lavenderblue19 Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 mr6, your thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 newscaster gets massive 'flop-sweat' attack on camera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Albert Brooks in Broadcast News ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Albert Brooks in Broadcast News ?? of course (love Brooks) you're up, flash...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Thanks, Sixes. (lot of respect for that movie) Next: Wealthy businessman vacations in Las Vegas. He's a ground-floor computer whiz; made his pile before the term DotCom was coined. He gambles; buys a stack of casino chips and goes to the dice tables. He never rolls, plays with the house. Makes small bets, agonizes over raising a $15 bet to $25. At one point, he mentions that he is $500 ahead, he ends with slightly more money than the began gambling with, and he calls that breaking even. He is content. The companion/bodyguard the businessman has hired has a different experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 The bodyguard, in turn, goes to the Blackjack tables. This man has a dream project that he feels he must gain $100 thousand to finance. He plays, he runs a winning streak, he gets to the 100 K. Then he sets a new goal -- $250 000 --- and loses everything. In contrast to his client, this man is a degenerate gambler. The constant advice of his client fails to help him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Late 1980s. Color. The bodyguard character is played by an actor who was a leading action star at the time of filming. The client is played by a performer who started in late-juvenile roles. He is presently playing a strong support role as a top-rank Federal Cop in a series about modern crimes. Both have had considerable Series experience, and both have been in some significant bigscreen films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 This flow of scenes about the principals and their gambling styles is a subplot to matters about the problems of the bodyguard's other friends and customers. A, uh, working girl goes as usual to her customer's suite; he savagely beats her up and abuses her, using his two lackeys as both audience and helpers. She goes to the bodyguard character, saying she wants his help to take the John court. She must be content with other, less formal, forms of revenge. The bodyguard brings this about effectively . The John involved in abusing the woman seeks vengeance in return. This is a special case. He is the scion of the, uh, Family, in another part of the country, and is under protection from a key man here in Vegas. The local Don doesn't like the punk, but he has obligations. This matter is resolved when the bodyguard isolated the quarry in a dark room and talks him into killing himself. During the stalking of the bodyguard, his friend the businessman was shot and severely wounded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Another of the bodyguard's tasks: He approaches a woman in a bar, hits on and insults her in an insinuating way. Her boyfriend arrives "late", gives the bodyguard a good beating, and they get engaged and depart that same night. The bodyguard accepts only part of the payment offered. -- Isn't so sure he fulfilled the contract. She insists that the boyfriend get rid of his ridiculous wig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 I truly regret that I did not start a Views count on this question. Would like to know how much interest was generated. With a nine-year span in between, another film had the exact same one-word title. The other had much more star power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 ROLL CALL: Wood Newton as the bodyguard Dr. Larry Fleinhardt as the client Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 The bodyguard's delayed dream: He loved the city of Venice (the one in Italy) and he wished to live there. The closing sequence has the bodyguard and the client being poled along the canals of that city. A prolific Hollywood novelist and scripter adapted his own novel for this film. The original story had the client getting killed in the final face off with the deranged attacker, but this version has him surviving and recovering from the attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 ROLL CALL: Wood Newton as the bodyguard Dr. Larry Fleinhardt as the client okay, then..... Heat (1986) ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Correct, Sixes. Burt Reynolds as the Vegas-native bodyguard, and Peter MacNicol as the client. This past season I've had some amusement watching MacNicol in the new franchise series CSI Cyber, as support to star Patricia Arquette. For most of his career he has been sort of a studious nerd type, but in that context he is a Boss FBI agent. -- the one who gets called away from the crime scent when the White House needs a briefing. Ace scripter William Goldman adapted his own novel for the script. mr6666's thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrence1 Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Mr. Sixes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Terrence, if ya got one....go ahead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrence1 Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Thanks. At a wedding reception, the baker of the wedding cake remarked that she could make a cake resembling any animal, other than a snake, because she didn't have the counter space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrence1 Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Hint: The movie takes place in Louisiana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Yo, Terrence; Is this actually a Groom's cake? Shaped like an armadillo. in reference to somebody's Alma Mater? Father of the Bride asked for the back end piece, with reference to "a good piece of ***? If that's it, we seem to be looking for Steel Magnolias. ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrence1 Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Yes, Flashback, you're right. That line was said by the wonderful Ann Wedgeworth. Your turn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Groovy. Got nothing at the moment. Open thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrence1 Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 A husband and wife are sitting up in bed together. He tries to talk to her, but she's working a crossword puzzle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrence1 Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Hint: A comedy from the 1960's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrence1 Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Hint: The actor in the scene played in both comedies and dramas. The female made many musicals for Columbia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starliteyes Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Tony Randall and Janet Blair in Boys Night Out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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