Chernobyl: A Stalkers’ Guide " In Chernobyl: A Stalkers’ Guide, researcher Darmon Richter journeys into the contemporary Exclusion Zone, venturing deeper than any previously published account. While thousands of foreign visitors congregate around a handful of curated sites, beyond the tourist hotsp...

Agreed with everything you wrote two posts back, Pahonu. I would reply in depth, but it would take us entirely too far away from 29 Cove Road.

The first HUAC meeting and the Hollywood 10 were actually in the late 40’s and the blacklist wasn’t broken until the early 60’s. Some writers simply never went back to using their names. I’m sure there were myriad personal reasons after so many years. Most people know about Dalton Trumbo, but anoth...

Continuing with the 1970s--not that I ever leave that decade--I hereby submit Busting (1974) Robert Blake and Elliott Gould play Starsky & Hutch -style renegade cops. Billy "Columbo" Goldenberg provided the funky, energetic score. Gould's mustache gives even The Mighty Selleck's a run for its money...

Sometimes fandom can be quirky and almost silly to those who don’t know the story. I grew up in the LA area, but my father was Canadian and a hockey fan, not a baseball fan. I went to my first MLB game at age 7 while visiting my uncle who lived in Pittsburgh. I became a fan almost instantly and ido...

karolis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 2:40 pm
It's obvious that Tozan's sword didn't even touch the candle:

Nah. Tozan's just that good.

Reminds me of a childhood nightmare:

Walter Brennan won 3 Oscars in what, 5 years? The man knew what he was doing. I love his "Stumpy" character in Rio Bravo.

I don't know about the other 2 but SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT is the one! :) Jerry Reed ("Snowman") says it to Burt over his CB radio. Now there's a movie that's infinitely superior to the overrated STAR WARS when it comes to films released in 1977. With "Kojak" in the sentence, the movie "had to" have ...

I remember an older kid at my elementary school bus stop talking trash about Smokey & the Bandit , but we younger morons loved it. The Late Show is another 1977 film that I prefer over Star Wars . Plus, it's obscure enough to recommend in this thread. Our boy Luther Gillis appears in the film, and i...

ZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan) wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:04 pm "A Kojak with a Kodak"

A hearty "well done" to anyone who can name the movie that line is from.

No idea why it just popped into my head this morning. Just one of those things.

White Line Fever? Convoy? Smokey and the Bandit?

Maybe all three...

I always had a fondness for the band America's music. Their songs were played frequently on the radio throughout the '70s.

Ventura Highway


youtu.be/tnV7dTXlXxs

Thanks, Dobie. Off to read it now.

Here's the link:

How Quinn Martin and His Crime Shows Came to Dominate TV

I finished season one. Here are the ratings grouped by their 1-10 IMDb-style star rating system. No episode in season one got a rating lower than a "5" so it was a solid introductory season. 10 Stone, Cold Dead Flight Plan 9 Fool's Gold Dead Pigeon The Torch 8 Pilot Scream of Silence A Lonely Place ...

Hard Times is another Bronson film that goes forgotten these days. Lawman has a great cast--including Higgy Baby, the great Robert Duvall, and Richard Jordan--and a fine Jerry Fielding score. Burt Lancaster only got better as an actor as he aged. If forced, I would say my all-time favorite 1970s fi...

I have rarely read my old comics over the past five years. I buy the occasional hardcover edition more out of a lifelong habit than anything else and even that is drying up. I wasted plenty of my GenX childhood on Star Wars-related nonsense as well as Indiana Jones. I'm still fond of the first films...