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  • There's always "Stakeout," which gets my vote for "Best Legs on a Movie Poster."

    You may ask yourself, Well, how did I get here? 2008

  • If you live in the Austin area you've probably seen Armstrong's USADA "urine detail," but if you haven't I can tell you that they shadow him in a Plymouth Reliant and they look uncannily like Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez in the 1987 film "Stakeout:"

    Gender Politics: Sex, Bikes, and Relationships BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • If you live in the Austin area you've probably seen Armstrong's USADA "urine detail," but if you haven't I can tell you that they shadow him in a Plymouth Reliant and they look uncannily like Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez in the 1987 film "Stakeout:"

    Archive 2008-11-01 BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • I've seen you on Court TV's "Stakeout," what is your track record for wins and losses.

    CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2004 2004

  • Kershner and his cameraman Haskell Wexler experimented with a mixture of cinéma vérité and narrative conventions in Stakeout On Dope Street, about a trio of youths who discover a cache of uncut heroin and try to sell it.

    Irvin Kershner obituary Ronald Bergan 2010

  • Kershner's first feature, Stakeout On Dope Street 1958, was made under the aegis of Roger Corman, who usually gained the main credit for the films he produced.

    Irvin Kershner obituary Ronald Bergan 2010

  • Still... when Stakeout has its big sawmill finale, I don't recall it seeming as forced as when Sherlock puts its characters into a fight in drydock.

    Archive 2010-01-01 The Brillig Blogger 2010

  • Still... when Stakeout has its big sawmill finale, I don't recall it seeming as forced as when Sherlock puts its characters into a fight in drydock.

    Elementary, My Dear Watson The Brillig Blogger 2010

  • Richard Dreyfuss rode that wave to fame and glory as the Academy Award–winning star of hits like American Graffiti, Jaws, The Goodbye Girl, Down & Out In Beverly Hills, and Stakeout.

    My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010

  • (Though Michael looks part-dapper, part-Emilio Estevez in Another Stakeout.)

    The Office: I THINK I CUT MY PENIS ON THE LID. | Best Week Ever 2007

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