PETER STRAUSS VS WILLIAM SMITH 'RICH MAN, POOR MAN BOOK II'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmPRzUKBzKlYQd1K0-nWwk0YySsgBYoC4sNsu-Zh9vY9qvAiLC-jYH5wIh3W9pchz_pCokT1CgAT2wxTbh3lGin_bmuJmsr4EwCahWT49Dd1uT-052ORgbSkT3TjFCUKXSlZBQbdIMphgM/s901/66.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="901" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmPRzUKBzKlYQd1K0-nWwk0YySsgBYoC4sNsu-Zh9vY9qvAiLC-jYH5wIh3W9pchz_pCokT1CgAT2wxTbh3lGin_bmuJmsr4EwCahWT49Dd1uT-052ORgbSkT3TjFCUKXSlZBQbdIMphgM/s16000/66.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: RICH MAN, POOR MAN BOOK II Year: 1976-1977 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While RICH MAN, POOR MAN BOOK II is no <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/02/RMPM1.html">RICH MAN, POOR MAN</a> being impossible to replace Nick Nolte after he dies in the original's climax, it's a pretty great sequel, mostly thanks to William Smith as crazy villain Anthony Falconetti who, while shaping-up and tearing-down the last four episodes of the first venture, is now a continuously formidable presence, not only stealing scenes but destroying anyone and anything in his wake...</p><p></p><p>And this time the POOR MAN are young <i>men</i>... Since there's no luckless boxer/sailor Nolte to contrast returning star and now sole headliner Peter Strauss as ambitious, sometimes idealistic Senator/businessman Rudy Jordache, Nolte's beloved son, Wesley (Gregg Henry) and con artist Billy (James Carroll Jordan), neglected son of Bill Bixby and Susan Blakely (the latter killed off/written out early), both take the POOR spot in different ways... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSrcuyKraM9Ms0Fp8Y2zTr6P3up2H9mOiHG59fhZVNH18hVCu8VwWlTvLvKmue7liO67rdtKLb-TZdMZGwcT3Qw51HHOSENb5W_Ot9U_r1A6nPvRD7VDIEKhA4PQlrYBqtXaPlhKZklNDW/s1876/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-06-13%252Bat%252B12.39.01%252BAM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1276" data-original-width="1876" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSrcuyKraM9Ms0Fp8Y2zTr6P3up2H9mOiHG59fhZVNH18hVCu8VwWlTvLvKmue7liO67rdtKLb-TZdMZGwcT3Qw51HHOSENb5W_Ot9U_r1A6nPvRD7VDIEKhA4PQlrYBqtXaPlhKZklNDW/s16000/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-06-13%252Bat%252B12.39.01%252BAM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Penny Peyser and Gregg Henry in RICH MAN POOR MAN BOOK II Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Wesley's broke despite being taken in by his RICH uncle while Billy fights to make it big in the music industry, so he's basically the young climber version of Peter Strauss while Wesley, blond and muscular like dad, takes Nolte's hapless workingman route, <i>almost</i> having an affair with tough, stubborn yet incredibly cute girl-next-door/union man's daughter Penny Peyser... until Billy gets in quicker and ignites an addictive whirlwind romance/love triangle...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And there are so many characters to cover, including a resilient, quick-witted Susan Sullivan as Rudy's girlfriend lawyer (particularly during senate hearings straight from THE GODFATHER II including a crooked G. D. Spradlin and Peter Donat), whose daughter Kimberly Beck is a flirtatious teenager smitten with Wesley when, by the 11th hour,<i> all</i> the characters wind up in Sin City Vegas to square-off against the show's two polar opposite antagonists...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxlkFKE2hU_1dX6BkYu8sFodrKy2FMtLW1TjxEh05dlnOCAsKizhQ_ioqrjMJpnwa4H-BD2Zn8JGVjsQ9DE3xCccuvHM-XiSE944oZH7Cvi0Zpu23FH1KgG-x_dqF5S4NlgHqGmLg9aQCa/s943/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="943" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxlkFKE2hU_1dX6BkYu8sFodrKy2FMtLW1TjxEh05dlnOCAsKizhQ_ioqrjMJpnwa4H-BD2Zn8JGVjsQ9DE3xCccuvHM-XiSE944oZH7Cvi0Zpu23FH1KgG-x_dqF5S4NlgHqGmLg9aQCa/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Smith and Kimberly Beck in RICH MAN, POOR MAN BOOK II</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Besides Falconetti is a callous yet still somewhat charming/monopolizing billionaire Peter Haskell as Charles Estep, who Strauss's Rudy is after and whose wife, the beautiful Laraine Stephens, holds an anticipated/game-changing secret...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The most fun's had with Billy and his up-and-down dealings working at then co-owning a once-great record company (owned by endearingly grouchy in-debt gambler Sorrell Booke); he basically sells his soul to protect a fickle and neurotic knockout version of Janis Joplin in Cassie Yates, taking the otherwise womanizer on a proverbial ride... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4VPX6bxx2UX7bgkO_ZiqLsWNbto63sbHbAp2tJCnzz4QbRyhEPWddZEqwwFX2eWG_sSSbZ6z8hdRIuevRGu3zsI5UNvRkCrQ1DIiGS2CbrKJ-QAsqBHvWfKXvGhfMv2UtPOuYm-wNoSqp/s960/196143560_1256252508137256_8637572101747373707_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4VPX6bxx2UX7bgkO_ZiqLsWNbto63sbHbAp2tJCnzz4QbRyhEPWddZEqwwFX2eWG_sSSbZ6z8hdRIuevRGu3zsI5UNvRkCrQ1DIiGS2CbrKJ-QAsqBHvWfKXvGhfMv2UtPOuYm-wNoSqp/s16000/196143560_1256252508137256_8637572101747373707_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Russell Johnson as a detective with Peter Strauss in RICH MAN POOR MAN BOOK II</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Meanwhile, William Smith's powerfully methodical method-acting is what really stands out (especially scenes with Vegas hotel manager Ken Swofford), shaking the dust off particular moments where the original series' edgy (semi-historical) drama becomes kitschy melodrama... He's busy too, fending off Nolte's vengeful returning partner Herbert Jefferson Jr., and, also returning is Kay Lenz, Nolte's sexy little widow, this time a kooky laughing girl in a contrived/forced affair with Strauss...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And yet, despite the soap operatic tropes and romantic distractions, like any good televised serial, the characters and situations leave viewers salivating for the next episode... while Peter Strauss is even more intense and dogged, likable, sympathetic and hardcore in the leading role (providing more than a few fantastic monologue-lectures)... making both RICH MAN, POOR MAN shows a "binge-watch" experience far before there was such a thing. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

