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Valere Oscar® Winner	O.K. Movie fans-watchimg In Harm's Way(AGAIN) on AMC. In the fiest scenes,when Tom Tyron goes up to the piano player to tell him to change the tune...The piano player looks a lot like Jerry with a short haircut!Can anyone re-wind and slo-mo and tell us IF it's true? I challenge you! Go for it!
posted 03-27-2000 05:46 PM PT (US)

dantoris Oscar® Winner	According to IMDB.com, that is Jerry. He's also in Gremlins somewhere, and plays a yogurt customer in Gremlins 2 who's line is, "What is that? A rat?"
posted 03-27-2000 05:56 PM PT (US)

Valere Oscar® Winner	I thought so. I have always come in late on this show,and looked for him in the bar fight scene with Kirk and the Air Corps boys.Thank You,Dantoris!
posted 03-27-2000 06:04 PM PT (US)

dantoris Oscar® Winner	ARGH! I just realized I saw part of this movie less than twenty minutes ago. I think I had already missed his scene, but if I had known what movie it was, I would've watched for him. Oh, well. Guess I'll have to go out and try to rent it now. Along with Gremlins 1 and 2. He's cameo in the first has no dialogue.
posted 03-27-2000 06:11 PM PT (US)

Chris Kinsinger Oscar® Winner	Yeah, Jerry is the piano player in "In Harm's Way". In "Gremlins", he's at the inventor's convention that papa Peltzer goes to. He's wearing a huge cowboy hat, and he's only on-screen for a moment. Also in the background of that scene is a guy sitting in the original "Time Machine" from the George Pal film, and he vanishes in a puff of smoke. I read somewhere that it's Steven Spielberg, but I don't know for sure.
posted 03-27-2000 06:31 PM PT (US)

dantoris Oscar® Winner	No, no, no!! Spielberg passes by in a wheelchair - right in front of the camera - when the father is in the pay-phone. You can clearly see it's Stevey. I believe it's the same scene when Robbie the Robot waddles by. Also, he makes an appearance in both JP movies. In Jurassic Park, he's the worker with the shovel who pauses as Gennaro (the lawyer) and the other man walk up towards the mine. He's wearing a sort of dark pink shirt and a black or blue hat. In The Lost World, when we see the first shot of the television at the end in Malcolm's apartment, you can see Spielberg's reflection on the screen, sitting on the couch with the actors and eating popcorn with the little girl. When we cut to reverse angle, notice the empty space between Malcolm's daughter and Julianne Moore. See? You learn something new everyday. And I assume you've all seen Spielberg in The Blues Brothers? [This message has been edited by dantoris (edited 27 March 2000).]
posted 03-27-2000 06:49 PM PT (US)

Thor Oscar® Winner	You know, I've been trying hard as hell to spot the Steve reflection in that last LOST WORLD scene, but I cannot seem to make it. Maybe I should get new glasses...
posted 03-29-2000 05:28 AM PT (US)

dantoris Oscar® Winner	It is hard to see when you're first looking for it, but I believe it is the very first shot of the television. If you can see the reflections of the others, then you should be able to see him. (It helps to pause, also, as the shot doesn't last that long). Good luck.
posted 03-29-2000 10:31 AM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	That "Gremlins 2" cameo is great! I think I noticed Spielberg in "Lost World", although I've only seen it once (and was quite shocked at how bad it was). I think Spielberg and Lucas are both supposed (or at least one of them) to be on the airport in "Indy 2". Dantoris, I've seen "Blues Brothers" several times, but I always forgot to look for Spielberg - where is he?? I've only heard short excerpts of the isolated score on my "Alien" DVD yet, but at one point I heard a voice - is that Jerry? NP: Nothing, "Angela's Ashes" just stopped.
posted 03-29-2000 04:08 PM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	Oh, and isn't Spielberg in the first "Gremlins", as well? NP: The Lost World (Williams, great)
posted 03-29-2000 04:10 PM PT (US)

