Podcast appearances and mentions of Antonio Fargas

Send us a textWell, this is the last episode of Season 4, and once again, it's been a ball of fun (and music). 4 years and still going strong – bigger and better than ever! We look back at “Knockin' on Heaven's Door” and "Rock News", as well as some of our favourite episodes.  We recall some of the albums we've listened to (before we die), some of the shows we've seen, some of the books we've bought and some of Mick's fluffs! We also talk about what we might do next year – more interviews, more covers, maybe a list or two.   So much to look forward to!  References:  Globite, Tyka Nelson, Peter Sinfield, King Crimson, Coldplay, Taylor Swift, Nick Cave in Krakow, 1001 Albums You Must Listen to Before you Die, Robert Dimery, Kevin Rowlands, PJ Harvey, musician interviews, Jarrah McCleary, Panama, Duke Dumont, “dance cry”, Nick Lowe, Buzzsprout "Send us a message”, Ed Kuepper, Thus Spake the king of Euro Disco, They Might Be Giants, Tim Freedman (The Whitlams), The Animals, Bob Mould, Crowded House, Sydney Opera House, Rockwiz, Jesus Christ Superstar, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, “Half Deaf & Completely Mad”, Tony Cohen, John Olson, “Icons of Rock”, Jenny Boyd, “Us & Them”, Mark Blake, Hipgnosis, Bowie, Scary Monsters, “Teenage Wasteland”, “Teenage Wildlife”, Clash, Joe Strummer, John Lydon, Shirley Strachan, Huggy Bear, Starsky and Hutch, Antonio Fargas, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Mi-Sex, Graffiti Crimes, 250 Greatest Guitarists, How critics get it so wrong, Rob Younger, Radio BirdmanEpisode playlist 

welcome to Funky Pearls Radio, where we celebrate the lives and legacies of those who have shaped the cultural landscape in ways that resonate far beyond their chosen fields. Today, we're diving into the story of a man whose presence on screen has left an indelible mark on the world of television and film—a true icon of the entertainment industry. This is the story of Antonio Fargas, an actor whose career spans decades, and whose characters have become cultural touchstones.Born on August 14, 1946, in New York City, Antonio Fargas was destined to make his mark on the world. Growing up in the vibrant, bustling environment of Harlem, Fargas was surrounded by a rich tapestry of cultural influences. This diverse upbringing would later inform his performances, giving him the ability to bring depth and authenticity to the characters he portrayed.Fargas's entry into the world of acting began at a young age. He made his film debut in 1963 with the movie "The Cool World," a film that set the tone for his future roles—gritty, real, and often reflective of the urban experience. But it was in the 1970s that Antonio Fargas would become a household name, thanks to his portrayal of a character that has since become legendary.In 1975, Antonio Fargas took on the role of Huggy Bear in the iconic television series "Starsky & Hutch." As the streetwise informant with a knack for being in the know, Huggy Bear was more than just a side character; he was a vital part of the show's success. With his colorful attire, quick wit, and undeniable charm, Fargas turned Huggy Bear into a cultural icon, embodying the essence of cool while providing a unique perspective on the world of crime and justice. His portrayal was so impactful that Huggy Bear remains a beloved figure in television history, a testament to Fargas's talent and charisma.Beyond "Starsky & Hutch," Antonio Fargas continued to make his mark on both the big and small screens. His roles in films like "Foxy Brown" and "Car Wash" during the blaxploitation era of the 1970s showcased his versatility as an actor, allowing him to explore different facets of the African American experience on screen. These films, often controversial and groundbreaking, positioned Fargas as a key player in a movement that challenged stereotypes and provided a platform for African American actors and stories.Throughout the 1980s and beyond, Fargas maintained a steady presence in the entertainment industry, appearing in a variety of television shows, films, and stage productions. His ability to adapt to different roles, from comedic to dramatic, ensured his longevity in a field where many actors struggle to maintain relevance. Whether playing a loving father in the sitcom "Everybody Hates Chris" or a smooth-talking businessman in the film "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka," Fargas brought a unique flair to each character, making them memorable in their own right.But Antonio Fargas's impact goes beyond the roles he played. He has been a trailblazer for African American actors, proving that it is possible to carve out a successful career in Hollywood while staying true to one's roots and individuality. His characters, often representing the underdog or the outsider, resonated with audiences, offering a sense of hope, humor, and humanity.Here at Funky Pearls Radio, we celebrate Antonio Fargas not just for his roles on screen but for the cultural significance he carries. His career is a testament to the power of perseverance, talent, and the ability to captivate an audience. Fargas has shown us that whether you're playing a streetwise informant or a loving father, what truly matters is the depth and authenticity you bring to your work.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Host Kim Singleton discusses the 1976 classic film "Car Wash" with digital ideation & visual artist Inez Brown. "Car Wash" takes a comedic look at a day in the life of employees of a car wash. The ensemble cast includes Ivan Dixon, Bill Duke, Franklin Ajaye, Antonio Fargas, Tracy Reed, Ren Woods, Leon Pinkney, Garrett Morris, Richard Pryor and the Pointer Sisters.https://www.instagram.com/consider_it_blacklit/

Host Kim Singleton discusses the 1976 classic film "Car Wash" with digital ideation & visual artist Inez Brown.  "Car Wash" takes a comedic look at a day in the life of employees of a car wash. The ensemble cast includes Ivan Dixon, Bill Duke, Franklin Ajaye, Antonio Fargas, Tracy Reed, Ren Woods,  Leon Pinkney, Garrett Morris, Richard Pryor and the Pointer Sisters.Thank you for listening and consider yourself Blacklit!Connect with Consider It Blacklit on Social Media:IG @Consider_It_BlacklitThreads @Consider_It_BlacklitFacebook @ConsiderItBlacklitX (Formerly know as Twitter) @WeAreBlacklitTik Tok @ss2kmedia

Welcome to 'Say What's Reel'! This week, Dom Cruze, Q, and ILL dive into the hilarious world of 'I'm Gonna Git You Sucka.' Join us as we review this classic comedy, breaking down the laughs, the gags, and the cultural impact. Don't miss out on our lively discussion, filled with insights, trivia, and plenty of laughs! Hit subscribe for more film reviews and discussions on 'Say What's Reel.'im Gonna Git You Sucka is a 1988 American blaxploitation parody film written, directed by and starring Keenen Ivory Wayans in his directorial debut. Featured in the film are several noteworthy African-American actors who were part of the genre of blaxploitation: Jim Brown, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas and Isaac Hayes. It co-stars John Vernon, Kadeem Hardison, Ja'net Dubois, John Witherspoon, Damon Wayans, Clarence Williams III and Chris Rock, and acts as the film debuts of comedian Robin Harris and brothers Shawn and Marlon Wayans.Don't GET LEFT BEHIND! Make sure to check out the previous video! - https://bit.ly/3MgguSO Bored? Check out this AWESOME video! - https://bit.ly/3Kd721x Enjoying the channel & want to support more? SUBSCRIBE - https://bit.ly/43mI4DkFind the RMHP Crew!RMHProductions Socials - https://linktr.ee/rmhproductionsDOM CRUZE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itzdomw/Q Twitter: https://twitter.com/King_QuisemoeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/king_quisemoe/iLL - https://twitter.com/illest_thrillerToniiBankz - https://linktr.ee/ToniiBankzCorry - https://linktr.ee/corrysawakeWe hope you enjoyed the video and the content we put out here Rebel Media House Productions! Thank you for watching!Melodic Therapy Business inquires: domcruzemi@gmail.com

In this week's episode of the Black Girl Nerds podcast, we welcome actors Mike Colter and Antonio Fargas to discuss their latest film Murder City. The film follows Neil (Mike Colter), a cop and dedicated family man with a glimmer of warmth behind his otherwise coarse husk. Financially down on his luck, Neil decides to take a job selling a load of dope with his deadbeat father, Graham (Antonio Fargas), which turns out to be a DEA trap. Mike Colter has been nominated for two back-to-back Critics Choice Awards (Lead Actor in a Drama Series) for his role as priest-in-training “David Acosta” on the streaming series Evil, which is currently airing its third season. Antonio Fargas is a legend in the film, television and theater industry. He is a remarkable talent who has portrayed a wide and vast array of characters throughout his long and storied career. His unforgettable characters “Huggy Bear” in Starsky & Hutch, “Bunky” in Shaft, “Link Brown” in Foxy Brown and “Lindy” in Carwash, clearly established Fargas as a bona fide icon. Murder City is currently streaming on Tubi. Host: Jamie Music by: Sammus Edited by: Jamie Broadnax

Mark and Aaron Neuwirth (@AaronsPS4 on Twitter) discuss the 1988 comedy I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. Directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, and starring Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Damon Wayans, Kadeem Hardison, and several staircases, the movie focuses on what happens when a group of crime fighters battle a guy named Mr. Big. In this episode, they also talk about theme songs, bunions, and the films directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans. Enjoy!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3382899/advertisement

Shoutout to our special guest @walterFRENCHTV I'm Gonna Git You Sucka is a 1988 American blaxploitation parody film written, directed by, and starring Keenen Ivory Wayans in his directorial debut. Featured in the film are several noteworthy African-American actors who were part of the genre of blaxploitation: Jim Brown, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, and Isaac Hayes. Other actors in the film are Kadeem Hardison, Ja'net Dubois, John Witherspoon, Damon Wayans, Clarence Williams III, and Chris Rock. The film is also the film debut of comedian Robin Harris, who appears as a bartender, and of brothers Shawn and Marlon Wayans. Jack Spade (Keenen Ivory Wayans) comes home to the ghetto and finds his brother dead from a gold chain overdose. With the help of his hero, John Slade (Bernie Casey), and a team of washed-up crime fighters, Spade declares vengeance on Mr. Big (John Vernon), the white crime leader responsible for selling gold chains on the streets. But Spade realizes that he must take matters into his own hands to finish the job in this zany spoof of 1970s blaxploitation films.

