It’s a well-known fact that I love a good heist movie. And even better than a movie about a heist would be hearing details about a real-life heist. [Side note: The ultimate experience would be a movie about a heist gone wrong that somehow included zombies.]
Thank you, Court TV.
“Masterminds” is being broadcast every night at 9:00 Central this week. Tonight’s episode was about a cat burgular (Bill Mason) who targeted the rich and famous, relieving them of several millions of dollars worth of jewels over the course of his career. Mason’s specialty was scaling and rapelling the sides of high-rise apartments and condos in the Ft. Lauderdale area.
Among his victims over the years: Phyllis Diller, Bob Hope, Robert “Red Ships Of Spain” Goulet, and Johnny Weissmuller. Weissmuller was a one-time Olympic champion swimmer who later starred as “Tarzan”. Mason inadvertently lifted the gold medal with the rest of his valuables, but felt so bad about it that he mailed it back.
This week’s schedule is leading up to next week’s premier of “Impossible Heists“. From what I can tell, it’s somewhat in the vein of Fear Factor, but without the eating of the cow’s anuses and the sitting in the box of maggots and things. I’ll wait patiently for Chuck’s review.
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Robert Goulet, the man Time magazine once mentioned.
Robert Goulet: Where is my hat?
Ken Goulet: Is THIS the hat you were looking for?
Ah, Red Ships of Spain. What more can be said? OK, just one more.
Sandra Pelton of the San Francisco Chronicle writes: “I don’t think this legally qualifies as theater.”
Did anybody else think Will Ferrell put a lot of Goulet in Ron Burgandy when he did Anchorman? That was one of my first impressions when I saw the movie.
Posted March 7, 2005 at 11:26 pm by Jim .