THREE ACTRESSES REFLECT THE CULT CLASSIC 'NIGHT OF THE COMET'

<p> </p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></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/AVvXsEjDwtYOH-bH6T_TMRk8Wq2LxBf-6t98mRKMXODzbIykAxZEIE0LeGOzhZ5rHCq9H9YzAA1fGzMqABVLAkG2RQWwAjPa9WUvNOQKe73BNkx4L08CW5q6OhdqAGLY3deqQSAuGgpZQPDcIqllZqDuNHYQxqTjzLZx-PrOaBlSOEIn4IXlDsj27VETl7Mu8mV5/s1078/364803141_1780865825675919_2498355596382289158_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="1078" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDwtYOH-bH6T_TMRk8Wq2LxBf-6t98mRKMXODzbIykAxZEIE0LeGOzhZ5rHCq9H9YzAA1fGzMqABVLAkG2RQWwAjPa9WUvNOQKe73BNkx4L08CW5q6OhdqAGLY3deqQSAuGgpZQPDcIqllZqDuNHYQxqTjzLZx-PrOaBlSOEIn4IXlDsj27VETl7Mu8mV5/s16000/364803141_1780865825675919_2498355596382289158_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Interview selections with Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney and Sharon Farrell from Night of the Comet</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>“At the time that we were shooting it and when it was released, I didn’t really think a lot about its popularity or longevity. I knew it was a quirky little film," Catherine Mary Stewart wrote in a Cult Film Freak Interview. "Even the producers weren’t sure exactly what to do with it. Thom Eberhardt, the writer/director, had always intended it to be tongue in cheek – a kind of salute to the old-fashioned horror genre with a twist of wry humor... </i></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>"The producers looked at it in terms of being a serious horror film, perhaps knowing that there was a more solid market for that sort of thing... Fortunately, it ended up the way Thom had envisioned, which of course makes it stand out and adds some sort of weird validity to it."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span></span></i></span></p>

action, catherine mary stewart, eighties, geoffrey lewis, horror, interview, kelli maroney, robert beltran, sharon farrell, thriller, zombie

THREE ACTRESSES REFLECT THE CULT CLASSIC 'NIGHT OF THE COMET'

Interview selections with Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney and Sharon Farrell from Night of the Comet “At the time that we were shoot...

REVITALIZED ARCHIVE INTERVIEW WITH ACTRESS SHARON FARRELL

<p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span></span></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/AVvXsEime8RAzzMh59UoUa59ahandKaMYd7UMPDZ8QTDPJV1rq6GKMt2j6VpUONn4E3vMAy7dPmcsBureDgbB7k7KGpnpu2ZXew4lGv3968pep0lsxUPu_BCgfGNHHynUKNgYBST_JKYETiUhtLHAeqqnrsEyOEgDBcpCjohNpVom5GaZCW9y1Vitb-WOB0dNHWD/s1849/365804646_1780311252398043_1185671985948330595_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1020" data-original-width="1849" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEime8RAzzMh59UoUa59ahandKaMYd7UMPDZ8QTDPJV1rq6GKMt2j6VpUONn4E3vMAy7dPmcsBureDgbB7k7KGpnpu2ZXew4lGv3968pep0lsxUPu_BCgfGNHHynUKNgYBST_JKYETiUhtLHAeqqnrsEyOEgDBcpCjohNpVom5GaZCW9y1Vitb-WOB0dNHWD/s16000/365804646_1780311252398043_1185671985948330595_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Interview with the late Sharon Farrell from 2010 here in the 1976 thriller The Premonition</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span>The following interview will cover SHARON FARRELL and her work in THE REIVERS, IT'S ALIVE, OUT OF THE BLUE, THE PREMONITION and NIGHT OF THE COMET, beginning with Sharon, after working in Hollywood for over ten years, getting a chance for the love interest in THE REIVERS... </span></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></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span>A coming-of-age time-period story has comedy mixed with drama, based on a novel by William Faulker and starring the biggest movie star at that time, Steve McQueen, with whom she's the romantic interest...</span></p>

cult, dennis hopper, don gordon, eighties, horror, interview, linda manz, seventies, sharon farrell

REVITALIZED ARCHIVE INTERVIEW WITH ACTRESS SHARON FARRELL

Interview with the late Sharon Farrell from 2010 here in the 1976 thriller The Premonition The following interview will cover SHARON FARRELL...

ORIGINAL KILLER CULT CLASSIC OF JOE DANTE'S 'PIRANHA'

