I screw I’mnot the only onemesmerized by this phenomenally random photo of the retired thirty-seventh President of the United States palling around with The Future Of Law Enforcement .
unluckily , that ’s all this range of a function has been for some time — just another fishy Hollywood tidbit that go along to zip across the Internet without credit or context . The photo is real , but digging up its historical background signal was more than a doozy .
appendage of the cast and crew were rub their heads over the extraction of the photo : One of the screenwriters mistily call up the get - together , but he drew a blank on any detail . Production coordinator Francine Taylor admit she “ honestly never get a line about it until now . ”The publicistof Paul Verhoeven ’s dystopian irony , who might have had some answers , died more than 20 years ago .
After a little more detection , the truth was eventually unearth . The 1987 Nixon - RoboCop meetup , snapped by the late great rock n ’ curl lensman Chuck Pulin , took place during a brotherly love event to promote the movie ’s release on VHS . No word news report accompanied the photo . This was simply a average - sized packaging shot that made its direction into the December 26 progeny ofBillboardmagazine . Top - left corner , Thomas Nelson Page 58 .
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Hopefully for Nixon , his appearance fee for the December effect made up for the fact that he did n’t even get to converge therealRoboCop . When ask in a recent e-mail if he ever shook ( held ? ) hands with the president , histrion Peter Weller confirmed that he “ never met him . ”
One month after the RoboCop RubOut , theNew York Timesran a follow-up of the film in a roundup of place video new releases . The January 31 point predict the “ frequently droll sci - fi thriller … the sleeper of last summertime ’s movie harvest . ” The tale also mentioned the tape ’s $ 89.98 Mary Leontyne Price tag .
This station originally appeared in 2013 .
