danny burstein writes: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2018, Richard de Give wrote: > > > Just turned on the teevee and an American network is covering this. Alas, > > just a van, not a Mexican bus. And why was this the first place I thought > > of when I saw it was in Toronto? > > > > https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/toronto-van-incident/index.html?sr=twCNN042318undefined0228PMStory > > Well, natch. They're simply using Toronto as a fill in > for NYC.... > > Just like all those NYC subway scenes that use the Toronto Metro. > Including, dare I even mention it, the _second_ version > of "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3". > > Yes, children, there are actually three of them. First is > the original, which is one of the bestest evah NYC movies, > starring Walter Matthau, Jerry Stiller, Robert Shaw, and plenty > of other first raters. > > The second was an el cheapo made in Toronto for no good > reason whatsoever. It's so bad we don't talk about it > in mixed company. > > (I suspect it was a throwaway produced for Canadian > content and tax reasons). > > The third is the one with Denzel Washington and (shudder) > that Scientoligist. No, not him. The other one.
Clearly there needs to be a documentary film covering all three versions titled "The Making of 'The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3' 1 2 3". -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/wnndl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
