This seemed pretty darned stupid to me ( though I did appreciate the homage to Romero's Dawn of the Dead); Strand & the kid; the group leaving everyone else in the community in danger by leaving gates open: the Nick - Strand story line; & why exactly was Strand there in detention when he could have hid out in his…

Always enjoyed Lloyd's death scene in Saboteur. It was only after St. Elsewhere that I realized how many other films & shows I had seen him in .Great Random Roles.

No mention of Crimson Tide or Cattle Annie & Little Britches? i'm sure he would have had some good stories of working on those films. Otherwise it was a very entertaining Random Roles & made me aware of films I had seen long ago ( The Baby Maker) that i did not know he was in. Thaks.

Loved the Undying Monster as a kid back in the sixties & its dvd release of several years ago along with the other films in the Fox collection. But you have to check out his RKO film noir The Locket with Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne & Laraine Day it is delirious with flashbacks within flashbacks & one of the wildest…

In The Petrified Forest Bette Davis calls the character played by Porter Hall Porter. In Prizzi's Honor Jack Nicholson's complete wardrobe changes from the time we see him arriving for a sit down & by the time he actually gets there which is only supposed to be a few minutes.

The Blue Note version of Criss Cross with Milt Jackson rocks But the best album has to be Brilliant Corners. I found this one in my uncle's collection back in the early seventies and have treasured it more than any of the variuos albums of his that I own. Newbies might want to check out That's The Way I Feel Hal…

I used to DJ at a small college station in western Michigan in the early seventies when the Merry Clayton album with her version of Gimme Shelter came out. Me & another DJ played the heck out of that cut & would each "appropriate" the album for personal use when not on the air. Somehow the album got cracked & each of…

I have always thought she looked great in that bedroom scene in Long Gone when Dermott Mulroney's character is introduced.

Bill Gunn was also a novelist & playwright.He had a few on-screen credits as a writer in Hollywood and some  uncredited & unproduced screenplays. His last novel Rhinestone Sharecropping imaginatively details the life of a black  writer in Hollywood. He too unfortunately died young.

One or two summers after MASH had some success on CBS someone decided to make a series from  Catch-22. I saw some of that pilot when it was broadcast. It was so bad and so irrelevant to anything relating to the book or Mike Nichols movie adaptation that I can not remember who was in the cast. A totally forgettable…