Saturday, September 11, 2010

Body Snatched

Or
Long Live Walter Jameson
(Mad props for the Don for the deep dive)

Or
Snatched
(Kudos to Don)

Or
YOU'RE NEXT! YOU'RE NEXT!
(Accolades for conspiracist Greg)
Kevin McCarthy, enemy of the UHF, has died at the age of 96. He had almost 200 roles in his 70-year career, even scoring an Oscar nomination as Biff in the 1951 movie “Death of a Salesman,” but he’ll always be Doctor Miles Bennell running through the streets of Santa Mira, California warning a disbelieving populace about the subtle infiltration of Communists, I mean aliens. He was so identified with the role, he recreated the closing scene of the original on Donald Sutherland’s car in the 1978 remake. He fulfilled his Twilight Zone obligation in Long Live Walter Jameson, a history professor who masters eternal life, then played Uncle Walt in the Twilight Zone: The Movie segment remake of It’s a Good Life. In recent years, most of his roles were powerful dishonest men, like the industrial spy in Innerspace, the mad scientist breeding killer fish in Pirahna, the evil TV station owner in UHF, the best father ever, who hires a prostitute for his virgin son in My Tutor and a smarmy political operative in The Distinguished Gentleman. Although his time in sci-fi was limited, he had a brilliant cameo in the film within the film in Matinee, playing General Ankrum, a reference to B-movie staple Morris Ankrum, who frequently played military and police types.

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