Hm. Must have been jumped on too many times for putting on Bobby Knight, David Duke, Glenn Beck and now Julian Assange, all within the past few weeks.

Nope. Thompson wrote about it as well - he also mentioned that he'd smoked about five in the same spot before anyone noticed.

I think it was John Paul II who finally made it a formal ban.

Flaming car crash in San Francisco's Broadway Tunnel, if the writers have any sense of history.

Ditto Elliot 's "Shut up, penis - breath!" in E.T.

Morrell also wrote the novelizations of the two movies after - apparently mostly to pay for his terminally ill son's medical bills. (The "Rambo III" novel is dedicated to him.)

I'm more than a bit bugged that this is now (meaning in the last 5 years or so) being completely dismissed as a "myth" .
Somewhere in the late '80s the Chicago newspaper columnist Bob Greene challenged the meme in a column - and the level of response he got led to a year's research and interviewing, and ultimately to a…

I suspect that's referencing that Stallone and Tom Cruise are both short. Ha.

I misremembered Galt for years as having been played by Brion James ("Wake up. Time to die.")

Ironically, there really is a John Rambo listed on the Vietnam Memorial Wall. (Morell had no idea.)

Character designs by the late, great Jack Kirby. Otherwise pretty forgettable.

My underwater helicopter escape course in the Air Force - the couple of times I went up with the Air Rescue Squadron - took about two minutes. "Disconnect your helmet mic and get out the hatch. Hold on to your helmet with both hands - it's buoyant and will get you to the surface. When you break the surface, pull here…

What's funny is comparing that to Crenna's honk - voiced geeky teenager Walter Denton on radio's OUR MISS BROOKS. (Guy had a long and well-deserved career.)

Not made clear in the article, but they'd cast Douglas as Trautman already - he either quit or was fired after his first day's shooting. (Maybe over this issue.) There are (or at least used to be) several stills of Douglas in costume as Trautman floating around on the Internet.

I do (in Oregon, no less), and the cops seem to let them alone unless they're actively causing trouble.

To be fair, that sounds more like a knockoff of the Billy Jack movies.

Or the novelization of "Francis Ford Coppola's 'Bram Stoker's "Dracula"'" .

Well, that brings a whole new perspective to "light in the loafers" …

The movement, definitely - the Starfury fighters were completely non-aerodynamic and moved like it.

I don't know if they own him, but they did use him (and promptly kill him) in X-MEN.