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Vision Quest
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Frank Jasper
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Apex Mountain
1980s wrestling movies; Frank Jasper
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- Apex Mountain is cued and deferred for one more research item.
- For Modine, this versus Full Metal Jacket is raised, and the movie is called Apex Mountain for nobody.
- 1980s wrestling movies are named as Apex Mountain.
- Spokane gets a probable yes, and later a joking question whether it ever got better for Spokane than this movie.
- Michael Schoeffling is tied to 16 Candles instead.
- It is Frank Jasper's Apex Mountain.
- The singlet is tied instead to Saturday afternoon TV wrestling.
- For John Waite, Missing You may be the bigger song, so 1985 is offered as his overall Apex.
- For Fiorentino (transcribed "Thorntino"), the peak is placed with a Peter Berg movie rather than this one.
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Modine's comment on Madonna; Frank Jasper's weight cuts and wrestle-off audition; Schoeffling's wrestling background; Modine's Venice Beach fan story
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- Research read on air quotes Modine a couple of years ago saying Madonna looked like Boy George and people were not impressed despite producers predicting stardom.
- Research read on air says Frank Jasper was a trainer and bodybuilder who cut to about 189, never reached 168, and had to cut again for reshoots.
- Research read on air says he got the part by hanging around the shoot, then winning a wrestle-off against another candidate in front of the producers and director.
- He shows little range and it was not a launching-pad part, though he moved to L.A.
- Research read on air says the actor who played Cooch was an accomplished wrestler who won freestyle gold with a U.S. junior team in 1978, scaled back to lose to Modine, and left the business by about 1990.
- Research read on air says that about 25 years later Modine told the Spokane paper that a driver jumped from a moving car in Venice Beach to say Vision Quest saved his life.
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