<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/AVvXsEjlCCGa8ol3jXftUhAsvT_Wi5kQPXUByRgDqFWejE5Zzx8DAfgalt64F_Uo6EKnnVAOoksZZhypGkSAmvIbFxz2XYO8A2w3k7Gnxgcedr6cnjtdxGJKa5b_Wth7mFPgh-dR51ITVTdXgm4Y0UvgK8wF-dYVQc9bJtXBQg5VEn-CnwyKnnLbbmiUj1DaBA/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-07-17+at+1.10.58+PM.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="1600" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlCCGa8ol3jXftUhAsvT_Wi5kQPXUByRgDqFWejE5Zzx8DAfgalt64F_Uo6EKnnVAOoksZZhypGkSAmvIbFxz2XYO8A2w3k7Gnxgcedr6cnjtdxGJKa5b_Wth7mFPgh-dR51ITVTdXgm4Y0UvgK8wF-dYVQc9bJtXBQg5VEn-CnwyKnnLbbmiUj1DaBA/w400-h215/Screen+Shot+2018-07-17+at+1.10.58+PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>YEAR: 1978</u></td></tr></tbody></table>"Joe Dante trusted me enough to listen and allow the freedom to write scenes in every show I ever did with him" <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/AVvXsEhRAJDDQuIsG2vMN72ZMGPHUoEAYjttjzW2emWR94lo9MShmyJDS9ruG33QPEs_JabHgtVr2ynVaou4LKUJKsmakvzEeLWtDJuWUD5Vd4PTO2ltQs8C4ePl2fxGoFNnYDeslW9VrWoMh896/s1600/Screen+Shot+2017-05-18+at+8.12.39+PM.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRAJDDQuIsG2vMN72ZMGPHUoEAYjttjzW2emWR94lo9MShmyJDS9ruG33QPEs_JabHgtVr2ynVaou4LKUJKsmakvzEeLWtDJuWUD5Vd4PTO2ltQs8C4ePl2fxGoFNnYDeslW9VrWoMh896/s400/Screen+Shot+2017-05-18+at+8.12.39+PM.jpg" width="120"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>JAWS-like image</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">said the director's regular troupe member, Belinda Balaski, who we'll continue with later as now, from the origin is, at that time, a future arthouse/indie director, John Sayles, starting out a scriptwriter with terrific pulpy creature-features. Two for Joe Dante: PIRANHA, which you're reading about now, and years later THE HOWLING, very loosely based on a sparse, uncomplicated novel, and the screenplay's far more creative and edgy. And for director Lewis Teague, Sayles wrote ALLIGATOR, one of those "title says it all" flicks but with some depth and, best yet, an actor like Robert Forster who can legitimize anything... </span><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/AVvXsEjmt7eftGVpVzS_rufguYUKGRmGsu3H1e8cl2YtmDALEyQMtckXFugZ7Ze0lQ9wYw93BNHuDQN12TZ2X-mmVwBrxnYBOXyH79ZdVpBdZxlOtDuoYQ_nkhCRYRfY01Zn0kZxdnxQLnGsl5XF/s1600/18519827_316957655400084_7360665445922273565_n.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmt7eftGVpVzS_rufguYUKGRmGsu3H1e8cl2YtmDALEyQMtckXFugZ7Ze0lQ9wYw93BNHuDQN12TZ2X-mmVwBrxnYBOXyH79ZdVpBdZxlOtDuoYQ_nkhCRYRfY01Zn0kZxdnxQLnGsl5XF/s400/18519827_316957655400084_7360665445922273565_n.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><u>Bradford Dillman and Heather Menzies</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">And anyone familiar with COMPULSION knows that Bradford Dillman, who had won the Cannes Festival Best Actor award back in 1959, was no slouch either... </span><br> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br></span> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">As a bearded alcoholic divorced-dad living in a rural cabin, he makes an otherwise limited character interesting and humorous. Which, of course, has a lot to do with the script... </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">But Dillman's chemistry with 70's scream queen Heather Menzies, who shrieked brilliantly at the end of SSSSSSS a few years earlier, makes a really good movie great: And there's no mystery as to homage since </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Joe Dante says, right up front on the DVD commentary, that PIRANHA is an intentional JAWS clone. But it's no carbon copy of the Steven Spielberg shark classic, taking place on a rural river instead of the ocean... the latter where the deadly Gov't-Created-for-Vietnam fanged-fish are ultimately headed. Plus there's a car chase/race against time: popular back then. But it's no shock that in PIRANHA, the real action takes place in the water...</span><br>

belinda balaski, bradford dillman, creature, heather menzies, horror, interview, jaws-clone, joe dante, piranha, richard deacon, roger corman, seventies, suspense

ORIGINAL KILLER CULT CLASSIC OF JOE DANTE'S 'PIRANHA'

YEAR: 1978 "Joe Dante trusted me enough to listen and allow the freedom to write scenes in every show I ever did with him" JAWS...

ORSON WELLES, PAMELA FRANKLIN & LEE PURCELL 'NECROMANCY'

<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/AVvXsEjeOYTDVcq7VdkTX5auzU3YTUfqZBKWU3fxBxuFOzl4-XSilHuArmQH2o2oqTBx18Swf2hW5fwzxxGS-nG9ebfqNnMT33tVa32GDviOdKOfccRJ2APJQEevGMgxGAl1cSB9I2meyaUcuBSHwOYPkUpnxtTXbULYLPdc9Jey8ssDvlTbs8Vbu5jfMvV1Rg/s908/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-27%20at%202.21.00%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="908" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeOYTDVcq7VdkTX5auzU3YTUfqZBKWU3fxBxuFOzl4-XSilHuArmQH2o2oqTBx18Swf2hW5fwzxxGS-nG9ebfqNnMT33tVa32GDviOdKOfccRJ2APJQEevGMgxGAl1cSB9I2meyaUcuBSHwOYPkUpnxtTXbULYLPdc9Jey8ssDvlTbs8Vbu5jfMvV1Rg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-27%20at%202.21.00%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Pamela Franklin & Orson Welles in NECROMANCY Year: 1972 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Exploitation/Horror b-director Bert I. Gordon definitely knew WHO he had for the <i>Rural Satanic Hippie Cult</i> flick, THE WITCHING actually/originally titled NECROMANCY, but he didn't know enough about WHAT he had in his stellar cast including the legendary Orson Welles as the leader of a colorful coven... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>He's yearning to reanimate his dead son using the lovely, vulnerable, and soul-troubled wife of new couple in town Pamela Franklin, married to passive tagalong Michael Onkean as both are semi-seduced into the realm by one of the few women more insanely gorgeous than Franklin...</p><p><span></span></p>

bert i. gordon, harvey jason, horror, interview, lee purcell, michael ontkean, occult, orson welles, rural, seventies, thriller, witch

ORSON WELLES, PAMELA FRANKLIN & LEE PURCELL 'NECROMANCY'

Pamela Franklin & Orson Welles in NECROMANCY Year: 1972 Rating: **1/2 Exploitation/Horror b-director Bert I. Gordon definitely knew WHO ...

JONATHAN KAPLAN DIRECTING ISAAC HAYES AS 'TRUCK TURNER'

<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/AVvXsEhiV2CxVpfFYqRbxMM1A5jd-6mmnTMOMMoGUHMIQ3f_cApR7j9WtpIgPnRlQw7R_l0CPnEs1V17QronX7J_Y8H-dBrW9tHSRltpKZ-Q_DrBl9QBE2nccx0cypbcb4Wew3jacBRx0R2caOsO3j183CoUY44ZB1a3-g_qTl2a3FO5gjyVo_LroXKYtT1eaBPN/s1732/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-31%20at%201.38.05%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="845" data-original-width="1732" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiV2CxVpfFYqRbxMM1A5jd-6mmnTMOMMoGUHMIQ3f_cApR7j9WtpIgPnRlQw7R_l0CPnEs1V17QronX7J_Y8H-dBrW9tHSRltpKZ-Q_DrBl9QBE2nccx0cypbcb4Wew3jacBRx0R2caOsO3j183CoUY44ZB1a3-g_qTl2a3FO5gjyVo_LroXKYtT1eaBPN/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-31%20at%201.38.05%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Alan Weeks and starring Isaac Hayes as TRUCK TURNER Year: 1974 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>At a certain point, with pressure to stop Blaxploitation films... from black groups no less... the <i>genre</i> had to become partially comedic, deliberate parodies, unlike the ultra-serious game-starter SHAFT... but before getting downright silly there's TRUCK TURNER wedged perfectly in-between dark humor and badass bloody action...</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>Smoothly constructed by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/05/slams.html">THE SLAMS</a> director Jonathan Kaplan, the Oscar-winning SHAFT composer Isaac Hayes provides an even cooler score while his ex-football player character's partnered with affably humorous sidekick Alan Weeks (who picked his feet in THE FRENCH CONNECTION), countered by monopolizing, short-cut-taking, smoothly antagonistic villain Yaphet Kotto, making TURNER more like a modernized Sam Peckinpah Western in pimp's clothing...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, alan weeks, blaxploitation, body count, interview, isaac hayes, jonathan kaplan, nichelle nichols, paul harris, roland bob harris, stan shaw, yaphet kotto