cassie yates, gregg henry, herbert jefferson jr., james carroll jordan, john anderson, kimberly beck, laraine stephens, miniseries, penny peyser, peter strauss, seventies, susan sullivan, TV, william smith

PETER STRAUSS VS WILLIAM SMITH 'RICH MAN, POOR MAN BOOK II'

Title: RICH MAN, POOR MAN BOOK II Year: 1976-1977 Rating: **** While RICH MAN, POOR MAN BOOK II is no RICH MAN, POOR MAN being impossible t...

MICHAEL DOUGLAS SERVES 'HAIL, HERO!' WITH DEBORAH WINTERS

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWgjqZGxFx794upXBuZjQ7-kv-_w4tAeefRF6V72obE61CrWZYB8S5nj-ZWDH4FaR8Jy9V4gW2Rfps0A_Jzqazb6yg6u1pqrHWPYuAXptO0vVkRek4dqYL4Ivmx1cYM46eF0TbQLT_Xw_v/s1600/Screen%252BShot%252B2020-05-12%252Bat%252B11.38.59%252BPM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="897" data-original-width="1218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWgjqZGxFx794upXBuZjQ7-kv-_w4tAeefRF6V72obE61CrWZYB8S5nj-ZWDH4FaR8Jy9V4gW2Rfps0A_Jzqazb6yg6u1pqrHWPYuAXptO0vVkRek4dqYL4Ivmx1cYM46eF0TbQLT_Xw_v/s1600/Screen%252BShot%252B2020-05-12%252Bat%252B11.38.59%252BPM.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Poster showing Michael Douglas and Deborah Winters from HAIL, HERO! Year: 1969 Rating: ***</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> In the beginning of Michael Douglas's career he plays Carl Dixon, a free-spirit during the Vietnam WAR era who returns from New York college life to a rural farm-family that's harbored proud fighting men since the Civil War.<br> <br> The first act of HAIL, HERO! has Carl entering into his small Southern hometown with the kind of jovial personality that embodies aimless sarcastic abandon (that he'd revisit in another counter-culture flick ADAM AT 6 A.M.)... <br>

arthur kennedy, counter-culture, deborah winters, michael douglas, peter strauss, rural, sixties

MICHAEL DOUGLAS SERVES 'HAIL, HERO!' WITH DEBORAH WINTERS

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EIGHTIES 3D 'SPACEHUNTER: ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdowg3UB1owfcU8BOHK62I6EbP-eD_XLLwjTvDenLqcEDoRNm0qeHhg1UCO37jZsHKHWm37r_XydIATVrQcO3v8yRmKGUgvv62hNQP_ESIC2AUhp2T5B9xTv5sNBs8DOS7f2BhzpY1vPQH/s1600/31.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1042" data-original-width="1600" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdowg3UB1owfcU8BOHK62I6EbP-eD_XLLwjTvDenLqcEDoRNm0qeHhg1UCO37jZsHKHWm37r_XydIATVrQcO3v8yRmKGUgvv62hNQP_ESIC2AUhp2T5B9xTv5sNBs8DOS7f2BhzpY1vPQH/s400/31.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Molly Ringwald getting her mind sucked by the villain YEAR: 1983</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> One of those deliberate cult films without much of a following, shot in 3D in the early 1980's, and when formatted to 2D things zoom at the screen for what seems like no reason, which... like <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2013/10/jaws-3-sucks-greatly.html">JAWS 3D</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2014/04/friday-13th-3d.html">FRIDAY THE 13TH 3D</a> and other gems from this era... is half the campy fun...<br> <br> The sets, meanwhile, resemble a MAD MAX future combined with executive producer Ivan Reitman's nostalgically stylistic, homage-driven 1950's sci-fi b-movie aesthetic (with a Harold Ramis intercom voice-cameo). Then again, since Ivan's not exactly broke, there <i>are</i> gorgeous STAR WARS style matte paintings and theatrical-STAR TREK inspired ships, and the plot too is old school and pulpy, centering on a rogue bounty hunter, Peter Strauss as Wolff, sent to this not-so-desolate planet where three vixens have been kidnapped...<br>

