It is a sad day today in Hollywood, former international sixties star turned character actor John Phillip Law passed away. Best known for playing the love sick Russian sailor in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming and Angel in Barbarella; he had had a long a varied career that included Hurry Sundown, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, and The Cassandra Crossing. In his later years he became a familiar face on such TV shows as The Love Boat, Murder She Wrote, and The Young and the Restless. But for me he will always be the super cool, leather clad, comic book inspired uber thief Diabolik in Mario Bava’s Danger: Diabolik! stealing fabulous jewels collections and gold shipments while making fools of both the Suerte and the French underworld. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family.
Archive for May, 2008
I was surfing around the SciFi.com website and came upon an article that has me a little worried. According to TheBadandUgly.com Will Smith is in New York shooting additional scenes for Hancock, which is set to release in less than six weeks. The rumor is that the film has already been submitted twice to the MPAA and come back both times with an R rating instead of the PG-13 rating the producers are wanting for a wider audience appeal. If true they are going to have to scramble to make that July 2nd release date. Here’s hoping they do, because let’s face it, it just isn’t a real Fourth of July weekend without a Will Smith blockbuster.
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