An interview with Karl Schiffman
Fascinated by Mark "Jacko" Jackson's cop film Bullet Down Under, I decided to track down its screenwriter, Karl Schiffman, for an interview. We discuss the film, the script he wrote for Roddy Piper/Billy Blanks' Back in Action and of course Billy Blanks' chest.
Back in Action (1993)
Roddy Piper joins wooden Billy Blanks. Wooden would be praise. Wood has grains and knots. In other words wood has character. Blanks is more like a muscled shirtless slab of fuming MDF. But Blanks makes up for his acting by turning Back in Action into his own kicking rampage.
Tough and Deadly (1995)
My girlfriend has a four-disc DVD set of the famed Billy Blanks Tae Bo workouts. Apparently Blanks is quite the celebrity in Japan – or at least was in the early 2000s – and she had picked up the DVDs while living there. I sat in on a few workout sessions. They were hard work,...
