I saw that movie! With (the late)Robert Urich and it was called Ice Pirates. "Show me the color of your water, Pilgrim..."
“I saw that movie! With (the late)Robert Urich and it was called Ice Pirates. “Show me the color of your water, Pilgrim...””
Thanks! That was funny. I had the honor of scaring off Mr. Urich one fine day when I was in my thirties...I owned an office building in Salt Lake City and rented space to the production company doing a tv series (can’t remember the name right now...only lasted one season) and Mr. Urich was the star. He drove a red HD motorcycle cross country with his son whom he was trying to re-establish a relationship with. Anyway, they had weekly bad guys on the show. To get the “bad guys” they auditioned at their offices...hundreds of really rough guys came to audition. Then the production company bosses were surprised when they began being broken into weekly and having expensive equipment stolen.
In order to keep the good tenant I and a friend staked out the building one weekend and saw three guys we didn’t recognize enter their office area. We walked around the building...I had an axe handle and my friend had a baseball bat. Mr. Urich happened to be driving up at that moment and caught the look on our faces as we were prepared for battle and he quickly fled the area. I am sure I would have done the same in his shoes...he really could not afford to take a chance on getting injured cause it would have affected the series adversely. Oh, and the guys who entered the building ended up being employees of the production company we had never seen before. After that they asked me several times to play a bad guy...I am too shy though... :) Urich seemed to be a really decent man, sorry he left us early.