#abe vigoda

[citizenscreen]

Remembering Abe Vigoda on his birthday #botd

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[oldshowbiz]

The Stress of Fish

[duranduratulsa]

Now showing on DuranDuranTulsa's Horror Show...The Stuff (1985) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #horror #thestuff #MichaelMoriarty #scottbloom #brianbloom #PaulSorvino #RIPPaulSorvino #garrettmorris #andreamarcovicci #BrookeAdams #AbeVigoda #patrickoneal #tammygrimes #rutanyaalda #patrickdempsey #MiraSorvino #DannyAiello #clarapeller #ripclarapeller #vintage #vhs #80s #durandurantulsa #durandurantulsashorrorshow

[swan2swan]

In honor of today's festivities, I want to share a very special moment I was privileged enough to witness eighteen years ago...

[coolthingsguyslike]

[camyfilms]

THE GODFATHER 1972

Fredo, you're my older brother, and I love you. But don't ever take sides with anyone against the Family again. Ever.

[twittercomfrnklin2001-blog]

The Stuff

Killer ice cream? You’d think that would be one of the worst ideas in horror film history, but in the hands of Larry Cohen, THE STUFF (1985, YouTube, Plex) comes off as an almost inspired satire of consumerism and the drive to convince people that “Enough is never enough.” It’s sheer pulp, but with such a loopy energy it’s easy to forgive its few weak scenes (Cohen was a great idea man who often couldn’t film a simple scene of two people talking) and the continuity lapses created when New World removed 30 minutes from the director’s cut. Cohen’s satirical aim can get a little broad at times. It may be hard to stomach the thought that humanity’s hope lies in the hands of a paranoid militia leader (Paul Sorvino) in Georgia, a state that here earns my nickname for it, “Stupidvania.”

In their second of five projects together (four features and one TV episode), Cohen’s muse, Michael Moriarty, is an industrial spy hired by a conglomerate of ice cream manufacturers to investigate The Stuff, an addictive, low-calorie desert that’s pushing them out of the market. At the same time, suburban kid Jason Bloom notices the product can move on its own and realizes his parents and brother (Bloom’s real-life brother Brian) are so addicted to it they can no longer think for themselves. He and Moriarty join forces with the ad exec (Andrea Marcovicci) who sold it to America and set out to uncover the secrets behind The Stuff and warn the world before what everybody’s been eating eats them.

Cohen’s film is delightfully off-the-wall, starting with Moriarty’s largely improvised performance as a man who plays dumb (and Southern) to get info that might be withheld from a smarter man. As in their first film together, Q: THE WINGED SERPENT (1982), Moriarty makes something charming out of a potentially irritating character. It’s a treat watching him con the foolish and connect with the wise. Marcovicci doesn’t get as many opportunities to shine (a scene developing their relationship was among the cuts), but she has moments of wit in dealing with the crazies they encounter and makes running from The Stuff in heels a comic comment on horror-film improbabilities. There’s also a nice turn by Garrett Morris as “Chocolate Chip” Charlie, a cookie magnate whose business has been taken over by The Stuff’s distributors. Eric Bogosian cameos as a supermarket employee, and Patrick Dempsey figures in the final scene. Even Cohen couldn’t tell you where a very young Mira Sorvino turns up (she did a bit while visiting her father on set). A big highlight are the commercials for the product, featuring the likes of Tammy Grimes, Brooke Adams, Abe Vigoda and, best of all, Clara Peller, demanding “Where’s the Stuff?”

[fibula-rasa]

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)

[mandoreviews]

📽️ Jury Duty (1995)

There is only one word to describe this movie: idiotic. I watched this because my sisters and I were on a Pauly Shore kick after watching Son in Law. I have to say this one was disappointing. It’s not nearly as funny or interesting as Son in Law. It was long and boring, actually. (It’s actually not a long movie; it just felt long because it was stupid.) It’s actually unfortunate that I disliked this movie so much because I really enjoy Pauly Shore, although I know that that opinion in itself is not super popular one. Either way, I won’t be watching this movie again and I wouldn’t recommend it unless you want to be bored. To (greatly) paraphrase Billy Madison, I am dumber for having watched it.

Sex/nudity: 3/10 (a few innuendoes and references, some suggestive scenes)

Language: 3/10 (no f words, many instances of God’s name, many juvenile words, some other cursing)

Violence: 1/10 (I honestly don’t remember but IMDb says mild)

Overall rating: 2/10

[mariocki]

The Cheap Detective (1978)

"Mr. Peckinpaugh? You look startled."

"Oh, no, it's just that, uh, you look like fourteen other dames that was here the other night."

"Yes, I know. They were my sister."

"Well, that explains the resemblance."

"Not to me. She was adopted."

"Yeah, well, so am I, but I don't look like your sister either."

[abs0luteb4stard]

W A T C H I N G

I'm RE-WATCHING it in order with the Animated Series.

[oldshowbiz]

a comedy classic

[duranduratulsa]

Now showing on DuranDuranTulsa's Horror Show...The Stuff (1984) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #horror #thestuff #MichaelMoriarty #scottbloom #brianbloom #PaulSorvino #RIPPaulSorvino #garrettmorris #andreamarcovicci #BrookeAdams #AbeVigoda #patrickoneal #tammygrimes #rutanyaalda #patrickdempsey #MiraSorvino #DannyAiello #RipDannyAiello #clarapeller #ripclarapeller #vintage #vhs #80s #durandurantulsa #durandurantulsashorrorshow

[contentabnormal]

This week on Content Abnormal we are celebrating the SIXTH BIRTHDAY of our show by presenting the one we started it all with, The Shadow, in an award-winning adventured called "The Ghost Walks Again"!

[tuttle-did-it]

'The Prodigal Father' in Murder, She Wrote. Guest stars for this episode:

Donnelly Rhodes (Battlestar Galactica reboot, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Da Vinci's Inquest, Supernatural, Smallville, The L Word, Psych, The Collector, Danger Bay, etc)

Claudia Christian (Babylon 5, The Rookie, NCIS, Castle, lots of video game voices, Columbo, Matlock, etc)

Abe Vigoda (The Godfather, Mad About You, Wings, Law & Order, Diagnosis Murder, Batman: Mask of the Phantom MacGyver, Fantasy Island, Eight is Enough, The Love Boat, The Rockford Files, etc)

Episode aired Mar 10, 1991