By Sonny Chiba was one of the great badass actors in cinematic history. He first become an international superstar with the arrival of The Street Fighter in 1974. He didn’t merely exchange karate chops. Sonny Chiba would rip out hearts and other bodily organs during fights. He was extreme when he
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During the ’60s, the westerns were being produced by Hollywood studios except the focus was on episodic TV. Pick up any TV Guide from the decade and you’ll see dozens of Westerns besides, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Virginian and Rawhide. The studios didn’t make that many theatrical Westerns because fans could
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Normally I don’t pay too much attention to producer credits. The involvement of a producer in a production can be everything from they put the entire project together and handled every element to they merely had the rights to the original short story and never got closer to the set
By The One Where I Met Your Mother: Season Six, Episode Four: “The One Where Joey Loses His Insurance”/”Subway Wars”
The post The One Where I Met Your Mother: Season Six, Episode Four: “The One Where Joey Loses His Insurance”/”Subway Wars” appeared first on Battleship Pretension. Natalie and David fake dying with Phoebe in “The One Where Joey Loses His Insurance” and fake dying with Barney in “Subway Wars.” Friends
