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Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Josh Duggan of Unkind Rewind @UnkindRewind about about Jackie Brown! After Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino's third film Jackie Brown was released in 1997. Starring Pam Grier two decades after Foxy Brown and an aging Robert Forster and Samuel L. Jackson as well as Robert De Niro, Bridgette Fonda, Michael Keaton, Michael Bowen. It's both an adaptation of the 1992 Elmore Leonard novel Rum Punch and a love letter to '70s blaxploitation #filmpodcast #moviepodcast #tarantinofilms #tarantino #robertdeniro #samuelljackson #jackiebrown #reservoirdogs #pulpfiction #foxybrown #pamgrier #elmore #blaxploitation #rumpunch #blackcinema #spikelee Join our discord: https://discord.gg/ZHU8W55pnhJoin our Patreon to get all our After Parties https://www.patreon.com/MovieNightExtra

Can we fast-track cures for diseases? Hear about exciting discoveries in novel therapeutics, nanomedicines, AI and neuroimaging with leading researchers Michael Bowen, Victoria Cogger and Chenyu Tim Wang. Hosted by Tegan Taylor, ABC health and science journalist. This podcast is a recording of a live public event held on 22 August 2024. For more links and resources, including the transcript, visit Sydney Ideas website: bit.ly/3XyTUuJ

Murfreesboro Police Chief Michael Bowen interacts with the public about local law enforcement issues. 

Welcome back to the Coming of Cage podcast, your Nicolas Cage movie review podcast, home of the Wheel-O-Cage, Cage-O-Meter, and CAGE-O Bingo! This is Episode 50 of the show and we're talking Nicolas Cage's 1983 romantic comedy, Valley Girl where Nic plays a cool guy on the fringe of society trying to woo a girl from the valley. It's totally tripindicular, dudes! He stars alongside Deborah Foreman, E.G. Daily, Michael Bowen, and more. Thanks for joining us. Let's hit it.Then we run our little computer system thingy to find out what movie joins the Wheel-O-Cage next!Don't forget to check out our social media pages to see the next Wheel-O-Cage spin and find out what movie we're reviewing next on the show!Plus, CAGE-O Bingo!Subscribe & Support Our ShowLinks: comingofcage.comMerch Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/derricostudios?ref_id=7261Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coming-of-cage/id1625687655Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1mVw6A52QjbMeQicIlj4i7Spreaker: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/coming-of-cage--6057154RSS Feed: http://derricostudios.com/feed/podcast/comingofcageJoin our Film Forum for news, memes, spoiler conversations, tournaments, polls, and more: Facebook.com/groups/ScreenHeroesComing of Cage Podcast CreditsA Derrico Studios ProductionHosted by Derreck Mayer & Ryan CoutureExecutive Producer & Editor: Derreck Mayer

Law & Order: Murfreesboro Police Chief Michael Bowen and PIO Larry Flowers

The Human Be-In was conceived by Visionary artist Michael Bowen as a "Gathering of the Tribes" to unite various counterculture factions, from the emerging hippie movement to activists advocating for social ...

This week on Fabulous Film & Friends we're going to groove to a tryptic of cool Elmore Leonard adaptations. Why? Because we're that cool. We be talkin' 1995's Get Shorty directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring John Travolta, Rene Russo, Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, Delroy Lindo, James Gandlafini, David Paymer and Bette Midler up against 1997's Jackie Brown , directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Robert DeNiro, Bridget Fonda, Michael Bowen and Michael Keaton, capped off with 1998's Out of Sight directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Steve Zahn, Dennis Farina again, Albert Brooks and Michael Keaton again. My guests this week are two of my favorite muscle: Lit major and lil' Sis Roseanne Caputi and Actor/ Funnyman/ Photographer, Alex Robertson. Before we jump into the getaway car, the synopses.Get Shorty  tells the story of Chili Palmer, mob muscle from Florida who has to collect money in Hollywood for his boss Bones Barboni and in the process becomes involved with a producer named Harry Zimm and finds himself a creative in the movie business.  Jackie Brown centers around a Flight Attendant Jackie Brown who gets nabbed by the ATF for smuggling money for the murderous arms dealer Ordell Robbie. She strikes a deal with ATF agent Ray Nicollette and in doing so schemes with Bail Bondsman Max Cherry to fool the feds and take down Ordell in one felled swoop.Out of Sight is a cat and mouse  love story between master bank robber Jack Foley and Federal Marshall Karen Sisco where the two meet during a jailbreak in which Jack takes Karen hostage and they develop an attraction as they ride in the trunk of a car together. Karen escapes and they go their separate ways. Though Jack is determined to pull off one more score or die trying, Karen is determined to take Jack down, and yet they can't overcome their desire to meet up again. And again. And again.   Who's the coolest? Find out!

Law & Order in Murfreesboro: Police Chief Michael Bowen and Capt. Clayton Williams City has created a REAL-TIME CRIME CENTER to gather information and make it available

Harry Nelson is with us to make sure we know there's an easy answer for everything: Drive rules.   @harrrynelson @DerickArmijo @SingleSeasonTV singleseasonrecord@gmail.com    

Couch Potato Theater: Valley Girl (1983) & 40th Anniversary Screening Hollywood TCL Chinese Theatre Watch the video version of this Couch Potato Theater episode on the Fandom Podcast Network YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@FandomPodcastNetwork Welcome to Couch Potato Theater here on the Fandom Podcast Network! On Couch Potato Theater we celebrate our favorite movies! On this episode we celebrate the classic 80's teen comedy Valley Girl (1983)! And we discuss our first hand experience of the Valley Girl 40th Anniversary Screening at the Hollywood TCL Chinese Theatre on April 27th, 2023, which included a special Q & A with many members of the cast and crew. Valley Girl is a 1983 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Martha Coolidge and starring Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Michelle Meyrink, Elizabeth Daily, Cameron Dye and Michael Bowen. Valley Girl was released in the United States on April 29, 1983. The early 1980's story is based loosely on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The film originally was conceived as a teen film to capitalize on the Southern California valley girl fad inspired by the Frank and Moon Unit Zappa song "Valley Girl", released in June of 1982.   Fandom Podcast Network Contact Information - The FANDOM PODCAST NETWORK YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/c/FandomPodcastNetwork - Master feed for all FPNet Audio Podcasts: http://fpnet.podbean.com/ - Couch Potato Theater Audio Podcast Master Feed:  https://fpnet.podbean.com/category/couch-potato-theater - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Fandompodcastnetwork - Email: fandompodcastnetwork@gmail.com - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fandompodcastnetwork/ - Twitter: @fanpodnetwork / https://twitter.com/fanpodnetwork Fandom Podcast Network Couch Potato Theater Host & Guest Contact Info: Host Contact Info: - Kevin Reitzel on Twitter & Instagram: @spartan_phoenix - Erin Reitzel Gill on Instagram: @eringill666 Guest(s) Social Media Contact Info: - Jennifer Walk on Instagram: @ChefStomp9 - Tee Public Fandom Podcast Network Store:  https://www.teepublic.com/stores/fandom-podcast-network #ValleyGirl #ValleyGirl1983 #ValleyGirl40thAnniversary #HollywoodTCLChineseTheatre

