Showing posts with label The Poseidon Adventure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Poseidon Adventure. Show all posts

Saturday, July 3, 2021

Saturday Sinema: The Poseidon Adventure

"There's got to be a morning after, if we can hold on through the night" - The Morning After, The Poseidon Adventure 

This Holiday weekend why not treat yourself to the classic that started the disaster film genre The Poseidon Adventure.

Accept no imitations, this is the real deal Minions, the film was nominated for eight Academy Awards. I attended the 40th Anniversary Screening of it at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood where I met one of the stars Pamela Sue Martin who was also the original Fallon on Dynasty. Yeah, that evening was a blast!

Moving on I will you leave you in the expert hands of  my buddy Jay Jacobson and his classic movie blog.

You're welcome...

https://www.jaysclassicmovieblog.com/post/37-the-poseidon-adventure-1972  

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

There's Got To Be A Morning After...

"There's got to be a morning after, If we can hold on through the night, We have a chance to find the sunshine, Let's keep on looking for the light" Theme from The Poseidon Adventure, Maureen McGovern

There does have to be a morning after and I'm not talking the pill...

That's correct minions it's the end of another three day weekend and boy do I feel it. How you may ask? Kind of like the S.S. Poseidon in The Poseidon Adventure, " Hell, Upside Down!"

While I won't go into specifics it isn't what you are surely thinking, I'm way too interesting for that pile. 

Thus today I am leaving you with a photo of myself and one of the stars of  The Poseidon Adventure Pamela Sue Martin, taken at the 40th anniversary screening of it at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. Right here, right now.

Enjoy your morning after kiddies!

Yours Truly & Pamela Sue Martin


The Poseidon Adventure on IMDb:

Saturday, January 21, 2017

The Morning After

WTF?!
Michelle Obama & Hillary Clinton
"There's got to be a morning after, If we can hold on through the night
We have a chance to find the sunshine, Let's keep on looking for the light" 

- Maureen McGovern Theme from The Poseidon Adventure

Well it's the morning after and although we didn't board the SS Poseidon it certainly feels like we are on a sinking ship.

The majority of you, like myself, are still feeling like they are in an alternate universe, an episode of The Twilight Zone to be more specific. Well honestly we are.

However I am going about my usual Saturday routine of drinking my smoothie and heading to my spin class at Gold's Gym. Life does not stop because a bigly bully is now our commander and chief.

With this being said I am going to leave you with the image above on the first day of what is for sure going to be a turbulent voyage to say the least.

Michelle Obama & Hillary Clinton looking at each other says it all without any verbiage.

Make the morning after awesome for yourselves and your sanity.

Time for my Blueberry smoothie.

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Happy 2013....!


Me & Pamela Sue Martin
OK I may be a tad late wishing everyone a Happy 2013 - but the Holiday Season was extremely busy for me not to mention I was without a computer for an entire week which is pretty much a major deal for those of us who write.

So here I am communicating on my new lap top and finally catching up on work, that's right for some reason and I never do this, I actually enjoyed the Holiday Season instead of stressing about things like I do with precision every year they roll around.

I spent the weekend in Palm Springs with friends at their house I had four separate Birthday celebrations with various friends not to mention the usual life things that one has to take care of. Of note I also attended the 40th anniversary screening of "The Poseidon Adventure" at The Egyptian in Hollywood, CA - the theatre that it actually premiered at some 40 years ago. I got to say "Hello" to past interview subject and Poseidon star, Pamela Sue Martin (pictured with me above).

Keep your eyes peeled she will be an upcoming interview on "Entertain Me" soon.....

Enough of my prattle, time to move onward into 2013, and what better way to kick my first posting of the New Year off than with some Pentatonix and the video for their latest song: "Save The World/Don't You Worry Child".

2013 is underway let's get crackin'!


Monday, December 3, 2012

Jim Fall: Holly's Holiday

Director & Writer Jim Fall is best known for his classic movie "Trick" and as the man who brought Lizzie McGuire to the big screen in, what else? "The Lizzie McGuire Movie".

Tis' the season and Jim's latest "Trick" is the Christmas movie "Holly's Holiday" set to air on Lifetime December 8th.

Jim popped by "Entertain Me" for a chat with yours truly, read on and see what he had to say...

MS: You know "Trick" is going to be the film you'll be remembered for don't you?

JF: I assume so, I'm happy that is the one. (laughs)

MS: Most people don't have a signature film, it's nice that you do.

