RIP Curt Gowdy (1919-2006)
Everyone agrees that Curt Gowdy, who died yesterday at the age of 86 after a long battle with leukemia, was one of the greatest sportscasters that ever had the job. His career encompassed many different fields of play, including calling the action for football games, Baseball for the Boston Red Sox, then for NBC's "Game of the Week" , several Olympic games....He was a master of his craft unmatched...But did you know that Gowdy was also a movie star? In fact, he made his big screen debut, even while he was hard at work doing his day job in 1978's Heaven Can Wait. 10 years later he showed up in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, followed up by 1998's BASEketball, ending with 2001's Summer Catch. His greatest "film role" though, was in Frequency, where archives of his classic 1969 World Series calls were used in the film. Good stuff.
Games Of "Risk"
The official trailer for Basic Instinct 2-Risk Addiction has hit the net. My first impression is that the plot of the sequel (due March 31st 2006) may mirror the original classic beat for beat...We'll see...Additional stills from the film have also popped up too.
Dino-Might
It seems that a fourth Jurassic Park is closer to being a reality. Paul Davidson of IGN-FilmForce writes:
[Franchise producer Frank] Marshall now says they have a "good script," and the idea is to start shooting the film next year (2007) and get it into theaters in 2008.
That said, Marshall and Steven Spielberg have other priorities at the moment — particularly Indiana Jones IV — but it sounds at last like things may be coming together for both highly-anticipated projects.
I didn't really care for the last film all that much. I'm willing to give this one a shot as long it has a strong script and Steven Spielberg doesn't overdo it with the CGI . And do us all a favor. Please convince more than one of the original cast members to show up for the whole film this time.
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