Natalie Cole died somewhere in there. Then there was Alan Rickman, who was just too good to have been in any of the movies I would write about.
Then there was Dan Haggerty, then Blowfly, the drummer for Mott the Hoople, the drummer for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, that one wrestler, and Glenn Frey.
Let's talk about Haggerty.
Dan Haggerty rose to fame on network television in the late 1970s as Grizzly Adams, a pioneer fugitive from justice who lived in the wild and communed with the animals. If you don't remember The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, you can get the general idea here.
Before TV stardom, Haggerty was in a lot of biker movies. His later career highlights include a couple horror films, such as 1989's Elves, and 2013's Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan.
I'm not sure how much I can exactly recommend this Gary Jones film, because if you took the 365 days in a year,and compressed them down to this movie's running time of 90 minutes, Haggerty makes it about as far into this movie as he did into 2016. Maybe he'll turn up in an expository flashback narrated by Joe "The Least Famous" Estevez around September.
The movie is more focused on a group of young adults who've been sentenced to a scared straight-style boot camp and wind up getting chased and killed by Paul Bunyan. It's a fun flick with a cool-looking Paul Bunyan creature and lots of hastily-made CGI. Be warned, Estevez is the best actor in it.
Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan streams on Hulu Plus and YouTube. I think it demonstrates just how difficult it is to eulogize a man who taught us that the right side of justice and the right side of the law aren't always the same thing, and that deep down, bears are decent people, too.
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