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Feb 8, 2017 - 12:28 PM
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ANZALDIMAN
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THE UNCLE FLOYD TRILOGY - NOW AVAILABLE ON VHS AND BETAMAX
UNCLE FLOYD - THE MOVIE (1987)
When a local cable TV comedic sensation named Uncle Floyd (Floyd Vivino), busts onto the New York City comedy scene, he meets an unscrupulous agent (Eli Wallach) who entangles the comedian into a plot involving unsold junk bonds. Meg Ryan, George Wendt, John C. McGinley, Jackie Mason, Jessica Lundy, and Joe Franklin as himself.
FLOYDIAN SCHTICK (1991)
When Uncle Floyd (Floyd Vivino) has to fly to Florida to visit his oddball parents in a family emergency, a case of mistaken luggage makes him the target of several professional jewel thieves attempting to reclaim their stolen property. Julianne Phillips, Steve Buscemi, Brion James, Brother Theodore, Ann Meara, and Chuck McCann.
WHERE'S FLOYD? (1993)
In the last, but not least, Uncle Floyd farce, Floyd (Floyd Vivino) takes a dimiwitted comedic wannabe (Judge Reinhold) under his wing and mentors him in the ways of the comedic world. Willem Dafoe, Kate Vernon, Alan King, Judd Apatow, and Robert Goulet.
Floyd was scheduled to make an appearance at St. Andrew's recently. I'm sure he would have boxes of these old movies available for about a buck apiece. All proceeds going to The Knights of Columbus I guess.
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NIKKI BURROWS AND THE SUCCASUNNA SIX (2010)
When a rough and tumble party chick (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) hooks up with two Japanese Businessman, a paraplegic, and a ture salesman, all goes to hell in a hand basket as they search for a gold skull bong in a remotely wooded New Jersey forest. Sung Kang, Gedde Watanabe, Henry Thomas, Michael Wincott, Albert Finney, and Jason Statham as "Rexx"
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THE FLOW OF IT ALL (2008)
Three friends (Brendan Frasier, Anthony Michael Hall, and Gary Oldman) meet in a New York restaurant, reuniting to mourn the deaths of all three of their wives in a tragic roof collapse of a Boston Circuit City ten years earlier. Jason Alexander, Peter Stormare, Parker Posey, Cameron Diaz, and Miranda Richardson.
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My What Could Have Been, But Never Was* tribute to the late Sir Roger Moore. Rest in peace, "Prime Minister Simon Hopeworthy":
HELL INTO BELFAST (1973)
Directed by Michael Winner.
When a British prime minister's family is murdered by the IRA, he resigns and reassembles his middle-aged WWII commando buddies for a bloody vendetta of vengeance. Roger Moore; Richard Attenborough; Susannah York; Ken Hutchison; Malcolm McDowell; Ian Hendry; and Edward Woodward as "Hatcher."
*Thank God.
I remember that one. Thank God Sir Roger turned it down. The role eventually went to Peter Wyngarde. There was a harrowing scene where the very young Kenneth Branagh was blown to smithereens by a terrorist shoe-bomb. Wyngarde was traumatised by that, as he'd paid the boy to sell papers outside the shoe-shop that was a cover for terrorist activity. The celebrated chase scene when Hatcher spotted the bookie with one shoe running down the alley was actually filmed in a real black cab.
Roy Budd's title music was replaced by an ironic treatment of Percy French's 'Come Home, Paddy Reilly' playing from an on-scene cassette recorder as the terrorist wrapped Semtex in silver foil to look like Cadbury's Fruit & Nut.
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LOOK OUT! IT'S MR. ROPER! (1975)
John Saxon returns as Roper, the martial artist/gambling rogue he first portrayed in ENTER THE DRAGON. This time he's in Egypt, investigating the lethal Pharoah gun runners, heirs to ancient fighting skills the world has not seen in thousands of years. Angela Mao is also back, playing the twin sister of Su Lin. Raf Vallone, Michael Shaloub, Norman Fell, Virna Lisi also star. Produced by Raymond Chow. Music by Bruno Nicolai.
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Jun 20, 2017 - 9:45 AM
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Jim Phelps
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My What Could Have Been, But Never Was* tribute to the late Sir Roger Moore. Rest in peace, "Prime Minister Simon Hopeworthy":
HELL INTO BELFAST (1973)
Directed by Michael Winner.
When a British prime minister's family is murdered by the IRA, he resigns and reassembles his middle-aged WWII commando buddies for a bloody vendetta of vengeance. Roger Moore; Richard Attenborough; Susannah York; Ken Hutchison; Malcolm McDowell; Ian Hendry; and Edward Woodward as "Hatcher."
*Thank God.
I remember that one. Thank God Sir Roger turned it down. The role eventually went to Peter Wyngarde. There was a harrowing scene where the very young Kenneth Branagh was blown to smithereens by a terrorist shoe-bomb. Wyngarde was traumatised by that, as he'd paid the boy to sell papers outside the shoe-shop that was a cover for terrorist activity. The celebrated chase scene when Hatcher spotted the bookie with one shoe running down the alley was actually filmed in a real black cab.
Roy Budd's title music was replaced by an ironic treatment of Percy French's 'Come Home, Paddy Reilly' playing from an on-scene cassette recorder as the terrorist wrapped Semtex in silver foil to look like Cadbury's Fruit & Nut.
Hey, I really like this!  While I can't accept it as "What Could Have Been" canon, I can still integrate it into my "vision" of Hell into Belfast by altering the Wyngarde angle and have him in the Sir Rog version in another role, as I would be willing to kickstart his career after that ASBO nonsense or whatever it was that he was supposed to have done.
Funny anecdote about young Kenneth is that even at age 11, he fancied himself a director, giving Michael Winner "suggestions" for camera placement and pacing; no wonder Branagh's character was blown up!
Anyway, well done Mr. McCrum.
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