor Robert Forster has been appearing steadily in television and motion pictures since the late 1960s, when he made his film debut opposite Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor in John Huston's REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE. After a few promising follow-ups, Forster disappeared from mainstream features for constant work in television, including the title roles in the TV series "Banyon" and "Nakia," and low-budget exploitation. Films like ALLIGATOR, VIGILANTE, HOLLYWOOD HARRY and STUNTS may be unfamiliar to general audiences, but Forster became a genre fan favorite for his consistently solid performances, often containing brooding heroics and a wise-guy blue-collar sense of humor, in films that were often not worthy of his presence. The pendulum clicked back the opposite direction in 1997, however, when Quentin Tarantino cast Forster in the role of lonely bail bondsman Max Cherry in JACKIE BROWN, which earned Forster an Academy Award nomination. Since then, Forster has worked almost non-stop in a great number of films, ranging from major studio pictures like SUPERNOVA and ME, MYSELF & IRENE to indie fare such as OUTSIDE OZONA and DIAMOND MEN. In April 2002, Forster appeared at Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, where Ebert was introducing DIAMOND MEN, an outstanding drama co-starring Donnie Wahlberg (TV's "Blue Bloods") and directed by Daniel Cohen. As an occasional freelance writer for a local zine called Micro-Film , I sought out Forster for an interview. Because Micro-Film's emphasis is on independent film, most of our half-hour together consisted of talk about DIAMOND MEN and HOLLYWOOD HARRY, an oddball comedy produced and directed by Forster in the mid-1980s, although we did touch on a few other subjects as well. I certainly wish I had more time with the man. In person, Forster seems to be a genuinely nice guy, appreciative of his fan base, politely signing autographs, shaking hands and even asking the names of everyone who stopped by to say "hello" or "I loved you in JACKIE BROWN." Whatever good things are happening to him personally and professionally these days couldn't happen to a more deserving fellow. _Marty McKee: How did you get involved with DIAMOND MEN ? You seem to be doing a lot of studio pictures and then small pictures._ Robert Forster: Well, not that many studio pictures. Studio pictures are really hard to break into, so most of the things I've been doing are independent. I did ME, MYSELF & IRENE (with Jim Carrey), SUPERNOVA (a notorious SF flop released by MGM that was directed by Walter Hill, who took his name off of it, and re-edited by Francis Ford Coppola), and maybe one other picture, but most everything since JACKIE BROWN has been an independent start. Dan Cohen was a first-time writer/director who approached us with this script. I read it and my daughter (Kate) read it and my lawyer read it and everybody liked it. We were trying at that point to find pictures where there was at least a small paycheck. This was a "no paycheck," so basically we fit this in between paying jobs and made it work. It took several months. We wanted to do it in the late summer or fall (1998) and I wasn't available, so we waited until spring. _What drew you to this particular story? Because I know you get a lotof scripts.
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The writing was good. And I understood the character. That's the first thing — you gotta understand what you're doing. If you understand it, then it's like falling off a log. I understood JACKIE BROWN. I understood the
character of Max Cherry, so it was a cinch to do. I understood this guy (his DIAMOND MEN character). My father was an old salesman. He'd been selling for 30-something years. He sold to bakers. I'd been on the road with him once or twice. He wanted me to meet his customers, so occasionally I'd go out with him, and I got a feel for what he and his life was like on the road. We liked the story and decided to do it. As I say, we slipped it in between two paying jobs. However, this, among all of them, has really risen to the top. It's little, but nice. _Did you do much research? You seem like an expert on diamonds._
Dan Cohen, whose family are diamond salesmen, gave Donnie Wahlberg and me a course. We spent several days visiting where they process them and where they set them and where they grade them. We actually took a diamond course — an abbreviated one, of course — but we learned a few things about diamonds. For instance, I remember the Four Cs: Clarity, Cut, Carat and Color. You can tell from the picture that we had enough conversation on the subject to feel confident discussingit.
_You were an executive producer on DIAMOND MEN. Were you involved in Donnie Wahlberg's casting? He's very good, but he wouldn't have been my first choice for the role._
He was wonderful, and, no, I had no part in his casting. Dan Cohen did the casting. I consider that to have been one of his brilliant jobs. He cast this thing beautifully. The only reason I'm on as an executive producer is because they had no dough. So they give you a titleinstead.
_Someone else I was so happy to see was Bess Armstrong._
She's great.
