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I was simply going to wish the actor Martin Kove, who everybody my age knows as the evil karate teacher in The Karate Kid, a happy birthday today -- he's either turning 72 or 73 depending on which year is right on IMdb (it shows both!) -- but then I stumbled on...
... this exceedingly gay scene in his Very Very Late 80s Action Flick called Steele Justice, which sees him playing John Steele, an "ex-cop and Vietnam vet who is determined to bring down Kwan, former South Vietnamese general and now rich and powerful drug lord," and I thought...
... and give this moment in the film its due. That's John's ol' "army buddy" Lee you see there, who's taken John in after another one of his ne'er-do-well scrapes -- five seconds after this scene, and I do mean five seconds later, Lee will be gunned down in the living-room of his house by the aforementioned drug lord's thugs...
I've never actually seen the whole of Steel Justice but I'm pretty sure if you put a piece of paper in front of me I could write down what happens in Steele Justice without breaking a sweat.
... that maybe I should take a
little more time, a little more effort...
... because John needs Something To Fight For, of course.
And what better thing to fight for...
... than the man you love???
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I've seen enough Steele Justices in my life to know!
Still, having grown up in the 80s I've got a
soft spot the size of Vietnam for these
cluelessly queer macho-macho muscle fests.
Especially ones that know how to wink back.
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Or maybe 72 or 73
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