3D, action, adventure, andrea marcovicci, eighties, ernie hudson, exploitation, fantasy, harold ramis, ivan reitman, michael ironside, molly ringwald, peter strauss, science-fiction

EIGHTIES 3D 'SPACEHUNTER: ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE'

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LEGENDARY TELEVISION MINISERIES OF 'RICH MAN, POOR MAN'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhokkqTT8ftgqfwxJ5ibnVkdrvf9YEQnc_JZTN3ttjmKA3X59TcFm2rhP3XFVlb_eMX13slSqA43Z4q8F2EnhSpJyFP2z85ACxFVphJwmxoUzndMaNmM-_uHZ6ITPWquD9RYrtmRp3GEbw9/s949/197665416_1255469021548938_2890333516275307322_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="949" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhokkqTT8ftgqfwxJ5ibnVkdrvf9YEQnc_JZTN3ttjmKA3X59TcFm2rhP3XFVlb_eMX13slSqA43Z4q8F2EnhSpJyFP2z85ACxFVphJwmxoUzndMaNmM-_uHZ6ITPWquD9RYrtmRp3GEbw9/s16000/197665416_1255469021548938_2890333516275307322_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Reed and star Peter Strauss in RICH MAN, POOR MAN Year: 1976 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table>The two title siblings from RICH MAN,  POOR MAN would have made the perfect singular male. Both having grown up very poor, one becomes rich and the other... other than poor... is outrageously cursed and unlucky: So the entire miniseries is about acquiring luck through hard work and/or being unlucky by following primary primal instincts...<br> <br> Although, soon enough, the bad luck, permanently stained on Nick Nolte's Tom Jordache, spreads onto everyone around him, including the series' true lead, Peter Strauss as Rudy Jordache, whose story of a delivery boy turned businessman turned aspiring politician intentionally clashes (albeit separately) with Nolte's hardboiled cross-country escapades...<br> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="756" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC2Ms42slBcaheWzsxoj5w5eavxRtVIpeTXwnbMBYkRnS_vKgBxrHISTJ6cj2kx_VSQDG_TAGE3oUnuvmUz4Tr-vGvLFPQDYI83OCXp0eaM3ZieoTto6OWMEj1-eYJhn2X68bUqZgqFKF4/s1600/53005035_656343948128118_6888418082906177536_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rudy Strauss and Nick Nolte in an 11th hour celebration in RICH MAN, POOR MAN</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> The best parts concerning Nolte's Tom occurs in the 11th hour, when he finally starts doing well... Working a charter boat with partner Herbert Jefferson Jr., his young son and perfect girlfriend turned wife Kay Lenz, life never looked better than all those low-rent dives he'd sulked around in, eventually chased by the mafia and thrown on a merchant marine steamer ship to get outta town, quick... <br> <br> And on that ship's where the most sinister and eclectically nefarious villain is introduced in William Smith's Anthony Falconetti: Not only bullying smaller guys onboard by beating them to the proverbial pulp, what he does to Jefferson's Roy, Tom's best friend, is liken to why men fear prison because of what "Bubba" will make them...<br> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxcKUK_0i_4mHDH8jn-HtXW-RrjeK0mYbMSlp8wDGJ3QW8pq-2iVyj1RnB_CzGOSDzoWhR8yiGD-NQTbp4TovVJeW7P5VIfoKHmGL3NfpfKGQuaquhDgEQz6k7Yv9-CBk57btc9H7iFpxI/s1600/90598494_934725910289919_4228674261037875200_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="942" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxcKUK_0i_4mHDH8jn-HtXW-RrjeK0mYbMSlp8wDGJ3QW8pq-2iVyj1RnB_CzGOSDzoWhR8yiGD-NQTbp4TovVJeW7P5VIfoKHmGL3NfpfKGQuaquhDgEQz6k7Yv9-CBk57btc9H7iFpxI/s1600/90598494_934725910289919_4228674261037875200_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nick Nolte as Tom Jordache in RICH MAN, POOR MAN </u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> While great actors, Strauss and Nolte seem ten years too old for playing teenagers, taking place in the first "chapter," literally seconds after World War II, living under their tyrannical father, played by award winning ham Edward Asner as a German baker with a bloody past and the kind of bad choices Nolte's Tom would inherit, almost to exact detail...<br> <br> Nolte winds up living with his even worse (although successful) uncle, and here his story really begins, having an affair with a voluminous older woman he'll eventually name his beloved charter boat after...<br> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJsVTAytyeCnGHBWZGTqVXAbnDn0piNEPnegrjkWiOgcxX4geYMx6nb8rP6AEYdWmnGd6dobB3kmCO0VGESFLreNwp7lUbwyy7RayQ-MDRk1IKw5VxR2_iYD5Mb5AV4D1zPqVOdvDp-6xm/s1600/52269861_656341961461650_4551937096285159424_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="883" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJsVTAytyeCnGHBWZGTqVXAbnDn0piNEPnegrjkWiOgcxX4geYMx6nb8rP6AEYdWmnGd6dobB3kmCO0VGESFLreNwp7lUbwyy7RayQ-MDRk1IKw5VxR2_iYD5Mb5AV4D1zPqVOdvDp-6xm/s1600/52269861_656341961461650_4551937096285159424_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>"I can bake bread to feed people; what can you do?" Rudy asks a spoiled hippie college kid, before going bonkers</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Meanwhile, the most intriguing scenes involve