This week, we take a look back at a movie celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its theatrical release this coming Saturday, a movie that made a star of its unconventional lead actor, and helped make its director one of a number of exciting female filmmakers to break through in the early part of the decade. The movie Martha Coolidge's 1983 comedy Valley Girl, starring Nicolas Cage and Deborah Foreman. ----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're going to be looking back at a movie that will be celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its original theatrical release. A movie that would turn one of its leads into a star, and thrust its director into the mainstream, at least for a short time.   We're talking about the 1983 Martha Coolidge film Valley Girl, which is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its release this Saturday, with a special screening tonight, Thursday, April 27th 2023, at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood with its director, doing a Q&A session after the show.   But, as always, before we get to Valley Girl, we head back in time.    A whole eleven months, in fact. To May 1982.   That month, the avant-garde musical genius known as Frank Zappa released his 35th album, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch. Released on Zappa's own Barking Pumpkin record label, Drowning Witch would feature a song he co-wrote with his fourteen year old daughter Moon Unit Zappa. Frank would regularly hear his daughter make fun of the young female mallrats she would encounter throughout her days, and one night, Frank would be noodling around in his home recording studio when inspiration struck. He would head up to Moon's room, wake her up and bring her down to the studio, asking her to just repeat in that silly Valspeak voice she did all the crazy things she heard being said at parties, bar mitzvahs and the Sherman Oaks Galleria shopping center, which would become famous just a couple months later as the mall where many of the kids from Ridgemont High worked in Amy Heckerling's breakthrough movie, Fast Times at Ridgemont High. For about an hour, Frank would record Moon spouting off typical valley girl phrases, before he sent her back up to her room to go back to sleep.   In a couple days, Frank Zappa would bring his band, which at the time included guitar virtuoso Steve Vai in his first major musical gig, into the home studio to lay down the music to this weird little song he wrote around his daughter's vocals.   “Valley Girl” wold not be a celebration of the San Fernando Valley, an area Zappa described as “a most depressing place,” or the way these young ladies presented themselves. Zappa in general hated boring generic repetitive music, but “Valley Girl” would be one of the few songs Zappa would ever write or record that followed a traditional 4/4 time signature.   In the spring of 1982, the influential Los Angeles radio station KROQ would obtain an acetate disc of the song, several weeks before Drowning Witch was to be released on an unsuspecting public. Zappa himself thought it was a hoot the station that had broken such bands as The Cars, Duran Duran, The Police, Talking Heads and U2 was even considering playing his song, but KROQ was his daughter's favorite radio station, and she was able to persuade the station to play the song during an on-air interview with her.   The kids at home went nuts for the song, demanding the station play it again. And again. And again. Other radio stations across the country started to get calls from their listeners, wanting to hear this song that hadn't been officially released yet, and Zappa's record label would rush to get copies out to any radio station that asked for it.   The song would prove to be very popular, become the only single of the forty plus he released during his recording career to become a Top 40 radio hit, peaking at number 32. Ironically, the song would popularize the very cadence it was mocking with teenagers around the country, and the next time Zappa and his band The Mothers of Invention would tour, he would apologize to the Zappa faithful for having created a hit record. "The sad truth,” he would say before going into the song, “is that if one continues to make music year after year, eventually something will be popular. I spent my career fighting against creating marketable art, but this one slipped through the cracks. I promise to do my best never to have this happen again."   As the song was becoming popular in Los Angeles, actor Wayne Crawford and producer Andrew Lane had been working on a screenplay about star-crossed lovers that was meant to be a cheap quickie exploitation film not unlike Zapped! or Porky's. But after hearing Zappa's song, the pair would quickly rewrite the lead character, Julie, into a valley girl, and retitle their screenplay, Bad Boyz… yes, Boyz, with a Z… as Valley Girl.   Atlantic Entertainment Company, an independent film production company, had recently started their own distribution company, and were looking for movies that could be made quickly, cheaply, and might be able to become some kind of small hit. One of the scripts that would cross their desk were Crawford and Lane's Valley Girl. Within a week, Atlantic would already have a $350,000 budget set aside to make the film.   The first thing they needed was a director.   Enter Martha Coolidge.   A graduate of the same New York University film program that would give us Joel Coen, Amy Heckerling, Ang Lee, Spike Lee and Todd Phillips, Coolidge had been working under the tutelage of Academy Award-winner Francis Ford Coppola at the filmmaker's Zoetrope Studios. She had made her directorial debut, Not a Pretty Picture in 1976, but the film, a docu-drama based on Coolidge's own date rape she suffered at the age of 16, would not find a big audience. She had made another movie, City Girl, with Peter Riegert and Colleen Camp, in 1982, with Peter Bogdanovich as a producer, but the film's potential release was cancelled when Bogdanovich's company Moon Pictures went bankrupt after the release of his 1981 movie They All Laughed, which we covered last year. She knew she needed to get on a film with a good chance of getting released, and with Coppola's encouragement, Coolidge would throw her proverbial hat into the ring, and she would get the job, in part because she had some directing experience, but also because she was willing to accept the $5,000 Atlantic was offering for the position.   Now that she had the job, it was time for Coolidge to get to casting. It was her goal to show an authentic teenage experience in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, absent of stereotypes. As someone whose background was in documentary filmmaking, Coolidge wanted Valley Girl to feel as real as possible.   Her first choice for the role of Randy, the proto-punk Romeo to Julie's… well, Juliet… Coolidge was keen on a twenty-three year old unknown who had not yet acted in anything in movies, on television, or even a music video. Judd Nelson had been studying with Stella Adler in New York City, and there was something about his look that Coolidge really liked. But when she offered the role to Nelson, he had just booked an acting gig that would make him unavailable when the film would be shooting. So it was back to the pile of headshots that had been sent to the production office. And in that pile, she would find the headshot of eighteen year old Nicolas Cage, who at the time only had one movie credit, as one of Judge Reinhold's co-workers in Fast Times. Coolidge would show the photo to her casting director, telling them they needed to find someone like him, someone who wasn't a conventionally handsome movie actor.   So the casting director did just that. Went out and got someone like Nicolas Cage. Specifically, Nicolas Cage.   What Coolidge didn't know was that Cage's real name was Nicolas Coppola, and that his uncle was Coolidge's boss. She would only learn this when she called the actor to offer him the role, and he mentioned he would need to check his schedule on the Coppola movie he was about to start shooting on, Rumble Fish. Francis Coppola made sure the shooting schedule was re-arranged so his nephew could accept his first leading role.   For Julie, Coolidge wanted only one person: Deborah Foreman, a twenty-year-old former model who had only done commercials for McDonalds at this point in her career. Although she was born in Montebello CA, mere miles from the epicenter of the San Fernando Valley, Foreman had spent her formative years in Texas, and knew nothing about the whole Valley Girl phenomenon until she was cast in the film.   Supporting roles would be filled by a number of up and coming young actors, including Elizabeth Daily and Michelle Mayrink as Julie's friends, Cameron Dye as Randy's best friend, and Michael Bowen as Julie's ex-boyfriend, while Julie's parents would be played by Frederic Forrest and Colleen Camp, two industry veterans who had briefly worked together on Apocalypse Now.   As the scheduled start date of October 25th, 1982, rolled closer, Martha Coolidge would be the first director to really learn just how far Nicolas Cage was willing to go for a role. He would start sleeping in his car, to better understand Randy, and he would, as Randy, write Foreman's character Julie a poem that, according to a May 2020 New York Times oral history about the film, Foreman still has to this day. In a 2018 IMDb talk with director Kevin Smith, Cage would say that it was easy for his performance to happen in the film because he had a massive crush on Foreman during the making of the film.   Because of the film's extremely low budget, the filmmakers would often shoot on locations throughout Los Angeles they did not have permits for, stealing shots wherever they could. But one place they would spend money on was the movie's soundtrack, punctuated by live performances by Los Angeles band The Plimsouls and singer Josie Cotton, which were filmed at the Sunset Strip club now known as The Viper Room.   The film would only have a twenty day shooting schedule, which meant scenes would have to be shot quickly and efficiently, with as few hiccups as possible. But this wouldn't stop Cage from occasionally improvising little bits that Coolidge loved so much, she would keep them in the film, such as Randy spitting his gum at Julie's ex, and the breakup scene, where Randy digs into Julie by using Valspeak.   In early January 1983, while the film was still being edited, Frank Zappa would file a lawsuit against the film, seeking $100,000 in damages and an injunction to stop the film from being released, saying the film would unfairly dilute the trademark of his song. The lawsuit would force Coolidge to have a cut of her movie ready to screen for the judge before she was fully done with it. But when Coolidge screened this rushed cut to Atlantic and its lawyers, the distributor was pleasantly surprised to see the director hadn't just made a quickie exploitation film but something with genuine heart and soul that could probably have a much longer lifespan. They were originally planning on releasing the film during the later part of the summer movie season, but now knowing what they had on their hands, Atlantic would set an April 29th release date… pending, of course, on the outcome of the Zappa lawsuit.   In March, the judge would issue their ruling, in favor of the film, saying there would be no confusion in the public's mind between the song and the film, and Atlantic would continue to prepare for the late April release.   One of the things Coolidge really fought for was to have a wall of great new wave songs throughout the film, something Atlantic was hesitant to pay for, until they saw Coolidge's cut. They would spend another $250k on top of the $350k production budget to secure songs from The Psychedelic Furs, The Payolas, Men at Work, Toni Basil, The Flirts and Sparks, on top of the songs played by The Plimsouls and Josie Cotton in the film.   Valley Girl would be one of three new movies opening on April 29th, alongside Disney's adaptation of the Ray Bradbury story Something Wicked This Way Comes, and The Hunger, the directorial debut of filmmaker Tony Scott. Opening on only 442 screens, Valley Girl would come in fourth place for the weekend, grossing $1.86m in its first three days. However, its $4200 per screen average would be better than every movie in the top 15, including the #1 film in the nation that weekend, Flashdance. Not bad for a film that was only playing in one third of the country.   In its second weekend, Valley Girl would fall to seventh place, with $1.33m worth of ticket sold, but its per screen average would be second only to the new Cheech and Chong movie, Still Smokin'. Over the next three months, the film would continue to perform well, never playing in more screens than it did in its opening weekend, but never falling out of the top 15 while Atlantic was tracking it. When all was said and done, Valley Girl would have grossed $17.34m in the United States, not a bad return on a $600k production and music clearance budget.   There was supposed to be an accompanying soundtrack album for the film that, according to the movie's poster, would be released on Epic Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records whose eclectic roster of artists included Michael Jackson, The Clash and Liza Minnelli, but it turns out the filmmakers only ended up only getting music clearances for the movie, so that release would get cancelled and a six-song mini-LP would be created through a label Atlantic Pictures created called Roadshow Records. But then that album got cancelled, even though some copies had been printed, so it wouldn't be until 1994 that an actual soundtrack for the film would be released by Rhino Records. That release would do so well, Rhino released a second soundtrack album the following year.   The lawsuit from Zappa would not be the only court proceeding concerning the film. In July 1984, Martha Coolidge, her cinematographer, Frederick Elmes, and two of the actresses, Colleen Camp and Lee Purcell, sued Atlantic Releasing for $5m, saying they were owed a portion of the film's profits based on agreements in their contracts. The two sides would later settle out of court.   Nicolas Cage would, of course, becomes one of the biggest movie stars in the world, winning an Oscar in 1996 for his portrayal of an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who goes to Las Vegas to drink himself to death.   Deborah Foreman would not have as successful a career. After Valley Girl, it would be another two years before she was seen on screen again, in what basically amounts to an extended cameo in a movie I'll get to in a moment. She would have a decent 1986, starring in two semi-successful films, the sexy comedy My Chauffeur and the black comedy April Fool's Day, but after that, the roles would be less frequent and, often, not the lead. By 1991, she would retire from acting, appearing only in a 2011 music video for the She Wants Revenge song Must Be the One, and a cameo in the 2020 remake of Valley Girl starring Jessica Rothe of the Happy Death Day movies.   After Valley Girl, Martha Coolidge would go on a tear, directing four more movies over the next seven years. And we'll talk about that first movie, Joy of Sex, on our next episode.   Thank you for joining us.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about Valley Girl.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

