The Zodiacs. He also wanted an initial subtitle which read "Sometime in the future" but Paramount thought it sounded too much like Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). Cyrus (Roger Hill) is the leader of a very powerful very well-organised gang known as the Gramercy Riffs. Published on October 31, 2018 01:52 PM. Debra Lynn Winger is an American actress. Suddenly one of the Lizzies bolt locks the door. A Special Kind of Love. As such, this film debuted in February, 1979, with The Wanderers (1979) released in July. The Plainsmen. Debra Winger evidently enjoyed a reputation as one of the most "difficult" actresses in 1980s Hollywood. And I noticed a very young Debra Winger Girl in prom dress. According to the film's composer Barry De Vorzon, the picture was the first movie, bar the film's closing song, to feature an entire music score of synthesized rock 'n' roll music. 466K views 4 years ago In honor of her Clubhouse debut, actress Debra Winger plays Plead the Fifth with Andy Cohen where she's asked about misogyny in Hollywood, Shirley MacLaine and her famous. The Saratogas. Debra Winger actress, producer Born May 16, 1955 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA Mary Debra Winger was born May 16, 1955 in Cleveland, Ohio, to Ruth (Felder), an office manager, and Robert Jack Winger, a meat packer. James Remar ,David Patrick Kelly, Sonny Landham and Marcelino Snchez all appeared in 48 Hrs. Apparently, no attention was paid to train markings, which varied considerably and were often unrelated to the actual routes traveled on. Interesting enough, David Harris (Cochise) and Cleon (Dorsey Wright) both would up working for the NY City Subway System. In fact the two female prom cast members are Gwynn Press and Jodi Price. A movie star does those things, but they also have to go out and promote their movie, convincing talk show audiences that their new project is the greatest film ever made. She was in Urban Cowboy after The Warriors came out and French Postcards just before The Warriors came out and in both of those she's typical Debra Winger. The Warriors is the story of a gang from Coney Island, that has been invited - along with all the other gangs of New York - to Van Cortlandt Park across the city in the Bronx see Cyrus, known as the "One and only". The Shanghai Sultans. [8] At age 18, after returning to the U.S., she was involved in a car accident and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage; as a result, she was left partially paralyzed and blind for 10 months, initially being told that she would never see again. The Charlemagnes. It was later reported that Winger dropped out of the film because she refused to work with Madonna, whom Winger did not consider a serious actress. The Mongols. She was a star in the 1980s and 1990s, appearing in big films like An Officer and A Gentleman, Terms of Endearment, and Leap of Faith. According to a New York profile of Winger, she stood on a road in Ireland and announced to her soon-to-be-husband, "That's it, I'm done." Actual gang members wanted to challenge some of the cast members but were dealt with by production security. The Huks. In 1982 she co-starred with Nick Nolte in Cannery Row and with Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Not only did she celebrate turning 65 this May, but she also has a new movie coming out later this year. The original opening of the film (which can be viewed on the Ulimate Edition DVD) was set in Coney Island during the daytime which Cleon's girlfriend says goodbye to Cleon and also features the rest of the gang being told by Cleon why they were chosen to go to the big meeting. The film's added-on opening prologue for the DVD Director's Cut edition of the movie states: "Battle of Cunaxa 401 BC. Although Beck never openly expressed regret for accepting Xanadu, he is quoted saying "The Warriors opened a lot of doors for me in film, which Xanadu then closed." She walked away in 1995, married her Wilder Napalm co-star Arliss Howard in 1996, had her second child (a son named Babe) in 1997, and moved to New York City along the way, you know, for good measure. (Felder), an office manager, and Robert Jack Winger, a meat packer. Throughout production, the cast was regularly subjected to taunts, harassment and threats from real gang members who were observing the filming. Definitely not Debra. Good luck.'". [21], In 2013 Winger starred in three episodes of In the Woods,[22] the first installment of Jennifer Elster's multimedia, experimental film series The Being Experience, also including Terrence Howard, Dave Matthews, Rufus Wainwright, Karen Black, Will Shortz, Liya Kebede, Questlove, Famke Janssen, Moby, Gale Harold, Paz de la Huerta, Jorgen Leth, Rosie Perez, Aubrey de Grey, and Alan Cumming.