JONATHAN KAPLAN DIRECTING ISAAC HAYES AS 'TRUCK TURNER'

Alan Weeks and starring Isaac Hayes as TRUCK TURNER Year: 1974 Rating: ****1/2 At a certain point, with pressure to stop Blaxploitation film...

ROBERT ROMANUS REVISITS 'FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH'

<p> <i></i></p><p><i></i></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/AVvXsEhuko2gIBpEB9HWkvwTkpjadE-7OYdDS0ipLvFvMWBjD0CGuXsw5H8YyjK6SYwsOEms0JEKysHWWM2FNCF96nfv_CYbfqYGCfoxypjed39LsIUu8-HwjKEG0r_3AchpvgulyeLQcHf7nvLOuqPbEtYQXTBX8Go-jzVvgR59fQK8veqUElMPcQIkH6RiMQ/s789/Picture+13.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="789" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuko2gIBpEB9HWkvwTkpjadE-7OYdDS0ipLvFvMWBjD0CGuXsw5H8YyjK6SYwsOEms0JEKysHWWM2FNCF96nfv_CYbfqYGCfoxypjed39LsIUu8-HwjKEG0r_3AchpvgulyeLQcHf7nvLOuqPbEtYQXTBX8Go-jzVvgR59fQK8veqUElMPcQIkH6RiMQ/s16000/Picture+13.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Romanus Interview for FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH by James M. Tate</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p><i>"How lucky is that?" says Robert Romanus, who played Mike Damone, the cocky ticket-scalper in FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH, in a Cult Film Freak interview. "My first big movie and my name comes up at the same time I’m on the screen. And it doesn’t always happen, you know."</i><br> <br> <span style="background-color: white;"><u>So how did you first get into acting?</u><b> </b></span>When I started I came out to Los Angeles, straight out to Los Angeles, and I wanted to be a musician. I was a drummer and I played around town quite a bit with a lot of people. And I traveled a little bit and I was working as a singing waiter in a restaurant, and this really pretty girl came up at the end of one of my songs and said, “You know, you should be an actor.” So I took it to mean that my voice wasn’t very good. <br> <br> And so I actually went and took an acting class. That was 1978 and I fell in love with acting. I got on stage… Back then I was a very shy person and it was a place for me to be all the things I couldn’t be in real life. So I immediately took to it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p> <span></span><p><u><span style="background-color: white;"></span></u></p><p><u><span style="background-color: white;"></span></u></p><p><u><span style="background-color: white;"></span></u></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/AVvXsEhp8w0_alIj2-xl-KBVRm-8nw1_MtTX5WtLmGtK1WQ8x1zrAkZUkF59EhUjg9G1qwMaAu0Erql2d0HKEnbzPQB5Ix4AoaMS48578VC0Dxkl_xo8wN-EKYWhRNbIahEjGt_5GhDgnuCFGTjh1CRa5LD9NClwoBh9YOK28TO5k3mgHipDIuryY67vY0QbPA/s2443/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-27%20at%2010.54.02%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1049" data-original-width="2443" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp8w0_alIj2-xl-KBVRm-8nw1_MtTX5WtLmGtK1WQ8x1zrAkZUkF59EhUjg9G1qwMaAu0Erql2d0HKEnbzPQB5Ix4AoaMS48578VC0Dxkl_xo8wN-EKYWhRNbIahEjGt_5GhDgnuCFGTjh1CRa5LD9NClwoBh9YOK28TO5k3mgHipDIuryY67vY0QbPA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-27%20at%2010.54.02%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="background-color: white;">Robert Romanus before FAST TIMES in FOXES</span></u></td></tr></tbody></table><p><u><span style="background-color: white;">And your very first movie was FOXES…</span></u> Right, FOXES with Jodie Foster – that was in 1979 so it wasn’t long after I started acting classes that I got that job. And then it was a long time before I got another job, which was FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH. Could have been like three years. </p><p></p><p></p><p>After I did FOXES I don’t even think I had an agent. And my mother came to visit me… She’s from Connecticut… She came out to visit me and, I don’t know how old you are, or what your history is, but there used to be a restaurant out here called Schwab's Pharmacy, which was very famous. So I took her there. <br></p><p></p><p>HBO was just getting started – cable TV was just getting started – and FOXES was one of the movies playing. So we were sitting there having breakfast, and this guy walks by and says, “I just saw you on TV last night – on FOXES.” And he said, “Do you have an agent?” And I said, “No.” And he said, “Do you want one?” And I said, “Sure.” So he became my agent, and I think maybe the fourth audition that he sent me out on was for FAST TIMES. <br> </p><span></span>

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ROBERT ROMANUS REVISITS 'FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH'

Robert Romanus Interview for FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH by James M. Tate "How lucky is that?" says Robert Romanus, who played M...