This week, we take a look back at a movie celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its theatrical release this coming Saturday, a movie that made a star of its unconventional lead actor, and helped make its director one of a number of exciting female filmmakers to break through in the early part of the decade. The movie Martha Coolidge's 1983 comedy Valley Girl, starring Nicolas Cage and Deborah Foreman. ----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're going to be looking back at a movie that will be celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its original theatrical release. A movie that would turn one of its leads into a star, and thrust its director into the mainstream, at least for a short time.   We're talking about the 1983 Martha Coolidge film Valley Girl, which is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its release this Saturday, with a special screening tonight, Thursday, April 27th 2023, at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood with its director, doing a Q&A session after the show.   But, as always, before we get to Valley Girl, we head back in time.    A whole eleven months, in fact. To May 1982.   That month, the avant-garde musical genius known as Frank Zappa released his 35th album, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch. Released on Zappa's own Barking Pumpkin record label, Drowning Witch would feature a song he co-wrote with his fourteen year old daughter Moon Unit Zappa. Frank would regularly hear his daughter make fun of the young female mallrats she would encounter throughout her days, and one night, Frank would be noodling around in his home recording studio when inspiration struck. He would head up to Moon's room, wake her up and bring her down to the studio, asking her to just repeat in that silly Valspeak voice she did all the crazy things she heard being said at parties, bar mitzvahs and the Sherman Oaks Galleria shopping center, which would become famous just a couple months later as the mall where many of the kids from Ridgemont High worked in Amy Heckerling's breakthrough movie, Fast Times at Ridgemont High. For about an hour, Frank would record Moon spouting off typical valley girl phrases, before he sent her back up to her room to go back to sleep.   In a couple days, Frank Zappa would bring his band, which at the time included guitar virtuoso Steve Vai in his first major musical gig, into the home studio to lay down the music to this weird little song he wrote around his daughter's vocals.   “Valley Girl” wold not be a celebration of the San Fernando Valley, an area Zappa described as “a most depressing place,” or the way these young ladies presented themselves. Zappa in general hated boring generic repetitive music, but “Valley Girl” would be one of the few songs Zappa would ever write or record that followed a traditional 4/4 time signature.   In the spring of 1982, the influential Los Angeles radio station KROQ would obtain an acetate disc of the song, several weeks before Drowning Witch was to be released on an unsuspecting public. Zappa himself thought it was a hoot the station that had broken such bands as The Cars, Duran Duran, The Police, Talking Heads and U2 was even considering playing his song, but KROQ was his daughter's favorite radio station, and she was able to persuade the station to play the song during an on-air interview with her.   The kids at home went nuts for the song, demanding the station play it again. And again. And again. Other radio stations across the country started to get calls from their listeners, wanting to hear this song that hadn't been officially released yet, and Zappa's record label would rush to get copies out to any radio station that asked for it.   The song would prove to be very popular, become the only single of the forty plus he released during his recording career to become a Top 40 radio hit, peaking at number 32. Ironically, the song would popularize the very cadence it was mocking with teenagers around the country, and the next time Zappa and his band The Mothers of Invention would tour, he would apologize to the Zappa faithful for having created a hit record. "The sad truth,” he would say before going into the song, “is that if one continues to make music year after year, eventually something will be popular. I spent my career fighting against creating marketable art, but this one slipped through the cracks. I promise to do my best never to have this happen again."   As the song was becoming popular in Los Angeles, actor Wayne Crawford and producer Andrew Lane had been working on a screenplay about star-crossed lovers that was meant to be a cheap quickie exploitation film not unlike Zapped! or Porky's. But after hearing Zappa's song, the pair would quickly rewrite the lead character, Julie, into a valley girl, and retitle their screenplay, Bad Boyz… yes, Boyz, with a Z… as Valley Girl.   Atlantic Entertainment Company, an independent film production company, had recently started their own distribution company, and were looking for movies that could be made quickly, cheaply, and might be able to become some kind of small hit. One of the scripts that would cross their desk were Crawford and Lane's Valley Girl. Within a week, Atlantic would already have a $350,000 budget set aside to make the film.   The first thing they needed was a director.   Enter Martha Coolidge.   A graduate of the same New York University film program that would give us Joel Coen, Amy Heckerling, Ang Lee, Spike Lee and Todd Phillips, Coolidge had been working under the tutelage of Academy Award-winner Francis Ford Coppola at the filmmaker's Zoetrope Studios. She had made her directorial debut, Not a Pretty Picture in 1976, but the film, a docu-drama based on Coolidge's own date rape she suffered at the age of 16, would not find a big audience. She had made another movie, City Girl, with Peter Riegert and Colleen Camp, in 1982, with Peter Bogdanovich as a producer, but the film's potential release was cancelled when Bogdanovich's company Moon Pictures went bankrupt after the release of his 1981 movie They All Laughed, which we covered last year. She knew she needed to get on a film with a good chance of getting released, and with Coppola's encouragement, Coolidge would throw her proverbial hat into the ring, and she would get the job, in part because she had some directing experience, but also because she was willing to accept the $5,000 Atlantic was offering for the position.   Now that she had the job, it was time for Coolidge to get to casting. It was her goal to show an authentic teenage experience in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, absent of stereotypes. As someone whose background was in documentary filmmaking, Coolidge wanted Valley Girl to feel as real as possible.   Her first choice for the role of Randy, the proto-punk Romeo to Julie's… well, Juliet… Coolidge was keen on a twenty-three year old unknown who had not yet acted in anything in movies, on television, or even a music video. Judd Nelson had been studying with Stella Adler in New York City, and there was something about his look that Coolidge really liked. But when she offered the role to Nelson, he had just booked an acting gig that would make him unavailable when the film would be shooting. So it was back to the pile of headshots that had been sent to the production office. And in that pile, she would find the headshot of eighteen year old Nicolas Cage, who at the time only had one movie credit, as one of Judge Reinhold's co-workers in Fast Times. Coolidge would show the photo to her casting director, telling them they needed to find someone like him, someone who wasn't a conventionally handsome movie actor.   