TMQ Watch will probably be up…later.
In the meantime, Lawrence has a review of “The Sentinel” up at his place. I watched it with him and some other folks (thanks for hosting, people whose identities I wish to protect) along with “The Mummy“. Some random thoughts:
- “The Mummy” is actually more erotic, at least in my opinion, than “The Sentinel”. “Mummy” has no nudity, but damn Zita Johann looks hot in that outfit. “The Sentinel” has nudity, but not from the right people; Cristina Raines is attractive, to be sure, but she never gets naked. And the people who do get naked…are not people you want to see naked.
- Zita Johann sure had an interesting life. She was basically in the movies for three years, then quit to work in theater with people like John Houseman (yes, that one: she was also married to him at one point) and Orson Welles, lived to the age of 89, and made her last film appearance at the age of 82.
- “The Sentinel” also has an uncredited, nonspeaking appearance by Richard Dreyfuss. You watch that scene and you can’t fail to recognize him; we were all, “Yeah, that’s Dreyfuss, all right.”
- Someone should do a documentary about Richard Dreyfuss and his career. I even have a title for it: “The Dreyfuss Affair”.
- Did you know that “The Mummy” is only one hour and thirteen minutes long? (Edited to add: “It’s Pat” is only five minutes longer.)
- Which is interesting, because stuff happens in “The Mummy”. Really. There’s not a whole lot of drag, although Sir Basil Exposition (or his grandfather) does appear quite a bit in the movie. But stuff happens, and it happens relatively fast. Karl Freund was no foot-dragger. Some of today’s directors could take lessons from him.
- Cheese louise, Jerry Orbach circa 1977 is weird to look at. Not in a “he’s ugly” way, but in a “hard to associate with Lennie Briscoe” way. (Yes, I’m fully aware that Jerry had a long and colorful career before “LawnOrder”. I’m just saying Lennie is such an icon that it is hard to see him any other way.) (Edited to add: Thank you, “CygnusDarius”, for this.)
- And as a reward for reading all the way to the end of this:
