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...Reunited with Director Peter Weir (Witness), Ford is in tiny Belize on the Caribbean to star in The Mosquito Coast, based on the Paul Theroux novel. His character, Allie Fox, moves to the wilds of Central America to start his own civilization. As foil to the atheist protagonist, Butterfly McQueen, 75, plays a native who attributes everything to God. Fox "is the kind of American who feels his opportunities at home limited by the kind of man he is," says Ford. In short, he won't keep up with Indy or the other Joneses...
...hail Prefab Sprout's second album, STEVE McQUEEN. Imagine, if you dare, Aztec Camera with twice the accent plus lousier lyrics times silly Linda McCartney backround singing...
...First Blood around Hollywood, the political climate was quite different. Viet Nam movies of the late '70s, like Coming Home and Apocalypse Now, portrayed the war as a largely ignoble enterprise. "The subject matter was a risk," says Morrell. Such heavy Hollywood names as Martin Ritt, Sydney Pollack, Steve McQueen and John / Frankenheimer were involved in various efforts to film the novel. It finally wound up in the hands of two little-known producers, Andrew Vajna and Mario Kassar, who hired Stallone and raised the money to make the film...
...Burt Reynolds shoot-'em-up, Stick, is a commercial and cinematic clunker. Charles Bronson has not had a big U.S. box-office success in years. Steve McQueen is long dead. Meanwhile Code of Silence, Chuck Norris' third movie in eight months, sold more tickets in its opening week than any other movie in the country. In his strictly wham-bam B-movie genre, Norris, a former karate champion, has become the undisputed superstar. No longer a cult figure but still well this side of A-list famous, Norris and some of his Hollywood partisans figure his celebrity is analogous...
Back in 1979, Temple's high school Wildcats clinched the state football title under Bob McQueen, the coach and town hero. The people of Temple do a lot of hunting in season, shooting doves with shotguns and deer with rifles. But for year-round entertainment, nothing in town beats professional wrestling...