Rudy's initial climb to success, starting in his college days while working for Ray Milland at an old fashion superstore that desperately needs modernizing... <br> <br> The way Rudy climbs to the top is more intriguing and suspenseful than Nolte's roving Noir-inspired muscularity; the latter's story peaking once he's in the boxing game, which doesn't last long enough thanks to, again, horribly asinine (and downright frustrating) decisions. And in his own way, Strauss's Rudy is equally tough, providing a few wonderfully delivered lectures that, unlike his father (Asner), don't come across as overboard or melodramatic... <br> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTnmyelN_TrPg6GzlsqeZ85YGe_6ld2ykqkVo7_UyFlWTeuMrgD6ZXdihqzU96HAk0aC2GLItO3ytmE0FYtrIfHLpMQ-KcKBEnwWDS655KCMuHHWfin2pBMdawb2PKDxUajCDQBsCT9yUi/s1600/52392573_656361518126361_8439853870443659264_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTnmyelN_TrPg6GzlsqeZ85YGe_6ld2ykqkVo7_UyFlWTeuMrgD6ZXdihqzU96HAk0aC2GLItO3ytmE0FYtrIfHLpMQ-KcKBEnwWDS655KCMuHHWfin2pBMdawb2PKDxUajCDQBsCT9yUi/s1600/52392573_656361518126361_8439853870443659264_n.jpeg"></a></i></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Smith and Susan Blakely violently bond in RICH MAN POOR MAN the last chapter</u><i><br></i></td></tr> </tbody></table> But the glue connecting everything is Susan Blakely as Rudy's "childhood" semi-girlfriend Julie Prescott, the only of the three leads fitting the younger, teenage scenes as she curiously glimpses into the "mysterious side" of life with a tempestuous older-man affair (Robert Reed), and then, much like Tom, making her own path (in New York City) no matter the consequences.... <br> <br> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> A progressive young woman ahead of her time, she unfortunately finds the wrong man in a horribly cast Bill Bixby, delivering each line straight out of community theater. His random imitations of Jimmy Stewart and others, supposedly personifying an omnipresent charm, are so cringe-worthy, time practically stands still while he's on screen (you'll wish he'd turn into the Hulk simply to kick his own ass)... </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu6IgboTEJFSc-tC0txVTsHmY_cixs-fuj5wqfyzpiX6QMcwGTe4B2X_EHKfrWe7zs_Nq5A61pjGgGMQHxMNyNeR6t8Z2rKCxGSWZXdgWjIAC2FZPdYZ4Qw5MT1lpqrpQ05DrxCW1pG_4b/s1600/52594341_656329081462938_7998427160509415424_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu6IgboTEJFSc-tC0txVTsHmY_cixs-fuj5wqfyzpiX6QMcwGTe4B2X_EHKfrWe7zs_Nq5A61pjGgGMQHxMNyNeR6t8Z2rKCxGSWZXdgWjIAC2FZPdYZ4Qw5MT1lpqrpQ05DrxCW1pG_4b/s1600/52594341_656329081462938_7998427160509415424_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kay Lenz as Kate Jordache in RICH MAN, POOR MAN</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Towards the end of this, the original RICH MAN, POOR MAN miniseries... followed by an actual full-season series, BOOK II, sans Nolte and with Strauss fighting political corruption and especially William Smith's demonic madman Falconetti... Blakely's Julie, married to would-be politician Rudy, amounts to boozing and complaining, even more of an albatross on Rudy than his brother ever was... <br> <br> At one point, before Tom's tragic yet predictable death, Rudy points out how much better the POOR brother's life is (even though Tom's sudden turnaround was all Rudy's doing), attributed to either contentment or a comparably perfect bedmate in Kay Lenz. But that, like everything else, relates to the personal choices from either of three central figures which is really, deep down, a "modernized" Greek tragedy about what paths<i> not</i> to take — and then what happens after willingly setting forth into an inevitable, self-fulfilled perdition.<br> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0v7vZV_tJYxgFDvp8kMPgKRMlG54p-YThBdHPse_8Z7YoguldVq8CrxjhmM_L2SHwJKmS2pEr9K29hd1jUZnqzNXufn2iHrypOwKHS9mQAwNeJOdwfEfJLjGfed4iu3NUEZZrNyTjHHaq/s1600/52466016_656844641411382_7955491948704301056_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0v7vZV_tJYxgFDvp8kMPgKRMlG54p-YThBdHPse_8Z7YoguldVq8CrxjhmM_L2SHwJKmS2pEr9K29hd1jUZnqzNXufn2iHrypOwKHS9mQAwNeJOdwfEfJLjGfed4iu3NUEZZrNyTjHHaq/s1600/52466016_656844641411382_7955491948704301056_n.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Two uncredited cuties in France in the 11th hour chapters of RICH MAN POOR MAN</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj99tvpIamwjIv-yU11pjGPkTZ3ktgxh24dJZR8VqNXqnwEDyixl6kXFOtchSVR2f2ILMLywME5InyTJjf93ifSUgsSBOwHKM7jPtlF2VU-Nyi56LLkCZBbZZ64paqOTxkKn1sZX5RjC09H/s1600/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj99tvpIamwjIv-yU11pjGPkTZ3ktgxh24dJZR8VqNXqnwEDyixl6kXFOtchSVR2f2ILMLywME5InyTJjf93ifSUgsSBOwHKM7jPtlF2VU-Nyi56LLkCZBbZZ64paqOTxkKn1sZX5RjC09H/s1600/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Falconetti Wants You... To Join The Merchant Marines: And on the Bottom Bunk You'll Stay</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>

adaptaiton, drama, ed asner, herbert jefferson jr., kay lenz, miniseries, nick nolte, peter strauss, robert reed, seventies, susan blakely, time period, william smith