_The best smile in Hollywood._
She knew what that job required. Keeping the audience unaware of her real convictions until late in the picture. To make sure the audience did not know whether she was trying to exploit my character or whethershe was honest.
_I know that you know a little more about independent filmmaking because you made your own, HOLLYWOOD HARRY.
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The only picture I ever "made." I worked with the writer (Curt Allen)…
_Who is Curt Allen?
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He is a guy who wrote WALKING THE EDGE . I had worked on that picture a year or two before, and I said, "Y'know, Curt Allen is a guy who could probably help me out here," and I told him I wanted to do a picture …I'll tell you what I started with, I started with the "Banyon" suit. The chalk-stripe "Banyon" suit._There's
a photo from "Banyon" in the film, right? A publicity still?_
Yep. And I said to him, "I want to do a story playing a modern detective. A broken-down detective in Hollywood who doesn't want to fall in love anymore and who's got a kid. A 12-year-old." By the time we made the picture, she was 14, but basically my daughter Kate played the kid. She told me years before this that she wanted to work (as an actress), and I said, "Honey, if I ever get an opportunity, I will putyou to work."
When she was 12, I went to Cannes (with director William Lustig and co-star Fred Williamson to promote VIGILANTE at the famous Cannes Film Festival) and I realized how they made independent movies. How they sold movies and what B.S. artists they were. Very often, they just created a one-sheet poster with the title. They sell (the film on the basis of) the poster, and with the sales of the poster, they madethe movie.
So I said, "I can do that. How hard could that be?" It was much harder than I imagined and I haven't produced and directed another picture since. All I can tell you is that being an actor is much, much easier. Being a producer is …augh …it's so rough. Being a director, you gotta constantly be asking yourself how to present the material. The actor has to ask himself, "What does the material mean? How will I make the audience understand it?" A director, on the other hand, has to be thinking about how to present it and the shots and so forth. I don't find that to be my strength. Dealmaking as a producer is too rough. Asking people to do for you things that you don't have enough money to pay them for. Begging people to do things for you. Making deals and a lot of paperwork and I figure, "That's not for me." So one and one only: HOLLYWOOD HARRY. Not much, but not junk. _No, it's not junk. It's a fun movie. It's also got a different Robert Forster, one we've not seen before, sort of a loosey-goosey Forster._
Yes, thank you, loosey-goosey, that's exactly correct. _I haven't seen you play much comedy._
OK, well, I did a picture called RAT IN A CANlast year. And it's
now called something else. It's now called STRANGE HEARTS._You played "Jack."
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That's correct. It's as close to loosey-goosey as I have gotten inbigger pictures.
_Do you still dance?_
Of course!
_HOLLYWOOD
HARRY must have been a great labor of love. Your daughter's in the picture. Your good friend Joe Spinell …tell me about Joe._
Joe Spinell has, in the history of his career, been used as a good guy only once — in HOLLYWOOD HARRY. He has otherwise played a greasy, rotten bastard. And I knew this guy — he was a good guy. He never swore in movies, are you aware of that? You look at his old movies, and I don't think you'll ever find that he swears in movies. He always said, "No, no, you're not supposed to do that." He played rotten characters, but he never wanted to swear. He said his mother might see the picture. _You also worked with Joe in VIGILANTE, which is a good picture._
I like VIGILANTE. (Director) Bill Lustig kept me alive! He brought me to Cannes. They ran out of money while we were shooting the picture. I borrowed some money, a hundred-and-some thousand dollars, and we finished the picture. For that, they brought me to Cannes, and that's where I got my first look at how they sold movies. _Tell me about the "Hammer," Fred Williamson (Forster's co-star in VIGILANTE), whom I interviewed years ago. A colorful guy._
He is a colorful guy, and I'll tell you what. He makes (Williamson still produces and directs movies through his Po' Boy company) low-budget pictures. He makes them out of the spur of the moment real, real cheap. Every time a new actor comes, on the first day, he gives them this speech: "Now, look," he tells the new actor, "this is a low-budget production. We don't shoot a lot of takes. If it's good on the first take, we print it and move on. So just you remember this — if you do bad on that first take, you're gonna look bad in the movie." That focuses an actor's attention, I promise you. _What kind of budget and schedule did you have on HOLLYWOOD HARRY?_
I did everything one step at a time. First of all, I picked an arbitrary number: $500,000. I said, "For $500,000, I can make this picture." And, of course, you can. But I didn't know where to get $500,000. I kept trying to sell the idea to prospective producers, and, finally, a couple of exhibitors — these guys had exhibited ALLIGATOR (in which Forster starred for director Lewis Teague) and made money with it in Europe — said, "Yeah, we'll work with you. What's the budget?" "$500,000," I told 'em. They said, "You come up with a third. We'll come up with two-thirds." And we made a deal. I sold the only investment I had — the only thing I owned — which was some investment I had made some years before. I got $150,000 for it. I called these guys up in England, and I said, "OK, guys, I got my money, it's in the bank," and they didn't return my phone call. Ohhhhhh, one of those absolutely typical stories. You think you got a deal and you trust somebody and they did not come through with it. So I made HOLLYWOOD HARRY with $125,000 of that $150,000 — I had to have some money to live on. I borrowed another $10,000 from my cousin and another $25,000 from a friend, and we finished up a rough cut for approximately $160,000. Later, I had to borrow even more money topost-produce.