INTERVIEW WITH ACTRESS JANE MERROW REVISITING 'THE SYSTEM'

<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><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/AVvXsEhiyWZodVf1mcNK1kDzftMOEBkc3MgVK-Uf-hsIJLoX8ZErorwoR74txbs06oWGmg70FPu0fQh8D2g4XQlzeBMyk967TvQyhltouYDI8hF672wAQwXMlI3wnlGJ9PL47G3CX59yD_do4fyo2MFZt4TAyIYExeqaM7kXlNlz7QdyPzL0DqGsVFaBIj1f9w/s1129/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-03%20at%202.11.11%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="1129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiyWZodVf1mcNK1kDzftMOEBkc3MgVK-Uf-hsIJLoX8ZErorwoR74txbs06oWGmg70FPu0fQh8D2g4XQlzeBMyk967TvQyhltouYDI8hF672wAQwXMlI3wnlGJ9PL47G3CX59yD_do4fyo2MFZt4TAyIYExeqaM7kXlNlz7QdyPzL0DqGsVFaBIj1f9w/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-03%20at%202.11.11%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Interview with British actress JANE MERROW on Michael Winner's THE SYSTEM</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>“Well I was/am in show business so it wasn’t too much of a stretch!” British actress Jane Merrow said about playing Nicola, the ingenue from Michael Winner’s <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/10/system.html">THE SYSTEM</a>, a model as professional and gorgeous as Jane is an actress, changing the life of womanizing playboy <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/oliver%20reed">Oliver Reed</a> as Tinker, who, along with his buddies, uses the titular SYSTEM to strategically pick up girls (mostly rich, unlike them) at the summer resort where they work... </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></p><p></p><p>And we asked Jane about this incredible film, also known as THE GIRL-GETTERS, made during and about the inception of Britain’s Swinging Sixties at the crest of the cinematic British New Wave…</p><p><span></span></p>

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INTERVIEW WITH ACTRESS JANE MERROW REVISITING 'THE SYSTEM'

Interview with British actress JANE MERROW on Michael Winner's THE SYSTEM “Well I was/am in show business so it wasn’t too much of a str...

SCOTT THOMSON'S FAST TIMES SPEEDING THROUGH 'TAXI DRIVER'

<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/a/AVvXsEiHCfJUU4yYkKWrWLY3oHKpW74urBUWmiWhVw7J5Tm_JA-zfZW1xQVEQbDTwSqy-1Sqmrkok3pSqmH0iwLEWMtSTxR9rQFwYyJC7UIfni3yYG6Aayz49pZj-Lafzvt6hyEPGUI0Lav7j5yJzRW-KuIG5IVrEf8mxVwpg5OTbURVIj4eaxbkwGllLpvkTw=s1451" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="1451" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHCfJUU4yYkKWrWLY3oHKpW74urBUWmiWhVw7J5Tm_JA-zfZW1xQVEQbDTwSqy-1Sqmrkok3pSqmH0iwLEWMtSTxR9rQFwYyJC7UIfni3yYG6Aayz49pZj-Lafzvt6hyEPGUI0Lav7j5yJzRW-KuIG5IVrEf8mxVwpg5OTbURVIj4eaxbkwGllLpvkTw=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Scott Thomson with Robert Romanus from Fast Times at Ridgemont High</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In one of those bizarre and random pop culture occurrences, the actor who'd play the nerdy high school student Arnold in FAST TIMES AT RIDEMONT HIGH from 1982 was an extra in one of the greatest exploitation films ever, Martin Scorsese's gritty 1976 cult classic TAXI DRIVER...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But he was a very important extra being one of two young "Johns" picking up (or being picked up by) Jodie Foster's Iris, the extremely under-aged hooker that Robert De Niro's titular cabbie Travis Bickle winds up stalking, then saving... And here's what character-actor Scott Thomson recalls from that time-grueling night shoot... </p><p><span></span></p>

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SCOTT THOMSON'S FAST TIMES SPEEDING THROUGH 'TAXI DRIVER'

Scott Thomson with Robert Romanus from Fast Times at Ridgemont High In one of those bizarre and random pop culture occurrences, the actor wh...

ORSON WELLES ANSWERS A LAST-MINUTE DICK CAVETT QUESTION

<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/a/AVvXsEjW3E6qrHmRb6u_k7QC2mK8Lt0qgd-ubWQueiJaOX52luq9mB-8RDV6Fv1HdqOqCHek0UPc7w8W4_YK7fml5az26w1xP2h1dcrwnvJi8WdRue4q4Mxkk8do3fpryAs7vKvuCl-LhxCEcK9rWdkYJcixmg1Fr4JVAo7s-UL27M67oneVhFu82vJEfY6oTQ=s2048" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1043" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjW3E6qrHmRb6u_k7QC2mK8Lt0qgd-ubWQueiJaOX52luq9mB-8RDV6Fv1HdqOqCHek0UPc7w8W4_YK7fml5az26w1xP2h1dcrwnvJi8WdRue4q4Mxkk8do3fpryAs7vKvuCl-LhxCEcK9rWdkYJcixmg1Fr4JVAo7s-UL27M67oneVhFu82vJEfY6oTQ=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Orson Welles's companion/actress Oja Koder in THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In a 1970 interview on The Dick Cavett Show, Orson Welles was asked a final question after an hour discussing subjects ranging from Adolf Hitler to Winston Churchill, and with literally <i>two minutes left</i> Dick threw a bizarre, risque, avant-garde "left field pitch" that Orson QUICKLY hit out of the park...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And while the question/subject has NOTHING to do with these accompanied screen-captures from Welles's risque/avant-garde labor-of-love THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND, his gorgeous girlfriend/collaborator Oda Kodar is the perfect representation of timeless, stimulating beauty, so, here goes...<br></p><span></span>

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ORSON WELLES ANSWERS A LAST-MINUTE DICK CAVETT QUESTION

Orson Welles's companion/actress Oja Koder in THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND In a 1970 interview on The Dick Cavett Show, Orson Welles was a...

