Cinema Styles (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
As a part of October celebrations I watched Twilight Zone: The Movie , a film I'd not seen since its debut on cable way, waaaay back in the day. Watching it again with older, maybe wiser, eyes revealed a film so inconsistent as to make one wonder why they bothered releasing it. Add on to that the fact that three actors ( Vic Morrow, My-Ca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi) were killed during filming...
Watch Us Explode! (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
... who hasn’t made a feature film since 1998 and had his own serious brush with the law when actor Vic Morrow and two children where killed in that infamous Twilight Zone movie stunt gone horribly wrong in 1983 and nerd supreme Steve Soderbergh, all of Hollywood’s A and B and even C list talent have stayed far away from anything involving Polanski and haven’t signed any petitions.October 15th,...
Sultan Knish (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
... who donated 500 dollars and is best known for his role in the death of two children and actor Vic Morrow on the set of the Twilight Zone movie, Julian Schnabel, who is listed as donating 28,000 dollars, and former Clinton buddy Mike Nichols, who donated 2300 dollars. Then there's Steven Soderbergh, who recently directed a movie glorifying Che. Or Woody Allen, who left America for France,...
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
... straight out of Rod Serling’s head, but sadly, this accident wasn’t a work of fiction. Actor Vic Morrow and two children were filming a scene for the first segment of the movie that involved a trip in time back to the Vietnam War. Some explosions went off too close to low-flying helicopters, which resulted in “foreign object damage to one rotor blade, the separation of the helicopter’s tail...