Each step of the way, I said, "OK, what do you do now?" By the time we got to a finished picture, I knew that I had to get it to a salesman. We got it to Cannes the following year. We sold to about five small territories. That was 1985. Later that summer, I went to work for Menahem Golan in THE DELTA FORCE (Forster played an Arab terrorist in this Chuck Norris/Lee Marvin action flick for Cannon). While we were working on DELTA FORCE, Menahem, who I had run into in Cannes, asked, "How did you do with that little picture of yours?" I said, "Oh, we sold Australia and Denmark and …" He said, "I will buy the rest of the world." This guy got me out! We sold Golan the picture. Now comesChristmas time …
_How much did you sell it for?_
Wait, I'll tell ya. They originally offered me $400,000. I figured, OK, that's about $75,000 profit. When I first started making this picture, I thought it was going to get me a house on the beach in Malibu. At best, I wound up with a condo in West Hollywood. I figured I was gonna grab 75-Gs on this picture for my efforts. And that was a two-year effort. Eventually, I went in to Cannon to sign the deal. By then, they kept "grinding" the deal. They take a little bit here, they take a little bit there. Finally, they found out exactly how much money I had in the picture, which was roughly $325,000. And that's exactly and only what they would give me. I had no choice. Now I was working for nothing, but at least I was gonna pay off everybody. I went in around Christmas time to sign the paperwork, and as I was signing, Golan's partner, Yoram Globus, said, "We changed the name of your picture." "Changed the name of my picture? From HOLLYWOOD HARRY to what? And why?" "Well, we had to change the name of your picture." "But why? To what?" "We're going to change it to HARRY'S MACHINE." I said, "Wait a minute, why do that? This is a beautiful title — HOLLYWOOD HARRY. It said something. And my titles (opening credit sequence) are animated. You can't change the name of the picture." He said, "Yes, well, we're going to change the name of the picture." I was heartbroken. I was devastated. I'm signing the paperwork, I have no choice, I gotta get the $25,000 they're giving me as an advance, I had no Christmas money, I was dead broke. I'm signing the thing, I think, "Oh, God, this is what happens when you make a little movie." Later on, I discovered that Cannon had sold a package of about twenty movies, one of which was titled HARRY'S MACHINE, but they had never made it. So they bought my picture to substitute for a picture they had already sold called HARRY'S MACHINE! Wow! _I'm sure it's out of print now, but the videocassette I have is HOLLYWOOD HARRY. I think Media Home Entertainment put it out._
Yes, yes, you never saw HARRY'S MACHINE. It's HARRY'S MACHINE only in a descriptive list of the pictures that they sold. They never touchedit.
_Who owns HOLLYWOOD HARRY now?_
I don't know who owns it now. All I know is it sold 26,000 units (videocassettes) its first quarter. That's a lot of units for a little, tiny picture. _It really is a lot of fun._
I agree.
_I also want to ask you about "Banyon ." Everyone I've ever spoken to about "Banyon" has fond memories of that show. Did you think that was going to be big?_
I don't know. I had no idea. All I know is I loved doing it. _Joan Blondell was on that show._
Yes, indeed. She played the operator of a secretarial school, and she would give me a free secretary every week. So I always had a free, new secretary that I had to break in every week. _But it only lasted, what, thirteen weeks?_
Fifteen shows. Half a season. The guy who wrote and produced and created it, Ed Adamson, died while we were shooting our first order. The show just did not survive his death._Then
a couple of years later, you played a Native American detective._
"Nakia ." Good guy.
