Tag: Ocean’s 11

• RIP Glenn Frey: Husband. Father. The Coke Fiend From Let’s Get Harry.

  This month we lost Glenn Frey, a consummate entertainer, at the age of 67. Frey is probably best known for his role as Spence, a coke-addled regular Joe from Illinois who, with his buddies, mounts a daring rescue of their buddy who’s being held hostage in Colombia in the 1986 film Let’s Get Harry. This film is…

  goldread

  2016-01-31

  ’80s, Entertainment, Movies

  Alan Smithee, Anthony Michael Hall, Back To The Future, Colombia, Columbia University, Gary Busey, Glenn Frey, Hollywood, Let’s Get Harry, Mark Harmon, Michael J. Fox, Michael Schoeffling, New Coke, Ocean’s 11, People’s Sexiest Man Alive, Rick Rossovich, Robert Duvall, Shrike, Sixteen Candles, South America, Stuart Rosenberg, The Eagles, Thomas F. Wilson, Tom Cruise, Top Gun, Washington

• Remake These Movies (?)

  You don’t have to be a cinephile to realize that Hollywood has run out of ideas — at least the original ones. Studios churn out the remakes with reckless abandon these days- sorry, actually, their versions are reimagined. That’s fancy talk for taking the barest plot outlines, characters and, most importantly, the title and updating them for…

  goldread

  2012-12-17

  ’80s, Entertainment, Movies, Pop Culture

  1987, 1995, 2005, 2010s, 3 Men and A Baby, Bad Boy, Ben Vereen, Christian Bale, Donald Glover, Footloose, George Clooney, Hollywood, James Franco, Jim Carrey, Kicking and Screaming, Leonard Nimoy, Miami Sound Machine, Noah Baumbach, North Koreans, Ocean’s 11, Paul Newman, Red Dawn, Sandra Bullock, Seth Rogen, St. Elmo’s Fire, Steve McQueen, The Karate Kid, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, Will Ferrell