rsmurphy wrote: Fri Dec 08, 2023 8:26 pm
I didn't realize that James Caan is dead. Time to watch his carpeted chest in
Rollerball again.
Love that film.
A long time ago I bought a 'replica' shirt like the orange one he wears in Rollerball, with the number on the back and everything. Then a couple of years ago I was going to a music festival and noticed they were having a fancy dress contest, so i thought I'd go as Jonathan from Rollerball, wore the shirt with a crash helmet and shoulder pads*. This was on the Sunday of a weekend long festival.
I askes some staff and security about the fancy dress contest and none of them seemed to know what I was on about. There was also a distinct lack of other people in fancy dress.
Turns out they were only doing it on the Saturday, so I looked like a knob for the whole day to no particular benefit.
*Weren't real shoulder pads as I couldn't source proper ones in time, so I went with some carwashing sponges with velcro attached stuck under the shirt. Not even going to comment on how ridiculous THAT looked.
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