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There’s Got To Be a Morning After

Friday, 6 September 2019, 22:04 BFH Uncategorized 49

The worst actress in the Poseidon Adventure, Carol Lynley, dies of a heart attack at the age of 77.

The Poseidon Adventure is a personal fav, knowing full well it’s cheezy and full of plot holes. If it’s on I’ll watch it.

(Favorite Poseidon moment. Gene Hackman drooling directly into Shelley Winters’ mouth during death scene. How she didn’t gag is beyond me.)

RIP Carol Lynley.

ht/ fdr in hell

49 Comments on There’s Got To Be a Morning After

  3. Yes, yes she was.
    But there is something extremely off-putting about her P.A. performance. Even her voice is bizarre.
    But, nice career.
    We’re talking about her now. That’s accomplishing something.

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  7. well, I did like Stella Stevens going up the ladder … that’s for sure!

    RIP Carol, you did have a cute mouth …. couldn’t talk out of it for shit, but still cute

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  8. The worst song in the history of music. Trust me. The worst.

    But, like you, I also watch it whenever it’s on. I just mute the song.

    Favorite part: when the kid tries to use the bathroom.

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  10. Dang – I used to have the hots for Carol Lynley, too. Among others. Oh well, she’ll never know what she missed by not meeting me back in the day.

    😉

    Seriously though…RIP, Carol.

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  13. Claudia: What got me was how they showed a complete run-through of the song in rehearsal, then went right to a complete run-through of the song for the evening performance. Yeah, make people sick of the song before they even leave the theatre. Way to go!

    But she was 77? OMG. Next thing you know I’ll think I’m 63. Oh, wait. RadioMattM

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  15. great quote …
    “I’ve never been in a scandal. I’ve never been caught running naked down a highway. I’ve not tried to shoot anybody. Nobody’s ever tried to shoot me. My child is legitimate… I’ve never been to Betty Ford… No porn… No drug addictions… I’ve outlived three of my doctors. So if you’re going to write a juicy book, I’ve got a problem.” ~ Carol Lynley

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  22. Red Buttons is the first name i think of when i think of ths movie. His character was memorable. But a great cast. I havnt seen it in decades.

    Rip gal.

    You know who i miss? Jonathon Winters.

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  24. What was worse is that they remade Poseidon Adventure fairly recently! It was lousy.
    I helped do her taxes, 22 years ago when I worked for a CPA in Malibu. She was nice, had been doing Psychic Friends ads for a while but was getting out of that.

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  26. Red Buttons’ little haberdasher was the real hero of the story. It was his idea to go up towards the engine room. He was the one who pulled people along, kept them upbeat. He was the constant voice of reason. He was the one who tried to keep the two idiot alpha males from killing each other. No one would have made it without him. I wish it was his character that died on that steam wheel instead of Hackman’s, with the fake preacher and the idiot cop finally uniting to escape after seeing the little guy’s sacrifice for all of them.

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  28. Anonynous Erik SEPTEMBER 6, 2019 AT 10:12 PM

    “Gene Hackman just drops to his death, and Borgnine becomes the hero. What a strange film.”

    …yeah, let’s talk about that for a minute.

    He fell to his death from a manual cutoff valve for the “live steam” that was blocking their path to the propeller shaft’s end, that he had to jump to and couldn’t get back from. How heroic.

    …here’s the thing…

    In an EARLIER scene involving their transit to this point, they passed through the funnels. They made it very clear they were in GREAT danger from the “boilers” falling out of the boiler room and reacting explosively when the hot boiler impacted the cold water. Setting aside how very, very unlikely it would be for boilers to still be working even THAT long inverted, and for them to still have a water supply and fuel supply WHILE inverted, and operating unattended with, at best, ’70’s technology in a scenario that relay logic controls are unlikely to have been wired for, the question is this;

    How was there still a large and constant supply of steam in the engine room blocking their path from boilers that had fallen out of the ship and would have unquestionably ruptured some very large pipes on their way out so whatever steam was present would have LONG AGO leaked out MUCH further forwards than the engine room.

    …add to that the fact that the ship filled with water BEHIND them on a slant, and the boilers would have been underwater ANYWAY…

    …so, all in all, cool scene. Impossible, but cool scene.

    …their technical consultants must have gone on to write Joe Biden’s “truths” for the modern Democrat Party…

    RIP Carol Lynley, you’re out of the engine room NOW…

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  30. Not that it matters but, if memory serves, in the novel as soon as the ship capsized the boilers and heavy machinery was the first to rip free and plunge straight through decks and funnels to the bottom of the Med. Logical, but not so in the film.

    I never could figure out what the hell blew up in the shaft that made Roddy McDowall disappear, other than the plot required something else to cause another fight between the two leads.

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  31. …also, the ship was depicted sinking at slant while they were going through it, but was perfectly level when they got out, so level a helicopter could sit on its keel. Also, the keel was level enough THAT CLOSE to the propeller shaft that a helicopter could sit on it? AND, there would have been a TREMENDOUS outrush of air from that hole as soon as they penetrated the hull with the cutting torch (which would be unlikely equipment to have on a first-in SAR helicopter anyway), and not only would have made it very, very difficult to CONTINUE cutting, but ALSO hastened how quickly the ship would sink because the escaping, very compressed air would be no longer capable of delaying the water fill of the remaining space.