Indian. Deputy sheriff. New Mexico. Contemporary. Cops-and-robbers in the desert. And the thing about that was the pilot to that was (very similar to) BILLY JACK . As is obvious. When the pilot went on the air … by then, we had already gotten an order for thirteen (hour-long episodes), and we were getting ready to shoot them. The day after the pilot showed, Tom Laughlin (the producer, writer, director and star of BILLY JACK) sued Columbia for never having purchased the rights to BILLY JACK. Whoops. What did I know? _There's another pilot you did called "The City" with Don Johnson,
which looked like it could have been a pretty decent show._
Not a bad show …and it didn't go. _Do you know why it didn't work?_
Ah, you never know why. _A Quinn Martin production, right? Did you ever work with Quinn Martinbefore?
_
Oh, yes, Quinn Martin produced "Banyon." He was the executive producer. He picked it up after it had been a pilot, but before it got its order. He was the one that got it its 15 episodes. Quinn Martin was a very good guy. He always overpaid his actors. _I've heard that's why he was always able to attract such extraordinary casts, including guest stars._
He always exceeded the going rate for guest actors. I don't think he paid many actors scale. He bumped it up just a little. _In THE DARKER SIDE OF TERROR, you played two
roles. You played a scientist and you were cloned._
Ah, THE CLONE! It was originally called THE CLONE. It's a picture about a guy who is a scientist and Ray Milland is another scientist and he takes a bit of my blood and clones me. And now the little clone is growing up inside a tank of fluid, and when the clone is exactly my age, height and weight, somebody breaks the tank, and I come flowing out. Now there's two of me, and they dress me up the same. This is the big gimmick at the end — I am presented to the faculty. Two of us, both dressed the same. Then there is a fight and a fire in which one of us killed the other, but the audience doesn't know which one survives, and the surviving one gets in bed with the wife (Adrienne Barbeau) and she doesn't know which one survived. And I'm telling you, for many months after that was shown, people would come up to me and ask me which one survived. And I would try and explain that the actor's job is to create a possibility on both sides of that balance without tipping the action. So after I would give them this explanation about "an actor's not supposed to … " they would say (in a whispered tone), "Yeah, yeah, I know, but who really survived?" _It's an actor's dream to play two roles, isn't it?_
Well, in this one, I got the opportunity to fool the audience and theywere fooled.
_MEDIUM COOL . Was it as adventurous for you guys to make as it looks like on-screen?_
It was for me. I had no idea they asked actors to say things that weren't on the script. In this picture, there was a great deal of improvisation. Lots of scenes were improvised. So I got the realization that the actor was not only responsible for the words on the page, but for bringing a frame of reference to his material and embodying the character he's playing, so that, if necessary, you can enter any circumstance and be that character. I also realized that being yourself is oh so much easier than putting a veneer over yourself and trying to be somebody else. _At Paramount, did they bury it or did they just not get behind it or…?
_
Later they put it out on video. They also put it out on DVD. So it's become a little cult classic as maybe the only example of film vérité in American cinema. I can tell you one other thing about this picture, and that is that the phrase, "The whole world is watching," was coined exactly at that instant that is presented in the picture. They say, "Don't leave us! Don't leave us! The world is watching! The whole world is watching!" and it became a chant. That phrase had a lot of use during the '60s and '70s, and it was coined right then andthere.
_And your first nude scene in MEDIUM COOL … how many times have youperformed nude?
_
(Laughing) I apologize … _HOLLYWOOD HARRY has one too._
HOLLYWOOD HARRY?