JF: It is nice. That movie was such a labor of love, if someone had told me that twelve years later people would still  be thinking about it, enjoying and loving it, I wouldn't have believed them. I love it, it's amazing!

MS: The performance you got out of Tori Spelling was amazing!

JF: Everyone always asks me that. To be honest I gave her an opportunity and she took it. It was the right part at the right time and she was game. I mean of course I directed her, but the performance was all Tori.

Jim Fall

MS: Being a fan of horror and science fiction why is it you haven't directed a movie in either genre?

JF: Yeah, I'm kind of surprised that I didn't start out trying to direct those kind of things, but I just don't.

MS: Well you were a Production Assistant on the horror flick "Bad Dreams".

JF: That was my first Hollywood job, I got it because Andrew Fleming who directed it and I went to school at NYU (New York University) I stood around the Port-A-Potty with a walkie talkie (laughs) Being that it was my first Hollywood job I was thrilled to have it. Years later, I kind of owe my career to Andy, I was trying to find the money for "Trick". I was a little embarrassed to ask him, but I finally did tell him that I could not find the money to get it made and I would just die if I couldn't. So, I sent him the script and he gave it to his agent at UTA (United Talent Agency) who gave it to Howard Cohen gave it his partner Eric who ended up putting up the money, Howard became my agent, I got the movie made and it ended up going to Sundance, and I kind of owe that to the fact Andy helped me that it happened that way.

MS: It was funny to me how you like genre films and you have never done one yourself.

JF: Funny you should mention that, the company that made "Holly's Holiday" also makes other genre movies, I told them I want to make a disaster movie. I've always loved disaster movies, my favorite movies were "Earthquake" and "The Towering Inferno". I pitched them, here's hoping.

MS: So, "Holly's Holiday" is about a mannequin that comes to life, they have a habit of doing that this time of year it seems. (laughs)

JF: One of the main reasons I was excited to do "Holly's Holiday" was when I was young I made a short film about a woman who falls in love with mannequin. I had just broken up with my very first boyfriend, and I was bitter and angry. So, the mannequin really was him, because at the end of the movie the mannequin ends up being an asshole, and leaves her for someone that is more his type. Since I wasn't ballsy enough to make it my first gay film, although in my movie he is literally a mannequin the whole time and in this movie you're not sure whether it is just a dream that he comes to life or not. Lifetime is going to air it on Christmas Eve as well.

MS: Let's hear what your five favorite Holiday Movies, including New Year's as there is a certain New Year's Eve disaster movie that you love, are.

JF: One of the obvious ones is "A Christmas Story" I never get tired of watching that it's so fucking funny! It's just such a wonderful film.

MS: It is.

JF: "It's A Wonderful Life" makes me cry.

MS: Me as well and I'm a hard cry.

JF: Of course "The Poseidon Adventure" (laughs) The strokes in the movie are broad, but the tone is consistent and the characters are so lovable. You love these people and you care when shit happens to them.

MS: True.

JF: "Female Trouble" well it's not really a Christmas movie, but there's that wonderful scene where a Christmas tree falls on the mother. (laughs) There is a tree falling on someone in "Holly's Holiday" too, so maybe that's a homage to "Female Trouble".

MS: Give me one more pick.

JF: "Auntie Mame" that movie has a whole Christmas sequence in it. It's amazing.

MS: What was the shoot for "Holly's Holiday" like?

JF: We shot it in thirteen days, which is really short for a shoot.

MS: Yeah, that is.

JF: It comes out to nine scenes a day which is nuts. It looks really great though you would never know it was a low budget TV movie.

"Holly's Holiday" airs on Lifetime Saturday December 8th and encores on Christmas Eve.

Sunday, July 8, 2012

R.I.P. - Ernest Borgnine

I was on the phone with my friend writer/photographer Jay Jorgensen when he told me the news: Ernest Borgnine had passed away. Jay is a huge "The Poseidon Adventure" fan along with many of his friends....who Ernest did many kind things for in the City of Angels.


Here is the official report: Ernest Borgnine, the beefy screen star known for blustery, often villainous roles, but who won the best-actor Oscar for playing against type as a lovesick butcher in "Marty" in 1955, died Sunday. He was 95.
My personal memories or Ernest? "Escape From New York" where he played "Cabbie" - one of the best low budget, not to mention John Carpenter movies ever. Oh, and "Deadly Blessing" with Sharon Stone (yes, I am a SS fan, big time) where he played a crazy Amish Dude.
Of course "Poseidon" and let's not forget this gem....


Yep dude, you ruled !