A fun Thursday night, and two good movies to review:

Columbia TriStar's The Bedford Incident is still a solid Cold War thriller with a sting in its tale. It's a good drama too, with an excellent script from James Poe. With Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam and Eric Portman.

MGM's having itself a John Sayles party, and Return of the Secaucus 7 is his first hit independent film, a movie talked a lot in comparison to The Big Chill even though not that many people have seen it. It's better than good for a director's first work, and can boast the debut of David Strathairn among a talented cast. With Maggie Renzi.

Well, I only do this once a year, but the fact is that I only get a photo op like this once a year. I was on the job about a month ago, and people started taking pictures ... I can't say what I was working on, but ten minutes with Clint Eastwood satisfied my movie-star fan-boy needs for quite a while. Back on Saturday, Glenn Erickson