TV Sports Pioneer Andy Sidaris Dies – AP/The Post
For 25 years, Andy Sidaris had a legitimate career as the lead director of ABC’s Wide World of Sports. He gave that up to create his own genre of film — Sidaris direct-to-video exploitation cinema.
The basic plots of his movies involved some former “models” wearing (and not wearing) skimpy outfits and shooting guns. Erik Estrada was usually in these movies too. If I recall correctly, you could always count on the following scenes: two female leads changing in front of each other, a pool/hot tub scene, and the appearance of a long haired guy named Shane to solve a problem and move the plot along. Film theorists often debate significance of magic Shane character in contemporary cinema.
When it came down to it, the Sidaris movies were just really, really bad, even for what they were. In high school, my friend David and I thought it was so clever to heckle this videos. Yes, we were that cool.
One would hve thought that MC Hamme would have noted the passing of illustrious filmmaker but he apparently was mourning someone else.
