Gazzara is initially proposed, with Swayze dragging Jimmy and shouting Wesley as another choice; the discussion settles on Lynch's 'Who's gonna save them from you?' confrontation.
Kelly Lynch's implausibly glamorous, single small-town emergency doctor wins the rarely used Elisabeth Shue scientist award. Her past with Wesley is ambiguous rather than clearly a relationship.
Marshall Teague; movie bouncers and coolers; Jeff Healey; white blues guitarists’ era; Kelly Lynch’s period; throat-rip kills; prison-sex threats; outdoor tai chi; 1989 action movies.
Drambuie is proposed as an Apex because of the conspicuous quantities at the Double Deuce.
Marshall Teague's career peak is affirmed despite his continued later work.
Swayze's Apex is placed later around Ghost, Point Break and Road House's rental growth. Elliott alternatives include Mask and 1883; Terry Funk's is assigned to early-eighties wrestling.
Movie bouncers and coolers, Jeff Healey, the era of white blues guitarists, and Kelly Lynch around this period receive affirmative support.
Gazzara is only tentatively considered a belated Apex through recognition; Elliott's pubic-hair suggestion becomes a joke about a future 1883 appearance.
Throat-rip kills, prison-sex threats and outdoor tai chi are affirmed. Action-star names and mullets are discussed with competing examples rather than a settled unique winner.
Death-deciding coin tosses are proposed but compared with No Country for Old Men; persevering with a repeatedly damaged car is another suggestion without a clear final endorsement.
1989 action movies receive an explicit Apex claim because established stars and a new generation overlap.