This week's episode takes a look back at the career of trailblazing independent filmmaker Robert Downey, father of Robert Downey, Jr., and his single foray into the world of Hollywood filmmaking, Mad Magazine Presents Up the Academy. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT   From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   On this episode, we follow up on a movie based on a series of articles from a humor magazine that was trying to build their brand name by slapping their name on movies with a movie that was sponsored by a humor magazine trying to build their brand name by slapping their name on movies not unlike the other humor magazine had been doing but ended up removing their name from the movie, and boy is brain already fried and we're not even a minute into the episode.   We're talking about Robert Downey's 1980 comedy Up the Academy.   But, as always, before we get to Up the Academy, let's hit the backstory.   If you know the name Robert Downey, it's likely because you know his son. Robert Downey, Jr. You know, Iron Man. Yes, Robert Downey, Jr. is a repo baby. Maybe you've seen the documentary he made about his dad, Sr., that was released by Netflix last year. But it's more than likely you've never heard of Robert Downey, Sr., who, ironically, was a junior himself like his son.   Robert Downey was born Robert John Elias, Jr. in New York City in 1936, the son of a model and a manager of hotels and restaurants. His parents would divorce when he was young, and his mom would remarry while Robert was still in school.   Robert Elias, Jr. would take the last name of his stepfather when he enlisted in the Army, in part because was wanted to get away from home but he was technically too young to actually join the Army. He would invent a whole new persona for himself, and he would, by his own estimate, spend the vast majority of his military career in the stockade, where he wrote his first novel, which still has never been published.   After leaving the Army, Downey would spend some time playing semi-pro baseball, not quite good enough to go pro, spending his time away from the game writing plays he hoped to take, if not to Broadway, at least off-Broadway. But he would not make his mark in the arts until 1961, when Downey started to write and direct low-budget counterculture short films, starting with Ball's Bluff, about a Civil War soldier who wakes up in New York City's Central Park a century later.   In 1969, he would write and direct a satirical film about the only black executive at a Madison Avenue advertising firm who is, through a strange circumstance, becomes the head of the firm when its chairman unexpectedly passes away. Featuring a cameo by Mel Brooks Putney Swope was the perfect anti-establishment film for the end of that decade, and the $120k film would gross more than $2.75m during its successful year and a half run in theatres.   1970's Pound, based on one of Downey's early plays, would be his first movie to be distributed by a major distributor, although it was independently produced outside the Hollywood system. Several dogs, played by humans, are at a pound, waiting to be euthanized. Oh, did I forget to mention it was a comedy? The film would be somewhat of a success at the time, but today, it's best known as being the acting debut of the director's five year old son, Robert Downey, Jr., although the young boy would be credited as Bob Downey.   1972's Greaser Palace was part of an early 1970s trend of trippy “acid Westerns,” like Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo and Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie. Character actor Allan Arbus plays Jesse, a man with amnesia who heals the sick, resurrects the dead and tap dances on water on the American frontier. It would be the first movie Downey would make with a million dollar budget. The critical consensus of the film at the time was not positive, although Jay Cocks, a critic for Time Magazine who would go on to be a regular screenwriter for Martin Scorsese in the 1980s, would proclaim the film to be “the most adventurous movie of the year.” The film was not a hit, and it would be decades before it would be discovered and appreciated by the next generation of cineastes.   After another disappointing film, 1975's Moment to Moment, which would later be retitled Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight in order to not be confused with the 1978 movie of the same name starring John Travolta and Lily Tomlin that really, truly stunk, Downey would take some time off from filmmaking to deal with his divorce from his first wife and to spend more time with his son Robert and daughter Allyson.   By 1978, Robert Downey was ready to get back to work. He would get a job quickly helping Chuck Barris write a movie version of Barris' cult television show, The Gong Show, but that wasn't going to pay the bills with two teenagers at home. What would, though, is the one thing he hadn't done yet in movies…   Direct a Hollywood film.   Enter Mad Magazine.   In 1978, Mad Magazine was one of the biggest humor magazines in America. I had personally discovered Mad in late 1977, when my dad, stepmom and I were on a cross country trip, staying with friends outside Detroit, the day before my tenth birthday, when I saw an issue of Mad at a local grocery store, with something Star Wars-y on its cover. I begged my dad to give me the sixty cents to buy it, and I don't think I missed another issue for the next decade.   Mad's biggest competition in the humor magazine game was National Lampoon, which appealed to a more adult funny bone than Mad. In 1978, National Lampoon saw a huge boost in sales when the John Landis-directed comedy Animal House, which had the name of the magazine in the title, became an unexpected smash hit at the box office. Warner Brothers, the media conglomerate who happened to own Mad Magazine, was eager to do something similar, and worked with Mad's publisher, Bill Gaines, to find the right script that could be molded into a Mad Magazine movie, even if, like Animal House, it wouldn't have any real connection to the magazine itself.   They would find that script in The Brave Young Men of Weinberg, a comedy script by Tom Patchett and Jay Tarses, a pair of television comedy writers on shows like The Carol Burnett Show, The Sandy Duncan Show, The Bob Newhart Show and The Tony Randall Show, who had never sold a movie script before. The story would follow the misadventures of four teenage boys who, for different reasons, depend on each other for their very survival when they end up at the same military academy.   Now, of all the research I've done for this episode, the one very important aspect of the production I was never able to find out was exactly how Robert Downey became involved in the film. Again, he had never made a Hollywood movie before. He had only made one movie with a budget of a million dollars. His movies were satirical and critical of society in general. This was not a match made in heaven. But somehow, someone at Warner Brothers thought he'd be the right director for the film, and somehow, Downey didn't disagree.   Unlike Animal House, Downey and Warners didn't try to land a known commodity like John Belushi to play one of the four leads. In fact, all four of the leads, Wendell Brown, Tommy Citera, Joseph Hutchinson, and Ralph Macchio, would all be making their feature debuts.    But there would be some familiar faces in the film.   Ron Liebman, who was a familiar face from such films has Slaughterhouse-Five, Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood and Norma Rae, would play the head of the Academy. Tom Poston, who played Mindy's downstairs neighbor on Mork and Mindy, plays what would now be considered to be a rather offensive gay caricature as the guy who handles the uniforms of the cadets, Antonio Fargas, best known as Huggy Bear on Starsky and Hutch but who had previously worked with Downey on Putney Swope and Pound, as the Coach, and Barbara Bach, who had starred as Anya Amasova in the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.   The $5m film would begin production in Salina, Kansas, on September 17th, 1979, still using the title The Brave Young Men of Weinberg. The primary shooting location would be the St. John's Military School, which was still functioning while the film was in production, and would use most of the 144 students as extras during the shoot. The film would shoot for nine weeks without much incident, and the cast and crew would be home in time to enjoy Thanksgiving with their friends and family.   