So the casting director did just that. Went out and got someone like Nicolas Cage. Specifically, Nicolas Cage.   What Coolidge didn't know was that Cage's real name was Nicolas Coppola, and that his uncle was Coolidge's boss. She would only learn this when she called the actor to offer him the role, and he mentioned he would need to check his schedule on the Coppola movie he was about to start shooting on, Rumble Fish. Francis Coppola made sure the shooting schedule was re-arranged so his nephew could accept his first leading role.   For Julie, Coolidge wanted only one person: Deborah Foreman, a twenty-year-old former model who had only done commercials for McDonalds at this point in her career. Although she was born in Montebello CA, mere miles from the epicenter of the San Fernando Valley, Foreman had spent her formative years in Texas, and knew nothing about the whole Valley Girl phenomenon until she was cast in the film.   Supporting roles would be filled by a number of up and coming young actors, including Elizabeth Daily and Michelle Mayrink as Julie's friends, Cameron Dye as Randy's best friend, and Michael Bowen as Julie's ex-boyfriend, while Julie's parents would be played by Frederic Forrest and Colleen Camp, two industry veterans who had briefly worked together on Apocalypse Now.   As the scheduled start date of October 25th, 1982, rolled closer, Martha Coolidge would be the first director to really learn just how far Nicolas Cage was willing to go for a role. He would start sleeping in his car, to better understand Randy, and he would, as Randy, write Foreman's character Julie a poem that, according to a May 2020 New York Times oral history about the film, Foreman still has to this day. In a 2018 IMDb talk with director Kevin Smith, Cage would say that it was easy for his performance to happen in the film because he had a massive crush on Foreman during the making of the film.   Because of the film's extremely low budget, the filmmakers would often shoot on locations throughout Los Angeles they did not have permits for, stealing shots wherever they could. But one place they would spend money on was the movie's soundtrack, punctuated by live performances by Los Angeles band The Plimsouls and singer Josie Cotton, which were filmed at the Sunset Strip club now known as The Viper Room.   The film would only have a twenty day shooting schedule, which meant scenes would have to be shot quickly and efficiently, with as few hiccups as possible. But this wouldn't stop Cage from occasionally improvising little bits that Coolidge loved so much, she would keep them in the film, such as Randy spitting his gum at Julie's ex, and the breakup scene, where Randy digs into Julie by using Valspeak.   In early January 1983, while the film was still being edited, Frank Zappa would file a lawsuit against the film, seeking $100,000 in damages and an injunction to stop the film from being released, saying the film would unfairly dilute the trademark of his song. The lawsuit would force Coolidge to have a cut of her movie ready to screen for the judge before she was fully done with it. But when Coolidge screened this rushed cut to Atlantic and its lawyers, the distributor was pleasantly surprised to see the director hadn't just made a quickie exploitation film but something with genuine heart and soul that could probably have a much longer lifespan. They were originally planning on releasing the film during the later part of the summer movie season, but now knowing what they had on their hands, Atlantic would set an April 29th release date… pending, of course, on the outcome of the Zappa lawsuit.   In March, the judge would issue their ruling, in favor of the film, saying there would be no confusion in the public's mind between the song and the film, and Atlantic would continue to prepare for the late April release.   One of the things Coolidge really fought for was to have a wall of great new wave songs throughout the film, something Atlantic was hesitant to pay for, until they saw Coolidge's cut. They would spend another $250k on top of the $350k production budget to secure songs from The Psychedelic Furs, The Payolas, Men at Work, Toni Basil, The Flirts and Sparks, on top of the songs played by The Plimsouls and Josie Cotton in the film.   Valley Girl would be one of three new movies opening on April 29th, alongside Disney's adaptation of the Ray Bradbury story Something Wicked This Way Comes, and The Hunger, the directorial debut of filmmaker Tony Scott. Opening on only 442 screens, Valley Girl would come in fourth place for the weekend, grossing $1.86m in its first three days. However, its $4200 per screen average would be better than every movie in the top 15, including the #1 film in the nation that weekend, Flashdance. Not bad for a film that was only playing in one third of the country.   In its second weekend, Valley Girl would fall to seventh place, with $1.33m worth of ticket sold, but its per screen average would be second only to the new Cheech and Chong movie, Still Smokin'. Over the next three months, the film would continue to perform well, never playing in more screens than it did in its opening weekend, but never falling out of the top 15 while Atlantic was tracking it. When all was said and done, Valley Girl would have grossed $17.34m in the United States, not a bad return on a $600k production and music clearance budget.   There was supposed to be an accompanying soundtrack album for the film that, according to the movie's poster, would be released on Epic Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records whose eclectic roster of artists included Michael Jackson, The Clash and Liza Minnelli, but it turns out the filmmakers only ended up only getting music clearances for the movie, so that release would get cancelled and a six-song mini-LP would be created through a label Atlantic Pictures created called Roadshow Records. But then that album got cancelled, even though some copies had been printed, so it wouldn't be until 1994 that an actual soundtrack for the film would be released by Rhino Records. That release would do so well, Rhino released a second soundtrack album the following year.   The lawsuit from Zappa would not be the only court proceeding concerning the film. In July 1984, Martha Coolidge, her cinematographer, Frederick Elmes, and two of the actresses, Colleen Camp and Lee Purcell, sued Atlantic Releasing for $5m, saying they were owed a portion of the film's profits based on agreements in their contracts. The two sides would later settle out of court.   Nicolas Cage would, of course, becomes one of the biggest movie stars in the world, winning an Oscar in 1996 for his portrayal of an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who goes to Las Vegas to drink himself to death.   Deborah Foreman would not have as successful a career. After Valley Girl, it would be another two years before she was seen on screen again, in what basically amounts to an extended cameo in a movie I'll get to in a moment. She would have a decent 1986, starring in two semi-successful films, the sexy comedy My Chauffeur and the black comedy April Fool's Day, but after that, the roles would be less frequent and, often, not the lead. By 1991, she would retire from acting, appearing only in a 2011 music video for the She Wants Revenge song Must Be the One, and a cameo in the 2020 remake of Valley Girl starring Jessica Rothe of the Happy Death Day movies.   After Valley Girl, Martha Coolidge would go on a tear, directing four more movies over the next seven years. And we'll talk about that first movie, Joy of Sex, on our next episode.   Thank you for joining us.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about Valley Girl.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