REST IN PEACE BOND VILLAIN & ACTING LEGEND YAPHET KOTTO

<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/AVvXsEix1Y9krKYPWbgKsb89gSSpBrCE_mvyWbd4cEOIA8qvJCjIzPPeMoazZ70XlbpHHMX3f_-9eqXg1CCke0WmT7ZRS3-usTJrY2SvO85KR2v6q37tkvBDPq1Ex3w4bYCsxGrpc9YUDA-P8cJF/s2048/161697547_4024577994253117_3570165528362675602_o.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1113" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix1Y9krKYPWbgKsb89gSSpBrCE_mvyWbd4cEOIA8qvJCjIzPPeMoazZ70XlbpHHMX3f_-9eqXg1CCke0WmT7ZRS3-usTJrY2SvO85KR2v6q37tkvBDPq1Ex3w4bYCsxGrpc9YUDA-P8cJF/s16000/161697547_4024577994253117_3570165528362675602_o.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>YAPHET KOTTO on his role as the first black Bond villain in LIVE AND LET DIE</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Roger Moore's first James Bond venture LIVE AND LET DIE, the 1973 spy blaxploitation throwing everything into the pot including pimp cars, voodoo, killer crocodiles, serpents, zombies, a boat chase and so much more, wasn't so beloved by actor Yaphet Kotto, who played the drug lord Kananga... a memorable performance as a groundbreaking Bond heavy, being the first black villain in the franchise...</p><p></p><p><u>YAPHET KOTTO</u>: There were so many problems with that script… I was too afraid of coming off like Mantan Moreland… I had to dig deep in my soul and brain and come up with a level of reality that would offset the sea of stereotype crap that Tom Mankiewicz wrote that had nothing to do with the Black experience or culture...</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/AVvXsEghWMbZa1KIeJREL3c3GVt7DoefC2v1D4YnDBIraNlmcGm8h6nRlrvbNvGzcLFuRSU04CZAQ3sJCaevTnUfIruR1SX2rPtYL8pke568IbtYiYWpz0qvsZDzBhymmUyI-ky1H82wYT8kwNs0/s847/title06_204014107.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="847" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghWMbZa1KIeJREL3c3GVt7DoefC2v1D4YnDBIraNlmcGm8h6nRlrvbNvGzcLFuRSU04CZAQ3sJCaevTnUfIruR1SX2rPtYL8pke568IbtYiYWpz0qvsZDzBhymmUyI-ky1H82wYT8kwNs0/s16000/title06_204014107.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Roger Moore, Jane Seymour and Yaphet Kotto in LIVE AND LET DIE</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p><u>YAPHET KOTTO</u> (CONTINUED): It was the first Black Bond villain, I wanted to be original… but there was nothing I could draw on from Tom’s script. It was a trap... <br></p><p></p><p>If I had played it the way it was written, every Black Organization in the world would have been on my case. I had to draw on a real life situation I was going through and that saved me…But the way Kananga dies was a joke… and… well… the entire experience was not as rewarding as I wanted it to be. There were a lot of pitfalls that I had to avoid, and I did.  </p><p><span></span></p>

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REST IN PEACE BOND VILLAIN & ACTING LEGEND YAPHET KOTTO

YAPHET KOTTO on his role as the first black Bond villain in LIVE AND LET DIE Roger Moore's first James Bond venture LIVE AND LET DIE, th...

MODEL ACTRESS: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTINA GREGG

<p><i></i></p><p><i><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/AVvXsEhT_Ht7i0jx_YhA4WjMrsLH8DDb667ZYxCINhZ8U9W0tPmkmdmtzi2N684-msfVa-h9_rl8CQOaaYdBS-ihLu1eclAMO1TGqn4qz7fGnbscyrTxUkUHOxNzC3RHrmusJFrTy4C9rYko_XXaC2LdROdCrAIqqY_NiCAWR3_MmSfc2VYy9Pfos_DtmwHZJIWE/s2100/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-13%20at%2011.12.26%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="2100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT_Ht7i0jx_YhA4WjMrsLH8DDb667ZYxCINhZ8U9W0tPmkmdmtzi2N684-msfVa-h9_rl8CQOaaYdBS-ihLu1eclAMO1TGqn4qz7fGnbscyrTxUkUHOxNzC3RHrmusJFrTy4C9rYko_XXaC2LdROdCrAIqqY_NiCAWR3_MmSfc2VYy9Pfos_DtmwHZJIWE/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-13%20at%2011.12.26%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Interview with British actress and model CHRISTINA GREGG (here with William Campbell in The Young Racers)<br></u></td></tr></tbody></table></i></p><p></p><p><i>Christina Gregg was in a handful of British movies and TV from 1959 to 1964, and was one of England's top models... We asked some questions about those years where she juggled two trades that combined immense talent and beauty...  </i><u><br></u></p><p><u>START IN MODELING & ACTING</u>: I won a huge beauty contest when I was 17… Miss ABC Television… I would have won Miss Great Britain as well, but they told me I was too young to win! With this prize was a film test with Robert Day, director of <i>Women</i> Magazine, leading to a theatrical coach, Flossy Freedman, who also helped train Marlon Brando, and Angela Lansbur<i>y... </i></p><p>I was provided with an agent, so I had film training, and films came my way afterwards. Modeling took off with the cover of <i>Women</i> magazine, a huge circulation at that time, followed by many more. But it was not an advantage to be advertising products and acting at the same time… I lost opportunities because of this; however, I needed to earn money so I continued: Did advertisement commercials for Camay soap, which cost me a big part in a film.  </p><p></p><span></span>

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MODEL ACTRESS: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTINA GREGG

Interview with British actress and model CHRISTINA GREGG (here with William Campbell in The Young Racers) Christina Gregg was in a handful o...

QUICK REVIEW & YAPHET KOTTO REFLECTION OF 'BLUE COLLAR'

<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/AVvXsEgxVVTpzZPrz1-cr8um7NmJTRQuBUucWJqChXsWD75S1Dro07mqXYr5Klxlz--hRO3MF9LkcrqglUfJQT-ACYgUodFHZpBb3OLmGmszsyJ5s52aBZnutI6uXxko20TZ8TCSVFlq_H_jbi-zLv2c5r6Edd3nvXP-w9ycmofnHARKiwAy6FZMOGOxZJmg0w/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202020-06-04%20at%2010.23.22%20AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="866" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxVVTpzZPrz1-cr8um7NmJTRQuBUucWJqChXsWD75S1Dro07mqXYr5Klxlz--hRO3MF9LkcrqglUfJQT-ACYgUodFHZpBb3OLmGmszsyJ5s52aBZnutI6uXxko20TZ8TCSVFlq_H_jbi-zLv2c5r6Edd3nvXP-w9ycmofnHARKiwAy6FZMOGOxZJmg0w/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202020-06-04%20at%2010.23.22%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Yaphet Kotto with Richard Pryor and Harvey Keitel in Paul Schrader's BLUE COLLAR Year: 1978 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table>"The whole thing," shares iconic black actor Yaphet Kotto of BLUE COLLAR, "had become one improvisation after another... But if my memory serves me correct, director Paul Schrader told me, Harvey Keitel and Richard Pryor to improvise because he said we were 'Director Proof' actors and to 'improvise when you feel it’s necessary'; yet when we did as directed, I’m told he was annoyed — but he was lucky to have had us: The movie is a classic."<br> <br> And after writing Martin Scorsese's TAXI DRIVER, it's Paul Schrader's directorial debut: An underrated gem caught between the end of blaxploitation and the beginning of the end for the drug culture during the gloriously gritty 1970's: also the "Renaissance Period" of directors having complete control — and yet <i>the lack of</i> control is what really works...<br>

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QUICK REVIEW & YAPHET KOTTO REFLECTION OF 'BLUE COLLAR'

Yaphet Kotto with Richard Pryor and Harvey Keitel in Paul Schrader's BLUE COLLAR Year: 1978 Rating: **** "The whole thing," s...