Unlike Animal House, the makers of The Brave Young Men of Weinberg did attempt to tie the movie into the magazine that would be presenting the film. At the very end of the movie, the magazine's mascot, Alfred E. Neuman, shows up on the side of the road, to wave goodbye to people and deliver his signature line, “What, Me Worry?” in a thought bubble that leads into the end credits. The person wearing the not quite realistic looking Neuman head gear, fourteen year old Scott Shapiro, was the son of the executive vice president of worldwide production at Warner Brothers.   After the first of the year, as Downey worked on his edit of the film, the studio decided to change the title from The Brave Young Men of Weinberg to Mad Magazine Presents Up the Academy. Bill Gaines, the publisher of Mad Magazine, suggested a slightly different title, Mad Magazine Completely Disassociates Itself from Up the Academy, but the studio decided that was too long for theater marquees. But we'll come back to that in a moment.   Warner Brothers set a June 6, 1980 release for the film, and Downey would finish his cut of the film by the end of March. A screening on the Warners lot in early April did not go well. Ron Liebman hated the film so much, he demanded that Warners completely remove his name from everything associated with the film. His name would not appear on the poster, the newspaper ads, the television commercials, the lobby cards, the press kit, or even in the movie itself. Bill Gaines would hate it to, such much in fact that he really did try to disassociate the magazine from the film. In a 1983 interview with The Comics Journal, Gaines would explain without much detail that there were a number of things he had objected to in the script that he was told would not be shot and not end up in the final film that were shot and did end up in the final film. But he wouldn't be able to get the magazine's name off the movie before it opened in theatres.   Now, one of the problems with trying to research how well films did in 1980 is that you really have only two sources for grosses, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, and they didn't always report national grosses every week, depending on outside factors. It just hadn't the national sport it's been since, say, 1983.   So when Up the Academy opened in theatres on June 6th, we don't have a full idea of how many theatres it played in nationwide, or how much it grossed. The closest thing we do have for this Variety's listing of the top movies of the week based on a limited selection of showcase theatres in the top 20 markets. So we know that the film played at 7 showcase screens in New York City that weekend, grossing $175k, and in Los Angeles on 15 showcase screens, grossing $149k. But we also know, thanks to newspaper ads in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times that the film was playing in 11 theatres in the New York Metro area, and in 30 theatres in the Los Angeles Metro area, so those listed grosses are merely a snapshot and not the whole picture.   According to Variety's limited tracking of major market showcase theatres for the week, Up the Academy was the second highest grossing film of the week, bringing in $729k from 82 theatres. And according to their chart's side notes, this usually accounts for about 25% of a movie's national gross, if a film is playing in wide release around the entire country.   In its second week, Up the Academy would place ninth on that showcase theatre listing, with $377k from 87 theatres.    But by the time Variety did bring back proper national grosses in the film's third week of release, there would be no mention of Up the Academy in those listings, as Warners by this time had bigger fish to handle, namely Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Shining, and Bronco Billy, their Clint Eastwood movie for the year. In that showcase theatre listing, though, Up the Academy had fallen to 16th place, with $103k from 34 theatres.   In fact, there is no publicly available record of how many theatres Up the Academy played in during its theatrical run, and it wouldn't be until the 1981 Warner Brothers 10-K annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that Up the Academy had earned $10m from American movie theatres. If studios get about 55% of the box office grosses in rental fees, that would put the $5m film in a very good position to be profitable, depending on how much was spent on P&A, prints and advertising. The film wasn't an Animal House-level hit, but it wasn't exactly the bomb many have painted it to be.    After Up the Academy, two of the actors, Wendell Brown and Joseph Hutchinson, would never act in another movie, although, billed as Hutch Parker, the latter would produce six X-Men related movies between 2013 and 2019, including Logan. Tommy Citera would make two more movies until he left acting in 1988. And Ralph Macchio would, of course, go on to play Daniel LaRusso, the Karate Kid, in a career-defining role that he's still playing nearly forty years later.   Robert Downey would make another wacky comedy, called Moonbeam, in 1982. Co-written with Richard Belzer, Moonbeam would feature a fairly interesting cast including Zack Norman, Tammy Grimes, Michael J. Pollard, Liz Torres and Mr. Belzer, and tells the story of a New York cable television station that becomes world famous when they accidentally bounce their signal off the moon. But the film would not get released until October 1986, in one theatre in New York City for one week. It couldn't even benefit from being able to promote Robert Downey, Jr., who in the ensuing years had started to build an acting career by being featured in John Sayles' Baby It's You, Fritz Kiersch's Tuff Turf, John Hughes' Weird Science, and the Rodney Dangerfield movie Back to School, as well as being a member of the cast of Saturday Night Live for a year.   There's be sporadic work in television, working on shows like Matlock and The Twilight Zone, but what few movies he could get made would be pale shadows of her earlier, edgier work. Even with his son regularly taking supporting roles in his dad's movies to help the old man out, movies like Rented Lips and Too Much Sun would be critically panned and ignored by audiences. His final movie as a writer and director, Hugo Pool, would gross just $13k when it was released in December 1997, despite having a cast that included Patrick Dempsey, Richard Lewis, Malcolm McDowell, Alyssa Milano, Cathy Moriarty and Sean Penn, along with Junior.   Downey would also continue to act in other director's movies, including two written and directed by one of his biggest fans, Paul Thomas Anderson. Downey would play Burt, the studio manager, in Boogie Nights, and the WDKK Show director in Magnolia. Anderson adored Downey so much, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker would sit down with Downey for a four-part conversation filmed for the Criterion Company in 2013.   Robert Downey would pass away in July 2021, a curious footnote in the history of cinema, mostly because of the superstar he sired. Most of his movies are hard to find on video, and nearly impossible to find on streaming services, outside of a wonderful two disc DVD set issued by Criterion's Eclipse specialty label and several titles streaming on The Criterion Channel. Outside of Up the Academy, which is available to rent or purchase from Amazon, Apple TV and several other streaming services, you can find Putney Swope, Greaser's Palace and Too Much Sun on several of the more popular streaming services, but the majority of them are completely missing in action. You can also learn more about Robert Downey in Sr., a documentary streaming on Netflix produced by Robert Downey, Jr. where the son recounts the life and career of his recently passed father, alongside Paul Thomas Anderson, Alan Arkin, and mega-producer Norman Lear.   Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again soon, when Episode 107, on John Landis's underrated 1985 comedy Into the Night, is released.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about the movies we covered this episode.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

