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The Strange Case of Joe Patroni: Part Three

The Strange Case of Joe Patroni: Part Three

By the end of Airport ’77 we cannot help but wonder if Joe Patroni is the only one to disappear into the Bermuda Triangle, along with all the carefully documented unanswered questions. Lord knows the Devil’s Triangle does not give up its secrets easily. The only thing new offered is Joe’s phantom company, Patroni’s Gently Used Airplane Parts and Stress Points. What was clear, Universal hit the jackpot again with another huge return on investment. Audiences were still hungry for…

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The Strange Case of Joe Patroni: Part Two

The Strange Case of Joe Patroni: Part Two

When we last left off, Joe Patroni was on the tarmac at Salt Lake City International Airport with his ‘wife’ and ‘son’, who have just survived the emergency landing of Columbia Airlines Flight 409. And as already stated in my previous post, we are left with many unanswered questions about Joe Patroni’s seemingly sketchy past, the least of which being why Gloria Swanson was on Flight 409 in the first place. Gloria Swanson notwithstanding, there are no easy answers, at…

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The Strange Case of Joe Patroni: Part One

The Strange Case of Joe Patroni: Part One

When Arthur Hailey’s novel Airport was published in 1968, the literary world was introduced to TWA maintenance chief Joe Patroni, a no-nonsense, cigar chomping trouble-shooter operating out of Chicago’s fictional Lincoln International Airport. In the novel, Patroni races the clock to remove an Aero-Mexico Boeing 707, that is mired in snow and mud, blocking a crucial runway, before another crippled 707 can make an emergency landing on the same runway. Set during a massive snowstorm, Airport unfolds over an 8-hour…

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Airport: Trans Global Airlines, the Golden Argosy, Flight Two, Non-stop to Rome, is now Ready for Boarding.

Airport: Trans Global Airlines, the Golden Argosy, Flight Two, Non-stop to Rome, is now Ready for Boarding.

Released: 1970 Dir. George Seaton It was always exciting when the new copy of TV Guide arrived in the mail. The November 10-16, 1973 edition was no exception, however, this particular volume featured an article that would have an enormous impact on me. The headline heralded ‘A Very Special Week’, loaded with specials, premieres, and big movies. Images of Bob Hope, Julie Andrews, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis jr., William Holden, The Waltons, and the King himself, Elvis Presley splashed across…

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High Plains Drifter: The Elusive Clint Eastwood Western.

High Plains Drifter: The Elusive Clint Eastwood Western.

Released: 1973 Dir. Clint Eastwood First Time Viewing Reaction               High Plains Drifter is one of those movies that has eluded me for years. I’d seen bits and pieces, but we were never in the same place at the same time. I knew it by reputation alone, and strangely never really knew what the story was actually about, other than Clint Eastwood quite literally paints the town red. So, not being able to find it on any of the streaming…

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