Today I learned: The Running Man was directed by Starsky from Starsky and Hutch

'Today I learned' is our semi-regular feature where we post odd little factoids and snippets of old news that you probably already knew, thereby revealing how little we actually know about films. Look we're just trying to expand our horizons here, alright?

I'll make this brief because the headline covers the majority of the article really. After playing Detective David Starsky and a handful of other roles in the '70s and '80s, Paul Michael Glaser assumed the position behind the camera, directing several fairly well-known films - one of which was classic Arnie quip-fest The Running Man. Which means Glaser was responsible for scenes like these:







Yes this was an excuse to post clips of The Running Man.

Unfortunately Glaser's feature-length directorial career was short-lived, going on to shoot only three more films before returning to TV from whence he came. These included rubbish inspirational Kevin Bacon b-ball flick The Air Up There, and the rubbish Kazaam - which featured Shaquille O'Neal as a rapping genie who lived in a stereo. So maybe it wasn't so unfortunate after all.

Unexpected Hollywood connections are nothing unsual. Leonard Nimoy directed Three Men And A Baby for example, and Matt Salinger - the '90s Captain America who made his debut in Revenge Of The Nerds - was the son of Catcher in the Rye author J. D. Salinger. Musician Nick Cave scripted a sequel to Gladiator at the behest of Russell Crowe - a fact Ali brought up at a pub quiz once, drawing a collective "fuck off!" from our entire team.

Anyway, no real point to this, just wanted to share a nice bit of trivia I picked up whilst watching Ben Richards shove a chainsaw up Buzzsaw's plums.