This week's episode takes a look back at the career of trailblazing independent filmmaker Robert Downey, father of Robert Downey, Jr., and his single foray into the world of Hollywood filmmaking, Mad Magazine Presents Up the Academy. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT   From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   On this episode, we follow up on a movie based on a series of articles from a humor magazine that was trying to build their brand name by slapping their name on movies with a movie that was sponsored by a humor magazine trying to build their brand name by slapping their name on movies not unlike the other humor magazine had been doing but ended up removing their name from the movie, and boy is brain already fried and we're not even a minute into the episode.   We're talking about Robert Downey's 1980 comedy Up the Academy.   But, as always, before we get to Up the Academy, let's hit the backstory.   If you know the name Robert Downey, it's likely because you know his son. Robert Downey, Jr. You know, Iron Man. Yes, Robert Downey, Jr. is a repo baby. Maybe you've seen the documentary he made about his dad, Sr., that was released by Netflix last year. But it's more than likely you've never heard of Robert Downey, Sr., who, ironically, was a junior himself like his son.   Robert Downey was born Robert John Elias, Jr. in New York City in 1936, the son of a model and a manager of hotels and restaurants. His parents would divorce when he was young, and his mom would remarry while Robert was still in school.   Robert Elias, Jr. would take the last name of his stepfather when he enlisted in the Army, in part because was wanted to get away from home but he was technically too young to actually join the Army. He would invent a whole new persona for himself, and he would, by his own estimate, spend the vast majority of his military career in the stockade, where he wrote his first novel, which still has never been published.   After leaving the Army, Downey would spend some time playing semi-pro baseball, not quite good enough to go pro, spending his time away from the game writing plays he hoped to take, if not to Broadway, at least off-Broadway. But he would not make his mark in the arts until 1961, when Downey started to write and direct low-budget counterculture short films, starting with Ball's Bluff, about a Civil War soldier who wakes up in New York City's Central Park a century later.   In 1969, he would write and direct a satirical film about the only black executive at a Madison Avenue advertising firm who is, through a strange circumstance, becomes the head of the firm when its chairman unexpectedly passes away. Featuring a cameo by Mel Brooks Putney Swope was the perfect anti-establishment film for the end of that decade, and the $120k film would gross more than $2.75m during its successful year and a half run in theatres.   1970's Pound, based on one of Downey's early plays, would be his first movie to be distributed by a major distributor, although it was independently produced outside the Hollywood system. Several dogs, played by humans, are at a pound, waiting to be euthanized. Oh, did I forget to mention it was a comedy? The film would be somewhat of a success at the time, but today, it's best known as being the acting debut of the director's five year old son, Robert Downey, Jr., although the young boy would be credited as Bob Downey.   1972's Greaser Palace was part of an early 1970s trend of trippy “acid Westerns,” like Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo and Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie. Character actor Allan Arbus plays Jesse, a man with amnesia who heals the sick, resurrects the dead and tap dances on water on the American frontier. It would be the first movie Downey would make with a million dollar budget. The critical consensus of the film at the time was not positive, although Jay Cocks, a critic for Time Magazine who would go on to be a regular screenwriter for Martin Scorsese in the 1980s, would proclaim the film to be “the most adventurous movie of the year.” The film was not a hit, and it would be decades before it would be discovered and appreciated by the next generation of cineastes.   After another disappointing film, 1975's Moment to Moment, which would later be retitled Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight in order to not be confused with the 1978 movie of the same name starring John Travolta and Lily Tomlin that really, truly stunk, Downey would take some time off from filmmaking to deal with his divorce from his first wife and to spend more time with his son Robert and daughter Allyson.   By 1978, Robert Downey was ready to get back to work. He would get a job quickly helping Chuck Barris write a movie version of Barris' cult television show, The Gong Show, but that wasn't going to pay the bills with two teenagers at home. What would, though, is the one thing he hadn't done yet in movies…   Direct a Hollywood film.   Enter Mad Magazine.   In 1978, Mad Magazine was one of the biggest humor magazines in America. I had personally discovered Mad in late 1977, when my dad, stepmom and I were on a cross country trip, staying with friends outside Detroit, the day before my tenth birthday, when I saw an issue of Mad at a local grocery store, with something Star Wars-y on its cover. I begged my dad to give me the sixty cents to buy it, and I don't think I missed another issue for the next decade.   Mad's biggest competition in the humor magazine game was National Lampoon, which appealed to a more adult funny bone than Mad. In 1978, National Lampoon saw a huge boost in sales when the John Landis-directed comedy Animal House, which had the name of the magazine in the title, became an unexpected smash hit at the box office. Warner Brothers, the media conglomerate who happened to own Mad Magazine, was eager to do something similar, and worked with Mad's publisher, Bill Gaines, to find the right script that could be molded into a Mad Magazine movie, even if, like Animal House, it wouldn't have any real connection to the magazine itself.   They would find that script in The Brave Young Men of Weinberg, a comedy script by Tom Patchett and Jay Tarses, a pair of television comedy writers on shows like The Carol Burnett Show, The Sandy Duncan Show, The Bob Newhart Show and The Tony Randall Show, who had never sold a movie script before. The story would follow the misadventures of four teenage boys who, for different reasons, depend on each other for their very survival when they end up at the same military academy.   Now, of all the research I've done for this episode, the one very important aspect of the production I was never able to find out was exactly how Robert Downey became involved in the film. Again, he had never made a Hollywood movie before. He had only made one movie with a budget of a million dollars. His movies were satirical and critical of society in general. This was not a match made in heaven. But somehow, someone at Warner Brothers thought he'd be the right director for the film, and somehow, Downey didn't disagree.   Unlike Animal House, Downey and Warners didn't try to land a known commodity like John Belushi to play one of the four leads. In fact, all four of the leads, Wendell Brown, Tommy Citera, Joseph Hutchinson, and Ralph Macchio, would all be making their feature debuts.    But there would be some familiar faces in the film.   Ron Liebman, who was a familiar face from such films has Slaughterhouse-Five, Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood and Norma Rae, would play the head of the Academy. Tom Poston, who played Mindy's downstairs neighbor on Mork and Mindy, plays what would now be considered to be a rather offensive gay caricature as the guy who handles the uniforms of the cadets, Antonio Fargas, best known as Huggy Bear on Starsky and Hutch but who had previously worked with Downey on Putney Swope and Pound, as the Coach, and Barbara Bach, who had starred as Anya Amasova in the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.   The $5m film would begin production in Salina, Kansas, on September 17th, 1979, still using the title The Brave Young Men of Weinberg. The primary shooting location would be the St. John's Military School, which was still functioning while the film was in production, and would use most of the 144 students as extras during the shoot. The film would shoot for nine weeks without much incident, and the cast and crew would be home in time to enjoy Thanksgiving with their friends and family.   Unlike Animal House, the makers of The Brave Young Men of Weinberg did attempt to tie the movie into the magazine that would be presenting the film. At the very end of the movie, the magazine's mascot, Alfred E. Neuman, shows up on the side of the road, to wave goodbye to people and deliver his signature line, “What, Me Worry?” in a thought bubble that leads into the end credits. The person wearing the not quite realistic looking Neuman head gear, fourteen year old Scott Shapiro, was the son of the executive vice president of worldwide production at Warner Brothers.   After the first of the year, as Downey worked on his edit of the film, the studio decided to change the title from The Brave Young Men of Weinberg to Mad Magazine Presents Up the Academy. Bill Gaines, the publisher of Mad Magazine, suggested a slightly different title, Mad Magazine Completely Disassociates Itself from Up the Academy, but the studio decided that was too long for theater marquees. But we'll come back to that in a moment.   Warner Brothers set a June 6, 1980 release for the film, and Downey would finish his cut of the film by the end of March. A screening on the Warners lot in early April did not go well. Ron Liebman hated the film so much, he demanded that Warners completely remove his name from everything associated with the film. His name would not appear on the poster, the newspaper ads, the television commercials, the lobby cards, the press kit, or even in the movie itself. Bill Gaines would hate it to, such much in fact that he really did try to disassociate the magazine from the film. In a 1983 interview with The Comics Journal, Gaines would explain without much detail that there were a number of things he had objected to in the script that he was told would not be shot and not end up in the final film that were shot and did end up in the final film. But he wouldn't be able to get the magazine's name off the movie before it opened in theatres.   Now, one of the problems with trying to research how well films did in 1980 is that you really have only two sources for grosses, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, and they didn't always report national grosses every week, depending on outside factors. It just hadn't the national sport it's been since, say, 1983.   So when Up the Academy opened in theatres on June 6th, we don't have a full idea of how many theatres it played in nationwide, or how much it grossed. The closest thing we do have for this Variety's listing of the top movies of the week based on a limited selection of showcase theatres in the top 20 markets. So we know that the film played at 7 showcase screens in New York City that weekend, grossing $175k, and in Los Angeles on 15 showcase screens, grossing $149k. But we also know, thanks to newspaper ads in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times that the film was playing in 11 theatres in the New York Metro area, and in 30 theatres in the Los Angeles Metro area, so those listed grosses are merely a snapshot and not the whole picture.   According to Variety's limited tracking of major market showcase theatres for the week, Up the Academy was the second highest grossing film of the week, bringing in $729k from 82 theatres. And according to their chart's side notes, this usually accounts for about 25% of a movie's national gross, if a film is playing in wide release around the entire country.   In its second week, Up the Academy would place ninth on that showcase theatre listing, with $377k from 87 theatres.    But by the time Variety did bring back proper national grosses in the film's third week of release, there would be no mention of Up the Academy in those listings, as Warners by this time had bigger fish to handle, namely Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Shining, and Bronco Billy, their Clint Eastwood movie for the year. In that showcase theatre listing, though, Up the Academy had fallen to 16th place, with $103k from 34 theatres.   In fact, there is no publicly available record of how many theatres Up the Academy played in during its theatrical run, and it wouldn't be until the 1981 Warner Brothers 10-K annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that Up the Academy had earned $10m from American movie theatres. If studios get about 55% of the box office grosses in rental fees, that would put the $5m film in a very good position to be profitable, depending on how much was spent on P&A, prints and advertising. The film wasn't an Animal House-level hit, but it wasn't exactly the bomb many have painted it to be.    After Up the Academy, two of the actors, Wendell Brown and Joseph Hutchinson, would never act in another movie, although, billed as Hutch Parker, the latter would produce six X-Men related movies between 2013 and 2019, including Logan. Tommy Citera would make two more movies until he left acting in 1988. And Ralph Macchio would, of course, go on to play Daniel LaRusso, the Karate Kid, in a career-defining role that he's still playing nearly forty years later.   Robert Downey would make another wacky comedy, called Moonbeam, in 1982. Co-written with Richard Belzer, Moonbeam would feature a fairly interesting cast including Zack Norman, Tammy Grimes, Michael J. Pollard, Liz Torres and Mr. Belzer, and tells the story of a New York cable television station that becomes world famous when they accidentally bounce their signal off the moon. But the film would not get released until October 1986, in one theatre in New York City for one week. It couldn't even benefit from being able to promote Robert Downey, Jr., who in the ensuing years had started to build an acting career by being featured in John Sayles' Baby It's You, Fritz Kiersch's Tuff Turf, John Hughes' Weird Science, and the Rodney Dangerfield movie Back to School, as well as being a member of the cast of Saturday Night Live for a year.   There's be sporadic work in television, working on shows like Matlock and The Twilight Zone, but what few movies he could get made would be pale shadows of her earlier, edgier work. Even with his son regularly taking supporting roles in his dad's movies to help the old man out, movies like Rented Lips and Too Much Sun would be critically panned and ignored by audiences. His final movie as a writer and director, Hugo Pool, would gross just $13k when it was released in December 1997, despite having a cast that included Patrick Dempsey, Richard Lewis, Malcolm McDowell, Alyssa Milano, Cathy Moriarty and Sean Penn, along with Junior.   Downey would also continue to act in other director's movies, including two written and directed by one of his biggest fans, Paul Thomas Anderson. Downey would play Burt, the studio manager, in Boogie Nights, and the WDKK Show director in Magnolia. Anderson adored Downey so much, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker would sit down with Downey for a four-part conversation filmed for the Criterion Company in 2013.   Robert Downey would pass away in July 2021, a curious footnote in the history of cinema, mostly because of the superstar he sired. Most of his movies are hard to find on video, and nearly impossible to find on streaming services, outside of a wonderful two disc DVD set issued by Criterion's Eclipse specialty label and several titles streaming on The Criterion Channel. Outside of Up the Academy, which is available to rent or purchase from Amazon, Apple TV and several other streaming services, you can find Putney Swope, Greaser's Palace and Too Much Sun on several of the more popular streaming services, but the majority of them are completely missing in action. You can also learn more about Robert Downey in Sr., a documentary streaming on Netflix produced by Robert Downey, Jr. where the son recounts the life and career of his recently passed father, alongside Paul Thomas Anderson, Alan Arkin, and mega-producer Norman Lear.   Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again soon, when Episode 107, on John Landis's underrated 1985 comedy Into the Night, is released.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about the movies we covered this episode.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

