#steve McCroskey

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Airplane!

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a i r p l a n e !, 1980 🎬 dir. david zucker, jerry zucker, jim abrahams

'Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking... drinking... taking amphetamines... sniffing glue.'

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(See all the other memes I’ve made..)

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Bracket 4, Round 1

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The adventures of two amiably aimless metal-head friends, Wayne and Garth. From Wayne’s basement, the pair broadcast a talk-show called “Wayne’s World” on local public access television. The show comes to the attention of a sleazy network executive who wants to produce a big-budget version of “Wayne’s World”—and he also wants Wayne’s girlfriend, a rock singer named Cassandra. Wayne and Garth have to battle the executive not only to save their show, but also Cassandra. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Wayne Campbell: Mike Myers Garth Algar: Dana Carvey Benjamin Kane: Rob Lowe Cassandra: Tia Carrere Stacy: Lara Flynn Boyle Dreamwoman: Donna Dixon Security Guard: Chris Farley Noah Vanderhoff: Brian Doyle-Murray Alan: Michael DeLuise Tiny: Meat Loaf Bad Cop / T-1000: Robert Patrick Alice Cooper: Alice Cooper Glen: Ed O’Neill Mrs. Vanderhoff: Colleen Camp Terry: Lee Tergesen Russell Finley: Kurt Fuller Davy: Mike Hagerty Ron Paxton: Charles Noland Elyse: Ione Skye Frankie Sharp: Frank DiLeo Waitress: Robin Ruzan Officer Koharski: Frederick Coffin Old Man Withers: Carmen Filpi Film Crew: Original Music Composer: J. Peter Robinson Screenplay: Mike Myers Executive Producer: Hawk Koch Director of Photography: Theo van de Sande Director: Penelope Spheeris Producer: Lorne Michaels Editor: Malcolm Campbell Stunts: Hannah Kozak Stunts: Alisa Christensen Associate Producer: Dinah Minot Associate Producer: Barnaby Thompson Screenplay: Bonnie Turner Screenplay: Terry Turner Casting: Glenn Daniels Production Design: Gregg Fonseca Second Unit Director: Allan Graf First Assistant Director: John Hockridge Second Assistant Director: Joseph J. Kontra Set Decoration: Jay Hart Camera Operator: Martin Schaer “B” Camera Operator: David Hennings First Assistant Camera: Henry Tirl First Assistant “B” Camera: Peter Mercurio Steadicam Operator: Elizabeth Ziegler Script Supervisor: Adell Aldrich Sound Mixer: Tom Nelson Boom Operator: Jerome R. Vitucci Additional Editor: Earl Ghaffari Assistant Editor: Ralph O. Sepulveda Jr. Assistant Editor: Ann Trulove Assistant Editor: Brion McIntosh Supervising Sound Editor: John Benson Sound Effects Editor: Beth Sterner Sound Effects Editor: Joseph A. Ippolito Sound Effects Editor: Frank Howard Dialogue Editor: Michael Magill Dialogue Editor: Simon Coke Dialogue Editor: Bob Newlan Supervising ADR Editor: Allen Hartz Foley Supervisor: Pamela Bentkowski Assistant Sound Editor: Carolina Beroza Assistant Sound Editor: Thomas W. Small Foley Artist: Ken Dufva Foley Artist: David Lee Fein Foley Mixer: Greg Curda ADR Mixer: Bob Baron ADR Voice Casting: Barbara Harris Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Andy Nelson Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Steve Pederson Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Tom Perry Music Supervisor: Maureen Crowe Supervising Music Editor: Steve Mccroskey Set Designer: Lisette Thomas Set Designer: Gae S. Buckley Special Effects Makeup Artist: Thomas R. Burman Special Effects Makeup Artist: Bari Dreiband-Burman Makeup Artist: Courtney Carell Makeup Artist: Mel Berns Jr. Hairstylist: Kathrine Gordon Hairstylist: Barbara Lorenz Hairstylist: Carol Meikle Costume Supervisor: Pat Tonnema Costumer: Janet Sobel Costumer: Kimberly Guenther Durkin Location Manager: Ned R. Shapiro Assistant Location Manager: Serena Baker Second Second Assistant Director: John G. Scotti Property Master: Kirk Corwin Assistant Property Master: Peter A. Tullo Assistant Property Master: Jim Stubblefield Leadman: Robert Lucas Special Effects Coordinator: Tony Vandenecker Chief Lighting Technician: Jono Kouzouyan Production Office Coordinator: Lynne White Unit Publicist: Tony Angelotti Still Photographer: Suzanne Tenner Craft Service: Vartan Chakarian Transportation Coordinator: James Thornsberry Color Timer: David Bryden Negative Cutter: Theresa Repola Mohammed Title Designer: Dan Curry Second Unit Director of Photography: Robert M. Stevens Stunts: Tony Brubaker Stunt Double: Steve Kelso Movie Reviews: tmdb15435519: I wish I could dress the exact same every day and still be cool.