_You've got a butt shot in HOLLYWOOD HARRY._
Yeah, well, uh …(laughing) … well, all I know is that when I first saw in REFLECTIONS OF A GOLDEN EYE(Forster's first
film), a guy rides a horse naked. _Oh, that's right, I forgot that one._
I said to myself, "God, I wonder how they do that?" Probably trick photography or something. When I got out there on the set, I saw an Italian extra riding around on the horse, and I thought, "God, I don't want that guy to do it. That's my shot! I wanna be doing it." I said to (REFLECTIONS director) John Huston, "I can do that." He says (Huston impression), "Could ya, Bobby?" I said, "Yeah!" I hadn't ridden a horse, you know, not since ten-cents-a-turn around the circle when I was a kid. I'd never really ridden a horse, but I said, "I could do that." Next thing I know, the wardrobe department hands me a little cup from a jockstrap and a roll of tape. That was for my modesty. After two or three takes on that sweaty horse, the cup was gone and I stopped worrying about it. I figured if you're gonna do something like that, you just gotta do it, no reservations. If you go do it scared, you'll never, never do it right. Posted by Marty McKeeat 10/11/2019
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 2019ACTION JACKSON
Finally,
a movie where Craig T. Nelson has a karate fight with Apollo Creed. I’m still sad we didn’t get, like, nine Action Jackson movies. Carl Weathers (ROCKY) plays Jackson like Fred Williamson Meets Apollo Creed and definitely worthy of the nickname “Action.” Somehow, ACTION JACKSON was not a hit, and Weathers ended up in television. So, yeah, Jericho Jackson. Track star. Harvard Law grad. The Detroit Police Department busted him back down to sergeant after he tore off a pervert’s arm. Evil auto manufacturer Peter Dellaplane, portrayed deliciously by a bleached-blond Nelson (COACH), hates Jackson, because his son was the pervert. Dellaplane wants to be the puppetmaster of the next U.S. President, so he engineers the murders of big-time union officials. Sure, that could work. He has a sexy wife, Patrice (Sharon Stone), and an even sexier mistress, a junkie nightclub singer named Sydney (Vanity, way too sexy to play junkie roles). Life is pretty good for Peter Dellaplane, the kind of rich asshole who breaks his karate teacher’s arm just forlaughs.
The feature directing debut of ace stuntman Craig R. Baxley, ACTION JACKSON is farfetched, slick, often hilarious, and populated by ace character actors who bring a lot of color to their roles, such as Ed O’Ross (RED HEAT), Robert Davi (LICENSE TO KILL), Thomas F. Wilson (BACK TO THE FUTURE), and Bill Duke (PREDATOR). This movie may hold the record for macho ball-busting. A running gag is a young purse snatcher who keeps fainting in fear of the badass Action Jackson. The performers help ground the nonsense in Robert Reneau’s (DEMOLITION MAN) screenplay in some sort of reality. Everyone plays it with the right amount of tongue in cheek, so when Weathers leaps over a speeding taxicab or swaps karate blows with Nelson after driving a sports car into his house and up the stairs to the second floor, it seems like, well, of course that’s what would happen. Joel Silver produced, which explains the constant quipping and huge explosions. Baxley blew up a lot more cars in I COME IN PEACE and STONE COLD, as perfect a trifecta of badass action flicks as any director can boast. Posted by Marty McKeeat 8/17/2019
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SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 2019MESSENGER OF DEATH
Charles
Bronson worked with director J. Lee Thompson (THE GUNS OF NAVARONE) nine times, and MESSENGER OF DEATH may be the least of the lot. It was Bronson’s next-to-last collaboration with both Thompson and Cannon Films, which opened it in just 450 theaters to moribund business. Nine women and children from the same Mormon family are murdered by a shotgun-wielding assassin. The lone surviving family member, husband and father Orville Beecham (Charles “Flat Nose Curry” Dierkop), refuses to identify the killer. Bronson plays Garrett Smith, a Denver newspaper reporter investigating the massacre, whose path leads to Orville’s father Willis (Jeff Corey) and Willis’ brother Zenas(John Ireland).
Both men hate each other passionately and blame the other for the murders. As the intrafamilial blood feud boils over into violence, Smith becomes a target for murder by mysterious employees of the Colorado Water Company, a corporation owned by one of Denver’s richest and most respected families, one with little connection, it would seem, to the wild-eyed Beecham clan. An unusual action vehicle for Bronson, MESSENGER OF DEATH casts the stone-faced icon as a passive observer, fighting only when attacked. He doesn’t fire a gun at anyone, nor does he have much to do with identifying and apprehending the killers. In his most notable setpiece, he battles a trio of water trucks, but even there, Bronsonplays the victim.
