Marla Heasley Movies
- 1988
- R
This cliché-ridden car-racing feature doesn't even get off the blocks. The unshaven villains have greasy hair and black T-shirts, while the clean-shaven good guys are blonde and sport light-colored action wear. Andrea (Marla Heasley) invents a revolutionary new car engine and goes to the Charlotte Motor Speedway to try it out. She meets driver Al Pagura (Joseph Bottoms), and the two fall in and out of love. George Kennedy plays the heavy, and somewhere an underdeveloped plot about racetrack corruption appears. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Joseph Bottoms, Marc Singer, (more)
Soldiers-of-fortune Hannibal Smith (George Peppard), B.A. (Mr. T), Howling Mad Murdock (Dwight Schultz) and Face (Dirk Benedict) continue to fight crime and perform various and sundry acts of derring-do while simultaneously trying to clear themselves of criminal charges as The A-Team launches its third season. With the Team's erstwhile female assistant Amy Allen having left for parts unknown, Amy's function as "Girl Friday" is taken over by Tawnia Baker (Marla Heasley). Also, season three will be the last for semi-regular William Lucking in the role of the Team's ruthless pursuer, Col. Lynch; thereafter, our heroes will be keeping one step ahead of another colonel, Roderick Decker (Lance Le Gault), on a near-exclusive basis. The season opens with the tantalizingly titled "Bullets and Bikinis," in which the A-Team takes over a beachfront hotel in order to foil a mobster. In subsequent adventures, the team heads to the Amazon in hopes of rescuing Tawnia's archeologist fiancé; B.A. agrees to help the Army doctor who once saved his life in the doctor's efforts to rescue the residents of a tropical island from a band of brigands; a group of A-Team impostors wreak havoc at a Wild West show forcing the real team to blow its cover and nearly fall into the waiting hands of Col. Lynch; a damsel in distress (Markie Post) proves to be a real pain in the posterior for her rescuer, Face; the heroes go toe-to-toe with evil industrialists who plan to dump toxic waste in an endangered environment; and in the final episode of the season, the A-Team and Decker's minions have a showdown at a lakeside resort. ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- George Peppard, Mr. T, (more)
- 1984
In the first episode of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour "special"), Barry Van Dyke plays Brian Leftcourt, archaeologist boyfriend of journalist Tawnia Baker (Marla Heasley). When Brian disappears during an expedition through the Brazilian rain forest, Tawnia persuades the A-Team to go to his rescue. Despite the strong possibility that if the snakes and monkeys don't get 'em, the malaria will, the Team agrees to this assignment. In due time, our heroes (and heroine) run afoul of a fierce river pirate known as "The Coffin" (Sergio Calderon)--but he isn't the real villain of the piece! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Neil Simon forgoes his typical urban East Coast kvetchers and replaces them with sunny Californian kvetchers in The Marrying Man, a film which became a beacon of gossip in 1991 due to the alleged shenanigans of stars Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger), who fell in love during production. Simon based his script on a true story concerning the love affair between shoe tycoon Harry Karl and actress Marie (The Body) McDonald during the 1950s. Married to each other four times, McDonald still managed to carry on an affair with mobster Bugsy Siegel. In this Simon-ized version, Baldwin plays Charley Pearl, a sharp and handsome Hollywood millionaire, engaged to Adele Horner (Elisabeth Shue), the daughter of dyspeptic movie studio executive Lew Horner (Robert Loggia). The day before their wedding, Charley heads off to Las Vegas for a bachelor party, and in a sleazy casino on the outskirts of town, he sets his eyes on sexy singer Vicki Anderson (Basinger) and falls for her hard. He wants her immediately and even though she warns him she's the property of Bugsy Siegel (Armand Assante), he crawls into her bedroom window to be with her. Caught with his pants down by Siegel, Bugsy, instead of killing him, forces him to marry Vicki ("I was about to dump her anyway," he says). But after their marriage, Charley and Vicki discover they're more attracted to the danger of their relationship than in each other. Charley's friends -- Phil (Paul Reiser), Sammy (Fisher Stevens), Tony (Peter Dobson), and George (Steve Hytner) -- form a Greek chorus commenting on the crazed love affair and are reportedly inspired by Phil Silvers, Sammy Cahn, Tony Martin, and Leo Durocher. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Kim Basinger, Alec Baldwin, (more)
