Getting down to the nitty-gritty before we get to our big award of the week but still a bit to go. I hope that this doesn't feel like it's running long like the Oscars but if you're drinking right along you should be getting pretty numb by now & feeling no pain.
On to the next nominee for best picture..
Ozploitation stunt man Grant Page goes to LA to work on a TV series. While there he is also interviewed to be featured in a magazine about his craft & lends his knowledge to the band Sorcery. Highlighted w/ Page's death defying work & Sorcery’s showman performance this may have become a little cult hit w/ me.
Ozploitation stunt man Grant Page goes to LA to work on a TV series. While there he is also interviewed to be featured in a magazine about his craft & lends his knowledge to the band Sorcery. Highlighted w/ Page's death defying work & Sorcery’s showman performance this may have become a little cult hit w/ me.
From 1980 Brian Trenchard-Smith's Stunt Rock
Time for our last award before we get to best picture – The Bud
Be you super cool, a bad ass mother-fucker, hilarious as hell or carrying all the right stuff The King of Beers will be awarded to the best male performance.
The nominees are...
Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Penn will always be remembered as stoner Spicoli so much that it would almost haunt him through his career. Granted the actor has gone on to many great performances his role in Fast Times At Ridgemont High would be the molder for stoners from then on often imitated but never duplicated. Keanu Reeves eat your fucking heart out.
Ray Walston as Mr Hand in Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Walston may have Penn to work of off but for just about every teenager in high school they had a Mr Hand. Walston is hilarious playing it so straight & true that I can't but help having him as a favorite of mine after seeing him in this movie. He almost makes me want to go track down old episodes of My Favorite Martian
Burt Reynolds as Sonny Hooper in Hooper
Say what many of you want about Burt Reynolds that man is 100% charisma. In the 70s the critics be damn & he produced some of the finest & funnest Drive In around because he knew who his audience was. As Hooper there's no exception.
David Campbell as Colonel Crawford in Kill Zone
Now many people say your probably shouldn't even be considered for an award if you're in a David A Prior movie but Campbell really won me over on a sheer fun factor. Sure his performance is a bit over the top but his tongue is planted firmly enough in this productions spirit that he stands out the most amongst the tripe...plus very few kill w/ less mercy.
William Smith as Angel in Run Angel Run
Nothing says Drive In motorcycle movie like Smith. He's the king of them & has a list to his resume longer then John Homes' cock. In Run Angel Run! he puts in another fine performance for the genre as an outlaw who in the end realizes there just might be something more to life like home & family.
Warren Oates as Mack in Dixie Dynamite
Oates has never fully gotten the recognition that he rightfully deserves put those familiar w/ his work knows that actor always adds to any project that he is involved in. Although top bill Oates is a little down in the pecking order of appearances in Dixie Dynamite but when he leaves town & you don't see him for awhile you're checking your watch for when he will return.
..& the winner is
Burt Reynolds as Sonny Hooper in Hooper
Burt Reynolds quite often is always Burt Reynolds but he is almost always good @ it. Not only does he stand great on his own but brings out the best of those around him being James Best, Sally Field, Brain Keith & Terry Bradshaw. For that he makes this movie very complete & a hell of a lot of fun.
Best Picture is still to come so stick around as we get to the bottom of this pack.
..Be back after this
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