LEE PURCELL REFLECTS THE CULT CLASSIC OF 'BIG WEDNESDAY'

<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/AVvXsEiYvxlhZgNSK4W1XYWTXm-2YH2VBv-HrMFYDOPLl5SASrJyfh2Ow3EcWbELnSemhnN8164Mi4eXR9LPeEcMfcaqMWykpH73oEBLSDVSSA9orEDllctQRjIpDwm1eKcLKEtHUM8tGddj43Mb/s1600/Screen%252BShot%252B2020-04-28%252Bat%252B4.17.32%252BAM%252B4.49.53%252BAM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="729" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYvxlhZgNSK4W1XYWTXm-2YH2VBv-HrMFYDOPLl5SASrJyfh2Ow3EcWbELnSemhnN8164Mi4eXR9LPeEcMfcaqMWykpH73oEBLSDVSSA9orEDllctQRjIpDwm1eKcLKEtHUM8tGddj43Mb/s1600/Screen%252BShot%252B2020-04-28%252Bat%252B4.17.32%252BAM%252B4.49.53%252BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Actress Lee Purcell Interview on the John Milius surf classic BIG WEDNESDAY pictured here with Jan-Michael Vincent</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <u>How were you selected for the role of Peggy Gordon in BIG WEDNESDAY?</u> There is a funny story about my audition. I was given the script and invited to audition for the role Patti (d’Arbanville) ended up playing, but I had already recently played similar characters. So I asked if I could instead audition for the role of Peggy. John (Milius) said yes, but that I had to come into Warner Brothers Studio and show them how I looked in a bikini.<br> <br> I was appalled since I was a “serious” actress, trained in London, etc. But, I wasn’t going to get the role if I didn’t, so I showed up in a trench coat with a bikini underneath. I told them to watch me carefully and not blink, and “flashed” everyone in the room then quickly closed the coat. They all laughed and I had the role then and there.<br>

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LEE PURCELL REFLECTS THE CULT CLASSIC OF 'BIG WEDNESDAY'

Actress Lee Purcell Interview on the John Milius surf classic BIG WEDNESDAY pictured here with Jan-Michael Vincent How were you selected...

YAPHET KOTTO ON THE 'DIRECTOR PROOF' SET OF 'BLUE COLLAR'

<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/AVvXsEiF6XOhjmf0dT4bRhyKqycGLtqxs6fd1zJUEFSy7HGUM3wQppe2J5AWdCEH2b-VHPNkcL4vm_HIEraOMe-fSLZYsLWb5sj9udYhpsgmlTuDuh1VBWzpTHKqpzUWnpZxFY3_UvElRA3p7WjJ/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-12-01+at+5.45.51+PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="1370" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF6XOhjmf0dT4bRhyKqycGLtqxs6fd1zJUEFSy7HGUM3wQppe2J5AWdCEH2b-VHPNkcL4vm_HIEraOMe-fSLZYsLWb5sj9udYhpsgmlTuDuh1VBWzpTHKqpzUWnpZxFY3_UvElRA3p7WjJ/s400/Screen+Shot+2019-12-01+at+5.45.51+PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Yaphet Kotto and Harvey Keitel in BLUE COLLAR circa 1978</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Paul Schrader's BLUE COLLAR is a really good film with a really great cast: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and, providing his account, Yaphet Kotto as auto laborers going up against a corporation and, more dangerous, their work union.<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/AVvXsEj7iq6sXNQxrntfl1LQHsRaJSkar98rysSeIulxVzaGsolc2nKBek8pWddvEbCRIGipm-mGWNSolkjd4gnd2fuUbyNgys881ir7goDI4CIwx5VwhjPiVc0x45bktGUrdvguSYLmIF1XXe4J/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-12-01+at+5.54.58+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1206" data-original-width="516" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7iq6sXNQxrntfl1LQHsRaJSkar98rysSeIulxVzaGsolc2nKBek8pWddvEbCRIGipm-mGWNSolkjd4gnd2fuUbyNgys881ir7goDI4CIwx5VwhjPiVc0x45bktGUrdvguSYLmIF1XXe4J/s320/Screen+Shot+2019-12-01+at+5.54.58+PM.png" width="136"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>And Richard Pryor</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> "First of all, by this point in the shoot we had gone so far off the script. I’m told Paul Schrader was annoyed, at least that’s what I’m told. The whole thing had become one improvisation after another, but if my memory serves me correct, he told me and Harvey and Richard to improvise. He said we were 'Director Proof' actors and to 'improvise when you feel it’s necessary.' Then when we did as directed, I’m told he was annoyed. Well I don’t really know if he was or not. But he was lucky to have had us. The movie is a classic.<br> <br> <u>How was it filming the death scene in the paint room</u>?
 "It was all right, no problems. We took about two days to shoot if my memory serves me right. The only thing that bothered me was that it was the second film in which my character dies and that bugged me a little. Otherwise everything else was cool." Kotto's character would also die, the next year, in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/11/kotto-on-alien.html">ALIEN</a> as he did in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2013/05/yaphet-kotto-110th-truck-turner.html">TRUCK TURNE</a>R and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/10/yaphet-kotto-kills-live-and-let-die.html">LIVE AND LET DIE</a>. <br>

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YAPHET KOTTO ON THE 'DIRECTOR PROOF' SET OF 'BLUE COLLAR'

Yaphet Kotto and Harvey Keitel in BLUE COLLAR circa 1978 Paul Schrader's BLUE COLLAR is a really good film with a really great cast:...

