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thom_rafferty
Now I live in western New York with my wife since 1981, our one twenty something daughter, our four teenage sons and our one baby daughter. We`re still Catholic.
I work at the County Landfill, am an Army Reservist, a Boy Scout Leader, and now have a hobby of screenwriting. My wife says it`s my mid-life crisis.
My email address is [email protected]
POST 9/11 UPDATE
In 2002, I was in Afghanistan from April 18th to December 16th as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. The hardest part of the deployment was the dust crashing our computers like the microbes killing the Martians in
"War of the Worlds".
I didn't fight terrorists but I did get to go to a Buzkashi game (the one with the headless goat) and teach Afghan children "The Itsy Bitsy Spider".
Maybe I'll write it all up in a screenplay. How about "Laptop Down"?
Reviews
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988)
Heather Thomas Can Act
I just watched Heather Thomas in "The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission" a 1988 made for TV movie. If you want to watch a movie where Heather shows plenty of skin, this isn't it. She's never out of uniform. But if you like action films with lots of things blowing up, you may like it. This is Heather's best acting performance, at least that I've seen.
The basic plot is that the Nazis are sending twelve men under thirty who are bright, talented and loyal to the Reich to the via the Orient Express ti the Middle East with a long term (decades maybe) mission of starting a Fourth Reich in case they lose the war. The mission of the Dirty Dozen will be to kill them.
Heather plays Lieutenant Carol Campbell, a military intelligence officer and daughter of a career foreign service officer who traveled extensively in eastern Europe. She starts out in the movie working for Ernest Borgnine, who is a General with oversight on Telly Sevales, leader of The Dirty Dozen. She drives Bornine into the military prison right after Sevales fails to recruit Joe Stern, played by Hunt Block, long-time soap opera star (he's still on "Guiding Light"). As Sevales takes a walk with Borgnine, Block sits up from the potatoes he's peeling and takes a good look at Heather. Heather goes over to talk to him. He joins the team. They fall in love.
There is a plot hole and a nitpick in the film involving Heather. She is with Sevales during a raid in the opening scene. But when she volunteers to join The Dirty Dozen, he acts like she's never worked for him before and tries to talk her out of it. Also, Heather does double duty as Borgnine's driver. An officer wouldn't have that job. The producers probably were just trying to get her into more scenes.
So, good job on the acting, Heather. But couldn't the writers have put in a shower scene somewhere?