Miss Heard celebrates Season 4, Episode 184 with Rose Royce's “Car Wash” that was attached to the comedy movie also named “Car Wash” Their other songs that also did well were the DNA of other songs we hear now as well as being covered and sampled by so many talented artists such as Madonna, Jay Z, The Cover Girls to Beyonce, and Daft Punk to name a few… You can listen to all our episodes at our website at: https://pod.co/miss-heard-song-lyrics Or iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and many more platforms under Podcast name “Miss Heard Song Lyrics” Don't forget to subscribe/rate/review to help our Podcast in the ratings. Please consider supporting our little podcast via Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/MissHeardSongLyrics or via PayPal at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/MissHeardSongLyrics #missheardsonglyrics #missheardsongs #missheardlyrics #misheardsonglyrics #misheardsongs        #misheardlyrics #RoseRoyce #CarWash #RoseNorwalt #GwenDickey #NormanWhitfield   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkxaunLybuM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Wash_(song) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Royce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Dickey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Wash_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Duke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Fargas

Happened In the 90's hosted by Steve and Matt picks a day, any day, and then goes back in time to that magical decade we all know and love the 90's, to revisit episodes of tv, movies that premiered, or cultural events that occurred on that day in the 90's. This week Matt can't shut up about how bad the White Men Can't Jump remake looks and more than anything he wants those responsible punished. This leads Steve into reminiscing about another episode of Family Matters we almost watched and how Steve Urkel had some lesser known family members including his OG Triple OG cousing. OGB. After that it's time to listen to 311 and Come Original because we're talking all things February 16th in the 90s. SEGMENT 1 Show: Full House Episode: Silence Is Not Golden (Season 6 | Episode 17) Premiere Date: 02/16/1993 Story: When Stephanie is paired with a classmate she hates for a school project, she finds out that his father is beating him, and is sworn to secrecy. SEGMENT 2 Show: Martin Episode: All the Players Came (Season 3 | Episode 18) Premiere Date: 02/16/1995 Story: Martin hosts a '70s contest. ANTONIO FARGAS, ISAAC HAYES, RUDY RAY MOORE, OUTKAST, COOLIO, PAM GRIER and others guests star as themselves. Thanks for listening! Watch all new episode every Thursday here on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk5uXQXE9WGIWcpSkNkXaOg Audio available on all major platforms. Email Us At: hitnineties@gmail.com Instagram: HappenedInThe90s Twitter: HIThe90s Facebook: @HappenedInThe90s Website: https://happenedinthe90s.com MERCH LINK: https://www.redbubble.com/people/HIT90s/shop?asc=u&ref=account-nav-dropdown --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 713, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Initially Yours 1: Fashion designer:YSL. Yves Saint Laurent. 2: Eccentric punctuator and typographer Edward Estlin. E.E. Cummings. 3: American artist and illustrator Newell Convers. N.C. Wyeth. 4: In 1972 this Texan became the first race car driver to win the Indy 500 for the fourth time. A.J. Foyt. 5: Via the White Star Line, the Titanic was owned by this U.S. banking tycoon, who had a private suite he never got to use. J.P. Morgan. Round 2. Category: Illinois 1: This Illinois airport is the busiest commercial airfield in the world. O'Hare. 2: Chicago mayor who said, "They have vilified me...crucified me, yes...even criticized me". Richard Daley. 3: This Democratic nominee was Illinois governor 1st time he ran for President. Adlai Stevenson. 4: This Illinoisan was the Democratic candidate for president in 1952 and 1956. Adlai Stevenson. 5: Illinois' lowest point is 279 feet above sea level at the confluence of these 2 rivers. the Mississippi and the Ohio. Round 3. Category: In The Dictionary 1: A Portuguese word for "silly" or "stupid" inspired the name of this extinct flightless bird. the dodo. 2: Laymen rarely use this word that means abnormally swollen unless they're referring to veins. Varicose. 3: As ursine refers to bears, taurine refers to these animals. bulls. 4: "To douse with a liquor (such as brandy, rum or cognac) and ignite". flambé. 5: The name of this corn and lima bean side dish is derived from an American Indian word for "boiled corn". succotash. Round 4. Category: New Video Games 1: You can download "Wheel of Fortune" onto the Nokia 3650, one of these devices. a cell phone. 2: Rolling Stone magazine's choice for Console Game of the Year 2002 is the third installment of this carjack game. Grand Theft Auto. 3: This 1982 cult film set in a computer was updated in 2003 with gameplay that includes the following. Tron. 4: A bright red Ford Torino and voice-overs by Antonio Fargas (aka Huggy Bear) are in the game of this '70s cop show. Starsky and Hutch. 5: In battles in the game based on this Oscar-winning film, you probably have to use the "Far East" button on your control. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Round 5. Category: "Great" Geography 1: Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico. the Greater Antilles. 2: At over 84,000 square miles, it's Europe's largest island. Great Britain. 3: Lewis and Clark National Forest is headquartered in this west central Montana city. Great Falls. 4: This depression in Africa and the Middle East is the largest fault system on earth. the Great Rift (Valley). 5: 1 of 2 Australian deserts that fit the category. the Great Sandy Desert (or the Great Victoria Desert). Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Set sail on Episode 24 of the Season 1 finale of the Love Boat, the worlds greatest romantic comedy drama television series of all time! In this episode we follow an all star cast that includes Jonelle Allen, Diane Baker, Kaye Ballard, Gary Collins, Antonio Fargas, Pat Morita, Eve Plumb and Don Porter as they deal with wrongful termination, infidelity, cruise ship c*#k blocking, Japanese industrialism and heavy vibes! We also encourage everyone to find our Instagram page Lovin' The Love Boat to enjoy the super cool video messages from Isaac himself Mr. Ted Lange! And much more. Thanks for listening to the podcast and joining us on this voyage and by all means consider subscribing to the show as well as Paramount+ so you can watch the episode with us. We promise you'll be glad that you did. * Attention passengers! If you'd like to see the show continue please consider contributing to our new GoFundMe so we can sail into Season 2 with wind in our sails and allow us to make good on our promise to have exciting new guests join us on future episodes. It means a lot and will also allow us to keep the show commercial free. Visit our page HERE and give whatever you can. Thank you! *If you enjoy the show and would like to contribute quickly please tip our crew any amount via Venmo: @istvansongs * Be sure to check out Istvan's other amazing podcast for kids and families, Istvan's Imaginary Podcast available everywhere podcasts are found. * Find and Follow our new Instagram profile here: @lovin_the_love_boat * And follow Istvan on Instagram: @iamistvan or on his website: www.istvansongs.com

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 639, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Stage Names 1: "Peyton Place" star Dorothy Eloise Maloney. Dorothy Malone. 2: Marshall Mathers is the real name of the rapper who performs using this 1-word nickname. Eminem. 3: Elliott Goldstein. Elliott Gould. 4: Henry Montgomery Jr., Elizabeth's father. Robert Montgomery. 5: Riley is the first name of this guitarist whose stage initials stand for "Blues Boy". B.B. King. Round 2. Category: Food Proverbs 1: "It's no use crying over" this. spilled milk. 2: "The proof of" this "is in the the eating". the pudding. 3: One bad one "can spoil the whole barrel". an apple. 4: "Honey catches more flies than" this. vinegar. 5: "You can't make" one of these "without breaking eggs". an omelet. Round 3. Category: Boston 1: This fashionable neighborhood was the site of a lighted signal in the 1600s, hence its name. Beacon Hill. 2: This document got its first reading in Boston July 18, 1776 at the Old State House. the Declaration of Independence. 3: Benjamin Franklin once grazed his cow in this, the nation's oldest public park. Boston Common. 4: This stadium has been the home of football's Patriots as well as baseball's Red Sox. Fenway Park. 5: The Boston Pops orchestra plays outdoor concerts at Hatch Shell on the banks of this river. the Charles. Round 4. Category: Takes The Cake 1: Angel food cake uses only this part of an egg. the white. 2: Light and dark batters combined give this cake the appearance of the rock it's named for. marble cake. 3: This classic Viennese torte is filled with apricot jam. Sachertorte. 4: Trademarked name for a fluted tube pan or the cake baked in it. a Bundt. 5: A Baba is most commonly flavored with this potent potable. rum. Round 5. Category: New Video Games 1: In Microids' "Ben Hur" you race these vehicles. chariots. 2: Rolling Stone magazine's choice for Console Game of the Year 2002 is the third installment of this carjack game. Grand Theft Auto. 3: A bright red Ford Torino and voice-overs by Antonio Fargas (aka Huggy Bear) are in the game of this '70s cop show. Starsky and Hutch. 4: "The Angel of Darkness" takes this Eidos heroine in a new, darker direction and ups her polygons from 500 to 5,000!. Lara Croft. 5: In battles in the game based on this Oscar-winning film, you probably have to use the "Far East" button on your control. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Zach & Zo are joined by Sunni Hepburn and Brandi Fleeks of the Book of Lies podcast to explore the seedy underbelly of the ghetto. They bear witness to a grievous tragedy: death by wearing too much gold! It's up to Jack Spade to assemble a crack team and bring the city's former Black Heroes out of retirement to get revenge on the city's criminal overlord, Mr. Big, and bring about justice once and for all.  Segments00:26:42 - Opening Credits00:45:16 - Stuff I Heard00:57:39 - Favorite Parts01:14:45 - Trivia01:23:00 - Critics' Thought Book of Lies LinksWebsite: book-of-lies-podcast.onpodium.comApple Podcast Book of Lies PodcastBeauty's Biscuits beautysbiscuits.comGet 20% off on  doggie treats using the discount code: BACKLOOKWordpress brandifleeks.comInstagram  @bookofliespodcastFacebook @bookofliespodcastTwitter @Bookofliespod Back Look Cinema: The Podcast Links:www.backlookcinema.comEmail: fanmail@backlookcinema.comTwitter: @backlookcinemaFacebook: The Back Look Cinema Podcast Instagram: @backlookcinemapodcastBack Look Cinema Merch at Teespring.comBack Look Cinema Merch at Teepublic.com

Host of The Foxworth Theory, Eugenia Foxworth sits down with actor Antonio Fargas, who is a legendary actor born and raised in New York. From the 70s up to 2000s, the actor has paved the way for so many others who have come after him and shared the same passion for on screen acting. Antonio has a long list of movies and TV credits that have earned him a reputation for being one of the most sought after actors in the business. Movies and Shows such as, The Cool World (1963), Shaft (1971), Cleopatra Jones (1973), Foxy Brown (1974), Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975), Carwash (1976), I'm Gonna Get You Sucka (1988), Don't Be A Menace (1996), Starsky & Hutch, The Suburbans (1999) everybody Hates Chris (2005-2009), Just to name a few.

Episode #290 of On Screen & Beyond - Antonio Fargas stops by OSB to chat about his career and his latest movie "Silver Bells"! Antonio has played many memorable roles including Huggy Bear on "Starsky & Hutch" and Angie's father on "All My Children" and so many others! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/on-screen-and-beyond/message

This week's Throwback Thursday episode we review I'm Gonna Git You Sucka! Starring Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Dawnn Lewis, Ja'net DuBois, Antonio Fargas, Jim Brown, Isaac Hayes, Kadeem Hardison, Damon Wayans, and John Vernon. 

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 04/29/2021 Nothing like three white dudes talking about a spoof on blaxploitation films. But here we go! Casey Freund joins us to talk about the Keenen Ivory Wayans directorial debut, which co-stars Bernie Casey, Jim Brown, Isaac Hayes, Antonio Fargas, Steve James, Ja'net DuBois, Dawnn Lewis, John Vernon, Kadeem Hardison, and Damon Wayans.

Nothing like three white dudes talking about a spoof on blaxploitation films.  But here we go!Casey Freund joins us to talk about the Keenen Ivory Wayans directorial debut, which co-stars Bernie Casey, Jim Brown, Isaac Hayes, Antonio Fargas, Steve James, Ja'net DuBois, Dawnn Lewis, John Vernon, Kadeem Hardison, and Damon Wayans.

