Amarillo Sam's Drive-In Round Up - June 21st

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Amarillo Sam's Drive-In Round Up

Sunday, June 21st, 1981

I’ve been getting a lot of letters from you guys saying: “Sam, I love your drive-in reviews and find them both entertaining, hilarious and intellectually stimulating -- but I still don’t know how to score with my date!” Well to me, it would seem like a lot of you Cadillac Cassanova’s are just simply bad at picking up signals. Like for example: when you tell your lady it’s time to quit with the front seat strep throat inspection and jump right into the Tijuana Tango before the flick starts and she, say, kicks you in the cajones, then it might be time to get refined in the fine art of subtlety.

And speaking of missing signals, we got a regular 1981 Hollywood yearbook racing across America in “The Cannonball Run”, spearheaded by the Mustached Bandit himself, Burt Reynolds. Here he reminds me of that guy who graduated years ago and can’t stop coming back to relive his glory days. “Hey, Victor, let me get this straight: you wanna pull over for a black priest in a red Ferrari?” Just more proof that race relations have come a long way. Let’s take a look under the hood:

--’Hollywood Stars’ meets ‘Death Race 2000’, with Roger Moore a poor-man’s Sly Stallone; Don DeLuise as a loony mechanic and second banana to Burt’s mustache; just about everyone filling screen time between shots of Farrah Fawcett’s legs and Adrienne Barbeau’s skin-tight jumpsuit; and most-promising newcomer Jackie Chan, who can really make a splash at the American drive-in if he would just stop getting distracted by “Behind the Green Door” and keep his eyes on the danged road!     

Sam says give it a look.