“What would Dad do?” These are the words Sallie Jones thought to herself in the midst of the dairy crisis sweeping the nation in 2016. Sallie was a daughter of dairy farmers, entrepreneurs, and a daughter left reeling, grieving the loss of her father, Michael Bowen, who had completed suicide just weeks prior. Sallie is force of nature. A changemaker. Someone who takes personal pain and channels it into something to improve the greater good. In the aftermath of losing her father, Sallie created Gippsland Jersey, a dairy cooperative that is 100% Gippsland made and family-owned, paying farmers a fair price for their milk while spreading awareness for mental health and producing premium pure Jersey dairy products.

 In part two of this two part episode Jimmy, Michael and Danny share some moments on their four day retreat put on by Walking In Truth Ministries. Walking In Truth (WIT) Ministries started as a vision in 2006. And have been walking out this vision as the Lord leads for several years. In that time they have met countless like-minded people who have partnered with them to bring the vision to life. It is their greatest desire to see people set free from the bondage of sin, families restored, and for God's sons and daughters to live life in the Truth that He has for them.   Who's Jimmy Graham? Jimmy spent over 15 years in the US Navy SEAL Teams earning the rank of Chief Petty Officer (E7). During that time, he earned certifications as a Sniper, Joint Tactical Air Controller, Range Safety Officer for Live Fire, Dynamic Movement and Master Training Specialist. He also served for 7 years as an Operator and Lead Instructor for an Elite Federal Government Protective Detail for High-Risk and Critical environments, to include; Kirkuk, Iraq, Kabul, Afghanistan, Beirut, Lebanon and Benghazi, Libya. During this time he earned his certification for Federal Firearms Instructor, Simunition Scenario Qualified Instructor and Certified Skills Facilitator. Jimmy has trained law enforcement on the Federal, State, and Local levels as well as Fire Department, EMS and Dispatch personnel. His passion is to train communities across the nation in order to enhance their level of readiness in response to active shooter situations. Make sure you subscribe and stay tuned to everything we are doing. Want to get more training? - https://ableshepherd.com/ Need support? https://able-nation.org/ Follow us on: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ableshepherd Instagram - ​​https://www.instagram.com/ableshepherd/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@ableshepherd9570

Episode Description: In part one of this two part episode Jimmy, Michael and Danny just returned from a weekend Pursuit NOT a retreat put on by Walking in Truth Ministries. Walking In Truth (WIT) Ministries started as a vision in 2006. And have been walking out this vision as the Lord leads for several years. In that time they have met countless like-minded people who have partnered with them to bring the vision to life. It is their greatest desire to see people set free from the bondage of sin, families restored, and for God's sons and daughters to live life in the Truth that He has for them. Make sure you don't miss part two as Danny, Jimmy and Michael share personal stories of what God did in their hearts...   Who's Jimmy Graham? Jimmy spent over 15 years in the US Navy SEAL Teams earning the rank of Chief Petty Officer (E7). During that time, he earned certifications as a Sniper, Joint Tactical Air Controller, Range Safety Officer for Live Fire, Dynamic Movement and Master Training Specialist. He also served for 7 years as an Operator and Lead Instructor for an Elite Federal Government Protective Detail for High-Risk and Critical environments, to include; Kirkuk, Iraq, Kabul, Afghanistan, Beirut, Lebanon and Benghazi, Libya. During this time he earned his certification for Federal Firearms Instructor, Simunition Scenario Qualified Instructor and Certified Skills Facilitator. Jimmy has trained law enforcement on the Federal, State, and Local levels as well as Fire Department, EMS and Dispatch personnel. His passion is to train communities across the nation in order to enhance their level of readiness in response to active shooter situations. Make sure you subscribe and stay tuned to everything we are doing. Want to get more training? - https://ableshepherd.com/ Need support? https://able-nation.org/ Follow us on: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ableshepherd Instagram - ​​https://www.instagram.com/ableshepherd/

Michael Bowen was 33 years old and living in Sydney when one morning, as he was driving to work, he received a phone call that would stop his fast paced life in its tracks. Michael received a diagnosis of chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML).In this conversation, Michael talks about the bouts of depression he came up against and how he was able to overcome these hard times.The Leukaemia Foundation offer a range of services. Click below to read more.Accommodation servicesSupport services

1992 was just a great year for independent cinema……you had SO many memorable smaller films directed by both new directors like Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs) and veteran directors like Robert Altman (The Player).  Amidst this crop was this underseen gem directed by Carl Franklin which didn't have much of a theatrical release nor did it receive much in the way of Oscar attention.  However it DID eventually garner a following on home video thanks to being loudly championed by the two premiere film critics of the time on their regular weekly review show….Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert.  In fact both critics even selected it as THE best film of 1992 which was a very strong year.  This neo-noir crime thriller stars Bill Paxton as a small-town sheriff pulled into an ongoing hunt for three suspected murderers played by Cynda Williams, Michael Bowen, and Billy Bob Thornton who also co-wrote the screenplay.Host: Geoff Gershon  Editors: Geoff and Ella GershonProducer: Marlene Gershonhttps://livingforthecinema.com/Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Living-for-the-Cinema-Podcast-101167838847578Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/livingforthecinema/Letterboxd:https://letterboxd.com/Living4Cinema/

Break the sound barrier. Break the speed barrier. Break out some 80s Revisited as we talk about Iron Eagle (1986)! 80srevisited@gmail.com to talk with us, and leave a review for us! Thank you for listening 80s Revisited, hosted by Trey Harris. Produced by Jesse Seidule.

Michael Bowen, filling in for Sam Brooks, talks with Cookeville High School Girls Soccer Head Coach Lauren Metts, and upcoming Seniors Olivia Hudson, Alex Meadows, and Piper Tadlock. They discuss the upcoming pre-season and season starts, how long the upcoming season will go on for, the growth of soccer in the Upper Cumberland, and how many teams and leagues are in the area compared to 10-15 years ago, as well as what the upcoming Seniors like about Lady Cavaliers soccer, and how they balance academics with athletics. Listen to the latest Local Matters Podcast… Presented by Office Mart.

