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#9751 Post by Sloper »

She gives an amazing blood-curdling scream in the Outer Limits episode, 'The Bellero Shield'.
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#9752 Post by colinr0380 »

therewillbeblus wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 4:35 am She's a lot of fun as the enigmatic beauty taken to the literal extreme in Brewster McCloud too, what a double-whammy of tonally polar opposite perfs
Speaking of tonal opposites, she also appears as a victim who provides a vital clue in The Boston Strangler (very NSFW) and also turns up in that wonderful parody of disaster movies The Big Bus as part of the random bus hijacker subplot.
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#9753 Post by Feego »

I’m not a big fan of Altman’s MASH, but the one big lol moment for me is when they fire the starting gun during the football game and Kellerman yells out, “Oh my God, they shot him!” It’s just a perfect line delivery.
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Held her own very well with Rodney Dangerfield in Back To School
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#9755 Post by Feego »

I forgot about this film until looking over her filmography, but Kellerman is also quite good as Diane Lane's narcissistic movie-star mother in A Little Romance.
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#9756 Post by Beloved Aunt »

I think Sally Kellerman's loss of the Oscar to Helen flipping Hayes for Airport is one of their most confounding bungling's of a no-brainer choice. She is so great in the film. & one of my favorite Altman details (i don't know if its actually in the film, i never finished Brewster McCloud b-cuz i thought it really sucked, but I saw this in one of my Altman books) is of Sally in a giant teddy bear costume as part of the circus procession at the end of the film, looking bemusedly at her fingernails.
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#9757 Post by colinr0380 »

Speaking of which I forgot that somehow Sally Kellerman briefly appeared as a guest on one of the On Cinema At The Cinema Oscar Specials! (This was one of the early specials where neither Tim or Gregg had begun injuring their guests at that point, though they are deep into their Star Trek II versus IV tiff here that climaxed with Tim taking the opportunity during his murder trial to question Gregg under oath in the courtroom)
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#9758 Post by MichaelB »

Nicky Tesco, most famous for being a member of 1970s punk band The Members (who in turn were most famous for the single 'The Sound of the Suburbs'), but he also made brief but memorable acting contributions to Aki Kaurismäki films (Leningrad Cowboys Go America, I Hired a Contract Killer).
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#9761 Post by therewillbeblus »

Strange, as I revisited One False Move yesterday I was reading about her critical involvement in that film's release- essentially 'discovering' it as a made-for-video programmer and putting it in the festival circuit for a theatrical spotlight, which attracted a lot of critical and audience notice
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#9763 Post by beamish14 »

Alan Ladd, Jr.

The Ladd Company was behind some of the most fascinating films of the post-New Hollywood era: Twice Upon a Time, The Right Stuff, Body Heat, Mike’s Murder
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#9764 Post by MichaelB »

Former Fox head Alan Ladd, Jr, who'll inevitably be primarily known as the man who greenlit Star Wars but in between acting as midwife to blockbusters like that and Alien he also backed rather more idiosyncratic fare, and was a noted champion of Robert Altman.
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#9765 Post by beamish14 »

MichaelB wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 8:27 pm Former Fox head Alan Ladd, Jr, who'll inevitably be primarily known as the man who greenlit Star Wars but in between acting as midwife to blockbusters like that and Alien he also backed rather more idiosyncratic fare, and was a noted champion of Robert Altman.

Yep. Altman had truly incredible free reign there with Quintet and H*E*A*L*T*H
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#9766 Post by domino harvey »

flyonthewall2983 wrote: Wed Mar 02, 2022 8:20 pm Kirk Baily
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#9767 Post by Feego »

Farrah Forke, of the tv series Wings.
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Not a good day for 90s TV
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#9770 Post by Aunt Peg »

Alfred Sole (director of Alice Sweet Alice) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... 235095669/
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#9771 Post by colinr0380 »

That's his best known film but I am rather curious to see his Airplane!-esque spoof of slasher movies Pandemonium, which has an astonishing cast including Paul Reubens, Judge Reinhold (released the same year he was in Fast Times At Ridgemont High), Phil Hartman and Edie McClurg! Even Tab Hunter, Eve Arden and Donald O'Connor in cameos! Surely it would be better than something like Scary Movie with all that talent?

And Tanya's Island (NSFW) looks absolutely wild! Like a mix of Lina Wertmüller and Joe D'Amato from that trailer!
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#9772 Post by dwk »

colinr0380 wrote: Fri Mar 04, 2022 4:48 pm That's his best known film but I am rather curious to see his Airplane!-esque spoof of slasher movies Pandemonium, which has an astonishing cast including Paul Reubens, Judge Reinhold (released the same year he was in Fast Times At Ridgemont High), Phil Hartman and Edie McClurg! Even Tab Hunter, Eve Arden and Donald O'Connor in cameos! Surely it would be better than something like Scary Movie with all that talent?
Vinegar Syndrome has released that on Blu-ray
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#9773 Post by esl »

Tim Considine, best known for playing Mike, Fred MacMurray's oldest son, on the first five seasons of My Three Sons. Appeared in Patton as the shell-shocked soldier who gets slapped by George C. Scott.
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