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Running Scared
Running Scared
Running Scared
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Gregory Hines
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Rewatchables episodes featuring Gregory Hines’s films
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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. — Bill Simmons
- Hines receives a plausible apex here because “now he’s a real movie guy” and the role leads toward Tap. — Bill Simmons
- Key West is debated between this movie, Hemingway, and a Real World season. — Bill Simmons
- Jack Walsh is selected among Chicago movie cops because he had to leave the force after refusing a Serrano buyout. — Bill Simmons
- Jimmy Smits is rejected here and tentatively placed nearer NYPD Blue. — Bill Simmons
- Dan Hadea is placed around Blood Simple and his Cheers role. — Bill Simmons
- Michael McDonald music videos receive an apex while Yacht Rock is said to end here. — Bill Simmons
- 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. — Bill Simmons
- Joey Pants is rejected for Apex. — Bill Simmons
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. — Bill Simmons
- A 2021 quote says the movie is sometimes watched as a way to visit the late Gregory Hines. — Bill Simmons
- The finale was filmed inside the new State of Illinois Center, now reportedly sold to Google. — Chris Ryan
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. — Bill Simmons
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. — Bill Simmons
- Tom Selleck and John Travolta were reportedly considered; Selleck had Magnum and Travolta’s agent advised against it. — Bill Simmons
- Peter Hyams reportedly liked Darlane Flugel in To Live and Die in L.A. — Chris Ryan
- Hyams’s earlier Busting and later 2010, Capricorn One, and Sudden Death establish his action craftsmanship. — Chris Ryan
- 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. — Bill Simmons
Casting What-Ifs
Clint Eastwood and Richard Pryor nearly made it in the late seventies; Jeff Bridges turned down Jack Cates; Gregory Hines was the first choice for Reggie; Sylvester Stallone and Burt Reynolds reportedly turned down Jack Cates; the studio nearly fired Eddie Murphy days into the shoot
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Approx. transcript time · 00:25:55Read transcript
- In the late seventies the film almost happened with Clint Eastwood and Richard Pryor until Eastwood did Escape from Alcatraz instead; that version would surely be far less racist and would become a Richard Pryor movie in the Brewster's Millions or Stir Crazy mold, probably sillier, and Pryor was coming apart on sets then, setting himself on fire in what the hosts date as 1982.
- Jeff Bridges turned down Jack Cates because he did not want another cop movie; nobody could be better than Nolte, though a method Bridges putting on twenty pounds and going dark might have been pretty good, and Nolte is still permanently Jack Cates in a way an Ed Harris version would not have been.
- Gregory Hines was the first choice for Reggie and dropped out to do Cotton Club, prompting a Running Scared tangent: a total 48 Hours ripoff in which Hines is really funny, and whose Florida Keys stretch with Michael McDonald is the movie one host wanted the whole time; Hines would have been pretty good, obviously not Eddie Murphy good.
- Sly Stallone and Burt Reynolds allegedly both turned down Jack Cates, the kind of claim attached to every movie of the era; Reynolds could have taken the part to a bad place and might have ruined the movie, though Longest Yard-era Reynolds was good in tight roles like this.
- Earlier, the studio nearly fired Eddie three or four days into the shoot because they did not think he was funny enough, with Michael Eisner running Paramount; called a good what-if that would have been a bad decision.
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