[23]. One of the "Punks" in the men's room brawl is Craig R. Baxley. He is the one who gets thrown into a toilet stall upside down. reply share [-] duckofprey 6 years ago Not her. There were 3 actors in the movie that were also in 48 hours. "I was trying to stand up to it. The Jesters. [19], Winger earned an Emmy Award nomination for her title role as the mother of a Columbine shooting victim in the 2005 television film Dawn Anna, directed by Arliss Howard. Swan was to be abducted by a homosexual and sadomasochistic gang who had doberman pinschers. "But I was horrified to see it edited with a chainsaw. After making a splash as Sissy in the 1980 mega-hit Urban Cowboywith John Travolta, Winger romanced Richard Gere in 1982'sAn Officer and a Gentlemanand tore filmgoers' hearts out in the Best Picture-winning 1983 flickTerms of Endearment. So the scene features real gang members as well as real (and unknown) cops. And then she more or less disappeared from the film industry. The Imps. The main reason why this opening was cut was because the editors told Walter Hill that the scene completely fell through because it set in the daytime (95% of the film is set in nighttime) and they felt it wouldn't work since it would cut to nighttime and it was a distraction. Then in 1980 came another New York gang movie, John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981). She has also compared John Malkovich, her co-star in the 1990 drama The Sheltering Sky, to "a catwalk model," and called her An Officer and a Gentleman partner Richard Gere "a brick wall," as noted by The Telegraph. So if you come across the rare TV series or movie with Debra Winger in it, tread carefully if it scares her, it might scare you. President Ronald Reagan was a fan of the film, even calling the film's lead actor, Michael Beck, to tell him he had screened it at Camp David and enjoyed it. Instead, the entertainment industrycaters to what it thinks a target audience of young men want to see. He did go on to work a respectable film and TV career, however he would never again be cast as a leading man, playing only supporting characters. That is false information. But Winger. Along with Winger, the project, led by Jennifer Elster, also starred such disparate individuals as Terrence Howard, Rosie Perez, Marlo Thomas, Alan Cumming, Temple Grandin, and Yoko Ono. When Barbara Walters interviewed Bette Davis in 1986, Davis said, "I see a great deal of myself in Debra Winger.". It is listed on Debra Winger's wikipedia page, but not imdb. A mix up in names occurs during the end credits. In a new interview with the Telegraph , Winger explained that she actually trained for several months with the Chicago Cubs - but stepped away from the project when the "Like a Prayer" singer . version, the knife that is thrown into the board was thrown (off camera) by Penn Jillette. 1,000 extras were used at the big meeting, many coming from Riverside Drive Park. Cannery Row. She was cast in A League of Their Own but dropped out and was replaced by Geena Davis. The Baseball Furies were all around 30 or older and from Stunts Unlimited. James Remar earned his role as Ajax after becoming so involved in the audition reading of the park bench scene that he lifted the massive table around which the director and producers were seated. She might have appeared on TV more in Wonder Woman, but Winger had a vow to keep to herself and worried being on a show would interrupt her momentum. The Firetasters. She was rushed to hospital at 3am for stitches and still has a scar. In order to get the movie out before rival "gang" film The Wanderers (1979), post-production on this picture employed three editing teams in three editing suites, who worked around the clock to finish the film. That is false information. Yeah, like the trivia sections on IMDB are never wrong. The Gladiators. Crew members were sent death threats because local gangs weren't cast. The main gang in this film, it was not the name of the main gang in Sol Yurick's source novel where the main gang was called "The Dominators" aka "The Coney Island Dominators". Cyrus (Roger Hill) is the leader of a very powerful very well-organised gang known as the Gramercy Riffs. The Meatpackers. check it out..The brunette resembles her a little, definitively NOT her http://youtu.be/K9c4hCJZhx8. The original poster featured the logo as well as a picture of several tough looking gang members. The movie uses a plot device favored by Walter Hill where the leader of a group is eliminated in the first act, and the unity and security of the team is thrown into disarray by the loss of its head. But the wild tales of their momentous lives can excite even off of the big screen. The picture's opening credits title cards and the film's movie poster title logo featured font lettering in the form of graffiti paint. The Boppers. The Big Trains. Winger starred as a series regular in the Netflix original television series The Ranch (20162020). This is done by placing a piece of tape over the optical soundtrack. The Red Hook Shooters. As she's listed in the movie though so she is in that movie what she played is yet to be seen she very well could be that PromGirl. Her last credit before stepping away from Tinsel Town was the 1995 . When Cochise, Rembrandt and Vermin are fleeing the cops at the train station, they run past a bearded man with a blue sweater and flat cap and who comforts his girlfriend. Their son, Gideon Babe Ruth Howard (known as Babe), was born in 1997. Now, the Warriors have to fight their way back to Coney Island while being hunted by