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The God, the Bad and the Ugly.
An historical epic based on the Old testament.
The God, the Bad and the Ugly.
An historical epic based on the Old testament.
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The Bing
In which people mysteriously die a horrible death a week after watching a video of the film, ‘White Christmas’.
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Stinging in the rain.
Earth is overrun by a race of beings who have the appearance and weaponry of bees, but stand on their hind legs to the height of a small walllaby.
A sting makes humans co-operative to the invaders but is antidoted by water and the beings themselve dissolve in heavy enough rain.
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Fuzz ---> Fzz
Brt Reynolds and Raqel Welch as New York cops who go undercover. They have an anonymous tip that a local soft drink bottler is contaminating the sodas. It's not CO2 fizzing the Coke, says the unknown informant...
The movie did not age well. Enough fart jokes to be an Adam Sandler flick. Too early for jokes about a 'major coke bust.' One attempt at a Mormon joke, but they confused coffee with tea.
And any jokes about Welch's sex symbol status seem formulaic, like the writers were expecting Twiggy, and at the last second Welch's hiring forced them to make one boob joke every 20 minutes.
Tom Skerritt shines, though, as the district undercover coach. His every appearance is a brief stop on his way to or back from an assignment.
Det. Bert Kling as a one-legged man off to enforce handicapped parking.
Kling as a homeless man back from cleaning windows of suspicious taxis at street corners.
Kling as a nun tracking smuggled communion wafers from Kenya. ("Why would we care, Bert?" "KENYA, Steve!" "And?" "They worship Black Jesus in Kenya!" "Bert, it's the same Jesus." "No! Sister Mary Incognita made it quite clear to all of us that Jesus was white!")
Kling as a Navy sailor on liberty looking for prostitutes.
Kling as a news reporter doing man-on-the-street interviews, throwing in random questions of, "And what was the last crime you committed?" Fourteen arrests made by this ploy.