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Firefox (1982)
1995 Tech in 1983
If you look at the technology, what you actually see is a semi-stealth SR-70 type plane using voice activated weapons control. The idea that it is "mind controlled" when you see only the launch using the pilot's voice and tracking is "hands-off". Eastwood speaks each time he uses the weapon. so why not voice activated instead? So given what you see on the screen (versus what they say it is) it took only ten years or so to develop the same tech from the time of the movie.
No too shabby if you don't take the mind-direction part seriously.
No they don't have a DVD, but i recorded it off TV and have ripped it to MPEG without commercials. OK for a Sunday afternoon nap!
The Bionic Woman: Sister Jaime (1976)
Filmed at Guasti Winery and Chapel, Guasti California: staging spoiler!
I was working as a school bus driver at the local school during the week of filming of this episode. Guasti is a little winery (Brookside Winery), post office, and school sandwiched between the Ontario Int'l Airport and Interstate 10 east of Los Angeles.
URL http://www.google.com/maps?q=Guasti,+CA+91743&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title
One afternoon, after delivering the kids home, I stopped by the set watching the filming. At one point Jamie lifts a car. What you didn't see was the crane and cable doing the lifting and a stunt double under the car.
Lindsay Wagner was sitting a few feet away waiting for her next shot. I was one of only a few people, and as I asked her for an autograph, she said she didn't give out autographs while on-set. However she was very friendly and we talked for a while.
The next morning I was driving to the school (5:30 AM) and had to go down a street lined with Motor Coaches on both sides. Lindsay Wagner stepped out of her coach and I had to slam on my brakes to keep from hitting her. I apologized, and she recognized me from the day before. She went inside and autographed a picture for me. I still have it. (be still my heart!).
She was dressed in blue jeans, a sweatshirt and her hair was tied up in a bandanna but she was the most beautiful women I had ever met. She had star quality and lit up the whole area when she smiled.
I hung around as much as I could for the next few days, but most of the filming was inside the Guasti chapel, and out of sight from the road.
I always liked the Bionic Woman series, and my close encounter with Lindsay Wagner only cemented my infatuation with her..even though I saw behind the Hollywood magic! Even now I drool thinking about her in her "Sleep Number" bed!
Queen for a Day (1956)
My mother was a Queen for a Day in 1956
My mother was a contestant in November 1956 (I was 3 years old). She told the story of my Uncle who was legally blind (only see close to his face)from a poor farm family in Kansas with no resources. In fact everybody in the family had serious eye trouble except my mother.
She became Queen for a Day, and my Uncle was given everything my mother asked for and more: A complete piano tuning tool set and a scholarship to a piano tuning school in Seattle. My mom got a full set of living room furniture and an Amana freezer (which lasted until 1983!).
On the show when Jack Bailey introduced my mother he made a big deal about her being a long-lost cousin because her last name is Bailey. Since she was a farm girl he asked her if she milked cows, and she demonstrated on his fingers.
Though some may disparage the show for excessive emotionalism, that is what it was built on. Hundreds of needy families, like mine, received things like appliances and prizes that helped them.Without Queen for a Day, my Uncle might not have had the opportunity to develop a skilled livelyhood. For decades he was the preferred tuner for all the Steinways at Carnegie Hall (Carnegie Mellon University) Pittsburg.