LEGENDARY TELEVISION MINISERIES OF 'RICH MAN, POOR MAN'

Robert Reed and star Peter Strauss in RICH MAN, POOR MAN Year: 1976 Rating: ****1/2 The two title siblings from RICH MAN,  POOR MAN would h...

PETER O'TOOLE RETURNS TO THE DESERT-SET EPIC FOR 'MASADA'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGGuAg9P5FmsWFI2_ZOccL83T6VlknMWNqhWLsELH8C-YUunA9DAdHKr3jtHCnD0qs8R2mpdzoGD4AQVP0UukZmp81aKdmkjksGYrImzMH1N2r3MWdamkmr_gubM_RfGuZCNBGyDkLzAHOuFZf8VFzNVh-BX8IbBV4A2AQUf-XS_lto-eB6QTM8hbKEw/s320/91704644_938463719916138_5073433069042532352_n.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="286" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGGuAg9P5FmsWFI2_ZOccL83T6VlknMWNqhWLsELH8C-YUunA9DAdHKr3jtHCnD0qs8R2mpdzoGD4AQVP0UukZmp81aKdmkjksGYrImzMH1N2r3MWdamkmr_gubM_RfGuZCNBGyDkLzAHOuFZf8VFzNVh-BX8IbBV4A2AQUf-XS_lto-eB6QTM8hbKEw/s1600/91704644_938463719916138_5073433069042532352_n.jpeg" width="286"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1982 Rating: ****</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table>It doesn't get much better than suffering along with Peter O'Toole as a vulnerable Roman general weeding out a small yet tight band of Jewish rebels that, because of the nature in which this true life story winds up, are <i>still</i> considered Zealots (albeit more like idealists), a label usually only pinned on Christians... <br> <br> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> As the leader of that group, TV miniseries staple Peter Strauss uses a booming Shakespearian stage voice, seeming more driven on behalf of history than the story at hand...<br> <br> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqG3ITKYOoBpD3GNvpIQFvJiKmR9gmow3vziN2dq0vmUWTTwV7DYQBJN_JATfFCp_K33LoXzTixZzQNXcx6a8UUbGvGny9VUR2AKvMkcCPWjrxP4r8UoOJvP5cpADgtguLHz87O16U1XpL/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-03-31+at+2.30.45+AM.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1412" data-original-width="1280" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqG3ITKYOoBpD3GNvpIQFvJiKmR9gmow3vziN2dq0vmUWTTwV7DYQBJN_JATfFCp_K33LoXzTixZzQNXcx6a8UUbGvGny9VUR2AKvMkcCPWjrxP4r8UoOJvP5cpADgtguLHz87O16U1XpL/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-03-31+at+2.30.45+AM.jpeg" width="290"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peter O'Toole and David Warner in MASADA</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> And not <i>only </i>while yelling down to the five-thousand-strong Roman army waiting beneath he and his 900 followers' mountaintop fortress of... MASADA —like many TV epics, it's a hit and miss venture...<br> <br> The hits have mostly to do with O'Toole's Cornelius Flavius Silva, making judgments outside his tent or philosophizing inside with either sneaky friend-turned-foe David Warner or sexy slave love-interest Barbara Carrera...<br> <br> The latter, while nice to look at, seems exactly what her character is — fiction placed within a history biopic, and that especially includes Strauss's Eleazar ben Yair — only God knows who led these particular Israelites to hold their ground while <i>antagonizing </i>the opponents below (the teleplay's based on a historical novel THE ANTAGONISTS)...<br> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br></div> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiR8Ecgg5GGyL2jk9VctxRHqBTYwoPyOT55ASqBN8MmwJe9eorNeL3kmerzg-igatpkViZATr28v-VwKHUqdr7KTxwv9ZPHxh6yQ3xwLJvCkOWlPFDySpFsaD5Qt0mEnDJNz27FKdSZoSh/s1600/Screen+Shot+2020-03-31+at+2.34.37+AM.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1110" data-original-width="1499" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiR8Ecgg5GGyL2jk9VctxRHqBTYwoPyOT55ASqBN8MmwJe9eorNeL3kmerzg-igatpkViZATr28v-VwKHUqdr7KTxwv9ZPHxh6yQ3xwLJvCkOWlPFDySpFsaD5Qt0mEnDJNz27FKdSZoSh/s400/Screen+Shot+2020-03-31+at+2.34.37+AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Warren Clarke and Ken Hutchison in MASADA: ****</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> For example, in one scene, the rebels splash loudly in a pool within their unreachable haven — of endless food and water — while the beleaguered Romans are allowed only three drinks per day in the scorching heat...<br> <br> Meanwhile, Strauss's guttural rants are narrowed into clever (yet sometimes unrealistically fathomed) mind-game tactics...<br> <br> A good thing because not only does O'Toole... a veteran of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA... fit the desert terrain, he can handle the stage-like dialogue naturally while another ARABIA veteran, Anthony Quayle, is a wise and patient Roman engineer, progressively building an earth-massed ramp to reach the fortress where a monstrous construction, looking like a Trojan Horse with a ram's head, awaits to finish the job.<br>

anthony quayle, biopic, clive francis, david warner, eighties, ken hutchison, miniseries, peter o'toole, peter strauss, tv movie, warren clarke