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"Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue." --Steve McCroskey

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Found this on Reddit. Airplane, Hot Fuzz and What We Do In The Shadows, all great comedies with similar humour. 😁

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It's been almost 40 years since the miracle landing of Trans American flight 209 in Chicago, IL. After the Boeing 707's takeoff from LAX, Captain Clarence Ovuer and First Officer Roger Murdock became incapacitated from acute food poisoning. After flight attendant Elaine Dickinson stabilized the aircraft and activated the autopilot, passenger and ex-fighter pilot Ted Stryker was summoned to take command of the aircraft. With the guidance from Chicago ATC specialist Steve McCroskey and Stryker's former commanding officer Rex Kramer, TA 209 landed safely with no fatalities.

Never forget these heroes!

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Remembering actor Lloyd Bridges (January 15, 1913 – March 10, 1998) on his birthday.

His break-out role came in the syndicated adventure series Sea Hunt, one of several TV shows he starred in over the course of his career. Bridges starred in The Loner - Rod Serling’s sensational dramatic western,  How the West Was Won, and High Noon where he shined as Gary Cooper’s cowardly deputy.

Though he was a trained dramatic actor, Bridges successfully embraced his inner comedian with his portrayal of Steve McCroskey in Airplane (“I picked the wrong week to quit smoking…”). It led to similar spoof appearances in Hot Shots! and its sequel. He was Emmy-nominated for his memorable turn of Izzy Mendelbaum on Seinfeld, and he appeared in the two Hot Shots! parody films. Acting runs in the family; his sons Beau and Jeff Bridges followed in their father’s footsteps.

On radio, Bridges made four visits to Suspense beginning with “Chicken Feed” (April 21, 1957) as a man who lands in jail on a vagrancy charge when he storms out of his house without his wallet. In an unusual spin on the “eyewitness to a murder” story, Bridges plays a man stuck in an elevator who sees the crime committed in “Pigeon in the Cage” (August 11, 1957).

In “Rub Down and Out” (July 6, 1958), Bridges plays a gym owner having an affair with the wife of a dangerous mobster, and he is back in Sea Hunt country as a diver investigating mysteries underwater in “Deep, Deep is My Love” (April 26, 1959).

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r e m e m b e r i n g

Lloyd Bridges Jr.

15 January 1913 – 10 March 1998

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[pic: bridges as steve mccroskey, airplane!, 1980]

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How To Make Great Margaritas – Classic Tequila Cocktails Plus

Margaritas Are Tequila Sidecars - Some Sidetracked Along The Way

A classic margarita cocktail substitutes tequila for the brandy and lime juice for the lemon in a vintage Sidecar drink recipe. Both are timeless tipples.

However, the margarita seems to have followed in the footsteps of the flavored martini craze or vice versa. Hard to keep it real when you throw just about anything into a frozen slushie and call it good. See 29 crazy margarita flavors you need to try. Or not. Some look pretty questionable.

Sort of reminds you of the movie airplane when Lloyd Bridges who plays the stressed out air traffic controller Steve McCroskey* hands his control room co-worker Johnny a map and asks him what he can make of it. Well, I can make a hat; I can make a broach; I can make a pterodactyl!

I Love You Man

Margaritas are consistently listed as a top 10 drink in various voting polls and surveys, but which one. Maybe its all the different recipe variations that help to move it up the list. Tequila is the national liquor of Mexico and the Margarita is the most popular tequila drink in the U.S. as well as the signature cocktail of Cinco de Mayo celebrations, so that scores points too.

Margarita's Missing Past

With tequila, along with perhaps absinthe, having earned special reputations for clouding judgment and fuzzy memories, it should come as no surprise that the origins of the Margarita are a bit of a mystery. Although that's the case surrounding the history of many cocktails, so maybe its just the alcohol period.

Look around for answers and and you'll find titles like “The Truth About the Margarita; Where did one of the world's great cocktails come from?” and “Once upon a time in Mexico; The origin of the Margarita” which would lead you to believe otherwise. Unfortunately, the truths are not self-evident. Rather, a collection of speculation, theories and opinions are presented with no supported conclusion.

One interesting story, which seems like perfect “made for Hollywood” cocktail lore, credits a wealthy Dallas, TX socialite named Margaret 'Margarita' Sames with inventing the drink in 1948. Known for throwing large parties with her husband in their Acapulco, Mexico vacation home, she is said to have created the Margarita recipe to be able to host movie stars and other famous guests with something special.

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Margaritas In The Movies

While many of the most popular drinks have played central roles as cocktails in cinema, the Margarita is notably absent. The 1998 film Practical Magic starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman doesn't really do it justice, but the 2005 movie The Matador starring Pierce Brosnan as Julian Noble and Greg Kinnear as Danny Wright has a great quote from their scene in a hotel bar shown above.

Margaritas always taste better in Mexico.