all the other gangs of New York. From 2016 to 2020, Winger starred opposite Sam Elliott and Ashton Kutcher in the Netflix multi-cam comedy The Ranch. The choreographed fight with the Punks in the men's room took 5 days (8pm to 7am) to shoot. She is a really bad shot and the trio all manage to escape by smashing through the door. The chick in the Warriors SLIGHTLY resembles in her left eye and really nothing else. Oh, Debra Winger. The dialogue from the scene in which The Warriors are discussing their strategy to get back to Coney Island and question the status of the truce after Cyrus's murder is featured as the lead-in to the 1992 song "Wrong Side of the Tracks" by the Brooklyn-based hardcore metal band Biohazard. Van Valkenburgh became irritated because they noticed they had reached a point where they were out of the cameras' ranges. [30], In 2010, Winger was co-executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Gasland. The family moved to California when Debra was five. The travel route the Warriors gang must travel all through the night to get back home went from The Bronx through Manhattan and Brooklyn, and finally to Coney Island. The Lizzies. Michael Beck's next leading man role was the 1980 fantasy musical film Xanadu, in which he co-starred with Olivia Newton John. The Howitzers. Her maternal grandparents called her Mary, while her parents called her Debra (her father named her Debra after his favorite actress, Debra Paget ). Where did you go, Debra Winger? Her first role came as Debbie in Slumber Party 57. Her next role was as Diana Prince's younger sister Drusilla (Wonder Girl) in three episodes of ABC's TV series Wonder Woman. The crowd panics and Luther begins screaming that the Warriors did it, The Warriors shot Cyrus. According to the filmmakers on the Ultimate Edition DVD, the film was going to be a big hit after the movie was #1 at the box office charts despite negative reviews from critics (it earned $3.5 million in its opening weekend). The leader's face paint clearly influenced Marilyn Manson, since he looks like Marilyn Manson in a baseball uniform. The Blackjacks. It's really exciting.". She is from a Jewish family (originally from Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire). In 1998, Winger starred in the American Repertory Theater production of Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive, and she followed it up with a role in Anton Chekhov's classic Ivanov. However, these are based on controversies; as in 2008 . Michael Beck was discovered by Walter Hill when Hill was watching the movie Madman (1978), which Beck co-starred in with a then less-famous Sigourney Weaver. Some crowd members were forcibly removed from set. In 1995, Winger performed in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True, a television musical performance of the popular 1939 MGM film at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund. The Warriors chick is heavier too. As a writer friend of mine said, Legal Eagles is the kind of film that takes audiences and shakes them up until $6 falls out of their pockets. Peggy Sue is one of Kathleen Turner's most famous roles - but the film's original director, Jonathan Demme, initially cast Debra Winger in the role. They insisted on placing undercover officers throughout the crowd to handle any disturbances. "I got sick of hearing myself say I wanted to quit," Winger said. However, financing fell though and Gordon was able to get The Warriors funded by Paramount Pictures. In the subway where Mercy is running with Fox's double, she fell and broke her wrist because the actor didn't let go of her hand. The scene was actually shot in Riverside Park, on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The Eighth Street Bombers / The Eighth Avenue Apaches. The Warriors aimed to create a "tribal feeling of going into battle together, of loyalty, of support and shared goals" and to have "the audience's sympathy as they fight off all the other gangs in the city". The peace talks unified rival gang members to the point that peaceful block parties were held to dissolve turf boundaries. The Napoleons. She starred in the films An Officer and a Gentleman, Terms of Endearment, and Shadowlands, each of which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Sheehan had never roller skated and spent the summer of 1978 teaching himself to skate which included a 25 mile journey on skates between White Plains and Mt. Walter Hill says of this film on his 2005 DVD introduction: "At the very beginning, I said [that] to do this properly and to do the vision of the novel, it really only makes sense if you do it all black and Hispanic. Why does that sound familiar? Waites is not in the final credits because he demanded that his name be removed. David Patrick Kelly played practically the same sort of menacing character as Sully in 1985's Commando, alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger. The filmmakers had Mercy disappear from the film for a while, meeting up with the Warriors at the subway platform and saying that she stole the jacket she was wearing before arriving there. 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