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#54619
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Police Academy is Back?!?!
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Tack the actor died or Tack the character died in the movies?

Okay, just checked IMDb and you mean Tack the actor (David Graf). I had no idea he died.

Here's a tally of the main characters...

Tackleberry - David Graf - died April 7, 2001 (cardiac arrest)
Mahoney - Steve Guttenberg - still alive
Harris - G.W. Bailey - still alive
Hightower - Bubba Smith - still alive
Cmdt. Lassard - George Gaynes - still alive
Callahan - Leslie Easterbrook - still alive
Jones (SFX guy) - Michael Winslow - still alive
Sweetchuck - Tim Kazurinsky - still alive
Hooks - Marion Ramsey - still alive
Zed - Bobcat Goldthwait - still alive (and still together with Nikki Cox as far as I can tell... lucky bastard)
Proctor - Lance Kinsey - still alive
Mauser - Art Metrano - still alive
Sgt. Lassard - Matt McCoy (#6-7) - still alive

So, pretty much all the main characters are still alive. Whether or not they're all still willing to do it is another question. My main reason for wanting to see it ain't gonna be there. Tack was my fave of the bunch. Although the humiliation that Harris and Mauser went through on occasion was great.
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#54429
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Police Academy is Back?!?!
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Oh Dear God, when will this twisted ride ever end?

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'Police Academy' Set for Eighth Edition
By Liza Foreman

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Police Academy" is back. After a decade's absence from the big screen, the cop comedy franchise is gearing up for an eighth installment.

"I felt it was time to start again," said series creator Paul Maslansky. "I saw that 'Starsky & Hutch' and a number of other revivals were doing really well. 'Police Academy' has such a great history. I thought, 'Why not?"'

According to Maslansky, who will serve as an executive producer, the talent from the first seven features has expressed a keen interest in the revival, with Maslansky looking to combine both new and the "original talent" for the next "Police Academy."

"We became very much like a family," he said. "It's is very unusual to have seven films with virtually all the same major cast."

The project is being developed by Warner Bros. Pictures and its Australian joint-venture partner Village Roadshow. The project is out to writers, with the exact direction of the newest installment yet to be determined.

The most recent sequel in the franchise was "Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow" in 1994. The first "Police Academy" hit screens in 1984, bringing in a domestic box office take of $81.2 million. Then it was a film a year through 1989, with "Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment" released in 1985, "Police Academy 3: Back in Training" in 1986, "Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol" in 1987, "Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach" in 1988 and "Police Academy 6: City Under Siege" in 1989. Altogether, the franchise brought in more than $230 million at the domestic box office. Maslansky also serviced the small screen with "Police Academy: The Animated Series" in 1993 and "Police Academy: The Series" in 1997.

Maslansky is working on several other projects, including another institution-based project, "Stunt School." There's also a New Orleans-set jazz feature about the life of Buddy Bolden, the first king of jazz.
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#54369
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Fahrenheit 9/11
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I'm not a Philly native and I've only visited the city once, but I agree completely with Warbler... Rocky is not pure crap nor should it be equated to Titanic. These are completely different movies. Rocky is one of the best "little man takes on the big man" movies of all time. Titanic was just a bastardization of historical fact. The only thing that Rocky really has going against it are its sequels (although I do enjoy several of them, the fact that there are so many is disturbing) and Talia Shire. Never did like her.
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#54368
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my thoughts on originals vs SE...
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Originally posted by: jimbo
I used to believe Return of the Jedi was best as a little kid but I grew up unlike many.

I was the same way. Then I grew up and discovered the brilliance that is The Empire Strikes Back. Of course, I discovered a bunch of other movies along the way that are true "masterpieces" and the SW films were replaced in my top spot of all-time favorite movies. We all grow up. (Sh)it happens.
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#54311
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Cliches that need to stop
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Turn Turn Turn moreso. I love that song but I'm tired of it being in just about every movie of that era. I agree.

How about all the damn romcoms using Van Morrison's "Someone Like You"? First it was Only the Lonely, then French Kiss, then, within weeks of each other, we had the movie Someone Like You and Bridget Jones' Diary. ENOUGH ALREADY!!
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#54310
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Changes in 2004 DVDs
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Just curious if you were the one busted for sitting on her front curb reading a book. Mom called the guy in as a stalker. Police came by and asked what he was doing. He said he was reading a book and didn't even know it was Natalie Portman's house. Cops supposedly claimed that they get a few calls a month from her mom claiming she's being stalked. It might be a bit of paranoia, but why would some guy just sit on a random person's curb and read? Why not go somewhere public? This was about a month or so ago. Sure it wasn't you, Jimbo?
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#54112
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Interview?
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I'm pretty sure those are the only times Lucas "presents" himself to "the press"... those few, carefully chosen "journalists" who are spoonfed the questions they are allowed to ask. Nothing more. He leaves the dirty work to his cronies like Rick McCallum, Steve Sansweet, and Jim Ward.
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#54109
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spider-man 2
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POTENTIAL SPOILERS CONTAINED -- NOTHING TOO BAD, BUT YOU MAY NOT WANT TO READ IT ANYWAY.

I can agree with the idea that a bad guy should be evil. However, once in a while it's nice to see one who still has a bit of humanity left to him. Ock's drive in the movie was more personal... he just wanted to finish his life's work. His methods become a bit more ruthless, sure. But he's not trying, intentionally, to destroy humanity. It just might happen as a little side accident, if you get my meaning. I'm leaving the ruthless, merciless evil for characters like Green Goblin (both Norman and Harry) who is filled with pure hatred and a desire for revenge. Same with Venom and Carnage. I still think it was nice to see some humanity in Ock, though.

As for other comic adaptations, I loved the graphic novel for Road to Perdition. Very well done. Max Allan Collins did a great job with it.