Some cars such as Green Monster and Vampire raced as dragsters (as well as also achieving or attempting land speed records). In 2006, while filming an episode for the series Top Gear, presenter and driver Richard Hammond was critically injured in a crash with the jet dragster, Vampire, that he was piloting. More modern jet dragsters such as Robert Albertson's Blazing Angel are capable of reaching over 300mph in a quarter of a mile.
FORT DOBBS â 1958. This Warner Brothers duster stars Clint Walker, Virginia Mayo and Brian Keith. Twenty minutes in and I thought I was watching a re-hash of the John Wayne classic, HONDO. Same idea, but it takes a different tact with Walker as a man running from the law for a killing.
Rick Ducommun, comedian and co-star of The Burbs and Groundhog Day. Posted Jun 18, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. Rick Ducommun, a Canadian comedian who later found big-screen success acting opposite stars like Tom Hanks and Bill Murray in Hollywood comedies, has died of diabetes complications. Ducommunâs friend and The Burbs director Joe Dante broke the news, which has been confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter. He was 58.