Dirty Harry is back!

[eldrick]

ah yes Taffy, it's coming back to me :

jon heder in "blades of glory" !

[Marlow]

i'm trying to figure out what sports they play in shorts that tight & small ?

Trust me - you don't want to know.

[eldrick]

i'm trying to figure out what sports they play in shorts that tight & small ?

[Marlow]

SF is still plenty muscular . . .
[rather sketchy photo]

. . . not there's anything wrong with that . . . :roll:

[bad hammy]

SanFran of course has an incredibly muscular past that may seem today a completely disconnected and ancient past.

SF is still plenty muscular . . .

[paulthefan]

For what it's worth, a series of novels in the 80's (approved by the Finks, who created the character, I believe) named Harry as a native of Boston, hinting he left for the West Coast after his wife died in a car crash caused by a drunk driver (as mentioned in the first film).

I should have known he was the great great grandson of John L. Sullivan.

[Brian]

The first movie put me in love with the Bay Area before I ever set foot there--quite a feat considering it was about a psycho killer! It was a magnificent visual tribute to his "hometown" by Eastwood.

SanFran of course has an incredibly muscular past that may seem today a completely disconnected and ancient past. One of its lost legacies is that it was the absolute boxing capital of the west. One can easily imagine Harry Callahan as the grandson of one of those high caliber pugilist who fought under very near bare knuckle rules for mere pocket change. [quote]


For what it's worth, a series of novels in the 80's (approved by the Finks, who created the character, I believe) named Harry as a native of Boston, hinting he left for the West Coast after his wife died in a car crash caused by a drunk driver (as mentioned in the first film).

[paulthefan]

Openly racist and sexist men will multiply and prosper long after the last white man has gone the way of the Algonquin.

I think after Tuesday that's going to be a very difficult proposition.

very funny!

[Marlow]

Looking forward now to seeing Taken, which has to have the best preview for a movie I've ever seen. Liam Neeson is positively frightening in that preview.

Absolutely. He's got that quiet don't-mess-with-me persona.

[bambam]

Saw Gran Torino yesterday. Pretty good but I guess I was disappointed a bit. Looking forward now to seeing Taken, which has to have the best preview for a movie I've ever seen. Liam Neeson is positively frightening in that preview.

[Marlow]

Openly racist and sexist men will multiply and prosper long after the last white man has gone the way of the Algonquin.

I think after Tuesday that's going to be a very difficult proposition.

[paulthefan]

The first movie put me in love with the Bay Area before I ever set foot there--quite a feat considering it was about a psycho killer! It was a magnificent visual tribute to his "hometown" by Eastwood.

SanFran of course has an incredibly muscular past that may seem today a completely disconnected and ancient past. One of its lost legacies is that it was the absolute boxing capital of the west. One can easily imagine Harry Callahan as the grandson of one of those high caliber pugilist who fought under very near bare knuckle rules for mere pocket change.

Is he really playing the last white man on earth in this movie?

Not literally. Maybe the last openly racist/sexist pig.

Openly racist and sexist men will multiply and prosper long after the last white man has gone the way of the Algonquin.

[lonewolf]

Finally got to see Gran Torino. Pretty powerful movie. It did not dissapoint as entertainment. I knew what was coming but kept wanting to re-write the ending.

[Brian]

Holiday guests disrupted my movie schedule but I took the last of them to the airport Monday. Dirty Harry is my all time fictional movie hero and Gran Torino is first up when it gets here.

I've thought for a while now that the Dirty Harry franchise should be started up again, a' la Bond. A different (younger!) actor, but the flavor retained with Clint himself directing.


The first movie put me in love with the Bay Area before I ever set foot there--quite a feat considering it was about a psycho killer! It was a magnificent visual tribute to his "hometown" by Eastwood.

[Marlow]

Gran Torino is first up when it gets here.

You will be both appalled at his -isms, yet amused by his cavalier attitude. I gasped and laughed a lot.