April 9th - Antonio Fargas

Sunday's supposed to be fun-day! But this pilot episode of incredibly popular 1970s cop show "Starsky and Hutch" is anything but! Starring David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser, as well as Antonio Fargas, "Savage Sunday" debuted the mismatched cop duo in 1975.In this episode, the charisma-less and humor-free detectives must deal with the problems caused by a couple of nursing home residents who get the bright idea of protesting the bad food at their establishment by loading their car up with dynamite and going out for a relaxing cup of coffee. But their scheme goes awry when a couple of no good punks from Colorado steal their car and go off on a wild — and potentially explosive — crime spree. Can our stars save the day — and more importantly will their heroics cut into their basketball schedule? And what about the elderly bombers who got us all into this mess? Will someone figure out a way to get them better food before they launch another terrorism plot? Join Áine and Kevin as they try to salvage "Savage Sunday" and somehow end up speaking about Orville Reddenbacher, Kevin's interest in Suzanne Sommers, and Spock's Brain. Follow us on the usual social media suspects:FacebookTwitterInstagramAnd send us mysterious and intriguing missives at mysterytomepodcast@gmail.com.

In honor of the 7th anniversary of the special "CultCore" episode series, Andrew speaks to Kate Owens just moments after she finished watching the 1974 Pam Grier classic "Foxy Brown," co-starring Antonio Fargas and Bob Minor, and directed by Decatur, Ga. resident Jack Hill. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In honor of the 7th anniversary of the special "CultCore" episode series, Andrew speaks to Kate Owens just moments after she finished watching the 1974 Pam Grier classic "Foxy Brown," co-starring Antonio Fargas and Bob Minor, and directed by Decatur, Ga. resident Jack Hill. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In honor of the 7th anniversary of the special "CultCore" episode series, Andrew speaks to Kate Owens just moments after she finished watching the 1974 Pam Grier classic "Foxy Brown," co-starring Antonio Fargas and Bob Minor, and directed by Decatur, Ga. resident Jack Hill. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on another BRAND NEW INSTALLMENT of Renegades Reviews, J.J. finishes his Blaxploitation Hat Trick with the epitome of Female Bad Ass, "Foxy Brown". Her legacy is unquestioned, as she has inspired the moniker of a Hip-Hop Artist, and was half of the inspiration for Beyonce's character in "Austin Powers: Goldmember". Starring Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Kathryn Loder, Terry Carter, Sid Haig and others. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/renegadesreviews/support

Hyland Harris joins us to talk about two movies that attack race and prejudice through satire. Hyland is a jazz drummer, tai chi instructor (www.chutaichi.com), manager at Louis Armstrong House (https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org), and musicologist. In this episode we get into a deep alternate theory of Watermelon Man (Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, dir. Melvin Van Peebles), speculations on the behind-the-scenes of Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson, Antonio Fargas, dir. Robert Downey Sr.), and the evolutionary benefits of a turtleneck. Instagram: @LastOneToThePartyPodcast email: LastOneToThePartyPodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @LastOneToThePa1

A New Stars Talk, Wine & Dine Show from Celebrity Table 30 in The Bootlegger Italian Bistro on the Las Vegas Strip.

This week we cover three films with ACROSS in the title. Across 110th Street (Dir: Barry Shear. Starring Yaphet Koto, Anthony Quinn, Richard Ward, Anthony Franciosa, Antonio Fargas, Paul Benjamin and Ed Bernard). The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (Dir:  W.D. Richter. Starring Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Christoper Lloyd and Clancy Brown). Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town (Dir: Christian Papierniak. Starring MacKenzie Davis, Carrie Coon, Alia Shawkat, Annie Potts, Haley Joel Osment and Lakeith Stanfield). Please review us over on Apple Podcasts. Got comments or suggestions for new episodes? Email: sddpod@gmail.com. Seek us out via Twitter and Instagram @ sddfilmpodcast Support our Patreon for $3 a month and get access to our exclusive show, Sudden Double Deep Cuts where we talk about our favourite movie soundtracks, scores and theme songs!

In the eighteenth episode of Season 1, Cult Flicks & Trash Picks, Kyle is joined by podcaster Sean Ellis (of the Ellissinema Podcast) and composer Austin Howard to discuss a blaxploitation essential, Foxy Brown.

In this episode, Greg and his special guest, James, introduce Susan to one of their favorite late 80s comedies, Keenan Ivory Wayans' "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka." The blacksploitation parody stars Wayans with actors of the blacksploitation genre: Jim Brown, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, and Isaac Hayes. Other actors in the film are Kadeem Hardison, Ja'net Dubois, John Witherspoon, Dawnn Lewis, Damon Wayans, Clarence Williams III, John Vernon, and Chris Rock.   While Greg and James reminisce about the many times they've watched this highly-quotable movie, Susan explains the movie's origins and how it almost did not see the light of day and surpassed the studio's expectations for it. Greg throws us off the conversation more than once when he learns Susan didn't like the movie "Twins," the film against which "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" opened. Susan also flags this movie as another Roger Ebert one-star review as the group reacts. As always we select, our top three moments from the film. Resources referenced in the episode: Keenen Ivory Wayans discusses "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG Roger Ebert Review of "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" - December 14, 1998, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/im-gonna-git-you-sucka-1988

Whats this? I have a co-host? Sure do and he picked out this little gem...

Across 110th Street (1972) Directed by: Barry Shear Starring: Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Fanciosa, Paul Benjamin, Ed Bernard, Richard Ward, Antonio Fargas, Norma Donaldson, Gilbert Lewis, Gloria Hendry, and Burt Young Genre: Action/Crime --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cinema-cult-network/support

We came down to the wire, but we're concluding Black History Month with Honto's pick, Across 110th Street. In this episode there's some difficulty discussing the film, due to differing opinions... so a couple of the guys try out some different tactics on the show, to better understand the movie. • Stay tuned for next month, as we celebrate the anniversary of March-ial Arts, and we cover Martial Arts films yet again.... with some better picks this time! • Across 110th Street (1972) Directed by Barry Shear Starring: Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Fanciosa, Paul Benjamin, Ed Bernard, Richard Ward, Antonio Fargas, Norma Donaldson, Gilbert Lewis, Gloria Hendry, and Burt Young. • Keep sending us your movie suggestions via email (CinemaCultPodcast@gmail.com) or DM us via Facebook and/or Instagram... and by all means, please let us know WHY you want us to cover that movie! • Be sure to hit that Subscribe button wherever you listen to the show, be sure to rate and review the show, and most importantly... spread the word. All three of these things really helps push the show out to new people! • Episode is available via iTunes (apple.co/2ISpyMC), Google Play Music (goo.gl/DYbfUx), or direct download via Soundcloud.

Hey Cannoners! This episode we have a silly/scary/murder-y movie for you! It has all the hallmarks of an Alien serial killer who gets dropped on earth and has to steal human heads to survive film. You know that classic genre, right? From director John McNaughton and starring Rae Dawn Chong, Antonio Fargas, Tom Towles and a dog head, you're gonna wanna borrow some popcorn and plop down to watch 1989's "The Borrower"! Enjoy! Email us with your favorite dog-headed man at creatingcannon@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter and Instagram and Facebook @CreatingCannon! And Subscribe to us on YouTube!

We go over the script for the S&H episode Hutchinson for Murder One, pointing out details and changes that intrigue and delight us. But first, we talk about Antonio Fargas’s roles in Cherif and Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and then about Hutch’s star-and-moon necklace! We are now on iTunes and Stitcher! Episode Notes: Zebra Docs (The episode of … Continue reading "Gentle Loving Psychiatrist"

This week's Throwback Thursday episode we are reviewing the coolest of the cool that is Cleopatra Jones! Starring Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Esther Rolle, and Shelley Winters.

