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"Back in the Where-does-his-styIe-fit-into-this-visuaIIy-hyped-up-world-we-live-in-Department—It’s simple: we know he won't depend on visual hype, and beyond that we can't say. The point is not whether he objects to the use of visual effects. The point won't be whether he utilizes visual forms to expand his musical repertoire or to further his career or what he thinks of those who do. It's just that he knows the difference."

--Rock Magazine, Nov. 1985

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

The difference? Between what? This is about Glenn Frey, by the way.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

No, I have no idea why I'm posting this.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Miami Vice, yo

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Miami Vice?

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.eaglesfans.com/info/articles/images/smugglers_blues.jpg
http://www.eaglesfans.com/info/articles/smugglers_blues.htm

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 4 May 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

"But, you say, 'Smuggler’s Blues' is a hot song and it’s perhaps the most visual of The Allnighter’s. It naturally lent itself to—indeed inspired—an episode of Miami Vice, NBC’s hit show dedicated to weekly visual seduction by an incessant stream of slick images."

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 4 May 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

what was that short-lived tv show of his? i think they pulled it halfway throught the first episode.

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 4 May 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

That's the nature of the business.

― TRG (TRG), Thursday, 4 May 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Remember how different Miami Vice was from every other show on TV?? I think one of those Fridays at 10pm was the first time I had ever heard anyone use the word "production values" (from my dad) .. only two lines I can remember from the show is a moustachio'd guy in a boardroom who actually may have been G. Gorgon Liddy, pulling a string of rubbery, wrinkled discs from a bag and dropping them on the table and hissing, "Sandinista EARS..." .. and the other is Crockett methodically marching through a crackhouse to find a suspect, finding him, the guy going "ayyy! que pasa?" and Crocket pulling back the action on his 9mm, pointing it at him, and growling, "don't 'que pasa' me!"

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 4 May 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

only two lines I can remember from the show is a moustachio'd guy in a boardroom who actually may have been G. Gorgon Liddy, pulling a string of rubbery, wrinkled discs from a bag and dropping them on the table and hissing, "Sandinista EARS..."

yeah that's totally g. gordon liddy. the episode he's in is fantastic.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 4 May 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Crime, it pays real nice. But what you really didn't know is crime pays twice. It pays once in money, twice in years, in the jail cell tryin to hide your tears.

― TRG (TRG), Thursday, 4 May 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

imdb says Frey was in several episodes of Wiseguy. He also apparently had a role in this (looks like the only uncredited face at the top of the poster!)

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/8/A70-4142

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Let's Get Harry! An Alan Smithee Film, 17 November 1999
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091400/

Author: John Seal from Oakland CA

Yes, it's a real Alan Smithee film, and it's pretty obvious why Stuart Rosenberg did not want to be associated with this dud. Basically an opportunity for pure hearted Young White Americans to pound the bejesus out of filthy Brown Skinned Drug Dealers, this Reaganesque paean to Manifest Destiny is boring and offensive. Avoid at all costs, unless you're a member of Aryan Nation.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 4 May 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

unsurprising that Mark "Coors" Harmon was in that but Robert Duvall???

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 4 May 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

"what was that short-lived tv show of his? i think they pulled it halfway throught the first episode."

Good Grief, "SOS (South of Sunset)"! I actually saw the 1 episode that aired. As mismatched buddy private investigator shows go, it wasn't that bad. Could have certainly gone on for 4 or 5 more weeks.

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 4 May 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

I always thought Let's Get Harry was a Sam Fuller movie. I guess he just wrote the script, or something.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 4 May 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

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