POINTLESS contestants struggle to name actors who have appeared in more than one #JamesBond film - can you do any better?
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Here's nearly 3,500 words on Dan Campbell's morning media session. On targeting young and salty players, Sewell vision, Terrion's situation, getting right with Decker, fluid schematics on defense, no more joint practices and more. detroitfootball.net/p/9-takeaways-…
"Michelle Yeoh did all of her own stunts in 'Supercop' (1992), because she threatened to beat me up if I wouldn't let her!"
--- Jackie Chan
Full Excerpt:
"By this time, all of you probably know Michelle Yeoh from 'Tomorrow Never Dies' (1997), the James Bond film. She resurrected her action career by costarring with me in 'Supercop', my first film with Stanley Tong.
Michelle isn't a fighter; she never formally trained in martial arts, beginning her career as a ballet dancer. But one thing you can say for her is that she has the heart of a lioness. She did all of her own stunts in 'Supercop', because she threatened to beat me up if I wouldn't let her!
Her most dangerous sequence in the movie was a scene in which she rides a motorcycle up a ramp, into the air, and onto the roof of a moving train. I have to admit that after I saw her do that stunt, I felt like I had something to prove. That's why we added this sequence, in which I jump from the roof of a building to a rope ladder swinging from the bottom of a hovering helicopter.
The crooks flying the chopper try to knock me off the ladder by swinging me back and forth through the air and into buildings, moving at high speed above the streets of Malaysia's capital. They don't succeed —lucky for me. And the stunt looks al most as dangerous as it really was —lucky for all you action fans out there."
("I am Jackie Chan", Jackie Chan with Jeff Yang, 1998)
‘Career Opportunities’ starring Frank Whaley, Jennifer Connelly, Dermot Mulroney, Kieran Mulroney, and John Candy snuck into theaters on this day 35 years ago 🛒 🛼 💞 "𝙸'𝚖 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢. 𝙸'𝚖 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜, 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚋𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝙸'𝚖 𝚊 𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚛, 𝚖𝚢 𝚠𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚢'𝚜 𝚕𝚊𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚎... 𝚁𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝙷𝚊𝚛𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚐𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛 𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚔!" TRIVIA: John Hughes wrote the script for ‘Career Opportunities’ but later disowned it, calling the film “cheap and vulgar”. He also tried to take his name off the film but Universal refused wanting to cash in on Hughes and the box office success of ‘Home Alone’. (Wikipedia) 🖤
Japan Twitter, please admire my grandpa's revolver :)
During the Korean War, it was decorated by a Japanese master engraver. I, sadly, do not know the craftsman's name
Don Coscarelli on where he got the idea for 'Phantasm' (1979) & the surprise about the film's popularity even after so many decades:
"I had a compunction to try to do something in the horror genre and I started thinking about how our culture handles death; it’s different than in other societies. We have this central figure of a mortician. He dresses in dark clothing, he lurks behind doors, they do procedures on the bodies we don’t know about. The whole embalming thing, if you ever do any research on it, is pretty freaky. It all culminates in this grand funerary service production. It’s strange stuff. It just seemed like it would be a great area in which to make a film.
The goal was just to finish 'Phantasm' (1979) and get it out in a few theaters. To think that decades later people would still be thinking and talking about it, I could have never imagined."
("Happy birthday, Tall Man! ‘Phantasm’ turns 30", LA Times, 2009)
P.S: On this day, 47 years ago, 'Phantasm' (1979) was released in the USA.
@SuperSisi I liked "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" (1997) on PS1, and it's soundtrack too.
Back in 2018, someone showed Jeff Goldblum the game's ending clip that he filmed over 20 years earlier, to get his reaction. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_gaa…m.youtube.com/watch?v=5GXuli…
So actually this is from Lost World on PSX and Saturn and is secret ending video:
“The 1997 PlayStation game The Lost World: Jurassic Park features a secret ending video of Jeff Goldblum as Ian Malcolm, which plays after completing the game. In this improvised, one-minute message, Goldblum tells the player to turn off the game, go outside, take a walk, and get some air”
William Shatner is 95 today!
How could I not post something from Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)? The Enterprise crew came roaring back and delivered one of the all-time great sequels, basically a submarine thriller in space. Shatner is brilliant here.
@RetroMoviesDB Directed by PETER HYAMS:
• Outland (1981)
• Timecop (1994)
• Sudden Death (1995)
• Running Scared (1986)
• The Relic (1997)
• End of Days (1999)
• The Presidio (1988)
• Capricorn One (1977)
• 2010: The Year We Make Contact
• Star Chamber (1983)
• Narrow Margin (1990)
@Y2KKAIN THE LADD COMPANY
• Blade Runner
• Chariots of Fire
• Outland (1981)
• Body Heat (1981)
• Night Shift (1982)
• Star 80 (1983)
• The Right Stuff (1983)
• Police Academy (1984)
• Once Upon A Time In America
• Braveheart (1995)
• The Phantom (1996)
• Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Happy Birthday to #JamesBond alum Talisa Soto! 🎉
Spy fans will remember her as Lupe Lamora in 1989’s LICENCE TO KILL, but you can also catch her in 1996’s SPY HARD!
Anyone else think she’s an absolute stunner? 🙌
1996. Steve Jobs is asked on television what went wrong at Apple. He hasn't worked there in over a decade. Within a year, Apple will buy his company NeXT and bring him back. Within 18 months, he'll be running the place.
He doesn't know that yet. Nobody does. At this point, he's running NeXT, a small software company, and Pixar, which just released Toy Story. Apple is falling apart. The stock is collapsing. The company has lost over a billion dollars. Its market share has dropped from 18% to around 4%. WIRED will put Apple's logo on its cover, wrapped in barbed wire, with the word "Pray."
The interviewer asks Jobs what happened. His answer is one paragraph, and it's basically the entire turnaround strategy he'll execute a year later.
He says when he left Apple ten years earlier, they were ten years ahead of everybody else. It took Microsoft a full decade to copy what Apple had built. But Apple stopped. "Even though it invested cumulatively billions in R&D, the output has not been there, and people have caught up with it." He says Apple's advantage over Microsoft has eroded. And then this: "The way out is not to slash and burn. It's to innovate. That's how Apple got to its glory, and I think that's how Apple could return to it."
When Apple bought NeXT in December 1996 and brought Jobs back as an advisor, things got worse before they got better. By September 1997, Apple was about 90 days from running out of money. The board made Jobs the interim CEO. He cut 70% of the product line, but not to save money. He cut it so the remaining 30% could be great. He launched Think Different. He built the iMac. Then the iPod. Then iTunes. Then the iPhone. Then the iPad. Every single one of those products was the "innovate, don't slash and burn" philosophy from this interview, applied over and over for 14 years.
He also says something in this interview that stands out. He says the most exciting thing in software is the internet, and the reason is "no one owns it. It's a free-for-all. It's much like the early days of the personal computer." He says if any one company gets a dominant position, "the rate of innovation is going to drop precipitously." He's talking about Microsoft. But he could be talking about 2026.
Apple is worth about $3.7 trillion today. When this interview was filmed, Apple was worth about $3 billion and falling fast. Jobs walked back into Apple nine months later with no title, no authority, and the same diagnosis he gave on camera in this clip.
Video: Steve Jobs Television Interview, 1996. Original broadcast footage.