Director George A. Romero as a priest in MARTIN (1977)…

…and John Sayles as one of the Men in Black in THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET (1984). Okay, this is Joe Morton below, of course, not John Sayles; I didn’t get a picture of the latter. But: <squeeeeeee>, that high-pitched noise he and David Straithairn made—ooh, I just about peed my pants with laughter.

How much of a coincidence is it that both directors of tonight’s films had amazingly well-acted cameos in their own films? Romero played a practical, sweet-liqueur-loving priest not about to put up with a lot of mystical guff. And Sayles? I didn’t even recognize him as the taller twin of the alien “slave”-hunters.

And, just ‘cos I’m a sentimental twit, a lovely dawn picture of the other twins:
