Well, crap. RIP Wilford Brimley

It wasn’t until years later that I figured that, if the movie version would have gone further than Roy’s home run, that the Knights lost the World Series.

The scene where Pop and Red are shaving and Pop tells Red that he wanted to win a pennant more than anything, but he didn’t care about the Series, and would have been satisfied and bought a farm kinda tells what happened to the Knights afterward. Plus, they wouldn’t have had Roy for the Series since he hurt himself again, and after such a dramatic walk-off with the lights exploding, any World Series would have been anti-climatic. Heck, the Knights might have gotten swept and not even cared.

 

RIP.

"Well you're the best damn hitter I ever saw."

 

Those commercials were perfect for parody.

Then of course, there's the Diabeatles.

 

With Deidre Hall of soap opera fame. And a launching pad for Shaneen Doherty to become the bitch queen on the original "90210."

 

Absolutely. Best scene in a movie that did a tremendous disservice to female reporters. Implied that every one of them were ready to jump into bed with a source ... Mafia, guys, FBI, whoever.

 

Yeah, "Absence of Malice" is a terrific film despite Sally Field's portrayal of one of them girl reporters.

 

"You got 30 days."

Like a shiv in the dude's gut.

Only the great Wilford Brimley, sporting a walrus moustache in 1981, could have delivered that with such devastation.

 

I always think of him in The Firm.

 

Right after the film's release, Kurt Luedtke, the screenwriter for AoM, came to talk to one of my college classes. He said the studio sexed up the Megan Carter character to the point she implied she hopped into bed with most sources -- in the original screenplay she had an affair with Gallagher, but before she knew he was "connected."
He also assured us that most city beat reporters did not live in Miami penthouse apartments or drive Porsches.
He said while Brimley's character was supposed to be "salty and irascible," he ad-libbed a couple of his lines. The "Noah built himself an ark" line was supposed to be something about "filling the Everglades" but it got too unwieldy.

 

Sally Field looked as good from around 1977-82 as anybody did.

It's never been much marvel to me that Burt said she was the love of his life.

 

Feathered hairstyle very popular then. I always liked it.