"This is television, that's all it is. It has nothing to do with people."
- The Running Man (1987)
Creator of the award-winning web series, Abnormal Fixation. One of the horror genre's "most widely read critics" (Rue Morgue # 68), "an accomplished film journalist" (Comic Buyer's Guide #1535), and the award-winning author of Horror Films of the 1980s (2007) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002), John Kenneth Muir, presents his blog on film, television and nostalgia, named one of the Top 100 Film Studies Blog on the Net.
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My favorite quote by Damon Killian is when he's on the phone:
ReplyDeleteWell, it is a contact sport, okay? You want ratings. You want people in front of the television instead of picket lines. Well, you're not gonna get that with re-runs of Gilligan's Island.
[pause]
Gilligan's Island.
[hums the theme song]
Yeah, the one with the boat.
Hi FilmFather:
ReplyDeleteI love the character of Damon Killian, and I thought Richard Dawson was awesome in the role. In my less judicious days -- back in high school -- I wrote in the school paper that he should have gotten an Academy Award for that performance! I don't know that I would still believe that today; but Dawson is a helluva a lot of fun in The Running Man...
thanks for the great comment,
JKM