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Arnold on T2, back when I was a kid. The way he'd push that tire over (or the stuntman rather)and peel out just looked so badass. I dreamed of owning a fatboy all through my childhood.
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Then Came Bronson
Then Came Bronson
On June 26, 1969, a movie was released that was a gritty, druggy smash hit with both the critics and the public. Easy Rider was the talk of the nation. As Captain America and Billy captivated audiences, NBC execs noticed.
The rampant drug use, violence, and nudity of the original film would never fly on 1969 televisions (even though it is now shown practically uncut on AMC), but the idea of saying to heck with society and taking off on a motorcycle had already come to life as a TV movie that was aired on the network in March of that year. After Easy Rider's success, Then came Bronson was greenlighted as a series.
Singer/actor Michael Parks played Jim Bronson as a rebel, but a polite, friendly, quiet one.[/align]
The show would open with a harried businessman driving a convertible expressing his envy of free spirit Bronson while sitting at a traffic light. A friendly exchange would take place, which, according to Wikipedia, went thusly:
[blockquote]* Driver: "Taking a trip?"
* Bronson: "What's that?"
* Driver: "Taking a trip?"
* Bronson: "Yeah."
* Driver: "Where to?"
* Bronson: "Oh, I don't know. Wherever I end up, I guess."
* Driver: "Pal, I wish I was you."
* Bronson: "Really?"
* Driver: "Yeah."
* Bronson: "Well, hang in there."
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That phrase, little heard before the show began airing, continues to be one of the most-often used in the English language.
Then Came Bronson had a run of only a year, but its fans (which include Yours Truly) were rabid in their adoration. Bronson was a regular Joe who just got fed up with life after his buddy at the newspaper (none other than Martin Sheen in the film) committed suicide. So he did what any red-blooded American rebel would do: got himself a Hawg and hit the road.
Bronson's red Sportster with the triangle logo on the gas tank continues to be imitated by fans over thirty five years after the show's one-year run. See what I mean about rabid?
Parks singing talent also nailed him a Top Forty single in 1970: Long Lonesome Highway. The song peaked at #20, and I still can remember all of the lyrics, even though I haven't heard it since I was a teenager.
Parks' low-key, humble acting style endeared him to many, including myself. He continued a fairly successful career after Bronson was canceled in 1970, and eventually hooked up with Quentin Tarentino to get some primo roles in films like Kill Bill and Grindhouse.
I'm glad. We Bronson fans feel like the axe fell way too soon on his TV show. Parks himself is a shining example of the good that comes to those who hang in there.
Recommend I Remember JFK to your friends!
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Then Came Bronson
On June 26, 1969, a movie was released that was a gritty, druggy smash hit with both the critics and the public. Easy Rider was the talk of the nation. As Captain America and Billy captivated audiences, NBC execs noticed. The rampant drug use, violence, and nudity of the original film would never fly on 1969 televisions (even though it is now shown practically uncut on AMC), but the idea of saying to heck with society and taking off on a motorcycle had already come to life as a TV movie that was aired on the network in March of that year. After Easy Rider's success, Then came Bronson was greenlighted as a series.
Singer/actor Michael Parks played Jim Bronson as a rebel, but a polite, friendly, quiet one.[/align]
The show would open with a harried businessman driving a convertible expressing his envy of free spirit Bronson while sitting at a traffic light. A friendly exchange would take place, which, according to Wikipedia, went thusly:[blockquote]* Driver: "Taking a trip?"
* Bronson: "What's that?"
* Driver: "Taking a trip?"
* Bronson: "Yeah."
* Driver: "Where to?"
* Bronson: "Oh, I don't know. Wherever I end up, I guess."
* Driver: "Pal, I wish I was you."
* Bronson: "Really?"
* Driver: "Yeah."
* Bronson: "Well, hang in there."
[/blockquote]
That phrase, little heard before the show began airing, continues to be one of the most-often used in the English language.
Then Came Bronson had a run of only a year, but its fans (which include Yours Truly) were rabid in their adoration. Bronson was a regular Joe who just got fed up with life after his buddy at the newspaper (none other than Martin Sheen in the film) committed suicide. So he did what any red-blooded American rebel would do: got himself a Hawg and hit the road.
Bronson's red Sportster with the triangle logo on the gas tank continues to be imitated by fans over thirty five years after the show's one-year run. See what I mean about rabid?
Parks singing talent also nailed him a Top Forty single in 1970: Long Lonesome Highway. The song peaked at #20, and I still can remember all of the lyrics, even though I haven't heard it since I was a teenager.
Parks' low-key, humble acting style endeared him to many, including myself. He continued a fairly successful career after Bronson was canceled in 1970, and eventually hooked up with Quentin Tarentino to get some primo roles in films like Kill Bill and Grindhouse.
I'm glad. We Bronson fans feel like the axe fell way too soon on his TV show. Parks himself is a shining example of the good that comes to those who hang in there.
Recommend I Remember JFK to your friends!
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Steve McQueen in "Great Escape" at number 1, will always remember the jumps at the barbed wire fences- and on a Brit Triumph to. Tom Cruise on the Kwak in "Top Gun" - one of my favourite movies and the right scenes when feeling "the need for speed". Arnie in T2 - who would'nt want a Fatboy after that and Easy Rider - nuff said. Loved "Long Way Round" documentary with Euin and Charley on the BM's - just wanted to take off somewhere after watching them.
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I'M showing my age but was 13 and riding Honda 90, me and some others on what ever 2 wheel bike would run all went and saw EASY RIDER in BEAUMONT TEXAS and we came out totally different, we where FREE to ride our machines and grow our hair long, HELLS ANGELS '69 and the WILD ANGELS, BILLY JACK in the BORN LOSERS, but PETER FONDA AND DENNIS HOPPER where the best to me and I liked BILLYS CHOPPER BETTER, and I liked then came BRONSON but he would wreck and his bike never got hurt or he would hill climb with no trouble and ride in the surf and drop his bike in ocean and it was neverdirty, there was others to when JACK NICLESON was made a hells angel he was COOL!! And I did like MICKEY ROURKE in HARLEY DAVIDSON AND MARLBORO MAN!! COOL!! And STONE COLD that was bad *** too, but when are they going to make a JAP bike movie? sorry (METRIC) what Horse CHIT!!
OH thats right they did make TOURQE totally believable, hell I like the bad guys on the HARLEYS!
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OH thats right they did make TOURQE totally believable, hell I like the bad guys on the HARLEYS!
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