PETER O'TOOLE RETURNS TO THE DESERT-SET EPIC FOR 'MASADA'

Year: 1982 Rating: **** It doesn't get much better than suffering along with Peter O'Toole as a vulnerable Roman general weeding ou...

MICHAEL DOUGLAS IN 'HAIL HERO' WITH DEBORAH WINTERS

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkDEVTJY8Pc-gxePHpcQ4okjHx4S4fNVskE5l5mtmMcUikzNpaPmVAlOJebuADnAS0Uv5-6eTrB7BBP3VHICj0-bU9XAJXuJu-Q0LOdi2VJNXxHqF9SN5RHSBMDJP6aErp7Drk0ButHJmv/s1600/HAILHEROcopy_zpsc5e28a34.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkDEVTJY8Pc-gxePHpcQ4okjHx4S4fNVskE5l5mtmMcUikzNpaPmVAlOJebuADnAS0Uv5-6eTrB7BBP3VHICj0-bU9XAJXuJu-Q0LOdi2VJNXxHqF9SN5RHSBMDJP6aErp7Drk0ButHJmv/s400/HAILHEROcopy_zpsc5e28a34.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1969 cast: Michael Douglas, Deborah Winters rating: ***</td></tr> </tbody></table> In the beginning of Michael Douglas's thereafter-gigantic career he plays Carl Dixon, a free-spirit during the Vietnam era who returns from New York college life to a rural farm family that's harbored proud fighting men since the Civil War.<br /> <br /> The first act of HAIL, HERO! has Carl entering into his small Southern hometown with the kind of jovial personality that embodies aimless sarcastic abandon...<br /> <br /> First playing bull and matador with a truckload of Mexican workers and eventually being misunderstood by his uptight father, who gives him a nice clean haircut right away. From his era, kids didn't let their "freak flag fly." Plus it gave Michael Douglas, perhaps weighed-down under his famous father's immense shadow, a more mainstream and handsome look in spite of his carefree hippie character. <br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Unkv1RaSpMQOx3Kc9dFKc256ii6CjjrtqWaH5zL4lpmkSE9CxqWCzRkCsnAoc1kPLrB7kX48IsdUS-zCCwUftvTJhr_ZbjBJQUkKIKAShOSOwCMzGTLfLI4CmXqa9vN46yGDYxe5zQsk/s1600/d4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Unkv1RaSpMQOx3Kc9dFKc256ii6CjjrtqWaH5zL4lpmkSE9CxqWCzRkCsnAoc1kPLrB7kX48IsdUS-zCCwUftvTJhr_ZbjBJQUkKIKAShOSOwCMzGTLfLI4CmXqa9vN46yGDYxe5zQsk/s400/d4.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Becky (Deborah Winters, right) with her virginal friend on a horse</td></tr> </tbody></table> The best scenes involve blond starlet Deborah Winters who, that same year, played a teenage rebel bad-tripping on acid in THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR. Here’s she’s a promiscuous country girl with a crush on Carl and a past relationship with his older brother, Frank...<br /> <br /> In the thankless straight man role, Peter Strauss might as well be Nick Nolte's uptight brother in RICH MAN POOR MAN. Strauss's Frank was crippled because of Carl and holds a grudge that enters into the final act, taking place at a big party where generations collide. But it’s one prolonged segment with Douglas and Winters, splashing around in a swimming hole wearing close to nothing, that provides something for either sex to enjoy.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ei73pQz-Mc_n88DWtAAA6NOEc_3bdn_PyAu9jSb7hrDFpO1MQ2HoMKVOLHv7a7uzd5_pgKtBfh_HlpSIK1s5MS1mkaJwc76GsGF9B01vhlimczxgR3SiJO-wHjVdF2rAuZo_z_R38rwM/s1600/d14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ei73pQz-Mc_n88DWtAAA6NOEc_3bdn_PyAu9jSb7hrDFpO1MQ2HoMKVOLHv7a7uzd5_pgKtBfh_HlpSIK1s5MS1mkaJwc76GsGF9B01vhlimczxgR3SiJO-wHjVdF2rAuZo_z_R38rwM/s400/d14.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deborah Winters takes a dip as Becky in HAIL, HERO!</td></tr> </tbody></table> Unlike many counter-culture flicks, HERO is never too preachy or annoyingly idealistic. The soundtrack is large and brassy and the acting, including veterans Arthur Kennedy and Teresa Wright, is topnotch.<br /> <br /> Meanwhile the sporadic use of muted flashbacks of important memories – like Carl's father having an affair with the Spanish maid and the accident that changed Frank’s life – make this rare curio more interesting that it sometimes deserves to be, and, despite being dated and ultimately stagey, with a really bizarre and pointless midsection where Frank smokes pot with a hermit woman in a cave, what's really important is the introduction of Micheal Douglas, proving, as the son of legendary Kirk Douglas, that he could hold his own.