Though it’s more of a mystery thriller than action flick, MESSENGER OF DEATH is solid enough with an unusual setting and interesting supporting cast, but it doesn’t quite come together satisfactorily. Thompson and Cannon cinematographer Gideon Porath (AVENGING FORCE) do an outstanding job staging the opening massacre with dread and stark menace, using the Colorado scenery to creepy advantage. As well, Robert O. Ragland’s score adds novelty, but MESSENGER OF DEATH is barely distinguishable from Bronson’s other Cannon pictures, except it’s classier. The screenplay by Paul Jarrico (TOM, DICK AND HARRY) holds little water, and the climax plays like MURDER, SHE WROTE with a line of red herrings gathered in a parlor waiting to be identified by a convenient witness. Themes of religious persecution and revenge add some flavor to the mystery. Trish Van Devere (THE HEARSE), Marilyn Hassett (THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN), Laurence Luckinbill (STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER), Daniel Benzali (MURDER ONE), Gene Davis (10 TO MIDNIGHT), and Penny Peyser (THE IN-LAWS) fill out the cast. Jarrico was blacklisted during the 1950s and ended up writing spaghetti westerns in Europe, making him perhaps the perfect scribe for a tale about persecution. Posted by Marty McKeeat 6/15/2019
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018HALLOWEEN (2018)
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is a good movie to be made about a Laurie Strode who survived the attack on her and her friends on Halloween night of 1978 and used it to grow into a strong, positive adult who refused to let that night forever define her. Hollywood has never wanted to make that movie. Every time Jamie Lee Curtis has returned to play Laurie, the character is a “basket case” (as she calls herself in HALLOWEEN 2018 or H40) who has never been able to escape her past. So it goes with H40, from PINEAPPLE EXPRESS director David Gordon Green and VICE PRINCIPALS writers Jeff Fradley and Danny McBride, which ignores every other HALLOWEEN sequel. Exactly forty years after Michael Myers went on a killing spree in little Haddonfield, Illinois, he escapes custody during a prison transfer and — inexplicably — returns to Haddonfield to finish the job. Laurie is a paranoid, alcoholic, twice-divorced agoraphobe who has somehow gotten herself together well enough to construct a $10 million compound in the woods (no explanation is given as to how she accomplished this, nor how her high-security complex is so easy to infiltrate in the climax). Laurie is estranged from her daughter Karen (Judy Greer), who lives a normal middle-class life with her nice husband Ray (a welcome Toby Huss) and their daughter — Laurie’s granddaughter — Allyson (Matichak). Other characters include Dr. Ranbir Sartain (Haluk Bilginer), Michael’s new shrink after the death of Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence died in 1995); British podcasters Dana Haines (Rhian Rees) and Aaron Korey (Jefferson Hall), doing a story on Myers; deputy Hawkins (Will Patton), who reveals he was there the night Myers was first arrested (a potentially intriguing character point muffed by director Green); and various cannon fodder that includes Allyson’s high school friends. Few of these characters will survive to theclosing crawl.
Which is another problem with H40 and probably its biggest: it isn’t scary. Though Green and his special effects crew have figured out how to mangle the human body — Michael has grown more creative as he has reached his 60s — the killings seem perfunctory with little suspense. A couple of sequences work, one of them a lengthy tracking shot that follows Michael into a house and back onto the sidewalk, leaving death in his wake. Most of the kill scenes are predictable, including the climax set inside Laurie’s House of Booby Traps that would leave Maxwell Smart salivating. What’s good? Most of the acting, particularly Curtis, who embraces the badass gramma role and sells her obsession with Michael, even though the Green/Fradley/McBride script leaves her hanging. As well, Greer and Matichak are believable as Curtis’ relatives, though Karen’s impatience with her mother is also underwritten. John Carpenter, of all people, agreed to score the film, collaborating with his son (with Adrienne Barbeau) Cody and his godson Daniel Davies on a familiar soundscape that fails to paper over the egregious lapses in screenplay logic and lack of suspense in Green’s direction. While H40 succeeds in leavening the shocks with dollops of intentional humor (the little toenail-clipping boy played by Jibrail Nantambu should star in the next sequel), the film is ultimately a depressing exercise undertaken by filmmakers who don’t understand the allure of Michael Myers or, even worse, the power of Jamie Lee Curtis as LaurieStrode.
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SATURDAY, JULY 14, 2018 TAKING A BREAK...BUT COME SEE ME AT LETTERBOXDHello, all.
Johnny LaRue's Crane Shot has been in service since the end of 2004, first on Tripod, then here at Blogger. Originally I blogged about a variety of subjects, including politics and events in my own life. The blog eventually shifted to books/television/film, but over the past couple of years, it has been strictly film, for the most part. Because I post regular reviews over at Letterboxed , it has seemed like an extra burden to post both there and here, particularly since I update this blog much less frequently. So for now, I'm going to take a break from Johnny LaRue's Crane Shot. Whether it ever resumes, I just can't say right now. I will leave it standing, in case you'd like to find any old writings. But if you are interested in my film reviews, please see me over at Letterboxd , where I post something about at least 95% of the movies that I see. You don't have to "join" Letterboxd to follow me, and you can easily add my Letterboxd RSS feedto your reader.
