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On Sat, 18 May 2024 20:49:20 -0500, super70s
<super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

>On 2024-05-18 22:59:19 +0000, moviePig said:
>
>> On 5/18/2024 5:40 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>> super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Thought he was worth a mention in here even if nobody else bothered to.
>>>> 
>>>>> Maybe it's because he was described by the NYT as "the actor audiences
>>>>> loved to hate."
>>>> 
>>>>> Must have been because of the "9 to 5" role, I certainly never hated him.
>>>> 
>>>> 9 to 5 was a lousy movie.
>>> 
>>> Agreed
>> 
>> But it was a cultural 'event' that, e.g., every viewer remembers.
>
>I never even bothered to see 9 to 5 -- in the theater or later on TV, lol.

I know that I've watched part of the movie on TV but I'm not sure I
ever watched the entire movie.

>On Golden Pond (a true classic and a cultural event) was probably where 
>I first became solidly acquainted with him.
>
>I watched at least some early episodes of Mary Hartman and if I saw him 
>on that I soon forgot about him.
>
>Kind of like one time when I was rewatching The Bounty and thought 
>"I'll be damned, that's Liam Neeson."

The first things I likely ever saw him in was either THE OUTER LIMITS
or THE INVADERS, but I don't remember either performance. 9 TO 5 is
the first thing where I both saw him and remember his performance.
Likely because every clip from that movie included him. Then of course
there was WARGAMES.