he can't go to jail! he needs to make predator with a vengeance!

So now John McTiernan's caught up in the only-interesting-in-LA Anthony Pellicano (whom I first read about ten years ago in a great Spy magazine piece about the National Enquirer) wiretap investigation.

McTiernan's arguably the greatest action director of our time. Not that all his films are classics. In fact, a good handful of them (Last Action Hero, The 13th Warrior, Rollerball) are real doozies. Overall, I'd say he's batted around .300. But the good ones he's done are so good: Die Hard; Hunt For Red October; and the greatest Vietnam War movie ever, Predator. Die Hard With a Vengeance, while not brilliant, might be the greatest non-Star Wars third-in-a-trilogy.

I guess I'm not really going anywhere with this. I don't plan on starting up a vigil for the guy, won't be driving the Ford Bronco for him. If he lied to the feds, there's a penalty for that. Really, the whole point of this post was just to point out how much Mr. McT (see picture at first link) looks like Henry Gibson.

Aren't you glad I'm doing this again?