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Lights Out
Apr. 6th, 2011 12:55 amIt's too bad that F/X's Lights Out, a boxing drama set in beautiful Bayonne, NJ, was cancelled. It had an awesome cast---the hero was the detective in Blood Ties+ and his dad/trainer was Stacy Keach. Not a lot of big names---the only really noteworthy guest-star was David Morse as an over-the-hill fighter---but a helluva lot of talent.
But if it HAD to go, at least they gave it a finale that lived up to the rest of the saga. The end was absolutely, painfully right. It was the KEL of all KELs*, and they did it with two simple words. THAT'S real writing! I'm afraid to think of what the levels of angst would've been if they'd done a Season Two.
Lights Out resonated with me for a few different reasons. Stacy Keach, although he's a little long in the tooth thesec days, was quite the hottie back in his Mike Hammer days. I'd gotten into Spillane back during my Bogart phase...to this day, I'm not sure what triggered that. It might've been The Man With Bogart's Face, a late 70s noir-wannabe film. For a couple years, I watched every Bogart film that came on the Late, Late Show.
Even before that, I had a minor "thing" about boxers. Part of that was the Errol Flynn movie, "Gentleman Jim" (I got into Flynn during my first pirate phase, thanks to Swashbuckler**), and it really kicked into overdrive thanks to Robert Conrad, who, after the demise of Black Sheep Squadron, appeared in a short-lived series called Duke Ramsey, about an ex-boxer turned PI to solve the murder of his former trainer. And I liked the Rocky movies. So yeah, I got into Lights Out.
Sorry to hear about the TKO, "Lights" Leary. Fare well.
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+ Except that apparently, the guy in Blood Ties was another actor entirely, my bad.
* KEL = Killer Ending Line, a term coined by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
karaokegal.
** Swashbuckler, 1976, was a costume drama in which a pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant. It reminds one of PotC: Curse of the Black Pearl in numerous places (or vice versa), but it's still well worth watching. Just take a look at the cast list!
Of course, the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie kicked off my second pirate phase. It also promoted Johnny Depp from the status I'd conferred on him as "that 80s pretty boy with the hair and the attitude" to "OMG, he's hot! And funny! And talented! Who knew?!".
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But if it HAD to go, at least they gave it a finale that lived up to the rest of the saga. The end was absolutely, painfully right. It was the KEL of all KELs*, and they did it with two simple words. THAT'S real writing! I'm afraid to think of what the levels of angst would've been if they'd done a Season Two.
Lights Out resonated with me for a few different reasons. Stacy Keach, although he's a little long in the tooth thesec days, was quite the hottie back in his Mike Hammer days. I'd gotten into Spillane back during my Bogart phase...to this day, I'm not sure what triggered that. It might've been The Man With Bogart's Face, a late 70s noir-wannabe film. For a couple years, I watched every Bogart film that came on the Late, Late Show.
Even before that, I had a minor "thing" about boxers. Part of that was the Errol Flynn movie, "Gentleman Jim" (I got into Flynn during my first pirate phase, thanks to Swashbuckler**), and it really kicked into overdrive thanks to Robert Conrad, who, after the demise of Black Sheep Squadron, appeared in a short-lived series called Duke Ramsey, about an ex-boxer turned PI to solve the murder of his former trainer. And I liked the Rocky movies. So yeah, I got into Lights Out.
Sorry to hear about the TKO, "Lights" Leary. Fare well.
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+ Except that apparently, the guy in Blood Ties was another actor entirely, my bad.
* KEL = Killer Ending Line, a term coined by
karaokegal.** Swashbuckler, 1976, was a costume drama in which a pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant. It reminds one of PotC: Curse of the Black Pearl in numerous places (or vice versa), but it's still well worth watching. Just take a look at the cast list!
Of course, the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie kicked off my second pirate phase. It also promoted Johnny Depp from the status I'd conferred on him as "that 80s pretty boy with the hair and the attitude" to "OMG, he's hot! And funny! And talented! Who knew?!".
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