Michael Bowen, filling in for Sam Brooks, talks with Cookeville High School Girls Soccer Head Coach Lauren Metts, and upcoming Seniors Olivia Hudson, Alex Meadows, and Piper Tadlock. They discuss the upcoming pre-season and season starts, how long the upcoming season will go on for, the growth of soccer in the Upper Cumberland, and how many teams and leagues are in the area compared to 10-15 years ago, as well as what the upcoming Seniors like about Lady Cavaliers soccer, and how they balance academics with athletics. Listen to the latest Local Matters Podcast… Presented by Office Mart. News Talk 94.1 · Presented By Office Mart

Michael Bowen, filling in for Sam Brooks, sits down with Wes Shanks, Head Baseball Coach for the Upperman Bees. They discuss his family, what it means to come from a sports-orientated family, the Upperman Bees' run to the state tournament, the scheduling during the regular season, and how it felt for the team knowing that they were "the team to beat." Listen to the latest Local Matters Podcast… Presented by Office Mart. News Talk 94.1 · Presented By Office Mart

Michael Bowen, filling in for Sam Brooks, sits down with Wes Shanks, Head Baseball Coach for the Upperman Bees. They discuss his family, what it means to come from a sports-orientated family, the Upperman Bees' run to the state tournament, the scheduling during the regular season, and how it felt for the team knowing that they were "the team to beat." Listen to the latest Local Matters Podcast… Presented by Office Mart.

Michael Bowen is a veteran, Christian author and entrepreneur, best known for his book “The Brave” Becoming men of honor, integrity, strength and grace. He and his co-host Jarrod Gibson explore what it means to be uncommon in a world which has accepted common or average as the norm. Guests include high level athletes, veterans and other men of God seeking to live a life set apart for God's purpose. Topics related to faith, family, fitness, finance, business, leadership and discipline are discussed uncensored to encourage and exhort men in their walk with Christ.

Sam Brooks and Michael Bowen talk with Melanie Bussell. They discuss her family and their ties to school sports in the area, her time paying sports in high school, and how that led to her signing a scholarship to continue playing in college, as well as the coaches who influenced and inspired her the most throughout her sports playing career. Listen to the latest Local Matters Podcast… Presented by Office Mart.

Sam Brooks and Michael Bowen meet with James Massengille of Overton County and Cumberland University fame. They discuss his time growing up and playing football and baseball in Livingston, what brought him to Cumberland University, as well as his experience serving on the search committee for Cookeville High School's new Head Football Coach, what the process was like, and how they landed on Taylor Hennigan as CHS's new Head Football Coach. Listen to the latest Local Matters Podcast… Presented by Office Mart.

Sam Brooks and Michael Bowen sit down with new Cookeville High School Head Football Coach Taylor Hennigan, and CHS Principal Max Pettet. They discuss Taylor's time growing up in Cookeville, his family's history with sports, how it feels to be the new CHS Head Football Coach, the value that football programs bring to the area, and the importance of getting local kids involved in the sport, as well as the legacy that former Head Coach Jimmy Maynord leaves, and what the hiring process was like trying to fill the role of Head Coach at CHS. Listen to the latest Local Matters Podcast… Presented by Office Mart.

Murfreesboro Police Chief Michael Bowen and Lt. Clayton Wiliams: 

Robby is joined by The Truth Network's latest podcast star, Michael Bowen of "Jesus Breaks the Chains," to discuss Michael's journey from addict to evangelist. Also, Paul Long and Brad Silverman call in for another segment of God in Hollywood. http://kingdompursuits.com/ http://www.kappastudios.com/ https://www.truthnetwork.com/show/jesus-breaks-the-chains-michael-bowen/33352/  

No it's not the Clint Eastwood one, it's not the singular version of that weird one with Jim Carrey that no one saw and it's certainly not the entire genre itself but the guys DO talk about the Alicia Silverstone straight-to-video 90s "hit," True Crime. Is the title really referring to the murder that surrounds the film or another far more sinister crime? What is with the weird religious themes that pop up from time to time? Do you have to register your mace in California? All this and more in this week's episode! Check our social media on Sunday for the Sunday Screencrap and take a guess at our next movie! What We've Been Watching: We Summon the Darkness Kate Questions? Comments? Suggestions? You can always shoot us an e-mail at wwttpodcast@gmail.com  Patreon: www.patreon.com/wwttpodcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/wwttpodcast Twitter: www.twitter.com/wwttpodcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/wwttpodcast Theme Song recorded by Taylor Sheasgreen: www.facebook.com/themotorleague Logo designed by Mariah Lirette: www.instagram.com/mariahhx Montrose Monkington III: www.twitter.com/montrosethe3rd Head over to untidyvenus.etsy.com and check out some wonderful art by friend of the show Izzy Fischer! Use the promo code "wwttpod" to receive 15% off your purchase! What Were They Thinking is sponsored by GameItAll.com and HostGator (use the coupon code 'SCHLOCK' for 25% off your first purchase) and is a proud member of the Age of Radio Podcast Network (www.ageofradio.org) True Crime stars Alicia Silverstone, Kevin Dillon, Bill Nunn, Marla Sokoloff, Aimee Brooks and Michael Bowen; directed by Pat Verducci. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today is World CML (chronic myeloid leukaemia) Day. CML is a rare form of blood cancer that just over 300 Australians are diagnosed with each year. In 2019, Michael Bowen was one of them...   He was on his way to work one day when he got an urgent call to come into the emergency department. Minutes later his life changed in an instant when he was suddenly hit with the diagnosis. The man of the house, supporting a young family, Michael's first thoughts were of his baby daughter, confronted with the question of if he was going to live to be there for her.   No one could be prepared for the hardship in the years that followed. The immense mental and physical difficulty of living with cancer and the self applied pressure to get back to being the man he thought he was, sent Michael spiraling into a deep depression. But step by step and with great support from friends and family Michael slowly dragged himself out of the pit of despair that'd all but swallowed him.   Now Michael's in remission and sharing his story as an ambassador for the Leukaemia Foundation.   September is Blood Cancer Awareness Month so if someone you love is diagnosed with blood cancer, please reach out to the Leukaemia Foundation on 1800 620 420 or visit leukaemia.org.au for help.   You can also join the tens of thousands of Australians impacted by blood cancer by participating in this year's Leukaemia Foundation Light the Night event on Saturday 16 October. Visit lightthenight.org.au for more info.    

Worlds are colliding! I've got Charles AND Jai together for the first time! In true fashion we are talking the "underground" Tarantino film, Jackie Brown. Pam Grier is life. Pam Grier is EVERYTHING. We talk just how incredible this writing really is, why it wasn't talked about as much as Pulp Fiction, and loving the soundtrack.Off topic rants include: home invasions, Sylvester Stallone, and the mysterious world of bail bonds people.--- Get BONUS episodes on Freaks and Geeks Season 1 and  My So Called Life and to support the show, join on PATREON! www.patreon.com/fashiongrungeGIVE US A 5 STAR RATING & SUBSCRIBE!Hosts: Lauren @lauren_melanie  & Charles @charleshaslam & Jai @jai_stylefactory Music by Den-Mate @imdenmateFollow Fashion Grunge Podcast Instagram @fashiongrungepodTwitter @fgrungepodLetterboxd Fashion Grunge Podcast

John Amenta and Lloyd Green (from http://pintocomics.com/ (Pint O'Comics)) with special guest, Melissa Willette from https://www.facebook.com/skullartbymelissaw/ (Custom Skull Art by Melissa) discuss the marvelous return of Pam Grier. It's Jackie Brown! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Brown (Jackie Brown) is a 1997 crime-drama that follows flight attendant Jackie Brown as she is busted smuggling money for her arms dealer boss, Ordell Robbie. Agent Ray Nicolette and detective Mark Dargus want her help to bring down Robbie. Facing jail time for her silence or death for her cooperation, Brown decides instead to double-cross both parties and make off with the smuggled money. Meanwhile, she enlists the help of bondsman Max Cherry, a man who loves her. Written & Directed by Quentin Tarantino Based on the novel "Rum Punch" by Elmore Leonard Starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert DeNiro, Michael Keaton, Bridget Fonda, Robert Forster, Chris Tucker and Michael Bowen.

