“Six savage Dobies with a thirst for cold cash that leaves banks bone dry… See The Doberman Gang bite the long arm of the law!”
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Archive for May, 2012
The Doberman Gang (1972) Trailer
Published May 18, 2012 '70s Movies/TV , Movie Trailers Leave a Comment
It’s easy to forget just how fucking good an actor Jodie Foster was at such a young age. Foxes is about four valley girls trying to live it up as teenagers while at the same time being forced to fend for themselves in an adult world populated mostly by thugs, predators, and deadbeat parents. There is very little plot, and Foster, who is sort of the mother hen of the crew without being a buzzkill, essentially carries the movie on her 18-year-old shoulders. The promotional posters were hokey, as you can see above, but the movie, the directorial debut of Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction, Jacob’s Ladder), is nervy and raw.
The film also features Cherie Currie of The Runaways (as a drugged-out runaway, no less) and Scott Baio, who is surprisingly charming as a skateboarding nice guy who befriends Foster’s character. The girls move from one party to the next, smoke a lot of cigarettes, drink a lot of beer, get busted, pull each other out of the fire, move into their own apartment, and generally deal with the tragedy of an unjustly abbreviated childhood. The evocation of the era and the place (the San Fernando Valley, Hollywood) is almost mystical.
I’d never heard of Foxes, and found it only because I was looking for another film that came out at the same time called Little Darlings (1980). Movies that treat teenagers seriously are rare, and this one is a classic that deserves to be better known.
“Hurry, honey. Let’s sell the house so we can buy a new Video Cassette Recorder before it goes off sale!”
Just look at this monster. What I wouldn’t give to see the in-store “exciting demonstration.”
Video Game Cabinet Art: Lunar Lander, Missile Command, Crystal Castles, Sinistar
Published May 15, 2012 Arcade Cabinets/Coin-Ops 2 CommentsHere are just a few samples from TM520‘s awesome Paper Arcade set on Flickr (click images to enlarge). How many of these bad boys can I fit on my desk?
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1981 Montgomery Ward Christmas Catalog: Dark Tower
Published May 12, 2012 Board Games/Tabletop Games , Catalogs , Commercials , D&D , Dark Tower 4 Comments
Son of a bitch. I’d completely forgotten about Dark Tower until I saw this. It came out in 1981, but I don’t know when I got it (I can’t see my parents shelling out $40 for this thing). Maybe in ’82 or ’83, when I had settled into D&D. The TV commercial, starring a decrepit-looking Orson Welles, has become rather famous in the nerd world:
The game of “electronic wizardry” was considered pretty cutting-edge at the time, although I remember it getting pretty boring after only a few plays (probably because I had no one else to play it with). The tower rumbled around in my closet of toys for years, every so often switching on and spitting out those outlandish sound effects.
As I mentioned here, I don’t remember playing the D&D Computer Labyrinth Game (1980), which Dark Tower chased, probably because the price rarely went down on D&D stuff in those days. Even the modules were tremendously expensive. I remember ogling rows and rows of them in the hobby shop.
As for the Ouija Board, let’s be honest, nobody our age who saw The Exorcist (usually after the parental units absolutely forbid it) ever touched the goddamn things. To this day any mention of “Captain Howdy” drives chills through my body.
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2 Warps to Neptune 