Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Landlord Allegedly "Paid Biker Gang to Drive Tenants Out" of Brooklyn Apartment Building So It "Could Be Used More Profitably." Gee, Never Heard of that Plot Before...




...Except, come to think of it, that was the storyline of just about every other episode of one of my favorite old TV series of the '80s, "The A-Team" (the other half of the episodes involved the Team somewhere in Central or South America taking on slimeballs down there)...

Many love to dismiss the "The A-Team" (including the very producers of the colossal film flop of the A-Team "remake" (in name only) from a few years ago) as an archaic, "campy" treatment of the Good Guys beating the living shit out of the slimeballs.  But maybe, the concept ain't quite so dated.  The scuzjobs are out there -- always will be -- and methinks them poor Brooklyn tenants (link below) could've really used to have hired the likes of The A-Team.  Does Mr. Lee still run that Chinese laundry joint down on West 45th?

http://newyorkpost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/bikers_make_life_hells_Vl8PQ8DuTBRuUMckioqcPP

Postscript:  The best current throwback to '80s shows such as the "The A-Team" would be Reelz Network's "True Justice," starring Steven Seagal (and rest of cast pictured below), which I believe still has two Friday night episodes left in its current season.  "True Justice" (much like the The A-Team) ain't to be taken too seriously, but it sure is a fun show to watch, mostly for Seagal's karate-chopping exploits on the sleazejobs, not to mention his sidekick Canadian hotties Sarah Lind and Meghan Ory.