The Vicodan kept me up last night. I never take anything stronger than Bayer asipirn so that stuff threw me for a loop. I am not taking anymore and will suck it up.
But the stuff did keep me up watching TV which sucked because my wife was actually able to sleep and I couldn't which is the exact opposite of normal. Anyway one of my all time favorite movies was on: Streets of Fire.
This is a straight rip-off of the searchers by Western fan director Walter Hill. Diane Lane plays a singer who is kidnapped by a motorcycle gang who ride into town on a raid. She's the Debbie character. Willem Defoe plays Raven the head of the gang who is the Scar figure. And the Eddie and the Cruisers guy plays "Tom Cody" who is Ethan.
This has a lot of stuff going on. Great music by Jim Stienman who is the real "Meatloaf" being the guy who wrote all the music on "Bat Out of Hell." There are several top notch music interludes since this was the time of music videos real big popularity in the early eighties. Then there is the showdown where the two dudes duke it out with sledgehammers. And the grungy club where they hold Lane after she is kidnapped is a real hoot. So there was a lot to see when you can't get to sleep.
When it was over I put on an informercial for a Veg-o-matic jucier and was out like a light.
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I really enjoyed that movie, too.
And does Diane Lane have lasting beauty, or what? Gorgeous lady.
I was going to put up the scary photo of Willem Defoe but I had to keep up my rep of having the most babes per screen this side of the MILF hunter.
Coming soon, tennis babes!
Coming soon, tennis babes!
Hallelujah! You know...I can recommend a few. Oh...did you mean chicks?
Actually, I never noticed Lane until she was 35. I didn't see Streets of Fire (though I know the soundtrack by heart for reasons too complex to explain here) or those arty-teen dramas (Rumble Fish and Outsiders), and she didn't make an impression on me in the Cotton Club.
In Judge Dredd she seemed sorta-generic Sandra-Bullocky.
She got my interest playing opposite Kevin Bacon in My Dog Skip, believe it or not.
Subsequently, I've gone back and seen bits of "Six Pack" and she has a role in the spectacularly awful "National Lampoon Goes To The Movies/Movie Madness"--and even at this advanced age I don't see it.
(I never thought Molly Ringwald was pretty either, despite having a thing for redheads, but I've re-evaluated that recently. I think it was the characters she played I didn't like. Heh.)
blake, they are probably chick flicks, but I liked her in Under the Tuscan Sun and Unfaithful...and wasn't she also in Lonesome Dove? Adored that mini series.
Molly Ringwald was cute. But did not mature into a beauty, at least not in my opinion.
I love red hair as well. My first crush had red hair, and then my first serious boyfriend did, too. My brother called him Opie. LOL.
Well, I'm Irish, so maybe that's the attraction.
Under The Tuscan Sun does seem a little chick-y, but I'm cool with that as long as it doesn't follow the recent chick flick formula.
Or at least my definition of a chick flick.
I probably ought to get a hold of "Lonesome Dove". People swear by that.
No, Molly didn't grow up to be a great beauty, but somehow I like her more now. I was just taken, though, with some recent close-ups on her while watching Breakfast Club in high def. (Once again, very striking eyes.)
I used to be Irish. But I was never afflicted by the curse Troop keeps bringing up....
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