Veteran Israeli filmmaker Menahem Golan dies at 85
Source: AP-EXCITE
By ARON HELLER
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Menahem Golan, a veteran Israeli filmmaker who built an empire on the back of brawny men beating others senseless across a host of 1980s action films, has died in Tel Aviv. He was 85.
Throughout his long career, Golan produced more than 200 movies and directed a fourth of them. But while others attended the Cannes film festival in tuxedoes, Golan wore rainbow-colored suspenders over his T-shirts and proudly hawked a different type of fare.
It was the 1987 film "Bloodsport" that he produced that introduced American audiences to the face — and kicks — of a then-unknown Jean-Claude Van Damme. He produced Sylvester Stallone's take as a stone-faced cop in "Cobra" and later directed him as a truck-driving arm-wrestler in "Over The Top." And he produced Charles Bronson's "Death Wish" — sequels two through five.
"Schlock is entertainment for the masses," he told The Associated Press in 1985. "It's fantasy. Storytelling without challenging the mind too much."
FULL story at link.
FILE - In this May 15, 1986 file photo, from left, Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli, Israeli Producer Menahem Golan, opera singer Katia Ricciarelli and Mexican Singer Placido Domingo in Cannes, for the screening of their film "Otello" in competition in the 39th Cannes film festival. Golan, a veteran Israeli filmmaker who produced some of the biggest action movies of the 1980s, has died in Tel Aviv. He was 85. (AP Photo/Michel Lipchitz, File)
Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20140809/ml--israel-obit-menahem_golan-f68f4f19e9.html
= new reply since forum marked as read
it was a rare movie night when the Cannon splash image followed by "A Golan-Globus Production" didn't make an appearance.
It was schlock but man we used to enjoy it.
