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“WHERE
HOLLYWOOD
REEL LIFE | WHERE EAGLES DARE
DARED”
Winter nights make for great movie nights. This is especially true for a guy who despises winter, and being cold in general. It goes back to my youth, and all of the cinematic experiences that played such
a pivotal role in my formative years.
Movies are a big deal amongst the men in my family; they always have been. I’m hard pressed to think of a time when John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Steve McQueen or Clint Eastwood wasn’t on the living room television. The width and breadth of movie knowledge shared by my brother and me may be a dubious title to some, but for us it’s a badge of honor.
But no matter where you stand on cinematic elitism, the
Goodner boys know their movies. And we love ‘em a helluva lot.
But let’s get back to those winter nights. To this day, and forever more, one of my favorite things to do, as the world sleeps in it’s deep freeze, dreaming of sunnier, warmer days, is to
crank up the thermostat, make myself an o ensively large bowl of ice cream (ice cream-
is permissible, if not
mandatory in this scenario, provided it remains the only frozen thing in the room), coccoon myself in two or three blankets and start knocking my Winter lms o the list.
There’s “Misery”, “The Thing”, “Ravenous”, “Ice Station Zebra”, “Death Hunt” , “The Revenant” (yes; I have champagne tastes, but I’m not at all above going slumming, either. In fact I much prefer it)...and there’s “Where Eagles Dare.”
The word “cool”, in the parlance of contemporary cinema, is synonymous with Steve McQueen. Should you require proof, you need only watch “The Magni cent Seven”.
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“It was riddled with machine gun holes. British machine gun holes, But, what the hell; ‘A Hole, is A hole, is A hole’ as they say.”
-Major Smith
BY TODD GOODNER