Honestly, I’m not sure you really need that much time between similar roles. Back in the day, Lon Chaney Sr. played The Phantom of the Opera AND The Hunchback of Notre Dame within a few years of each other. Boris Karloff starred in FRANKENSTEIN in 1931 and THE MUMMY in 1932. And, heck, Charlton Heston played Moses AND…

Fun article! I always loved this movie, too.

Let it be noted that the theme song, “The Morning After,” won the Academy Award for Best Song that year, beating out the title song from “Ben” by Michael Jackson.

I confess I’ve never entirely forgiven “The Morning After” for that because I REALLY wanted the Oscar to go to…

She’s also great in NIGHT OF THE HUNTER—where, oddly enough, she ends up underwater again . . . .

Wow. I’m honestly amazed that anyone else remembers GOLIATH AWAITS, which, incidentally, also featured Christopher Lee (!) as the ship’s captain.

According to the closed-captioning, that Pacific Northwest island was spelled Cicily, which I’m guessing was intended as a sly reference to NORTHERN EXPOSURE, which was, of course, filmed in Washington state.

The Leverage novels, by me, Matt Forbeck, and Keith DeCandido, are all set during the series and are all standalone adventures. Mine is set when they were still operating out of Boston instead of Portland . .. or so I recall. (That was a few years ago.)

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Bingo. They said it about THOR, they said it about GUARDIANS, they said it about ANT-MAN . . . .

Well, technically, Peter Hooten did it first. :)

She was great in that.

“I am Ishtar, bloody Ishtar!”

(By coincidence, I was watching her in an old COLUMBO rerun just last night.)

I’m sure it hasn’t aged well, but I loved this movie as a teen. It was the only one of those old CBS tv adaptations that didn’t seem ashamed of its comic-book roots.

But that’s always how Hollywood—and theater—has worked. Do you think that audiences in the 1880s objected to seeing the same actors on stage all the time, playing a variety of iconic roles?”

“What? Henry Irving can’t play Macbeth. He played Hamlet just last season!”

Or in the thirties and forties: “What? Errol Flynn…

What about Brandon Routh as Superman AND the Atom? And when does the statue of limitations for playing a comic-book hero expire?

Just to pile on here, since you’re hardly the first person to raise this kind of objection, but how many different cowboys did John Wayne play in his career? How many cops and detectives have Clint Eastwood or Bruce Willis played. But modern actors are supposed to be limited to one superhero or geek icon apiece?

A bit…

Because Ricardo Montalban (whom I love) was not devouring scenery by the acre in THE WRATH OF KHAN?

And if ever there was a Marvel character who needed to be a little theatrical, it would be Strange.

“By the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak!”.

Or the clever Art Department. :)

My favorite bit: When Eve tries explaining that she and Flynn are Flemish (to explain their odd accents) and Flynn starts coughing until she clarifies: “. . . from Flanders.”

I laughed out loud.

I actually took John Keel, the author of THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES, out to lunch once. For some reason, he wanted to meet at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum first. An interesting character . . . .

I got a set of miniature plastic cryptids: Bigfoot, Nessie, a yeti, ect. (What, no Mothman?)

And I treated myself to COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE and THE RETURN OF COUNT YORGA on DVD.

Along with “mary sue,” can we retire “jumping the shark” as well? Another term that has been broadened and overused to point of meaninglessness.

FINALLY saw the movie today—and, yeah, Rey is great.

And Lord knows that SISTER HYDE is better than than Hammer’s “straight” Jekyll/Hyde adaptation, THE TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL, which is absolutely tedious. I have a great weakness for old Hammer flicks, but I even I couldn’t get all the way through that one . . . .