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ThomasSullivanMagnumIV
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| For those of you who did not know this, I own a DVD with John Hillerman in it. It is a 1974 Mel Brooks movie called Blazing Saddles. He plays Howard Johnson in the movie. People should the movie. It's a hilarious movie.
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rubber chicken
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Waltstasz
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SelleckLover
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:04 am Post subject: |
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| "Blazing Saddles" is Mel Brooks at his finest! It's so un-PC!
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eegorr
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Frodoleader
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| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:37 am Post subject: |
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| What blew me away was seeing John Hillerman in The Last Picture Show!
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Magnum92
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| Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 11:20 am Post subject: |
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| I love near the end when they all yell BULLSHIT!!
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Doc Ibold
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I actually just saw "Blazing Saddles" the other day, and one thing I noticed was that the "Howard Johnson" character was significantly more bald (back of head) than the "Higgins" character.
NOTE: This was during an action scene, so ut may have been a stunt double, and due to my Magnum fascination, I was paying more attention to Mr. Hillerman than the rest of the cast.
Since BS was made in 1974, and Magnum didn't start until 1979, I wonder if Mr. Hillerman was wearing a haripiece the entire Magnum run?
(Not that it would have made any difference to the character whatsoever, but if it was a toupee, it was really convincing!)
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Shermy
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| Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Doc Ibold wrote: | | I wonder if Mr. Hillerman was wearing a haripiece the entire Magnum run? |
His hairline certainly appears less defined in the first season. ("The Curse of the King Kamehameha Club" springs to mind.)
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IslandHopper
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| I think I read somewhere that Larry Manetti said that JH did wear a hairpiece. I believe he indicated that when they were on the set of a particular talk show promoting MPI, he said he would tease JH and take his hairpiece. I think he also said that TS snapped at him to behave. This all may have been in Larry Manetti's book. I'll have to check. Whenever they do flashback scenes of Higgins on MPI you can see his hair is much fuller and covers his entire head, even the part of his forehead near his part that is usually bare. An example of this can be seen in "A Letter To A Duchess" (season 4) when Higgins remembers first meeting the Vivian (The Lady Wilkerson).
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