Tie a black rubber band around your beards, friends. “Captain” Lou Albano, professional wrestler, manager, actor, and, with Cyndi Lauper, occasional gas station owner/father, died today at 76. In tribute to this rotund great, let’s take a moment to “do the Mario”:

Remember that movie with the kids and pirate boat you liked to watch so much as a kid? The Goony , I believe it was called. Well, now you can see the difficulties director Richard Donner had in working with a cast of children in this 1985 making-of featurette. It looks like this film was probably Donner’s most difficult shoot until Maverick , when the white hot chemistry between Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster was surely a distraction to all involved.

I’d like to think a Goonies sequel won’t be happening anytime soon, unless Steven Spielberg, Richard Donner and the gang decide to either remake the original with new kids or create some sort of spinoff (a la Ghostbusters 3 ) with part of the original cast, a bunch of new recruits and Zac Efron as the annoying big brother. God, I think my heart stopped there for a second — but anyway, there is some interesting Goonies news, and it comes in the form of a massive cast reunion as part of Empire’s special 20th anniversary issue , which was guest edited by Steven Spielberg and hits UK stands tomorrow. Over on his blog Corey Feldman teases a whole bunch of cool goodies, like photos, interviews, videos and more. He says, “Along witha group photo of the cast , and Producers, there are exclusive one on one photos and interviews with each member of the cast. In addition there was also a lot of video shot that day. We even did a group interview on camera exclusively for Empire, where we all reminisced about the amazing times we shared together making the film, a few unheard Goonie secrets, and reflected on our collective love for the film and hopes for its future. This was a very special day for all of us. I will go more into detail about the events of the day in my next blog, but for now I would like to thank EMPIRE for giving me the right to announce this exclusively at CF.net and want to inform you that to see it all for yourselves please go to www.empireonline.com. Don’t miss this one, who knows if it will ever happen again. Hopefully it is just the start of more good Goonie things to come.” Filed under: Action , Fandom , Family Films , Newsstand , Remakes and Sequels Continue reading Feldman Teases Huge ‘Goonies’ Reunion, Possible Sequel News Permalink | Email this | Comments

I’d like to think a Goonies sequel won’t be happening anytime soon, unless Steven Spielberg, Richard Donner and the gang decide to either remake the original with new kids or create some sort of spinoff (a la Ghostbusters 3 ) with part of the original cast, a bunch of new recruits and Zac Efron as the annoying big brother. God, I think my heart stopped there for a second — but anyway, there is some interesting Goonies news, and it comes in the form of a massive cast reunion as part of Empire’s special 20th anniversary issue , which was guest edited by Steven Spielberg and hits UK stands tomorrow. Over on his blog Corey Feldman teases a whole bunch of cool goodies, like photos, interviews, videos and more. He says, “Along witha group photo of the cast , and Producers, there are exclusive one on one photos and interviews with each member of the cast. In addition there was also a lot of video shot that day. We even did a group interview on camera exclusively for Empire, where we all reminisced about the amazing times we shared together making the film, a few unheard Goonie secrets, and reflected on our collective love for the film and hopes for its future. This was a very special day for all of us. I will go more into detail about the events of the day in my next blog, but for now I would like to thank EMPIRE for giving me the right to announce this exclusively at CF.net and want to inform you that to see it all for yourselves please go to www.empireonline.com. Don’t miss this one, who knows if it will ever happen again. Hopefully it is just the start of more good Goonie things to come.” Filed under: Action , Fandom , Family Films , Newsstand , Remakes and Sequels Continue reading Feldman Teases Huge ‘Goonies’ Reunion, Possible Sequel News Permalink | Email this | Comments