<br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGsDpiweZiAASeXerHN3rJ03LnJjApHpsYNq4M5UAIP9HBlERVIm06ZtriEJ16zZSerKQtzPEfnQ2o3I2zA6kExSKOoA_W1fXn5xs_25W9k0kVxLwuEZiK-o24cCFJfW4CusmmfLn1a6YX/s1600/HAILHERO2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="419" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGsDpiweZiAASeXerHN3rJ03LnJjApHpsYNq4M5UAIP9HBlERVIm06ZtriEJ16zZSerKQtzPEfnQ2o3I2zA6kExSKOoA_W1fXn5xs_25W9k0kVxLwuEZiK-o24cCFJfW4CusmmfLn1a6YX/s640/HAILHERO2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Introducing Michael Douglas in HAIL, HERO!</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL1iH3BGexgGV_Mp2DI46j7ayT7sXu4Del5r18eu3EBlLzZDOSNH2790TQv1izcEqmqbqIAOpmhzBecTGaKON0vYRnKO2lY4hHHUyGS2TZ4t_twFsK5f_TdXTZM5385BdF8L-HHClihEhu/s1600/d1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL1iH3BGexgGV_Mp2DI46j7ayT7sXu4Del5r18eu3EBlLzZDOSNH2790TQv1izcEqmqbqIAOpmhzBecTGaKON0vYRnKO2lY4hHHUyGS2TZ4t_twFsK5f_TdXTZM5385BdF8L-HHClihEhu/s640/d1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deborah Winters as Becky in HAIL, HERO!</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBs8SwrVBBrmrZifNuh6Pc9WsL699fSNPh-8fUmbe0ZJ9NkXfu-kA39AmboCOKCwgt22CxI9NJ1oA52bNaK3S1nzlGpx_Ypl88nhSxm9lZLYYYVRBELYJW2pyiG8CMFlUliOivwF76DOs_/s1600/d2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBs8SwrVBBrmrZifNuh6Pc9WsL699fSNPh-8fUmbe0ZJ9NkXfu-kA39AmboCOKCwgt22CxI9NJ1oA52bNaK3S1nzlGpx_Ypl88nhSxm9lZLYYYVRBELYJW2pyiG8CMFlUliOivwF76DOs_/s640/d2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deborah Winters as Becky in HAIL, HERO!</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC-o_7BOeBNIu9A0_6vZUHRqcXmPifyTF15HqDd6vwuZMe4eDrhyphenhyphenhgaG4W4c8Dew1AfQ4zmTAJsZaKlY4UNjfXIvsbxU9lAWevSAgeVK0msr6sRkj6f0k6SZVe92FpCLasCIlPuGKPztVT/s1600/d6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd-Gm3qIOCu6WLqD-Q-buJFa17bGii-MSjCcxRNJvd0nLZQuRe_tiwdSP_ohsAAxF37mOy7ud88r7sfz9ZsilvF8YZYr5dPV8mrQblVGZJzq9MdXHc3npU-SMx-wDQR7TaA9ZfYRg_yskP/s1600/d9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd-Gm3qIOCu6WLqD-Q-buJFa17bGii-MSjCcxRNJvd0nLZQuRe_tiwdSP_ohsAAxF37mOy7ud88r7sfz9ZsilvF8YZYr5dPV8mrQblVGZJzq9MdXHc3npU-SMx-wDQR7TaA9ZfYRg_yskP/s640/d9.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deborah Winters as Becky (with Michael Douglas) in HAIL, HERO!</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhksHUD3wg_9Ii_IOvDE5jzkXB80tgTaAl0bFm7BUQrvZqvXvK9xK3M1G3xdPLKlgh_siK4Pi0PyJc_IWjmPa0KLpmKfLgFxESxatnM2guWWa5_Xky9Y_eeF3C8wGQD7Z1aXM6hP0Ox370I/s1600/d11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxA1Eh28LvoZYAtEX4U-uldb_oj5YRWRT6mn4wZxnh1DuEEaVWr_JwJ3SD_gMBSHqRmnU5u7L1N9P1toJl0zmNO0NH3bbk1-opuHckLSdRYELgSaITzQJ9JjNJu25t-ND-TazCqAetxFsx/s1600/d17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxA1Eh28LvoZYAtEX4U-uldb_oj5YRWRT6mn4wZxnh1DuEEaVWr_JwJ3SD_gMBSHqRmnU5u7L1N9P1toJl0zmNO0NH3bbk1-opuHckLSdRYELgSaITzQJ9JjNJu25t-ND-TazCqAetxFsx/s640/d17.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peter Strauss with Deborah Winters in HAIL, HERO!</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirFDEOVdCP-VgyAVJvoXa1zTdJ3Cm6wRD4ydEfZL1Q9KEzoEdKZz3HRS-H1VZ8TftOjp7fyT-ABHK3xCGmi2NbUKSkxvoBhthFOzWjwtc4jjNITRSdAz4b5iBW_Hl9B6mLJqom61Wcu72w/s1600/d89.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirFDEOVdCP-VgyAVJvoXa1zTdJ3Cm6wRD4ydEfZL1Q9KEzoEdKZz3HRS-H1VZ8TftOjp7fyT-ABHK3xCGmi2NbUKSkxvoBhthFOzWjwtc4jjNITRSdAz4b5iBW_Hl9B6mLJqom61Wcu72w/s640/d89.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peter Strauss, Deborah Winters and Michael Douglas in HAIL HERO!</td></tr> </tbody></table>

deborah winters, drug culture, michael douglas, peter strauss, sixties

MICHAEL DOUGLAS IN 'HAIL HERO' WITH DEBORAH WINTERS

year: 1969 cast: Michael Douglas, Deborah Winters rating: *** In the beginning of Michael Douglas's thereafter-gigantic career he pl...

