Previously on “Action Flick Chick: The Legendary Journeys”…
In my Women of the Web contest video (rate it to see me on G4TV again), I said I get to meet the most interesting people,” and it’s absolutely true. What’s really gratifying is when I get to introduce some of these interesting people to each other.
Twice I’ve joined Rob Rector of Natsukashi (“Where Movies and Memories Collide”) in discussions with people who’d worked on movies I’ve loved for most of my life. Producer Dennis Murphy and special effects supervisor Hank Carlson joined us in reflecting on the theatrical film Buffy the Vampire Slayer (my review – “Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992): The Real Cherry on Top of the Pile of Dead Vampires”). I wanted to be like Buffy, a strong female saving all the men from vampires. Of course, my skill and coordination at the time had other ideas, but I was still a little sad when I never got to try to protect my school from the undead. Rewatching the movie for Natsukashi, I discovered that it wasn’t nearly as full of action as I’d remembered it having.
We also looked back at my all-time favorite movie of any kind, Tremors (my review – “Tremors (1990): Hungry? Eat Some Bacon!”), which we discussed with actress Charlotte Stewart. Listening to the recordings, you’ll notice that Rob never called me by name and “Action Flick Chick” is a bit unwieldy to say over and over. That was back before we ever mentioned my real name online. For all you knew back then, I was Felicia Day in disguise.
Caddyshack's Cindy Morgan with that guy who recently made that cameo in that thing. 😉
That was back in the spring. Fast forward to the end of summer when actress Cindy Morgan from Caddyshack (1980) and Tron (1982) joined me and a number of online associates to discuss those movies and more, starting with the issue of her exclusion from Tron‘s sequel Tron Legacy (“Caddyshack and Tron – But What About Tron Legacy? Interview: Cindy Morgan”). The Walt Disney Company’s special effects masterpiece Tron changed filmmaking and spawned books, comics, arcade games, video games, and finally a sequel, Tron Legacy, scheduled for release in December, 2010. Of the original film’s three lead performers, both of the male heroes were returning but the heroine Cindy played was not.
Doing Natsukashi with Rob was great, I look forward to doing it again sometime, Cindy was such a dear, and I’ve stayed in touch with them both. I know too many great bloggers and podcasters to sic them all on Ms. Morgan (MarQ of “Somewhere in Vegas” had recently interviewed her himself), but I did feel that Natsukashi’s theme of reflecting on the movies some of us watched in younger days was particularly well suited for Cindy while the issue of her exclusion from Tron Legacy was hot on our minds. So I asked Rob if he’d like me to introduce them, his reply had something to do with what the Pope does in the woods, and next it’s “Cindy, Rob. Rob, Cindy.”
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