Because I don’t feel like blogging tonight, you get to watch the trailer for the 1972 film Gargoyles… I thought that I’d shared it with you before, but I can’t find any mention of it in the archives… It used to scare the hell out of me as a kid.
The Gargoyle, as I’m sure most of you remember from history class, was played by professional football player Bernie Casey, who, a decade or so later, would have the distinction of playing the part of U.N. Jefferson, the national head of the Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity, in the classic drama Revenge of the Nerds.
And here, because I can’t resist, is the talent show scene from Revenge of the Nerds.
Which then brings us to TAG: The Assassination Game, a film which also stars Robert Carradine, who played Lewis Skolnick in Revenge of the Nerds.
OK, that’s where I get off the train. If you, however, would like to make the connection from TAG to another movie (how about the shower scene in Psycho), just leave a comment. It would be cool if, by the end of the day tomorrow, we could make another ten jumps.
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I can’t stop. Now I’m reading about Jim Greenleaf, the guy who we just saw get killed in the shower. The following comes from a networking site he’s a member of:
He apparently likes Santa.
Damn, the internet is a weird place.
OK, OK, if no one else is going to go, I’ll make the next move.
Let’s go from that TAG shower death seen to this re-imagining of the famous shower scene in Psycho.
OK, now I want to make a lateral move, to another shot for shot remake of an American classic.
I give you Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The screenplay for Raiders of the Lost Ark was written by Lawrence Kasdan, who also wrote The Big Chill. He’s presently working on a project known around Hollywood as the “Untitled Big Chill Remake,” which reminds me of the scene in The Player where Buck Henry, the writer of The Graduate, is trying pathetically to sell his idea for a sequel to that classic film. And here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0epB5Z6ijpk
oh god, the bear site is awesome. i love the internets!
Lawrence Kasdan went to U-M and got his degree from the School of Education. Maybe you should get him back here to film a movie, Mark, and attend a showing at the Vu w/you.
Whoopi Goldberg was in the Player. She was also in It’s A Very Muppet Christmas with Robert Smigel, who is the voice of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, seen here at a Star Wars screening.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugk37TvIR8E
One offensive dog deserves another.
May I present, Dog the Bounty Hunter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLeup3iyr_Y
Bounty, huh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4MjFb6r1BE
Rosie the waitress was played by Nancy Walker. She died of lung cancer on March 25, 1992. Prior to that, she guest starred on the Muppet Show, among other things.
PROOF-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ2PiOQdgj8
Can someone verify something for me? Was Anton LaVey ever a guest on the Muppet Show?
Muppet Bloopers!
And, by posting that, I don’t mean to imply that Anton LaVey is in said Muppet bloopers. I just think it’s a nice move from Nancy Walker and the Muppets, as it open up the door to the world of bloopers.
Thanks to you, I’m watching Star Trek bloopers now.
If this site has accomplished nothing else, at least we were able to tie Anton LaVey and Nancy Walker together. No one can take that from us.