    So again, a Democrat Presidential candidate level of improbability. Not as improbable as some of the things in the LATER remakes (you want me to believe a high-voltage electrical panel that wasn’t designed past NEMA 4 works when its totally submerged? Suuurree…), but pretty bad nonetheless.

    …although I really liked the TV remake they did where they didn’t even bother making inverted sets, they just hung some visible international signage for things like bathrooms and stairwells (“heads” and “Companionways” in boat talk) upside-down and called it a day, but that’s a different subject for another time…

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  33. (Roddy McDowall to the Devil after Carol Lynley’s death)

    “Take your stinking paws off her, you damn dirty ape!”

    (From another of his movies you may have heard of…)

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  35. Leslie Nielsen’s last serious role and the first of the disaster movies; so typical of the 70s.

    Ms Lynley was a heartthrob for a lot of Baby Boom guys in the early to mid 60s. If you liked sweet more than stacked, she was definitely your girl.

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  37. The Captain SEPTEMBER 7, 2019 AT 7:07 AM
    re: this thread

    “Fur, you irresponsible bastard.”

    Yeah, SURELY someone is going to talk about Leslie Nielsen as the Captain?!?

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  38. grool SEPTEMBER 7, 2019 AT 7:01 AM
    “[ deleted, unnecessary ]”

    …look AROUND, @grool!! Either ALL of it is unnecessary, or NONE of it is!

    …so say on, you’re one of the GOOD ones…

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  39. …you know, I just wish the Ernest Bourgnine character didn’t take the Lord’s name in vain throughout the movie. It made it impossible to re-watch many years later with my wife and the kids…

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  40. formwiz SEPTEMBER 7, 2019 AT 7:04 AM
    “Leslie Nielsen’s last serious role and the first of the disaster movies; so typical of the 70s.”
    …sorry, missed that. And I just want to tell you good luck, we’re counting on you…

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  43. …I actually LIKE the song. it’s soo ’70’s innocent and earnest, but also well-known to my age cohort as a “disaster” song.

    I like to sing it softly and ironically whenever we discuss some heinous problem, usually caused by gross mismanagement, at work. It cracks everyone up and breaks the tension so we can start resolving the stupid issue that never should have happened in the first place had it not been for the newly-minted college boys running the joint…

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  44. ahem…

    The hero?

    It ain’t Hackman’s doctrinally vapid defrocked quarterback Rev. Scott. It ain’t bullheaded Mike Rogo. It’s not even “it’s only one inch thick” Stewie or whatever his name is.

    It’s Red Buttons’ Mr. Martin. Yes, lonely, nebbishy haberdasher Mr. Martin.

    It was Martin’s reasonable idea that, with the ship capsized, perhaps the survivors should go UP to where Acres is, rather than helping the injured Acres DOWN into the sure to sink ballroom, as Scott was about to do. This is very clear when Scott says something like, “My God, you’re right” to Martin’s suggestion. Yes, Scott has the tree idea, but the idea of going upward to the hull, and the only hope of rescue, was Martin’s.

    It was Martin who save dimwitted hippie chick Noni, both in talking her away from her dead brother and in keeping her from drowning. And making jokes to keep her distracted. And helping her crawl through air ducts. And teaching her how to climb a ladder. Apocryphal reports claim that in later years he helped her learn to read.

    It was Martin who got idiots Scott and Rogo to cool it as they were about to come to blows, wasting time on a pissing contest when time was the last thing any of them had.

    It was Martin, alone, who said a word of condolence to Manny after Belle’s heart attack. Scott was just kicking the old man in the ass and guilt tripping him to get him moving (to pridefully prove to Rogo that he was right) so he exhibited zero sympathy. Not so with Martin, a classy guy.

    Then it was Martin who kicked despondent Rogo in the ass to get him moving after both Linda and Scott died. Only Rogo was strong enough to open that final hatch; from the struggle he had cranking it, it’s very doubtful Martin could have.

    Several people (okay, pretty much only the men) aided the group’s survival throughout the film but gentlemanly Mr. Martin did the most to keep them all moving, but in low key ways. He never lost his cool. He never once bellowed, cussed at or threatened the weaker survivors.

    But after the smash THE FRENCH CONNECTION, “Starring Red Buttons, co-starring Gene Hackman” wouldn’t have flown. Nor would 5′ 6″ Buttons sacrificing himself on the wheel of blistering steam…though had he done so, and both Scott and Rogo were visibly humbled by it, that would have been quite a scene. Martin might have screamed in pain but would have conducted himself as he had through the whole disaster, thinking only of the others: “Gentlemen…please…stay together. [smiles gently] We’re almost home…” then he lets go, dying with the dignity that Scott didn’t. Alas, what might have been. Powerful and heartwrenching instead of hamhandedly schmaltzy. I would weep for him.

    Still, Martin remains the real hero of the story.

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