Classic car chases - The Seven-Ups 1973
I know just what we need to get this weekend underway with a bang – a fantastic 1970s film car chase! Check out the complete 10-minute high-quality chase sequence from this cop flick directed by Philip D’Antoni and starring Roy Scheider. Action, burning rubber, New York in 1973. What’s not to love?
Tantalizing tagline:
“What the regular cops are afraid to do, the “Seven-Ups” will. Without fear. Without mercy.”
De Niro in Taxi Driver, 1976. 'You talkin' to me?'
It’s movie trailer time, Bionic friends. Today we cast ourselves back to February, 1976 and soak up the majesty of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. Nominated for four Academy Awards and winner of the Palme d’Or at the ’76 Cannes Film Festival – Taxi Driver is a true classic that we’ll still be watching and discussing come 2076. View the trailer below.
“De Niro. In Bang the Drum Slowly the critics called him a brilliant new talent. after Mean Streets, they said he was a genius. For his performance in the Godfather Part II they gave him the Academy Award. Now, Robert De Niro creates a terrifying portrait of life on the edge of madness.”
Kenner TIE-Fighter '78 with pop-off wings. Neato!
You’ll find many treats in this one, such as the TIE-Fighter with detachable (exploding) wings and a radio-controlled R2-D2. Nifty!
“Star Wars. You and your children loved it. Now, the earthlings at Kenner have asked my associate and me to present the Start Wars Collection.”
Let’s take a look at some cool (and slightly bizarre) trading cards from the 1970s. I collected many different types in my childhood including various Star Wars series cards and I sure as hell wish I still had them all. You can view the full article I pulled these from at Dangerous Minds. I’ve added release dates for your convenience.
Mork & Mindy 1978
Good Times 1975
Brady Bunch 1971
Bionic Woman 1976
Sad news today for fans of classic 60s and 70s TV sitcoms. Sherwood Schwartz, creator of “Gilligan’s Island” and “The Brady Bunch” has died at age 94.
Schwartz, born November 14, 1916 in Passaic, New Jersey, started off as a writer for Bob Hope before moving into TV, working on “The Red Skelton Show” and “My Favorite Martian” among others.
The Professor and, uh...all the rest...
“Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Aboard this tiny ship”
Schwartz said this of the microcosm of “Gilligan”:
“It’s one world, and we all have to learn to live with each other.”
The Brady Bunch. Thanks Sherwood, for my extended family.
“Here’s the story of a lovely lady
Who was bringing up three very lovely girls
All of them had hair of gold, like their mother
The youngest one in curls”
Schwartz said of “The Brady Bunch”:
“…it dealt with real emotional problems: the difficulty of being the middle girl; a boy being too short when he wants to be taller; going to the prom with zits on your face.”
He forgot to mention footballs in the face, exploding volcanoes and bad luck tikis but that’s OK. Thank you so much Sherwood Schwartz for your wonderful shows which brightened our childhoods with much entertainment and laughter. Wherever you are now – have a fancy drink in a coconut shell on me.
Sources: Read the last ever interview with Schwartz at the wonderful Classic Television Showbiz blog as well as an appreciation at the L.A. Times, and obits at The NY Times and NPR. You may also wish to investigate the Sherwood Schwartz Wiki.
40 years ago Time Magazine reported on the quickie divorce of Elliot Gould and Barbara Streisand in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on July 9th, 1971. Gould, aged 32 at the time, was dating (a pregnant) Jenny Bogart, age 19.
Gould and Bogart (and presumed law team) in '71.
Time Quote:
“In the Dominican Republic to file for a quickie divorce from Barbra Streisand, Actor Elliott Gould, 32, walked hand in hand from the courtroom with pregnant Jenny Bogart, 19. Gould announced that he was the father of her baby, due to be born ‘around Christmas.’ Furthermore, Jenny announced defiantly, she and Elliott will continue to live together out of wedlock because ‘we don’t believe in marriage.’ “
Note: Gould and Bogart were, in fact, married twice. In 1973 and again in 1978.
Gould appeared in Ingmar Bergman’s film The Touch and Alan Arkin’s Little Murders in 1971. Streisand released the albums Stoney End and Barbra Joan Streisand in 1971.
Elliot Gould Wiki, Barbra Streisand Wiki, Time article