SPACEHUNTER: ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV8bWz8eHD_8PSmUNyqZ0G8X647KoQpDNqdrrnY_0emKUt3zTYURyd7Evw7QR_r_G4Iwl_uarRzOI6pUEcYshRsx4g5Ha9fRuLSyEBNcZHQVhNPjOwrv5zWZYhONxayZ-Tbl1vMuHSoNXV/s1600/ringwald.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV8bWz8eHD_8PSmUNyqZ0G8X647KoQpDNqdrrnY_0emKUt3zTYURyd7Evw7QR_r_G4Iwl_uarRzOI6pUEcYshRsx4g5Ha9fRuLSyEBNcZHQVhNPjOwrv5zWZYhONxayZ-Tbl1vMuHSoNXV/s320/ringwald.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 1983 rating: ***</td></tr> </tbody></table> One of those cheap science fiction cult films without much of a following. Shot in 3D in the early 1980's and then, after formatting to 2D, things zoom at the screen for no reason. The sets resemble a MAD MAX future if it were created by Sid and Marty Krofft. Actually, it's not that bad. In fact, bigwig Ivan Reitman produced this science-fiction yarn about a rogue bounty hunter, Peter Strauss, sent to a planet where three vixens are kidnapped. He's reluctantly aided by local <span style="font-style: italic;">brat </span>Molly Ringwald (a year before joining the <i>brat pack</i>) and Ernie Hudson: Lando to Strauss's Han Solo. A few mindless adventures lead to an underground cavern where Michael Ironside, as a gigantic robot-altered mutant, hosts a do-or-die match where Strauss must save Molly: who's become like a daughter and, well, although it's not that great, you'll be drawn in somehow.

3D, ernie hudson, ivan reitman, michael ironside, molly ringwald, peter strauss, science-fiction

SPACEHUNTER: ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE

year: 1983 rating: *** One of those cheap science fiction cult films without much of a following. Shot in 3D in the early 1980's a...

RICH MAN, POOR MAN: THE COMPLETE MINISERIES

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxKzK4GX0kS8eHYlLBo-ZwOePESB-SVsq7awZqyoOeVRg1yUanjfjfL0G70VmBt6gEewIsljppFf8bCdXyxYBy8t79KTbZVcG1cW8kyGlmFFXTDOvtZG4IfrPDbPnf3AELckvFCH7esJux/s1600/rmpm.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxKzK4GX0kS8eHYlLBo-ZwOePESB-SVsq7awZqyoOeVRg1yUanjfjfL0G70VmBt6gEewIsljppFf8bCdXyxYBy8t79KTbZVcG1cW8kyGlmFFXTDOvtZG4IfrPDbPnf3AELckvFCH7esJux/s1600/rmpm.JPG" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Smith is the ultimate heavy</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-weight: bold;">title: </span>Rich Man, Poor Man<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">years:</span> 1976/1978<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">cast: </span>Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, William Smith <br /> <b>book I:<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></b>**** <b>book II:</b> ***1/2<br /> <br /> The first couple hours are somewhat corny. Peter Strauss and Nick Nolte, both in their thirties, portraying teenagers... just doesn't work. Either does a hammy Ed Asner as their tough German father, a poor baker that only likes capable Strauss, a climber who eventually makes it big while Nolte, burning bridges at every turn, is a low-rent boxer and eventually captains a small yacht in France: this playing out while the brothers, older and terrifically acting their age, live separate lives that eventually connect. In-between, ingenue Susan Blakely, as Strauss's girl, puts in the most genuine performance, seeming just a real at a young or her real age and playing a progressive woman without it seeming forced, contrived. And after a tragedy ends BOOK I, the tale continues as Nolte's troubled but kind-hearted son, Gregg Henry, and Strauss's stepson, a conniving con-man played by James Carol Jordan, become co-leads under Peter Strauss. Other new characters come and go, adding to the gloriously addictive nighttime soap proceedings; not as much a prolonged movie like the original, but somehow, it's just as intriguing. And William Smith as the vile thug "Falconetti," makes (in both parts) for an intoxicating heavy, outshining Peter Haskell as the political-manipulating billionaire that Strauss, while seeking true love and keeping his family in line, must eventually destroy.

adaptation, drama, gregg henry, kay lenz, melodrama, miniseries, nick nolte, penny peyser, peter strauss, robert reed, romance, tv movie, william smith

RICH MAN, POOR MAN: THE COMPLETE MINISERIES

William Smith is the ultimate heavy title: Rich Man, Poor Man years: 1976/1978 cast: Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, William Smith book I...