Topics: Black History Month, Chaka Khan, Car Wash (film), What's Happening! (TV). (Bonus Artist: hidingtobefound)   1976   1.    Snap Shots   2.    General News   3.    Gerald Ford is President   4.    Apr - Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.   5.    Jul - In New York City, the "Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing 1 and seriously wounding another, in the first of a series of attacks that terrorize the city for the next year.   6.    Jul - U.S. track and field athlete Bruce Jenner (@ age 27) won the gold medal for decathlon, setting a world record of 8,634 points.   7.    Nov - U.S. presidential election, 1976: Jimmy Carter defeats incumbent Gerald Ford, becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the Civil War.   8.    Misc.: VHS released, and eventually won the war with Betamax tapes, although most agree it was an inferior product.    9.    Open Comments   10.    Money Snapshots   11.    Min. wage = $2.30hr (+.20) / $92wk / $4,600k yrly - 2018 = $20,408yrly   12.    Avg. Income per year - $16,095   13.    Avg. Cost of new house - $43,340   14.    Avg. Rent - $220   15.    Avg. Cost new car - $4,557   16.    Unemployment 7.8% vs Black unemployment 12%   17.    Open Comments   18.    Black Snapshots   19.    Jul - Sugar Ray Leonard (@ age 20), Leon Spinks (@ age 23), Michael Spinks (@ age 20) won gold medals in boxing.   20.    Jul - Twenty-year-old Morehouse College student Edwin Moses sets a new world record in the 400m hurdles,   21.    Aug - Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley (@ age 55) is published. in 1976. (Forty-six weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List, w/ twenty-two weeks at number one.) (TV mini-series already in production)   22.    Open Comments   23.    Music Snapshots   24.    Record of the Year: "This Masquerade" - George Benson (artist) & Tommy LiPuma (producer)   25.    Album of the Year: Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder (artist) & Stevie Wonder (producer)   26.    Song of the Year: "I Write the Songs" - Bruce Johnston (songwriter) (for performed by Barry Manilow)   27.    Best New Artist: Starland Vocal Band   28.    Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1976   1.    "Silly Love Songs", Wings   2.    "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", Elton John & Kiki Dee   3.    "Disco Lady", Johnnie Taylor   29.    Open Comments   30.    Movie Snapshots   31.    Highest-grossing films   1.    Rocky   2.    To Fly! - *(Weird documentary film about the history of flight)   3.    A Star Is Born   4.    All the President's Men   32.    Open Comments   33.    TV Snapshots   34.    To Shows   1.    - Happy Days   2.    - Laverne & Shirley   3.    - M*A*S*H   35.    Debuts:    36.    Aug - What's Happening!!   37.    Open Comments   38.    Social Scene   39.    What: Black History Month   40.    Why: First year of national recognition   41.    Key Person(s): Carter G. Woodson, the "father of black history" (d. 1950), historian, author, and journalist.   42.    Short Story:   43.    Started as Negro History Week (1926)   44.    Woodson (@ age 51) announced the second week of February to be "Negro History Week" because it covered the birthdays of both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Woodson said teaching black history was essential to ensure physical and    45.    intellectual survival. - "If a race has no history, it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. The American Indian left no continuous record. He did not appreciate the value of    46.    tradition; and where is he today? The Hebrew keenly appreciated the value of tradition, as is attested by the Bible itself. Despite worldwide persecution, therefore, he is a great factor in our civilization."   47.    The push for Black History Month (1970 -76)   48.    BHM was first proposed at Kent State University in February 1969.  The first celebration happened in 1970. Six years later, President Gerald Ford recognized BHM during the Bicentennial celebration. - "[Americans should] seize the opportunity to honor the    49.    too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history".   50.    Open Comments   51.    Question 1: Is BH "M" too small/short of an emphasis or just, about right?   52.    Question 2:  Did you do anything for BHM growing up &/or while raising your kids?    53.    Music Scene   54.    Billboard Year-End Top 40 Black singles of 1976   55.    3 - "Disco Lady", Johnnie Taylor   56.    6 - "Kiss and Say Goodbye", The Manhattans   57.    7 - "Love Machine", The Miracles   58.    11 - "Sara Smile", Hall & Oates   59.    14 - "Fly, Robin, Fly", Silver Convention   60.    15 - "Love Hangover", Diana Ross   61.    19 - "Misty Blue", Dorothy Moore   62.    20 - "Boogie Fever", The Sylvers   63.    22 - "You Sexy Thing", Hot Chocolate   64.    24 - "Get Up and Boogie", Silver Convention   65.    27 - "Sweet Love", Commodores   66.    28 - "Right Back Where We Started From", Maxine Nightingale   67.    29 - "Theme from S.W.A.T.", Rhythm Heritage   68.    30 - "Love Rollercoaster", Ohio Players   69.    32 - "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine", Lou Rawls   70.    Vote:   71.    Jan - Gratitude, Earth, Wind & Fire   72.    Jan - Wake Up Everybody, Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes   73.    Feb - Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan, Rufus And Chaka Khan   74.    Apr - Eargasm, Johnnie Taylor   75.    Apr - Brass Construction, Brass Construction   76.    May - I Want You, Marvin Gaye   77.    May - Breezin', George Benson   78.    May - Look Out For #1, The Brothers Johnson   79.    June - Harvest For The World, The Isley Brothers   80.    Jul - Contradiction, Ohio Players   81.    Jul - Sparkle (Soundtrack), Aretha Franklin   82.    Aug - All Things In Time, Lou Rawls   83.    Aug - Hot On The Tracks, Commodores   84.    Sep - Wild Cherry, Wild Cherry   85.    Sep - Hot On The Tracks, Commodores   86.    Oct - Songs In The Key Of Life, Stevie Wonder   87.    Vote:   88.    Key Artists   89.    Who: Yvette Marie Steven, a.k.a., Chaka Khan (@ age 23) - Queen of Funk, singer, songwriter, actor, activist.   90.    Why is she being featured: "Sweet Thing", she is breaking out, and I don't want to cover disco yet.   91.    Short story:   92.    Born and raised in Chicago housing projects, the oldest of five. Started singing early, formed a girl group at age eleven. Changed her name to Chaka Adunne Aduffe Hodarhi Karifi at thirteen and started running around with the Fred Hampton and the Panthers.  In 1969, at age16, she dropped out of high school, left the Panthers, and focused on singing with local bands. In 1973, she joined the band Rufus. The first album in 1973 was a dud, but Stevie Wonder was so impressed by Chaka Khan's vocals, he wanted to write a song specifically for her. "Tell Me Something Good", written by Stevie, on their 1974 album won a Grammy. (He also played harmonica on 'I Feel For You'.). But, because of her increasing popularity the record label started calling the group Rufus "Featuring" Chaka Khan, (which was the title of their fourth album that had the hit single "Sweet Thing") and this caused tension in the band. She was back and forth with the group for a few years. Went solo in 1978 and became a legend. (10 Grammys, 8 of them solo) 93.    [Audio Clip]   94.    Open Comments:   95.    Movie Scene   96.    Notable releases   97.    Mother, Jugs & Speed, starring Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel   98.    The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, starring Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, & Richard Pryor   99.    Silver Streak, starring Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh, Ned Beatty, Ray Walston, Patrick McGoohan   100.    Open Comments   101.    Key Release   102.    What: Car Wash   103.    Who:  Starring Franklyn Ajaye, Bill Duke, George Carlin, Irwin Corey, Ivan Dixon, Antonio Fargas, Jack Kehoe, Clarence Muse, Lorraine Gary, The Pointer Sisters, and Richard Pryor.   104.    Director: Michael Schultz - Honeybaby, Honeybaby (1974), Cooley High (1975), Greased Lightning (1977), Which Way Is Up? (1977), Bustin' Loose (1981), Carbon Copy (1981), Krush Groove (1985), Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon (1985), Disorderlies (1987), Livin' Large! (1991), Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004)   105.    Why is it featured: The Soundtrack is DOPE!!   106.    Short Story: An episodic comedy about a day in the lives of the employees and the owner of a Los Angeles car wash.   107.    Critic Review: "Car Wash initially left critics unimpressed (except for Roger Ebert who correctly called it a "wash-and-wax M*A*S*H") but over the decades both the film and the soundtrack have left their mark on pop culture. With its Afros, bell-bottoms, cars as big as boats, and disco soundtrack, Car Wash is a perfect time-capsule of America's bicentennial year." - http://www.threemoviebuffs.com/review/car-wash.html   108.    [Audio Clips]   109.    Open Comments   110.    TV Scene   111.    What: What's Happening!!   112.    Who: Starring Ernest Lee Thomas, Haywood Nelson, Fred Berry, Danielle Spencer, Mabel King, Shirley Hemphill   113.    Why is it featured: The last show dedicated to black families until(?) The Cosby Show in 1984. The next few years introduced the interracial family dynamic. (Different Strokes like stuff.)   114.    Short Story: Loosely based on Cooley High. What's Happening!! follows the lives of three working-class African-American teens living in Watts.   115.    Critic Review: Unlike its contemporary Good Times, What's Happening!! isn't committed to presenting enlightening social commentary or providing empowering African-American role models. Most of the problems the gang faces here are typical of what kids from any community have to deal with. While the show has its funny moments (especially when Dee offers her strong, often sarcastic opinions), much of the show's humor stems from a slapstick-like comedy style that's reminiscent of the minstrel show stereotypes of the 1930s - https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/whats-happening   116.    [Audio Clips]   117.    Open Comments:   118.    Final Question: Biggest legacy from 1976?

Our guest on this episode is Ilana, who has been buying Starsky & Hutch fanzines since the 80s, has met David Soul, Paul Michael Glaser, and Antonio Fargas on multiple occasions, and runs a very active S&H fan group on Facebook.  We discuss shifts in fandom platforms and learn about the European S&H fan experience! … Continue reading "Episode 14: At the Stage Door"

The GHR Crew is back at it again! This week, apart from the usual banter: the gang chats about everything pop culture with all the trimmings and the cast is joined by legendary actor, the original 'Huggie Bear' himself - Antonio Fargas. They discuss the upcoming, 'Starsky and Hutch' Reunion, Foxy Brown, Shaft, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka and a LOT more. Enjoy!

The GHR Crew is back at it again! This week, apart from the usual banter: the gang chats about everything pop culture with all the trimmings and the cast is joined by legendary actor, the original 'Huggie Bear' himself - Antonio Fargas. They discuss the upcoming, 'Starsky and Hutch' Reunion, Foxy Brown, Shaft, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka and a LOT more. Enjoy!

Let’s talk about crossovers! Quantum Leap, House M.D., Person of Interest… what cool stories emerge when characters of these and other shows meet Starsky & Hutch? Also, Rachel reviews the episode of Cherif in which Antonio Fargas reprises his role as Huggy Bear, and we discuss Paul Michael Glaser’s performance in the 1971 film of … Continue reading "Episode 09: The Hottest Michael Glaser"

What would the alternate universe look like where Starsky and Hutch ran crime instead of fighting crime? What about the AU where they’re baristas? Mermen? Wizards at Hogwarts? Join us as we take the cast of S&H on a dizzying journey of universe-hopping! Also, learn about Antonio Fargas resuming his role as Huggy in the … Continue reading "Episode 07: Make Mine AU"

Come listen to Rachel react to the news that the Starsky & Hutch actors are flirting on Twitter! In this episode we explore how we would genre-swap S&H, discuss Antonio Fargas’s roles in 1976’s Car Wash and 2018’s Black Lightning, react to seeing the episode “Dandruff” for the first time, and decide which episodes we … Continue reading "Episode 06"

