DeTomaso Mailing List: September 97, Message #70
     



From: Mike Cox  <mc2@elsegundoca.ncr.com>

Subject: Re: Panteras on the Screen

Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 15:56:43 -0700 (PDT)



The Kurt Russel character used the tips from the monkey to make the

network number one. For this he won an Emmy type award for being the

TV man of the year - the network gave him the Mangusta at the same

time (they didn't know about the monkey yet...). They gave him the car

either at the awards show or at the party right after the show. Our

first look at the car was a close up of the DeTomaso logo on the grill,

the camara then panned back to show the passanger side of the car.

The car might have been on a rotating platform, I can't remember. 

Later in the show when he was talking about his success he mentioned

receiving "a DeTomaso" along with the nice apartment and money. The

only other scene I remember seeing the car in was after the other TV

executives found out about the monkey the decided to send it back to

the jungle, Kurt drove up to the airport in the 'Goose. 



I don't know if I would say the car was in the story line, but it was

kind of cool when it appeared in the scenes it was in...



   --mike



>                       RE>>Panteras on the Screen (fwd)             9/2/97

> 

> Did they give the Mangusta to the "barefoot executive" in the story, or =

> was it personally to Kurt Russel??  So the car is in the story line?

> 

> Steve

> 

> --------------------------------------

> Date: 8/31/97 22:32

> To: Steve Liebenow

> From: Mike Cox

> I was watching "The Barefoot Executive" on Disney just last week,

> (the original from '69 or '70 with Kurt Russel) and he was given

> a Mangusta after he made the network number one in ratings. 

> 

>           --mike                   | "Nothing is ever really broken,

> michael.cox@elsegundoca.ncr.com    8  it just lacks duct tape."

>          '71 #1739                 |  Tim Nyberg - "The Duct Tape Book"



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