In this episode Mark talks about one of his favourite films: the 2003 American martial arts film "Kill Bill: Volume 1" written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film stars Uma Thurman as "the Bride", the former member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, who is attacked on the day of her wedding rehearsal and left for dead by her former colleagues and fellow assassins. Four years later, after surviving the attempt on her life and the life of her unborn child in a chapel in El Paso, Texas, the Bride sets out upon a mission of revenge against the other former members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad and their leader, Bill (played by David Carradine), and she will stop at nothing until everybody who was present at her execution have paid for what they did. The film also stars Lucy Liu as O-Ren Ishii, Vivica A. Fox as Vernita Green, Daryl Hannah as Elle Driver, Michael Madsen as Budd, Julie Dreyfus as Sofie Fatale, Michael Bowen as Buck, Sonny Chiba as Hattori Hanzō, as well as a cast of other great actors playing memorable characters. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/markthepoet/message

Sam Brooks sits down with former Cookeville High School and Tennessee Tech University football player Michael Bowen. They discuss the journey of his school athletic career, what drew him to play sports growing up, as well as the value of playing sports, and the invaluable skills and life lessons that are learned from playing on a team. Listen to the latest Local Matters Podcast… Presented by Office Mart.

In our era we often think of 'having standards' or 'acceptable standards' and so on. Michael opens by reminding us what a standard was in earlier times in battle. It was a flag! And it needed to be raised when the enemy was giving trouble. Are we at war? That was last week's podcast message! Michael then continues by describing how it is our responsibility to raise a standard, albeit a different standard than what we had been used to hearing about all of our lives. Michael goes into much more depth about how important that all is and how it leads to us needing to share our faith and pass along the truth to generations. It is our responsibility to live it, teach it, and speak it. As standardbearers we are the main target of the enemy. He also lists many of the different kind of standards that we need to raise and what is needed by us to be able to fulfil this responsibility. We are all in this together and this is a critical message to expand our Christian lives.

Today's host, Michael Bowen, gives us an enthusiastic welcome. Following that we have Ps Mark Riddell thanking us for our tithes and offerings and encouraging us to continue that good work. Our Youth Leader, Ash Latter, takes over with Part 1 of a new series. She starts with an interesting approach which is necessary: If we are down in the dumps, depressed, discouraged ..... we will hardly feel like celebrating. Ash reads from Romans 8:31-37 which is about conquering. She then points out that our conquering needs to be consistent. She gives several illustrations of how we can deviate and swap to one thing or another in an inconsistent and somewhat random manner. She gives an interesting illustration with planting a tree in different spots. What will happen to it? Well, the same thing happens to us. We need to abide as the Bible recommends. 'Abide' is a bit of an old-fashioned word for us but Ash explains it thoroughly and, surely, we do need to abide. She elaborates on four main points: 1. Annihilate Aloofness. 2. Beat Boredom. 3. Crush Comparison. 4. Destroy Doubt. Ash has chosen this way of presenting this message and wisely supported all of it with numerous quotes directly from the Bible. This is a good message, today, to teach us how to stand more firmly on the Rock, Jesus, without deviating. ========================================== What did you receive from today's message? Is there a 'takeway', 'nugget of gold' or revelation you can share with us? How can you apply today's message to your life this week? ==========================================

Children's Church Leader, Phil, is our host today. After welcoming us we have a weekly message from Ps Mark which then leads into today's message from Michael. Michael commences with Job 1:1 and reminds us of the awful and tragic events that occurred and caused Job to lose everything he had except his wife. When there was nothing left of Job's possessions and almost nothing left of himself, his wife encouraged him to curse God and die. But Job refused to do this as his faith was so great. That discouragement was then followed up by Job's three friends. Their discouragement was certainly not comforting and quite condemning. And it went on for a very long time. There's another 40 odd chapters of Job before we get to chapter 42 where we discover that, because of his faithfulness, God had restored double of everything that Job initially had: his possessions, his business, and his children (new ones!). Michael then encourages us to not behave as Job's friends did and give reasons to people as to why they are going through hard times. That approach is condemnatory and very far from comforting or wise. What we need to do instead is to love, comfort, and support people who are in troubles and trials and tribulations so we can demonstrate what we have in adversity which is, of course, the Holy Spirit having within us. Job had already proclaimed, in his faithfulness, that, no matter what he was going through, he trusted God's purpose. There is a lesson for all of us in that. Michael gives us more encouragement at the end of his message by reminding us that, no matter what, God has a specific purpose for each one of us. ========================================== What did you receive from today's message? Is there a 'takeway', 'nugget of gold' or revelation you can share with us? How can you apply today's message to your life this week? ==========================================

Papa Shango once put a curse on The Ultimate Warrior, it made him spew out green shit from his mouth...That is not a FATAL CURSE! Fatal Curse from central New York will be dropping in to talk about their album "Breaking the Trance" It's such good shit! www.metalforgeradio.com

This SYMPATHETIC MONSTERS hosts Raquelle Jason (@RaquelleJason) and Jess McDonald (@McJesssandwich) are bringing you the best excerpts from this week's riveting Congressional Hearing by an unlikely hero: Texas Republican businessman Michael Bowen. His two hour testimony during the Dr. Bright Pandemic Response Congressional Hearing is everything the U.S. government (BOTH Democrats and Republicans) do not want you see and is better than at least half of what's on Netflix. YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS EPISODE. Thank you to Mr. Bowen, and all the whistleblowers, for reminding us there are still Americans that see value in being a decent person fighting the good fight. Rate! Review! Subscribe! Tell your friends!

Ps Mark opens up for us today. Michael Bowen points out an aspect of our being locked in for so many weeks ..... What happened to all those plans, hopes, and dreams that we all had directly before that moment when the lock-ins commenced? We can easily be discouraged and think that our dreams can never be fulfilled. Michael then reads through Exodus 6:1-8 - here God talks to Moses about leading the Israelites out of captivity in Egypt. They had already been under 'lock-in' for about 400 years! And they hadn't given up their dreams. Listen and be highly encouraged to see how the Lord was with the Israelites through all that time and He will be with us at this time of ours. He is in control. He will keep his promises to us just as He did to them.. Next up, Michael discusses the difference between rest and peace by using Psalm 46:10 and John 14:27. It is God's Word. There's a sentence here that Michael has constructed that I will jot down as something to remind myself in any difficult situation. He ends up with pointing out to us that our incubation can be a time of growth and have many positive aspects. And what was it about Crowded House that they should deserve a mention? ========================================== What did you receive from today's message? Is there a 'takeway', 'nugget of gold' or revelation you can share with us? How can you apply today's message to your life this week? =========================================================

Special Guest Michael DiGiovanni of the Clasic Film Jerks podcat joins your hosts Bryan Frye and Russell Guest for the Retro Movie Roundtable as they revisit Jackie Brown (1997) [R] Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller Starring: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robert De Niro, Michael Bowen, Chris Tucker, LisaGay Hamilton, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Hattie Winston, Sid Haig   Director: Quentin Tarantino Recoded on 2019-04-01   Download from Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play, iTunes, iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts. Please share your thoughts on the movie or the Episode....

Today's message begins with Ps Mark thanking everyone for continuing to deliver their tithes and offerings. He also reads from Matthew 14 to encourage us not only to continue with our generosity but also how we can receive the Word of God through this season of restrictions and logins. Next up, we have Michael Bowen informing us of how we can contact the church in numerous ways if we need to. He then introduces Ps Mark for the last of our Easter themed messages. With the theme of God's love for us, Ps Mark again reminds us of John 3:16. It illustrates God's heart, mind and will. Ps Mark then continues with numerous other Scriptures about God's love, each with a different facet. Among these are that God didn't just love us, he showed up. He created everything because of His love for us. God IS love. His love is four dimensional - this is a great section to listen to and Ps Mark describes each dimension well. Not only that, but many people intellectually know that God loves them and may even have a revelation of God's love on top of that. However, many say that they have never actually been able to feel God's love. God does want us to feel His love and to experience it. Listen out for this section, too. And what about believing? Satan believes that God exists. Believing is much more than that and Ps Mark discusses this. And why is he holding a giant sized plastic M&M? And Ps Mark sings! And then there is a final message from Michael Bowen. What did you receive from today's message? Is there a 'takeway', 'nugget of gold' or revelation you can share with us? How can you apply today's message to your life this week?

