This is a bit late, but the Weekend Drive-In had to salute a few B-Movie birthday boys.
Let's start with David Bowie, who turns freaking 65 today!!! Yes, he forged his career on the rock stage, but the Space Oddity also has starred in a few film oddities as well. Among these are "The Man Who Fell to Earth," "The Hunger," "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" and everyone's favorite anti-drug flick "Cristiane F." He's so cool, I have to include two movie trailers in his honor.
Today is also Larry Storch's 89th birthday! He's best known for his role on "F Troop," but he won me over in the original "Ghost Busters" TV show (not connected to the Bill Murray classic). I lived for this show when it aired on Saturday mornings back in the 1970s. This short-lived kiddie show reunited Storch with fellow F Trooper Forest Tucker.
Storch also starred in one of the first R-rated movies I saw in the theater, "Without Warning."
Yesterday, the great Nick Cage turned 48. He's made quite a few classics. I even rank "Ghost Rider" among his top films. Plus, I gotta support a dude who ditched a moneymaking name like Coppola and took the name of Marvel Comics' Power Man. My favorite Nick movie? "Wild at Heart!"
And of course, Jan. 6 marked the coolest birthday of all...MINE! Happy birthday to me...Capricorns rule!
Was Ghostbusters on before or after Far Out Space Nuts?
ReplyDeleteThink they both came out around the same time. Ghost Busters was a FIlmation production (same team that delivered "Fat Albert") while Space Nuts was a Krofft show. Wish they reran these shows on TV.
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