I watched “Silver Streak” on Netflix Friday night, a slapstick movie from 1976 that I remember seeing as a teenager. Pretty much everybody that was in that movie is now dead, even Jill Clayburgh, who was extremely attractive in that movie - especially when you are a 14 year old going through puberty. Seeing it again 40 years later, the movie struck me as dopey...
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Not to deflect the thread from Jerry, but I recently also tried to watch “Silver Streak” for the first time - and couldn’t make it more than a half hour into it.
As for Jerry - well, God bless him. I bet he made more people laugh than 99% of the people who ever lived, and he did worked for decades to get rid of a terrible disease. Pretty good legacy, if you ask me. I’m glad he lived as long as he did, and I’m sad he’s no longer with us.
Not to deflect the thread from Jerry, but I recently also tried to watch “Silver Streak” for the first time...
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Oops. Lost a few words there. I meant to say for the first time SINCE I WAS A TEENAGER, not for the first time!
I saw "The Tingler" when I was a kid and it scared me to death. Watching it years later I could even see the little wires that they used to pull the silly putty demon.
“Silver Streak” has Canada written all over it. Many of the train scenes were shot in Alberta and the climactic end was done at Union Station in Toronto. And directer Arthur Hiller was from Edmonton.
The Rembrandt Letters...Keep your foot on the pedal..next time I’ll take the bus,,,