YAPHET KOTTO REFLECTS 'ALIEN' AND DIRECTOR RIDLEY SCOTT

<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/AVvXsEgG_UkClcgoRSoV6TRHnLioTQnLoHfM9LrQ4x6Ozex4TD3A1eHQmgau4CH6HGVHpf_OWLzoiRrpCOYuqgzE_7utGBsv75z2DV0HOgcqd_xEunPr7_Id7TZA-oHYuVTqGdD1RkIR8U9ZCezr/s1600/Alien_126Pyxurz-678x381.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="381" data-original-width="561" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG_UkClcgoRSoV6TRHnLioTQnLoHfM9LrQ4x6Ozex4TD3A1eHQmgau4CH6HGVHpf_OWLzoiRrpCOYuqgzE_7utGBsv75z2DV0HOgcqd_xEunPr7_Id7TZA-oHYuVTqGdD1RkIR8U9ZCezr/s400/Alien_126Pyxurz-678x381.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Yaphet Kotto serves up intensity as Parker in ALIENS circa 1979</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> "All of the scenes were challenging," said Yaphet Kotto in a Cult Film Freak interview about the classic science-fiction monster movie ALIEN. "Particularly when you know you have to act against sets that were huge. The special effects determined where you could walk. Then you ask yourself how can you survive in acting against a monster. Will you be remembered?" <br> <br> On director Ridley Scott, Kotto recalls: "Ridley Scott was cool. He gave us a ninety-page outline detailing each of our characters and then he disappeared behind the camera. That’s how he directs; he operates his own camera." As for Scott's direction on the actors: "Ridley told me 'No, no, don’t start cozying up with Sigourney.'<br> <br> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <table align="center" 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/AVvXsEiLv0cj3rJeVqd23sjaw3gyhHY7pNa7iQwrKDBqYqs87VP3XSW_5SKX6rsLt20GdWaO9d4bRgVeUmryrdLBPr9Rks9W0qSRl1-rZajuVsUAhI3XBdujs10vcQAudT-pKOrZlKo3DvaT9iJk/s1600/gallery_medium.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="227" data-original-width="554" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLv0cj3rJeVqd23sjaw3gyhHY7pNa7iQwrKDBqYqs87VP3XSW_5SKX6rsLt20GdWaO9d4bRgVeUmryrdLBPr9Rks9W0qSRl1-rZajuVsUAhI3XBdujs10vcQAudT-pKOrZlKo3DvaT9iJk/s400/gallery_medium.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Signourney Weaver and Yaphet Kotto in ALIEN</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> "He wanted me to annoy the crap out of her, which I did. He told me to get on Sigourney’s nerves; stop speaking to her on the lunch breaks, dressing rooms...<br> <br> "All for the end of the movie at that moment when she blows up at (me) 'Parker' and takes over leadership. And I did exactly as Ridley told me. To this day, I don’t know if he ever told her. I will never let a director do that to me again! I asked him when I saw him in Canada at their film festival and the release of the Director’s Cut and I don’t think he had."<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/AVvXsEguthjENcQ4hXZ_EYtGkFAIzn8O6pmIcRCPrkf7dOjglkyStyf8bxwLsQsfcwZwtRx3Mb3JJ3WD_aGiarY81dBKPXqGX5iIy80jCpoTlZczt_of9VD6Konq81d8q-OVO4VmcrmpuronbEMQ/s1600/e83a0659df05871098fed1600eba11fe.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="1086" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguthjENcQ4hXZ_EYtGkFAIzn8O6pmIcRCPrkf7dOjglkyStyf8bxwLsQsfcwZwtRx3Mb3JJ3WD_aGiarY81dBKPXqGX5iIy80jCpoTlZczt_of9VD6Konq81d8q-OVO4VmcrmpuronbEMQ/s1600/e83a0659df05871098fed1600eba11fe.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Harry Dean Stanton as Brett and Yaphet Kotto blue collaring in ALIEN</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div>

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YAPHET KOTTO REFLECTS 'ALIEN' AND DIRECTOR RIDLEY SCOTT

Yaphet Kotto serves up intensity as Parker in ALIENS circa 1979 "All of the scenes were challenging," said Yaphet Kotto in a C...

THOR MARVELS THE HULK IN 'THE INCREDIBLE HULK RETURNS'

<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/AVvXsEjCTRDKTgnNn0EMERCuVAW3GQ5fYHm-p-SvDgMyDR_dUgkMI9h1Rf23tJ3vBTB2FE0rIWW9XA2PuEmbfva8YF0MGw1T1rrZNsbL9JC7IyeFw6QDs3v8W26YuJH1fX5w7ogfQXmkSejz0yxb/s1600/30.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1176" data-original-width="1600" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCTRDKTgnNn0EMERCuVAW3GQ5fYHm-p-SvDgMyDR_dUgkMI9h1Rf23tJ3vBTB2FE0rIWW9XA2PuEmbfva8YF0MGw1T1rrZNsbL9JC7IyeFw6QDs3v8W26YuJH1fX5w7ogfQXmkSejz0yxb/s400/30.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jack Colvin wouldn't like Eric Allan Kramer angry either YEAR: 1988</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> The first and best of three post series Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno INCREDIBLE HULK television movies, and since Marvels' THE AVENGERS is such a hot commodity, this live-action Thor teaming with Hulk circa 1988 was decades ahead of its time...<br> <br> And comparably dated, but it's hard to deny the infectious charm of Eric Allan Kramer as the Norse god who, discovered from a backstory/flashback by his dweeby keeper played by dweeby actor Steve Levitt, is a scene-stealing stranger in a strange land, making THE INCREDIBLE HULK RETURNS more like a possible Thor pilot than a continuation of the titular green hero. After Thor (and Levitt's Donald Blake) parties at a local biker bar, he helps Lou Ferrigno's Hulk<i> after</i> fighting him inside a corporation laboratory where, once again, Bixby's David Banner surreptitiously works, trying to permanently cease his roaring alter ego... And what does every mobile lonely man need?<br>

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THOR MARVELS THE HULK IN 'THE INCREDIBLE HULK RETURNS'

Jack Colvin wouldn't like Eric Allan Kramer angry either YEAR: 1988 The first and best of three post series Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno ...

