![]() ![]() At a Wizard World convention last year I got her autograph. It was interesting seeing Linda Blair in a role very different from the one with which she's most associated. To be certain, he often corrects her grammar. Their roles are reversed from what you might expect: he's a worldly guy while she can barely read and has no prospects in life. Martin Sheen plays an escaped mental patient who kidnaps a farm girl (Linda Blair), and the two of them develop a relationship. One of these was "Sweet Hostage", based on Nathaniel Benchley's "Welcome to Xanadu". Not only did series like "All in the Family" and "Sanford and Son" debut, but movies started getting made for TV. But the Me Decade also brought about a revolution in prime time. The 1970s brought a number of things: disco, disaster movies, and the rise of televangelists. all from a movie! I chuckle now but it was one of my favorites for years until I finally grew up and got jaded and swept away in the typical pursuits of a young man.sex, girls and fast cars! Excellent movie. ![]() I have never seen it again and hardly feel it would have any impact on me other than nostalgic but on that night far away on the Pacific Ocean, this TV movie Sweet Hostage was a godsend that I felt was meant to be shown while most the ship slept, I had a deeply spiritual experience. I was deeply moved for days and found myself wanting to do everything from go AWOL and run away to commit suicide because there was just no way I could live in the world as I saw it and Martin Sheen saw it in that movie. I found my self in tears and could hardly believe that there was someone who felt the same, even if it was a fictional movie character. I felt like and outsider and that no one understood my true self. He represented everything i was feeling and going thru. The more i saw it the more i felt completely captivated by the main character martin Sheen played. So when they showed this movie on the ships TV I was on watch and sat their mesmerized as the movie progressed. A search for self and something I could believe in. I had been going thru the usual stuff most people that age go thru. Back when i first saw this movie I was in the Navy on the USS Enterprise. ![]()
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