Re: RARA-AVIS: Interesting morning on TCM

From: Patrick King (abrasax93@yahoo.com)
Date: 27 Nov 2010

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    No Way Out is probably Kevin Costner's only good movie. No, wait. I take that back. He did a fabulous job in Revenge with Anthony Quinn, too.

    Patrick King

    --- On Mon, 11/22/10, Jeff Vorzimmer <jvorzimmer@austin.rr.com> wrote:

    From: Jeff Vorzimmer <jvorzimmer@austin.rr.com> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Interesting morning on TCM To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, November 22, 2010, 11:40 AM

     

      

        
          
          
          You know, this was remade in 1987 with Kevin Costner? It was called

    No Way Out and they turn the story into a Cold War drama, set in the

    Pentagon, IIRC.

    Jeff

    On Nov 22, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Rick Helms wrote:

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    > Noticed that TCM played KISS ME DEADLY, the Ralph Meeker take on

    > Mike Hammer, this morning. Followed it up with Ray Milland in THE

    > BIG CLOCK.

    >

    > I caught the end of KMD. It's been about ten years since I last saw

    > it, and damned if it isn't ten years sillier than it was last time.

    > If it hadn't been nine in the morning, I'd have initiated a

    > drinking game involving taking a shot every time Meeker bitch-

    > slapped some poor guy. I counted three times in the last twenty

    > minutes of the flick.

    >

    > I had to leave for work, so I missed THE BIG CLOCK, but I'm DVRing

    > it to transfer to DVD.

        
         

        
        

     

      

          

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