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Re: R.I.P. actor William Schallert, 93...guess who?

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William December Starr <wdstarr@panix.com> wrote:
> In article <20160513d@crcomp.net>,
> Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> said:
>
>> Schallert plays CIA Director Grauber in the "Colossus: The Forbin
>> Project" movie. In order to defang Colossus the powers-that-be
>> decide to stealthily disarm nuclear warheads during routine
>> missile maintenance.
>>
>> Schallert's at one of the missile sites when Colossus reveals the
>> existence of the missile maintenance conspiracy to a worldwide TV
>> audience. Schallert senses what happens next, so he goes outside,
>> lights up a cigarette, and takes one long last drag on it before
>> Colossus sets off the warhead at that site.
>
> I (probably mis-)remember it as a cigar, but yeah, _that's_
> what mention of Schallert always first brings to mind for me.

Your memory is better than mine. Schallert and a general arrive by
helicopter at a Death Valley missile site just as Colossus begins a
worldwide TV broadcast. Schallert and the general are given chairs
in front of a TV that is set up outside of the silo under a tarp. As
Schallert takes out a small cigar with a tip Colossus announces the
destruction of that Death Valley missile site. Everybody except
Schallert runs away from the TV set. Schallert lights his cigar as the
warhead goes off.

They filmed the bug planet scenes of Starship Troopers outside of my
hometown. They paid $50 per day to extras. One person confessed
afterward that he found it most humiliating to act like a frightened
idiot.

--
Don Kuenz KB7RPU

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