Something for the Bruce Campbell Fans

[AndyC]

I love to slip movie references into the paper, especially when most of them sail right over the heads of my editor and everybody else. Still, I wasn't sure this one would get by without being touched.

This is tomorrow's business page, with a feature I wrote on the "Sausage King" and his new venture in quality lunch meat. As to how he got to be the king, I actually called him that in something I wrote a couple of years ago, and the name stuck. Go figure.

Anyway, he's a good guy, with a sense of humour, so I thought I'd throw a little AoD into the headline.





Post Edited (04-01-04 20:54)

[TheEvilDoctor]

Great job :) I love Bruce.

[daveblackeye15]

Boy, Bruce Campbell sure looks different in that picture :)  . Way to go!

[Flangepart]

Good on yer, AndyC!

The guy kinda looks like The Shatner! Only, a lot more porkier. And at 400lbs, i can say that!
Hey, what paper is it you work for, anyhoo?

[Gecko Brothers]

To think now he played the king of rock and roll!

[JohnL]

Recently, I saw a commercial that made me wonder if other people occasionally do stuff like this.

The commercial is for a foot-care product called Kerasol (pronounced carousel). The last line of the commercial is, "Renew your feet with Kerasol." Sounds like the writer might have been a Logan's Run fan.

[AndyC]

The Elmira Independent, which is actually corporate owned. The name is sort of a vestige. Been there for years.

One of the benefits of this job is that I've been able to write a b-movie column once a month (if I feel like it) for the past three years or so.

I suppose the sausage king headline is the best movie reference I've been able to slip into a regular news story. My previous favourite was the title I gave to a historical feature I had researched on a local school principal who served in the 20s and 30s. The guy was a major figure and even has a school named after him, but information on him was hard to come by. I tracked a bunch of it down and put it in a two-page spread that has been hanging, framed, in the school foyer for four years. The title of the introduction was "Reconstructing a past life." Can't you just hear Chuck Heston's voice?

Back when Escape from LA came out, I wrote a review of it, with the headline "Snake Plissken? I thought he was dead!" Of course, that one doesn't count, because the reference was related to the story. I was pretty pleased with myself just the same.

There are a bunch of little ones I've slipped in from time to time, but those are my favourites.



Post Edited (04-04-04 11:47)