Topic: Prove Me Wrong
A Rock and Roll Prove Me Wrong:
1. Ed McBain wrote "Fuzz" in 1968. The 87th Precint novel was filmed starring Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch and Yul Brynner in 1972. Later, a young woman ran out of gas in Roxbury, MA. Walking back to her car from a gas station she was set upon by a gang of black youths who doused her with the contents of the can she had just filled and set her ablaze.
According to reports, they had seen this done the week before when "Fuzz" was shown on the ABC Movie of the Week.
2. In 1981, John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate President Reagan to impress Jodie Foster. His inspiration was "taxi Driver", starring Robert DeNiro.
3. In 1984 Farrah Fawcett was in a TV movie about wife abuse called "The Burning Bed". The same night as the broadcast, a husband set his wife's bed on fire to settle a personal score.
4. In 1977 Gary Gilmore died in front of a Utah firing squad, the first man executed since the US Supreme Court had earlier struck down existing death penalty laws. Norman Mailer wrote about him in The Executioner's Song. Gilmore had once persuaded his girlfriend to join him in a suicide attempt. His inspiration was "Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult. "I'm almost glad it wasn't "Godzilla' by the same band.)
THere ya go, kids. Prove Me Wrong.
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