Thor Oscar® Winner	Marian: Spielberg is the clerk at the very end of the BLUES BROTHERS movie. He's telling them that they've closed, but they burst in and lift him on to the desk (as far as I remember) seconds before they turn around and stare into an army of shotgun barrels. I remember being amazed as to how short Spielberg actually is (seeing how gigantic he is in the industry!)
posted 03-31-2000 06:23 AM PT (US)

dantoris Oscar® Winner	Appearing in Blues Brothers was a favor he did for the director, John Landis. Marian - in Gremlins (as I said above), Spielberg passes by in a wheelchair - right in front of the camera - when the father is in the pay-phone. You can clearly see it's Stevey. I believe it's the same scene when Robbie the Robot waddles by. He's also supposed to be Temple of Doom, as a passenger at the airfield where Indy and the others board Lao Che's cargo plane.
posted 03-31-2000 10:02 AM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	dantoris: Didn't realize you were talking about Gremlins. However, the one from Temple of Doom is the one I mentioned, so it's 1:1 between us. Guess I have to get the Blues Brothers DVD... NP: Anton Bruckner: Symphony #7 (Günter Wand/Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester; wonderful)
posted 03-31-2000 01:37 PM PT (US)

Valere Oscar® Winner	Look for Dan Akroyd in Temple of Doom as the dispatcher who escorts Indy and Co. to the plane,informing him that he will have ride with a cargo of live poultry.
posted 03-31-2000 03:07 PM PT (US)

dantoris Oscar® Winner	I didn't mention him cause I figured that was a cameo most of us would know about. You can't really make out his face, but once you know about his cameo and you listen to voice, you know it's him.
posted 03-31-2000 03:10 PM PT (US)

Audacity Oscar® Winner	I thought that was Frank Oz who the Blue's Brothers lift up onto the desk? Speilberg's cameo comes earlier in the film doesn't it? Audacity
posted 04-03-2000 08:00 AM PT (US)

Thor Oscar® Winner	No, that's actually Spielberg, Audacity. Was he really that unrecognizable?
posted 04-03-2000 09:19 AM PT (US)

Valere Oscar® Winner	Frank Oz is at the beginning of The Blues Brothers. He is the officer who discharges Jake from the pen. Spielburg's part comes late at the end.
posted 04-03-2000 09:43 AM PT (US)

dantoris Oscar® Winner	Frank Darabont also pops up in Vampires, as the guy who pulls into the gas station, only to have his Cadillac swiped by Daniel Baldwin and James Woods. And it's his Cadillac, also.
posted 04-03-2000 10:12 AM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	John Landis turns up a lot, sometimes in really unexpected places, e.g. PSYCHO IV (an INSANELY bad movie, by the way). I thought Spielberg was entirely, obviously recognizable in THE BLUES BROTHERS (I wasn't even expecting him, so it made me sit WAY up.)
posted 04-03-2000 11:13 AM PT (US)

dantoris Oscar® Winner	Anybody remember George Lucas and his line in Beverly Hills Cop 3? "Hey!"
posted 04-03-2000 11:18 AM PT (US)

Nicolai P. Zwar Oscar® Winner	Indeed, Frank Oz is the poor guy who has to hand John Belushi a used condom. There are usually a lot of cameos in Joe Dante's and John Landis' movies, too many to count them all. NP: John Williams: Violin Concerto London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin Violin: Mark Peskanov (Varese Sarabande)
posted 04-03-2000 11:51 AM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	Frank Oz also appears in that horrible "Blues Brothers" sequel. According to the IMDb, in many of John Landis' movies, you can hear an announcer (at an airport, e.g.) calling for a "Frank O..." (don't know how to spell Frank Oz' real name right now). NP: The Empire Strikes Back (words fail)
posted 04-03-2000 12:26 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	I didn't see BEVERLY HILLS COP 3 ... Lucas actually agreed to do that? Wow! You all know how Landis has this fetish for casting as many directors in cameos in his movies as possible. He really went over the top with this for INTO THE NIGHT (everyone from Amy Heckerling to David Cronenberg is in that one), but my favorite cameos might be those in the underrated INNOCENT BLOOD -- remember Dario Argento as the EMT in the ambulance? Hysterical ... (I've met Argento briefly in person, he's really a sweet guy.) And Frank Oz biting off the end of the thread he's using to sew up the dead guy ... bleaaah, hysterical! (Oz in THE BLUES BROTHERS: "One new ... one SOILED.") NP: end title rerecording of THE SWARM, from "Towering Inferno and Other Disaster Classics," conducted with no small panache by Joel McNeely. [This message has been edited by H Rocco (edited 03 April 2000).]
posted 04-03-2000 12:31 PM PT (US)

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