The Larry Manetti Thread

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Frodoleader · #46 Post by **Frodoleader** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:55 pm

I believe Black Sunday starred the late Robert Shaw (Jaws). It too may have been his last film role. The plot was very similar to Two Minute Warning.

...or maybe we have the two movies mixed up?

IKnowWhatYoureThinking · Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:40 pm

I thought I remembered that!

#48 Post by **J.J. Walters** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:32 am

Black Sunday came out a year after Two-Minute Warning. Both are very, very similiar in terms of the plot. BS features a "terrorist gang", while TW is about a lone gunman. BS is generally considered to be the better movie.

I'm curious to see what version of Two-Minute Warning AMC will air; the original theatrical version, or the heavily edited down TV version.

N1095A · #49 Post by **N1095A** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:47 am

I know I'm restating what we all know, but I just want to say for the record what a great and classy guy Mr. Manetti is. I've emailed him 3 maybe 4 times over the past couple of years with questions. He replied every time. Sometimes he didn't know the answer, or didn't remember, but he always replied. I got one such reply today. I asked in light of TS' statement about wanting to play TM again, did he think the chances were better that it would happen. His reply was that he hoped so, all of them would love to do it, and they were all on board. I hope that means Mr. Hillerman as well.

IKnowWhatYoureThinking · Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:36 pm

Mike, I'd love it if they were able to reprise their roles. Let's all keep our fingers crossed.

N1095A · #51 Post by **N1095A** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:35 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3E7Afrv ... re=related

SelleckLover · #52 Post by **SelleckLover** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:20 am

Holy Cow! Does he look young there or what?!

IKnowWhatYoureThinking · Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:08 pm

The years catch up with us all eventually!

#54 Post by **J.J. Walters** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:51 pm

Wow, that's a young Manetti!

That show really knows how to drag on/milk an emergency scene, don't they.

I used to have a toy car of the red Paramedic Utility truck when I was a kid. Man, I loved that thing!

Every time I see Kevin Tighe (DeSoto) now I think - "Locke's dad" (Lost) - even though he's been in a ton of stuff over the years.

Thanks for the link Mike.

IKnowWhatYoureThinking · Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:16 pm

I had that same truck James. I loved Emergency when I was a kid.

Italian Ice · #56 Post by **Italian Ice** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:12 am

Larry Manetti was on BSG? I had no idea! And there's the real Starbuck!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXPT_2Pz ... re=related

Frodoleader · #57 Post by **Frodoleader** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 4:06 am

I saw Jeff McKay on (the original) BSG also.

MrMoustache · #58 Post by **MrMoustache** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:01 pm

I just can't get into Emergency! I used to hate it actually. It was on before the after school shows used to come on and it was painful wait...

Anyway, since most of this thread was about asking Larry questions I just wanted to throw in my 2 cents, no offense to anyone

The fact that Larry actually answers emails and is patient is awesome

That's just the info@larry..com address right? BTW or is it another? I'd eventually like to write him myself

But anyway I have a background in productions and was even a "creature feature" type host here in Tampa for a summer many moons ago.. but I do know, it's difficult for most people to recall specific details about a plot or something mostly because you get shuffled around so much and the scenes are filmed out of sequence. TV acting is quite different from stage acting in that it's not linear, whereas the stage actor has a clear understanding of the plot and character development as well as motivation, since it's a linear production, the TV actor doesn't and the director has an extra hard job of having to convey all that to the actors when everything is filmed out of it's natural flow and also because it changes from week to week and they only film each episode once.

Most actors that i've come across rarely watch their work outside of self critique either. there's also other factors involved.. like MPI looked like a well funded series, but you take something like ST:TOS, which was on a shoestring budget and that brought the different elements of production into much closer contact whereas in MPI, it looks like they weren't that much.

MrMoustache · #59 Post by **MrMoustache** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:04 pm

I found Larry Manetti on facebook (not really hard), is it really him?

I wouldn't think so.. but I would have thought facebook wouldn't have allowed fan "placeholder" sorts of pages, at least using the persons real name. Just wondering if anyone knew for sure..

I gave him an add, we'll see.

Little Garwood · #60 Post by **Little Garwood** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:12 am

MrMoustache wrote:I just can't get into Emergency! I used to hate it actually. It was on before the after school shows used to come on and it was painful wait...

That darn show was the bane of after school TV! It was always on! The "acting" was so wooden, it made the cast of Dragnet look like Method actors doing A Streetcar Named Desire!

And Emergency! was omnipresent on TV Land back in the late 1990s, reminding me all over again how much I despised it.

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