"This is television, that's all it is. It has nothing to do with people."
- The Running Man (1987)
Saturday, March 05, 2011
Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week
award-winning creator of Enter The House Between and author of 32 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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60 Years Ago: The Last Man on Earth (1964)
Shot in Italy on a shoe-string budget and released by American International Pictures, this nihilistic and impressive black-and-white adapta...
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My friend, Johnny Byrne (27 November 1935 – 3 April 2008) -- an Irish poet, philosopher and writer on science fiction TV series such as Sp... -
How did my love for the movies actually begin? Was it at the drive-in double features (where I saw Death Race 2000 [1975] and Lege...
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