“Airport” (1970), a Conversation about a Blockbuster
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa embrace a soap opera in the sky. *** Referenced media: “Airplane!” (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, 1980)“Zero Hour!” (Hall Bartlett, 1957)“One on Top of the Other” (Lucio Fulci, 1969)“Stunt Rock” (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1978)“The Twilight Zone” (Rod Serling, 1959-1964)“An Officer and a Gentleman” (Taylor Hackford, 1982)“All the President’s Men” (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)“Hud” (Martin Ritt, 1963)“Cool Hand Luke” (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967)“M*A*S*H” (Robert Altman, 1970)“Patton” (Franklin L. Schaffner, 1970)“Zabriskie Point” (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970)“The Boys in the Band” (William Friedkin, 1970)“The Ballad of Cable Hogue” (Sam Peckinpah, 1970)“The Liberation of L.B. Jones” (William Wyler, 1970)“Woodstock” (Michael Wadleigh, 1970)“Waterloo” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1970)“Hi, Mom!” (Brian De Palma, 1970)“Greetings” (Brian De Palma, 1968)“A Man Called Horse” (Elliot Silverstein, 1970)“Let It Be” (Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 1970)“Beneath the Planet of the Apes” (Ted Post, 1970)“Cotton Comes to Harlem” (Ossie Davis, 1970)“The Out-of-Towners” (Arthur Hiller, 1970)“Watermelon Man” (Melvin Van Peebles, 1970)“Two Mules for Sister Sara” (Don Siegel, 1970)“Crimes of the Future” (David Cronenberg, 1970)“Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” (Russ Meyer, 1970)“Catch-22” (Mike Nichols, 1970)“Myra Breckinridge” (Michael Sarne, 1970)“Perry Mason” (Gail Patrick Jackson, 1957-1966)Audio quotation: “Airport” (George Seaton, 1970), including “Airport Love Theme”, “Airport (Main Title)”, “Joe Patroni Plane or Plows?”, “Ada Quonsett, Stowaway”, “Inez-Lost Forever”, and “Airport (End Title)”, written by Alfred Newman, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBQzJzvVCvI&list=PLkAUJkbhd-RhBK5_wKcr55aTy2erljUve&index=1Trailer for re-release of “Stunt Rock” (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1978), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OkXef2leWA
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