lucible » George Romero http://www.lucible.com Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:28:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Director cameo surprises! http://www.lucible.com/2009/08/27/director-cameo-surprises/ http://www.lucible.com/2009/08/27/director-cameo-surprises/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:17:47 +0000 lucy http://www.lucible.com/?p=242 Director George A. Romero as a priest in MARTIN (1977)…

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…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.

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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.

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

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