It stands to reason that I would celebrate an actress who has appeared in so many of my favorite movies. Bibi Besch, born February 1, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, is probably best known for her role as Dr. Carol Marcus in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn. She starred in Steel Magnolias, Tremors, The Day After, and a guilty favorite, Meteor.
On television, she appeared in Murder She Wrote and The Six Million Dollar Man. She started her career on the daily soap opera, Secret Storm.
Unfortunately, she passed away in September 1996 from breast cancer.
My favorite movies from 1979, another year with some great films, too many to choose just one so I picked several favorites and one guilty pleasure.
Alien starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt and Veronica Cartwright. It was the first horror movie that I sat through and enjoyed. It created a monster (no pun intended) as now I enjoy horror films.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture starring everybody from the original series. We had waited so long for a movie version of our favorite television show and finally got this. Not bad but it wasn't good. I often suspect they got someone who didn't like Star Trek to write the script.
1941 starring everybody. I love this movie even though it's generally considered to be not funny. And it's the only non-science fiction movie on this list! Wow!
Walt Disney's The Black Hole starring Maximillian Schell, Yvette Mimieux, Tony Perkins and Ernest Borgnine. I think Disney tried to capitalize on the whole Star Wars trend, and this was the result. However, I like the non-Roddenberry, non-Lucas approach to space travel/exploration.
Guilty pleasure: Meteor starring Sean Connery and Natalie Wood. I know it was a huge star-studded flop but I'm a sucker for disaster movies. Now it's campy fun!
I actually enjoyed this movie, although it was panned by critics and ignored by audiences. The Oscar-nominated movie Meteor, released October 19, 1979, features a 5-mile diameter meteor "Orpheus" heading toward Earth. The U.S. and the (then) Soviet Union have to work together, using their nuclear weapon satellites in orbit to destroy the meteor before it destroys Earth. Prior to the meteor's arrival, 'splinters' hit first, destroying Hong Kong and New York City.
It had an all-star cast, including Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda, Karl Malden and Martin Landau.
