Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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Meta Marquee: in which you see people in movies or television shows and also a marquee showing the title of something else they appeared in. More or less. There will be some miscellaneous meta moments and some other interesting but still "meta" uses of marquees.

META MARQUEE


Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry (1971) & Play Misty For Me (1971)

The movie Aliens (1986) on the marquee in the movie Near Dark (1987). Both movies star Lance Henriksen and Bill Paxton.

And Near Dark director Kathryn Bigelow would marry Aliens director James Cameron a couple of years after this.


John Cusack in Say Anything (1989) & Tapeheads (1988)

James Glickenhaus's The Exterminator (1980) in James Glickenhaus's The Soldier (1982)

James Glickenhaus's The Exterminator (1980) and James Glickenhaus's The Soldier (1982) in James Glickenhaus's Shakedown (1988)

Cannon Group movie Revenge of the Ninja in Cannon Group movie Exterminator 2


Joe Dante's The Howling (XI) in Joe Dante's Gremlins 2: The New Batch

MISCELLANEOUS META

Cary Grant in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

Breathless and NO RUNNING:

James Coburn in The President's Analyst (1967)

David Cronenberg in The Fly II (1989)

Mrs. Melville in London, one of the books in the fictional "Mrs. Melville" series created for the Columbo episode "Murder by the Book", is also on Jim Rockford's bookshelf and can be seen clearly in the Rockford Files episode "Rattlers' Class of '63".

Columbo: "Murder by the Book" (1971 September 15)

Columbo: "Murder by the Book" (1971 September 15)

The Rockford Files: "Rattlers' Class of '63" (1977 March 11)

The Rockford Files: "Rattlers' Class of '63" (1977 March 11)

The Rockford Files: "Rattlers' Class of '63" (1977 March 11)

Willie Colón in Vigilante, while "Triste y Vacía" from his album Vigilante plays on the car radio.



George P. Cosmatos's Of Unknown Origin in George P. Cosmatos's Leviathan.







Diane Keaton discusses The Godfather (starring Diane Keaton) with Richard Gere in Looking for Mr. Goodbar.



Joe Dante's Gremlins in Joe Dante's Gremlins 2: The New Batch