GLANCE AT MARTIN SCORSESE'S PIVOTAL CLASSIC 'MEAN STREETS'

<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/AVvXsEimdDAeH0cW76A_CHQGiPagjJ2R0r_qQLXvv-q6Rl5T6mCMNCzvzM-ilDggtsz68QLWwg8n1J5WtA0ePAOCSjxBbbWl_uvRUxHguu61aYP6V83jGNxwicfR8qO3sYydLdg_cFNIVWosdIc1/s1600/Screen+Shot+2019-08-18+at+12.09.48+AM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="1112" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimdDAeH0cW76A_CHQGiPagjJ2R0r_qQLXvv-q6Rl5T6mCMNCzvzM-ilDggtsz68QLWwg8n1J5WtA0ePAOCSjxBbbWl_uvRUxHguu61aYP6V83jGNxwicfR8qO3sYydLdg_cFNIVWosdIc1/s400/Screen+Shot+2019-08-18+at+12.09.48+AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The tail-end of MEAN STREETS w/ the Warner worm logo YEAR: 1973</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Fans of the more bloody and gory, deathly and formidable in-your-face mafia flicks may be let=down by the subtle, more realistic, existential nature  of Martin Scorsese's game-changing MEAN STREETS, which is to mob films what AMERICAN GRAFFITI is to college...<br> <br> None of these street-wise <i>characters</i>, twenty-somethings hanging around New York City's titular locae, are actually in the mafia (like in director Scorsese’s violently-progressed epic masterpiece GOODFELLAS), but could be on their way including Harvey Keitel as Charlie, working to know just about everyone around town and, with a Mafioso uncle, he only sees the inner-workings like a kid staring through a peephole... <br>

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GLANCE AT MARTIN SCORSESE'S PIVOTAL CLASSIC 'MEAN STREETS'

The tail-end of MEAN STREETS w/ the Warner worm logo YEAR: 1973 Fans of the more bloody and gory, deathly and formidable in-your-face ma...

KAREN BLACK REFELECTS ORIGINS & 'EASY' COUNTER-CULTURE

<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/AVvXsEj9mRZIPlx4lISSYZ6YUfagMVq8eJPNlbQfrj-ksdCWf7hWVeulDayFOStIZqk3hEd3f7T-cmpg5LJYKWWeL0VidhyphenhyphenrFv4oZvmRBzlkcD9PhEpl72fzzPamGtNXE4h-Siorh5UlqcFHcUJy/s1600/0.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="1041" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9mRZIPlx4lISSYZ6YUfagMVq8eJPNlbQfrj-ksdCWf7hWVeulDayFOStIZqk3hEd3f7T-cmpg5LJYKWWeL0VidhyphenhyphenrFv4oZvmRBzlkcD9PhEpl72fzzPamGtNXE4h-Siorh5UlqcFHcUJy/s1600/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Karen Black on her career beginnings and sporadic cinema in this first of three parts of our transcribed Interview</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> The lovely and talented KAREN BLACK has played both leading ladies and character roles: the bigger parts with lots of character and the smaller ones standing out, quite often stealing the show...<br> <br> And to honor this incredible actress, who died Wednesday, at 74, we'll go back to the beginning as Karen discusses how she got into the business of acting...<br>

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KAREN BLACK REFELECTS ORIGINS & 'EASY' COUNTER-CULTURE

Karen Black on her career beginnings and sporadic cinema in this first of three parts of our transcribed Interview The lovely and talent...

KAREN BLACK REFLECTS 'TRILOGY OF TERROR' AND 'NASHVILLE'

<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/AVvXsEjUjabR6HMeM-iiHFi7MSsv1jWVnL3lqnD0v41vhtqZpwUrQ_Tvbp_gdh-goI10zyZesoxFYiInBtHqLcIDqaF3UdrT84OyVJnVG3IPfk2-rwG3o7Y1Gd2zP2vAWcPTlqbXwurrnlv3BWr4/s1600/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUjabR6HMeM-iiHFi7MSsv1jWVnL3lqnD0v41vhtqZpwUrQ_Tvbp_gdh-goI10zyZesoxFYiInBtHqLcIDqaF3UdrT84OyVJnVG3IPfk2-rwG3o7Y1Gd2zP2vAWcPTlqbXwurrnlv3BWr4/s1600/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Interview with KAREN BLACK on Trilogy of Terror and Nashville</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> KAREN BLACK was an amazing actress... Known for her work on the big screen in groundbreaking indie films like EASY RIDER and especially her Oscar nominated role in FIVE EASY PIECES, she followed up with low and big budget movies alike, and television... Perhaps her most popular performance, or rather, in the case of the Dan Curtis made-for-TV anthology TRILOGY OF TERROR, <u>performances</u> was playing three (or depending how you look at it, four) characters in three chilling vignettes...<br> <br> The most memorable has Karen battling a killer doll... Although the first story really shows her range as an actress, playing a shy college professor with hidden layers...<br>

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KAREN BLACK REFLECTS 'TRILOGY OF TERROR' AND 'NASHVILLE'

Interview with KAREN BLACK on Trilogy of Terror and Nashville KAREN BLACK was an amazing actress... Known for her work on the big scree...

KAREN BLACK RELECTS ALFRED HITCHCOCK & THE GREAT GATSBY

<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/AVvXsEjGJFFxs828ISWdvtHc34F3D_IZVvdpzDZiECAE8X5_Q97z46cONlaooO9j0kYo4-gjDGeJkWP4J_cJ8p0zI1iyThdWdE5Uz_xiZ8_nbjNza85NMM-o-XvwODrWezkjvvjKTDVWXfHhCPxB/s1600/4624.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="922" data-original-width="1200" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGJFFxs828ISWdvtHc34F3D_IZVvdpzDZiECAE8X5_Q97z46cONlaooO9j0kYo4-gjDGeJkWP4J_cJ8p0zI1iyThdWdE5Uz_xiZ8_nbjNza85NMM-o-XvwODrWezkjvvjKTDVWXfHhCPxB/s400/4624.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Karen Black on Alfred Hitchcock during the filming of Family Plot</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <u>You starred in FAMILY PLOT with Bruce Dern... This was the last film to be directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock... How was it working with Hitchcock and what was he like? </u><br> <br> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> I’m so happy that happened to me. In my life it’s a great thing. He was very playful, truly, truly playful. He loved games. He loved to sort of…<br> <br> There’s a story, he was on an elevator and he started this terrible story at the top of this building, you know, and everyone in the elevator could hear him as he was talking to a chum. “Oh there was a terrible murder. The body was on the floor. There was blood all over.” And he was telling the story and he was about to solve the problem of the crime very quickly and say who did it when the elevator doors open, and everybody had to walk out. And he knew it. He was just doing it to be funny.<br>

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KAREN BLACK RELECTS ALFRED HITCHCOCK & THE GREAT GATSBY

Karen Black on Alfred Hitchcock during the filming of Family Plot You starred in FAMILY PLOT with Bruce Dern... This was the last film ...