Thank all of your for reading and commenting over the years. I hope tosee you again soon.
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FRIDAY, JULY 06, 2018NIGHT SLAVES
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Specht (THE IMMORTAL) and Everett Chambers (COLUMBO) adapted Jerry Sohl’s 1965 Gold Medal novel NIGHT SLAVES, which was marketed as science fiction, but really isn’t. Specht and Chambers wisely dumped Sohl’s frustrating ending, but otherwise left the main plot intact. Clay (James Franciscus) and Marjorie (Lee Grant) Howard are an estranged married couple on vacation while Clay recuperates from a serious auto accident. They visit a sleepy little town that seems normal enough. By day, at least, everybody is abnormally exhausted. At night, everyone turns into a zombie, files into trucks, and heads out of town. They always return by daylight, and nobody has any memory of the night before. Only Clay is unaffected, and nobody — especially Marjorie, who thinks the accident has scrambled Clay’s brain — believes hisstory.
Director Ted Post’s TWILIGHT ZONE experience came in handy when presenting NIGHT SLAVES’ off-kilter scenario of paranoia and the fear of losing one’s identity. Is Clay slipping into madness, as his wife fears, or is something spooky — and possibly otherworldly — happening in little Eldrid, California? Franciscus’ nicely modulated performance makes Clay a relatable protagonist, though the love story between Clay and a mysterious young woman played by Tisha Sterling (COOGAN’S BLUFF) is unbelievable with a treacly wrap-up (I didn’t buy it in the book either). Sohl had no problem with the changed ending and spoke highly of the film in interviews. Shooting on the Warners backlot gives NIGHT SLAVES an artificiality that harms the story. Clay’s fear is based on not knowing what is real, but in an obviously fake western town, nothing is real. However, Post’s thoughtful unraveling of the mystery and Franciscus’ sympathetic performance work well enough to get NIGHT SLAVES past its shortcomings. Posted by Marty McKeeat 7/06/2018
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Labels: Trashy Movies SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2018JAGGED EDGE
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released this solid courtroom thriller written by Joe Eszterhas, who was coming off hits FLASHDANCE and BLUE THUNDER (which he script-doctored without credit), and directed by Richard Marquand, who was still hot off RETURN OF THE JEDI. It opened at #2 at the box office (behind COMMANDO!), but stayed steady near the top of the charts for several weeks. It may be best remembered today for its surprise ending, which confused so many viewers that SISKEL & EBERT did a separate episode several weeks after their initial review in which Gene and Roger explained the killer’s reveal to theiraudience.
San Francisco publishing magnate Jack Forrester (Jeff Bridges) stands accused of slashing his wife to death in their bedroom and spelling “BITCH” on the wall in her blood. In fact, district attorney Krasny (Peter Coyote) and investigator Martin (Lance Henriksen) make no effort to look for another suspect. Forrester, of course, proclaims his innocence, and when he is arrested and formally charged, he appeals to defense attorney Teddy Barnes (Glenn Close) to defend himin court.
Forrester is wealthy, charming, handsome — hell, he’s Jeff Bridges, right? — and the divorced Teddy finds herself doing with him things no attorney should be doing with her client. And she hates the sketchy Krasny, for whom she used to work and whose ethics-skating routine she knows well. Robert Loggia (BIG) earned an Academy Award nomination for playing Sam Ransom, Teddy’s crusty investigator (what other kind is there?) with an expletive for every sentence. What worked in a courtroom thriller in 1985 doesn’t always hold water decades later, simply because we know more about the legal process and procedures. For the most part, JAGGED EDGE’s court shenanigans lack bite. Ransom is Teddy’s detective, but he doesn’t do a helluva lot of detecting. And, frankly, Teddy is kinda dumb, rarely missing an opportunity to violate common sense. Of course, Eszterhas (who went on to BASIC INSTINCT) and Marquand are manipulating their audience to deliver thrills — that’s their job — but by stacking the deck in their favor, they make it difficult to play along with them. Posted by Marty McKeeat 6/23/2018
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