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My favorite Kojak is still the first season’s “Cop in a Cage.” It’s not even one of the best episodes but it’s an astounding artifact, especially for viewers (like me) who tend to delight in performance above all else. In “Cop in a Cage,” the cult actor John P. Ryan plays a mad bomber who gets out of prison and vows revenge against Telly Savalas’s Lieutenant Theo Kojak, because (groan) Kojak was the cop who put him away.
Ryan’s mushy delivery and smirky “who, me?” expression made him a familiar villain in the seventies. But, like Timothy Carey, Ryan exuded a sense that the craziness extended beyond camera range; and so, also like Carey, he tended to turn up in small roles and marginal efforts. It’s a semi-rare pleasure to find him center stage in “Cop in a Cage,” and, as the title promises, the show quickly turns into a cage match, as Ryan and fellow hambone Savalas try to top one another in scene after scene. The pair don’t just chew up the scenery; they regurgitate it, drop to all fours, lick the puddles of bilious sawdust off the floor, and spitball the remnants back and forth in unholy congress. The premise is a cliché and “Cop in a Cage” is even a semi-betrayal of the semi-serious character drama that Kojak was trying to pull off. But it’s brilliant camp and
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On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: Behind-the-Scenes Bond Secrets
George Lazenby, the actor who played James Bond only once in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) believes the film and his debut stand the test of time. "Over the years, it's aged like a fine wine," Lazenby told the media, "a bit like me."
According to Lazenby, directors Steven Soderbergh and Christopher Nolan ranked his film as the best Bond movie. So what actually did happen on set and why was the Australian actor the only Bond to star in one movie? We reveals six secrets you may not know about Lazenby’s first and only outing as 007.
1. Lazenby elbowed out many leading men to play 007
Lazenby, born in 1938, was a young car salesman-turned-model who’d never acted in a film when he met producer Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli at a barber shop. Broccoli saw Lazenby’s commercial for Big Fry Turkish delight and considered him for the role. Lazenby was confident in his chances. He’d lied about all of the films he had starred in back in his native Australia. Lazenby visited Sean Connery’s barber, found out which Savile Row tailor made Connery’s suits and bought a Rolex for the audition.
He was up against some very big names: Roger Moore dropped off the list when he signed
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