… could dress up as woodpeckers
Christmas of 1980 brought out a new film with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder entitled “Stir Crazy”. It was produced by Hannah Weinstein and Melville Tucker. Wikipedia describes it like this:
Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as two men framed for a bank robbery and each ending up with a 125 year prison sentence, alongside a real bank robber (played by Miguel Angel Suarez) and a man who killed his stepfather (played by Georg Stanford Brown). In 2000, Total Film magazine voted it the 22nd greatest comedy film of all time. It was the third largest grossing film in 1980, behind The Empire Strikes Back and Nine to Five. Georg Stanford Brown’s performance in the film was panned by critics, where he earned a Razzie Award nomination as Worst Supporting Actress, where his character dressed up in drag in some scenes.
Wikipedia also shows the DVD poster that you see on the left. That same image appeared in numerous publications, including Playboy. You can find a page from a 1980′s Playboy magazine here on eBay.
Also in 1980, a film was released with the name “A Change of Seasons” and starred Shirley MacLaine, Anthony Hopkins and Bo Derek. The poster from that film is shown on the right.
And once again, it appeared as a magazine page in a 1980s Playboy. You can find it here at eBay.
The film was about a fortysomething Karen Evans who discovers her arrogantly self-centered professor husband Adam is having an affair with student Lindsey Rutledge. She retaliates by having a dalliance of her own with young, philosophical campus carpenter Pete Lachappelle. Adam is infuriated when he learns about his wife’s new relationship, and she in turn defends her right to enjoy the same carnal pleasures he does. The four decide to share a Vermont ski house, where their efforts to behave like liberal adults are tested by middle-aged angst, hurt feelings, and teenager Kasey Evans, who unexpectedly arrives to confront her parents with their outrageous behavior. A fun film!
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