Episode 283 of Trick or Treat Radio is the last show of 2017 and we celebrate with a birthday party/intervention for Michael Ravenshadow! In honor of the birthday boy, we asked fellow podcaster and reformed super villain, Dr. Joseph Tron to join us in studio to discuss a film about real people doing real things with the Robert Pattinson crime thriller, Good Time from the Safdie Brothers. We also wrap up this year’s December Double Feature Cram Jam with one of Dynamo’s most anticipated films of the year- Beyond Skyline from director Liam O’Donnell and featuring Frank Grillo and Iko Uwais (from The Raid films). We also talk about our favorite Michael Ravenshadow stories, quotes and bungles, more gifts are handed out and there is much reminiscing. So grab your soda bottle full of acid, german suplex an alien and strap on for the world’s most dangerous talk radio show! Stuff we talk about: Lots of Dicks, Good Time, #RobertPattinson, The Safdie Brothers, Teen Titans, Orion and his Astro Harness, leg contest, The Outside Corner Fantasy Baseball Podcast, 401 Stories, Captain America or The Avengers?, The Ravenshadow Death Pool, “Twilight” did a great job, the language of love, sneeze of war, falling asleep in the theater, Baby Driver, Cult of Muscle #200, Thor: Fraggle Rock, the “racism” card, getting taken off the air, Pat Patterson, Dave Bautista, Bushwick, legit Top 13 lists, The Deadites “Blue Christmas”, 48 Hours remake, Beyond Skyline, Frank Grillo, Plex, Iko Uwais, Antonio Fargas, Stephen Scarlata, Jakey-Poo, Liam O’Donnell, Talk Without Rhythm #400, Skyline, Crazy ‘ol Rick’s Time Card, filming in Indonesia, Baby Gap, Alien vs. Predator: Requiem, Twilight, The Charles Durning Point, Buffalo Stance, lens flares, no selling a jump off the house, NCW remembered, Zoidberg, The Raid films, Mad Dog, Cthulhu, Lovecraft, a tale of two films, action/horror and action/sci-fi, 401 Stories Deleted Scenes, Ravenshadow’s rituals, Alabama Flash Facts, Robert Pattinson fans, how to make scrambled eggs, kung-glusion, Ravenshadow stories, superkicking and crotch-chopping a spider, Superman pajama pants, (508) 911…, the Soda Bottle and Poor Judgment, Bombaleo come out and play-ay, Robert Patrick, Raven J, and the god of correctional institutions.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradio)

Special Guests: Antonio Fargas, Peter McCarthyGuest Co-Host: Chris CumminsKeenan Ivory Wayans's I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) is at once a parody of and follow-up to Blaxploitation films of the 1970s. In it, Wayans stars as Jack Spade, the new blood trying to take down Mr. Big (John Vernon) with a team of classic heroes like John Slade (Bernie Casey), Hammer (Isaac Hayes), Slammer (Jim Brown), Kung Fu Joe (Steve James) and Fly Guy (Antonio Fargas).Chris Cummins joins Mike to discuss the film. Special guests include actor Antonio Fargas (Putney Swope, Cleopatra Jones) and producer Peter McCarthy (Tapeheads, Roadside Prophets).

On the second episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Carl Kolchak squared off against the Italian and African-American mob of Chicago as well as the titular zombie.Written by Zekial Marko and David Chase, the episode was directed by Alexander Grasshoff (The Jailbreakers).The episode introduces us to Carol Ann Susi as Monique Marmelstein, the niece of INS's publisher.Links:Buy Kolchak: The Night Stalker series on DVDBuy Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone: A Fifth-Dimension Guide to Life by Mark DawidziakRead the It Couldn't Happen Here discussion of "The Zombie"Visit The Kolchak Tapes Facebook pageSubscribe to The Kolchak Tapes on iTunes

(02-02-2017) - We dive into the 70s with TV's original Starsky and Huggy Bear, Paul Michael Glaser and Antonio Fargas! We get the inside car story behind the show's 76 Ford Torino, what Huggy did for a living, and how Glaser came to produce, write and direct a movie starring former NBA great Shaquille O'Neal! We also get their own car stories!

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the guys are back to discuss the 1976 film starring a whole host of young actors Franklyn Ajaye, Bill Duke, George Carlin, Irwin Corey, Ivan Dixon, Antonio Fargas, Jack Kehoe, Clarence Muse, Lorraine Gary, The Pointer Sisters, and Richard Pryor. Car Wash is an episodic comedy about a day in the lives of the employees and the owner, Mr. B (Sully Boyar), of a Los Angeles, California car wash (filmed at a Westlake car wash at the corner of Rampart Blvd. and 6th St.)

Antonio Fargas, best known as "Huggy Bear" took some time to talk with Matthew Sardo about his acting career that spans 50 plus years and his current gig as brand ambassador for NBC's COZI TV.

On this episode of "ROAM" we discuss interracial dating & whether or not it is the result of people who are frustrated and/or uncomfortable with their own race.  Check out your host Nafeesha Pasha aka Flawlessdarapchick & her new co-host Desmond Maurice Carter aka "DMC".  Tune in to our show every Wednesday from 9pm-11pm. Call in to 646 478 4069 to listen in and/or talk live from your phone or log on to Blogtalkradio.com! 

On this episode of "ROAM" we interview famed 60's Blaxploitation actor Antonio Fargas most known for playing the character of "Huggy Bear" in Starsky & Hutch. Mr. Fargas has had roles in a variety of movies & Television shows including, "Martin", "I'm gonna get you sucka", "All my children", "The Fresh Prince of Bel-air" & many more. We will also discuss the Questions of the day:  Is it ever okay to sleep with a married man or woman? Is it ever okay to sleep with someone who is in a relationship? Tune in to our show every Wednesday from 9pm-11pm. Call in to 646 478 4069 to listen in and/or talk live from your phone or log on to Blogtalkradio.com! 

Host: Charles "IamBranded" Madison Guest: Television Icon  Antonio Fargas Call number: (949) 270-5912 Television Icon Antoino Fargus is on board to discuss his New Jump Blues and other entertainment topics The ensemble showcases dynamic front man Antonio "Huggy Bear" Fargas who gained fame as an actor earning the nickname as the iconic street character from the mid-'70s television series Starsky & Hutch. He has also appeared in countless films such as "I'm Gonna Get You, Sucka", "Foxy Brown" and played a recurring role Everybody Hates Chris. Call in and support the show and hear from Mr. Fargas (949) 270-5912 Nexxlegacy is a global multimedia brand dedicated in providing direction to help strengthen aspiring artists in growing & enhancing personal goals. Follow @Nexxlegacy & @iambranded twitter Instagram: iambranded Facebook: www.facebook.com/nexxlegacy  

Today on the Jeff Foxx radio show. We'll talk to author and publisher Emmanuel  young. Emmanuel is working on many projects one of which is helping a young orphan boy in  Gana. Emmanuel speaks of his struggles his perseverance and his fight for survival. Also in my new artist Spotlight we'll hear multiple tracks from smooth R&B artist TOMI. Plus Our good friend, millionaire Paul Jones is back to talk about his wealth day conference going on in Minneapolis this weekend with special guest Antonio Fargas,find out what this is all about today on the Jeff Foxx radio.  

SHOW NOTES: Welcome to our fifteenth edition of the Cult TV Insider.1 min 05 secs: UK TV NEWS. Sky One commission another Terry Pratchett production with David Jason, and Martin Freeman relies on some magic for his next TV role. 3 mins 35 secs: BRAND NEW GUESTS FOR THE CULT TV FESTIVAL WEEKENDER. Great news for fans of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Logan’s Run, Planet of the Apes, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, SeaQuest 2032, Land of the Lost and Garrison’s Gorillas who like to see their favourite stars in person. Cult TV announces SIX brand new guests for the ultimate holiday break for television appreciators, happening 19-22 October 2007 at the Heythrop Park Hotel near Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire. It is a charity benefit event organised by unpaid volunteers, by fans for fans, in aid of the Cinema & Television Benevolent Fund (CTBF). Get all the details of the 72 hour non-stop programme and details of onsite accommodation at www.Cult.TV.These new guests join Ben Miller (Primeval), Matthew Graham (writer & Co-creator of Life on Mars), James Morrison (Bill Buchanan from 24 and McQueen from Space: Above and Beyond), Jared Martin (War of the Worlds, The Fantastic Journey, Dallas), Ike Eisenmann (The Fantastic Journey, Star Trek, Escape from Witch Mountain), Antonio Fargas (Starsky & Hutch), Liz Morgan (Captain Scarlet & The Mysterons), and Stephanie Waring (Hollyoaks, Coronation Street), amongst many others, on the list of those you can meet by joining in at the live Cult TV event this Autumn. 6 mins 45 secs: RATINGS NEWS. We go Stateside and find some bad news for the previously unbeatable Heroes series. And Nathan Fillion of Firefly fame’s new show Drive has been cancelled after just two weeks on air.10 mins 05 secs: UK DVD RELEASES. All the titles of note getting a release in the UK in May 2007. 12 mins 35 secs: TV THEMED MUSIC OF THE WEEK. Years of Static play Off in Space for us. 15 mins 40 secs: US TV NEWS. Traveler finally makes it to transmission. Kyle XY gets a second season, Ghost Whisperer anticipates its renewal with additions to its production personnel, has Law & Order reached the end of its natural life, meanwhile things look good for Jericho returning.28 mins 10 secs: SPIN-OFF NEWS. A special of Robot Chicken devoted to Star Wars, even featuring the voice of George Lucas, more on the spin-off to Grey’s Anatomy, a Spider-man Broadway musical in the works, and which star of Lost is joining the cast of the big screen version of Speed Racer?For information on this year’s Cult TV Festival Weekender, visit www.cult.tv. Visit our forums to give your feedback at www.culttv.info.End credits music comes from Jeff Shields – Podcast Troubadour. You can download this 15th issue via the following link:http://www.culttv.net/podcast/CTVInsider015_300407.mp3.Be seeing you!CULT TV INSIDER - News, Reviews and Interviews in the worlds of extraordinary fictional television - Details at www.CultTVinsider.com