~ Julian Noble

Timeline

1930 - Pedro Chicote publishes what appears to be the first Margarita cocktail recipe in print, but its NOT the modern formulation everybody loves and now associates with this drink. His was a mixture of gin, Italian vermouth, red curaçao and Grand Marnier which is similar to the Ampersand, Leap Year, Yellow Daisy, Claridge, Satan's Whiskers and Bijou cocktails.†

1935 - the Turf Bar in Tijuana, Mexico advertises itself as the “Home of and Originators of the Famous Tequila Daisy.” ‡

1936 - Moville, Iowa newspaper editor James Graham recounts his visit to the Turf Bar and was told the Tequila Daisy wasn't actually invented there but mixed by accident after the wrong bottle was grabbed and used in the pour. Note: the Brandy Daisy was a popular drink back then and substituting tequila made it similar to the Margarita, which by the way means 'daisy' in Spanish.

1937 - the Picador cocktail debuts with tequila, Cointreau and lemon or lime juice which is basically a Margarita minus the salt.1

1945 - Jose Cuervo launches its first ever United States advertising campaign with the slogan "Margarita: It’s more than a girl’s name." 2-4

1953 - Esquire Magazine names the Margarita the "Drink of the Month" in December.5

How To Make A Real Margarita

Classic Margarita Recipe:

2 oz  tequila

1 oz  orange liqueur

1 oz  lime juice

lime wedges for garnish

Pour into a cocktail shaker with ice cubes. Shake well and strain into a chilled glass. For a real classic Margarita, its just these three ingredients along with an optionally salted rim and cubed or crushed ice if desired as well. Garnish with lime.

Margaritas mixed by the batch and poured from polar pitchers are perfect for parties.

Celebrate The Day!

National Margarita Day is February 22nd each year and these are easy drinks for home bar owners to make and great to have on your themed party menu. Make the real recipe, add a spicy twist with the MargaDita or try some of the others, but do yourself a favor and prepare with fresh ingredients rather than mixes when time allows and you'll taste the difference. They're really good and worth the extra effort.

References

* - His often quoted character had the four infamous lines in the movie: “Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking” along with quitting smoking, amphetamines and sniffing glue.

† - Pedro Chicote, La Ley Mojada (Madrid: Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, S. A., 1930), 187. Print.

‡ - Popik, Barry. "Margarita (cocktail)." The Big Apple, 8 August 2006.

1 - W. J. Tarling, Café Royal Cocktail Book - Coronation Edition (London: Sidney Press Ltd., 1937), 146. Print.

2 - Anthony Dias Blue, The Complete Book of Spirits: A Guide to Their History, Production, and Enjoyment (New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2004), 114. Print.

3 - Radovanovic, Jovana. "Jose Cuervo’s Digital Time Machine Reimagines the Past." Brandingmag, 27 February 2014.

4 - @DavidWondrich. "They did that in 1956, as here, but I have never seen any 1945 ad for it, and I have definitely looked. You can't easily prove a negative, but I'm very doubtful." Twitter, 22 August 2018, 11:36 a.m.

5 - "Painting the Town." Esquire, December 1953, 76.

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Bracket 4, Round 2

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#airplane_1980

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Lloyd Bridges a B-movie actor and TV star, had a solid and long lasting Hollywood career and stole his share of scenes. Here are a few:

Deputy Marshal Harvey Pell in High Noon. D: Fred Zinneman (1952). Bridges, in probably the highest point of the movie career he quit for television, plays Gary Cooper’s right hand man, who is only too happy to help him make a stand against the outlaws coming to kill him – if he is named the new Marshall. “I can’t do that,” Cooper’s Will Kane says. “Why not?” “If you don’t know, it’s no use me telling you.” For the rest of the movie, in a perfectly etched demonstration of craven opportunism, Bridges proves him right. Cooper might have gotten the Oscar for this Western allegory of McCarthyism, but Bridges, who was briefly blacklisted himself (he recanted and named names), may have given the most crucial performance.

Steve McCroskey in Airplane! D: Jim Abrahams, David and Jerry Zucker (1980). For most of his career Bridges concentrated on TV, with adventure shows like Sea Hunt, The Loner, (Whose producer, Gene Rodenberry, almost cast him as Captain Kirk) and lots of TV movies where he portrayed the kind of tough but colorless heroes he spoofed in this wildly popular disaster-film parody and joke factory. As airport tower manager McCroskey, he was the straight man for the um…..flamboyant… Air Traffic Controller Johnny ([reading a map] “Johnny what can you make out of this?” “This? Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl….”). He also had the running joke “I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.” Then drinking, then amphetamines, ending up with sniffing glue. He did a 1982 sequel, as well as the Top Gun parody Hot Shots (1993) and Jane Austen’s Mafia! (1998).

Homer S. Ferguson in Tucker: The Man and His Dream D: Francis Ford Coppola (1988). Bridges has a short scene as an influential Michigan Senator in which he takes a very short “walk me to the car” meeting with automobile visionary Preston Tucker (Played by his son Jeff) where he is the soul of geniality, praising him for a dealership idea, humming a popular song, quoting Tucker’s line about Detroit’s Big Three companies (“tried for murder eh?” [chuckle]) then in the car and off. “What was that all about?” says Tucker, “Did he say anything? What did he say?”  “He said,” answers his partner Abe Karatz (Martin Landau) “stay out of the car business or he’ll cut your noogies off.” The Elder Bridges was uncredited, on the screen for maybe two minutes, and stole one of the few scenes in the movie that I’ve never forgotten.