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Gregory Hines
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Apex Mountain
Gregory Hines; Key West disputed; Dan Hedaya; Michael McDonald music videos
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Approx. transcript time · 01:15:33Read transcript
- Crystal is rejected because City Slickers and his Oscars period are later.
- Hines receives a plausible apex here because “now he’s a real movie guy” and the role leads toward Tap.
- Key West is debated between this movie, Hemingway, and a Real World season.
- Jack Walsh is selected among Chicago movie cops because he had to leave the force after refusing a Serrano buyout.
- Jimmy Smits is rejected here and tentatively placed nearer NYPD Blue.
- Dan Hadea is placed around Blood Simple and his Cheers role.
- Michael McDonald music videos receive an apex while Yacht Rock is said to end here.
- Chicago movie bars are tested for Apex, especially the bar in About Last Night and the bar in Thief that the transcript says Conn blows up.
- Joey Pants is rejected for Apex.
Half-Assed Internet Research
Crystal’s prop-pistol injury; his memory of Hines; State of Illinois Center finale
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Approx. transcript time · 01:14:11Read transcript
- A 1986 book says its author accidentally hit his head with a pistol, split his nose, and needed plastic surgery.
- A 2021 quote says the movie is sometimes watched as a way to visit the late Gregory Hines.
- The finale was filmed inside the new State of Illinois Center, now reportedly sold to Google.
What’s Aged the Best?
Gregory Hines’s romantic and sexual agency
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Approx. transcript time · 00:38:16Read transcript
- Gregory Hines having sex and being shown with multiple women is praised as an Aged Best element because films were often more restrictive about such roles.
Casting What-Ifs
Gene Hackman; Paul Newman; Tom Selleck; John Travolta
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Approx. transcript time · 00:12:52Read transcript
- The script was allegedly imagined for older New York cops with Hackman and Newman in mind, though it was never brought to them.
- Tom Selleck and John Travolta were reportedly considered; Selleck had Magnum and Travolta’s agent advised against it.
- Peter Hyams reportedly liked Darlane Flugel in To Live and Die in L.A.
- Hyams’s earlier Busting and later 2010, Capricorn One, and Sudden Death establish his action craftsmanship.
- Gregory Hines is described as having replaced Richard Pryor in History of the World Part I and as having dropped out of 48 hours for The Cotton Club.
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