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

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)