{"id":33221,"date":"2023-07-03T07:31:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T11:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33221"},"modified":"2023-07-03T07:31:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T11:31:42","slug":"heat-1987-starring-burt-reynolds-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33221","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Heat&#8221; (1987) starring Burt Reynolds \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z070323zview_heat87.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"874\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Heat <\/strong><\/em>(1987)<\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Dick Richards, Jerry Jameson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>William Goldman <\/strong>based on his novel <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3XzlOEZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heat<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Burt Reynolds, Karen Young, <\/strong><strong>Peter MacNicol, Howard Hesseman, Diana Scarwid, Joseph Mascolo, Alfie Wise<\/strong> and <strong>Joe Klecko.<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Nick Escalante isn&#8217;t a violent man by nature. He&#8217;s just good at it. Protection is his business. Especially when it comes to his friends<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nick Escalante (Reynolds) is a Vegas bodyguard.\u00a0 When a female escort is brutalized by a mobster&#8217;s son named Danny DeMarco, Escalante agrees to help her get revenge.\u00a0 Things go sideways when the DeMarco calls in hitters to take out Escalante.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There&#8217;s a fun subplot with Peter MacNicol playing a rich, timid man who wants Escalante to teach him to be tough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Heat<\/em> was a troubled production.\u00a0 Burt Reynolds and director, Dick Richards didn&#8217;t get along.\u00a0 At one point Reynolds punched Richards, who then left the production.\u00a0 Jerry Jamison was brought in to direct until Richards eventually returned.\u00a0 Richards sued and won $500,000 from Reynold for the assault.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you&#8217;re a Burt Reynolds fan, you&#8217;ll like <em>Heat<\/em> better than nonfans since the movie gets a lot of mileage from Reynolds likeability.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Heat <\/strong><\/em>(1987) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z070323zview_heat87b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heat (1987) Director: Dick Richards, Jerry Jameson Screenplay: William Goldman based on his novel Heat Stars: Burt Reynolds, Karen Young,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33229,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33221\/revisions\/33229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}