by 007hertzrumble | Feb 13, 2018 | #Bond_age_TV, Blog, Remington Steele
All #Bond_age_ programming appears on the Programming page the day of the live tweet.
#SteeleTweet marches on through Remington Steele’s second season. We’re skipping a rather forgettable episode and moving along to Episodes 19 and 20.
Our first episode, “Dreams of Steele” features Judith Light in a yarn about gems that the Steele Agency is hired to protect but turn out to be fakes! Steele and Laura must get down to the bottom of things. As they do.
Up next, “Woman of Steele” features some nice trademarked Steele cinematic callbacks and then wife of Pierce Brosnan Cassandra Harris (For Your Eyes Only). Unlike the prior episode, Steele and Co. is hired to protect a bunch of artwork at an exhibition — this time the paintings are real but a lady swindler returns from the dead to throw Laura into a tizzy.
Join #Bond_age_ for Remington Steele Vol. 16 on Wednesday at 9pm ET. The second episode begins at 10pm after a short break to mix new drinks. Follow #Bond_age_TV hashtag.
by 007hertzrumble | Feb 5, 2018 | Blog, Impostors!, Proto_#Bond_age_
Some time ago, #Bond_age_ live tweeted a few movies that were released before Dr. No. We called them Proto-#Bond_age_ and classed this place up a little bit with some #TCMParty vibes. We did North by Northwest, Arsene Lupin, Sherlock Holmes and a couple episodes of The Falcon.
To broaden the scope of #Bond_age_ and scratch off some more movies I’ve always intended to see, I figured it was time to toss on a few classics and see where “going legit” takes us. Unlike some of the other ongoing series I don’t really have an agenda or master plan. We’ll wind our way through classic spy and espionage cinema until we end up back at 1962.
I wanted to start with Fritz Lang’s silent masterpiece Spies, but that’s a damn long silent movie for a live tweet, especially when I’m trying to spur some interest in a new #Bond_age_ series. Greta Garbo seemed like a better first option. Therefore…
Please join #Bond_age_ for Mata Hari (1931) on Wednesday, February 7th @ 9pm ET. Follow #Bond_age_ hashtag.
by 007hertzrumble | Jan 29, 2018 | Blog, Year of the Spy 1968
We kick off this year’s Year of the Spy retrospective with Richard Donner’s swinging Salt & Pepper starring Sammy Davis, Jr. and Peter Lawford. This big studio caper concerns two nightclub owners that become unwitting (witless?) participants in matter of British national security when a spy turns up dead in their club and MI5 hires them to help foil the plan.
Salt & Pepper is first a comedy — if you couldn’t tell — but Salt & Pepper goes off the mainstream rails when it incorporates a couple of relatively unsettling scenes of violence. For a comedy. I’ll defer to this quote from Roger Ebert’s review from October of 1968 to summarize the audience at which Salt & Pepper is aimed. It says all you need to know about the film in one sentence of criticism. It is both a ringing endorsement for our purposes and certain damnation for an average moviegoing audience.
“About the first thing we learn in the movie is that Sammy Davis Jr., plays Salt and Peter Lawford plays Pepper. But Davis is black and Lawford is white — get it? If you found it funny, this is your movie.”
#Bond_age_ kicks off YEAR OF THE SPY 1968 with Richard Donner’s Salt & Pepper on Wednesday, January 31st at 9pm ET. Follow #Bond_age_ hashtag.
by 007hertzrumble | Jan 22, 2018 | Blog, Impostors!, Ladies Night
For our first Ladies Night broadcast of 2018, we’re starting back up with the other lovely lady from The Man with the Golden Gun. And truth be told I’ve been looking for an excuse to screen this movie for #Bond_age_ for a long time now.
Killer Force (aka The Diamond Mercenaries) offers a certain brand of Ocean’s Eleven heist elements mixed with lazy ensemble action movie cliches and a general distaste for filmmaking logic. The bottom line is that Killer Force features Peter Fonda, Christopher Lee, Telly Savalas, O.J. Simpson, and, of course Maud Adams. It’s intermittently plodding (perfect for live tweet reflection), mostly stupid and occasionally divinely over the top. It’s the live tweet you never knew you needed.
Join #Bond_age_ for Ladies Night: Maud Adams — the Killer Force Live Tweet on Wednesday, January 24th @ 9pm ET. Follow #Bond_age_ hashtag.
by 007hertzrumble | Jan 16, 2018 | Blog, Impostors!, Tom Cruising
Many Cruisemoons have passed since our last Tom Cruising Live Tweet event. For those keeping track of such things, that was Days of Thunder way back in August.
The hell you say!
Hell yes, I say.
Tom Cruise is back on #Bond_age_ with the movie he made right before Risky Business and right after The Outsiders, which in retrospect may have been a better movie to view because it also has Patrick Swayze and Ralph Macchio! NEVERTHELESS WE ARE HERE TO TALK TOM CRUISE NOT THE SWAYZE. Though a future series of #Swayz_age_ is not out of the question.
Losin’ It (1983) is a not entirely uninspired teen sex comedy set in 1965 starring Tom Cruise, Jackie Earle Haley and Shelley Long. A bunch of horny, awkward high school boys head off to Tijuana for a wild night and in the process take on the company of a heartbroken and eccentric housewife. It’s all very dumb and more than worth a riff or two. Most notable is that this is director Curtis Hanson’s first mainstream film after toiling in cheap genre films throughout the 1970’s. For those that don’t recognize the name offhand, Hanson went on to direct L.A. Confidential, Wonder Boys and 8 Mile, among other notables.
Anti-Cruisers will enjoy how little respect the characters in this movie have for the Cruise.
Join #Bond_age_ on Wednesday January 17th @ 9pm ET for another edition of TOM CRUISING featuring Losin’ It!
Losin’ It
by 007hertzrumble | Jan 2, 2018 | Blog
Last evening @CitizenScreen requested a reminder regarding the #Bond_age_ live tweets, which got me thinking… she’s not the first to say that she’d join more live tweets if she just had a gentle reminder. I understand that the live tweet announcements get lost in the Twatterverse and that’s why I’ve taken to spamming them. That’s not especially efficient, however.
New year, no ideas. I’m starting a #Bond_age_ “subscription service.”
If you want to be notified each week about the #Bond_age_ live tweet event, submit your name and your twitter handle. When I send out the weekly notices, I’ll tag you so that you’ll always see what’s going on in the world of #Bond_age_.
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