Re: Roy Scheider is dead

Michael Black wrote:

> Anim8rFSK (ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) writes:
> 
> 
>>>No. Not that he wasn't terrific in the movie, but I think the
>>>movie is much better than its reputation. And I'm saying that
>>>as someone who thinks every other film that Peter Hyams made
>>>is craptastic. Scheider helped it a lot, but I don't think he
>>>carried it alone by a long shot. Helen Mirren, John Lithgow,
>>>and Elya Baskin also helped a great deal. If anything, I think
>>>Mirren outshone everyone else in the film, Scheider included.
>>
>>Looking over Hyams bio . . . yeah, can't argue with that, except I agree

>>Scheider stole 2010.
> 
> Don't forget the classic "Capricorn One".  Without it, we wouldn't have
> generations of kooks thinking there really wasn't a moon landing. 

Uh, that was Sam Waterston.  Or Elliot Gould.  Or James Brolin.  Or Hal 
Holbrook.

(Unless you've either drifted off topic, or else Peter Hyams suddenly 
kicked off too while we were in the middle of a Roy Scheider thread.)

Derek Janssen (basic etiquette at a wake requires knowing who exactly 
everyone else is talking about, as it spares awkward moments with the 
other guests)
ejanss1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]