Dave Ramaswamy, Maria Luisa join Stephen K. Bannon and Jack Maxey in studio. Michael Bowen joins by phone.

Dave Ramaswamy, Maria Luisa join Stephen K. Bannon and Jack Maxey in studio. Michael Bowen joins by phone.

In November we published a hospital optometry special issue of Optometry in Practice (OiP) to coincide with the AOP Hospital Optometrists Annual Conference. The College's Director of Research, Michael Bowen, went along to the conference to talk to one of the authors from the special edition, Dr Vijay Anand MCOptom, Deputy Head of Optometry at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust. Dr Anand talks about his co-authored paper Keratoconus and cross-linking (https://www.college-optometrists.org/oip-resource/keratoconus-and-cross-linking.html) including his experience with the condition; the development of new patient pathways; and the role of artificial intelligence. To read more OiP articles and to access CET (available from 6 January 2020), visit https://www.college-optometrists.org/oip --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/collegeofoptometrists/message

Political operatives live for the game, and none more so than Josie Kendall—née Josephine Robideaux of Louisiana—in Michael Bowen’s False Flag in Autumn. Even when the stakes couldn’t be higher, Josie sticks to her guns. Literally                          

Jacky Brown (1997) Mit seinem dritten Film hatte Quentin Tarantino als neuer Regiestar unter Beweis zu stellen, dass Pulp Fiction (1994) kein ingeniöser Glücksgriff, sondern wahres Können war....

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Michael Bowen is a retired trial lawyer whose clients have included the Milwaukee Brewers and an inmate on death row.  He has published twenty-one novels, including nineteen mysteries.  His greatest accomplishment, however, was graduating from Harvard Law School without feeling called upon to write a book about it. ABOUT THE BOOK - POLITICAL THRILLER "FALSE FLAG IN AUTUMN" Blurb:  Political thriller featuring Washington apparatchik Josie Kendall, who risks her career foiling a planned October surprise before the 2018 mid-terms and has to decide whether to risk her neck foiling one in 2020.  For Josie to end up on the side of the angels, she'll have to find angels who play a little dirty.

In June, 2019, a nice young man in a blue suit asked me “when was the last time you smoked marijuana, ma’am?” I told him the truth – semester break during my sophomore year at Tulane – because you don’t lie to the FBI. I have no objection to the truth, but I don’t let it push me around. -- False Flag in Autumn, Michael Bowen I love a good locked room mystery almost as much as I love the Nick and Nora Charles dynamic. Author Michael Bowen combines both of these in several of his nifty, "plucky couples" series, starting with his first mystery, Badger Game. But he is also the author of thrillers, and his latest book, False Flag in Autumn, pits a savvy political operative against evil -- and her own conscience. Complex characters and high stakes ignite this story, the second in the Josie Kendall series. We also chat about the books that shaped his writing, and his life (turns out Perry Mason had an influence on Michael's choice of career). We're both fans of Agatha Christie (Alert! Spoilers for Murder on The Orient Express), Raymond Chandler, and Erle Stanley Gardner, among others. You can learn more about Michael's books on his author page. As always, if you'd rather read than listen, the transcript is below. Enjoy! -- Laura ****************************************************** Laura Brennan: Michael Bowen started writing while working as a trial attorney. While not playing Perry Mason in court, he was writing mysteries across genres including locked rooms, puzzle mysteries, and thrillers. Now that he's retired, we can look forward to many more books from Michael. Michael, thank you so much for joining me today. Michael Bowen: Well, thank you for having me. I'm really looking forward to this. LB: Tell me a little bit about your career pre-writing. How did you decide to get into law? MB: Well, as I was growing up, I had basically two possible career paths. One was to become a journalist and the other was to become President of the United States. And I knew I couldn't start at President, so I had to do something to earn a living. So I settled on practicing law because that's the way Abraham Lincoln did it. He practiced law and then he became President. And I had a very healthy sense of self-esteem back then. So, basically, I turned to law because I decided I wanted to be one of the people doing things that people write about instead of one of the people doing the writing. In the first series that I began, it's a "plucky couple," and the male half of the plucky couple had to surrender his license to practice law because of some shenanigans that he engaged in. And the female half was what back in the sexist, early 1960s was called a Girl Friday for a law firm. So she wasn't a lawyer, but she did stuff that people found helpful. My next plucky couple series involved a foreign service officer who was not a lawyer and the female half of that was a bookstore owner, and so that was a lot of fun. And in the next plucky couple series, I had a lawyer married to a woman who was a university professor and they solved mysteries together. LB: I love the whole plucky couple concept. I'm a big fan of The Thin Man series and I just love the idea of two people working together on their marriage and also on solving crimes. What was your inspiration for plucky couples? MB: I was absolutely enthralled by plucky couples, by Nick and Nora, by Jerry and Susan North, and I noticed that no one was doing that anymore so I wanted to bring that concept back to mysteries. But in a way, my real inspiration was my wife, Sara, before she was my wife. We met at a law school mixer for first-year law students and one of the fellow students, our classmate, was basically putting a move on her. He said, "I think that you should not believe anything that cannot be empirically demonstrated." And she said, "Do you really believe that?" And it took him three beats to figure out he'd been had.

Kurt Andersen talks with the director Lynn Shelton about how conspiracy theories and improvisation figure into her new film, “Sword of Trust,” which stars Marc Maron. Michael Bowen felt isolated growing up, but then he saw the animated feature film “One Hundred and One Dalmatians,” and oddly enough, its villain, Cruella de Vil, gave him hope that he would fit in. And it can be hard to know what to make of Ursula von Rydingsvard’s spectacular sculptures, but the mystery of how they’re made is solved with a visit to her Brooklyn studio.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kurt Andersen talks with the director Lynn Shelton about how conspiracy theories and improvisation figure into her new film, “Sword of Trust,” which stars Marc Maron. Michael Bowen felt isolated growing up, but then he saw the animated feature film “One Hundred and One Dalmatians,” and oddly enough, its villain, Cruella de Vil, gave him hope that he would fit in. And it can be hard to know what to make of Ursula von Rydingsvard’s spectacular sculptures, but the mystery of how they’re made is solved with a visit to her Brooklyn studio.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re celebrating the release of Marvel’s Black Panther this month by doing an entire month of movies predominantly starring black actors!  It’s MARVEL’s BLACK PANTHER month!   To kick-off this borderline-offensive-in-a-weird-way theme, we’re watching JACKIE BROWN, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, and starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robert De Niro, Michael Bowen, and a short appearance by a young Chris Tucker.   Cling tightly to your bag of money!  It’s time to commit MASS MOVIECIDE!

Story: Auf dem Planeten Xerbia arbeitet eine Gruppe von Elite-Wissenschaftlern daran, das Problem einer galaktischen Hungersnot zu lösen. Man versucht, aus menschlichen wie auch ausserirdischen Stammzellen, ein Lebewesen zu kreieren, das die Zellstruktur von allem, was es frisst, repliziert. Und ist erforderlich... Jedoch ist dieses Lebewesen keineswegs dummes Schlachtvieh, sondert dreht den Spiess um und fängt an, sich an den Bewohnern der Basis gütlich zu tun. Ein zu Hilfe gerufener Weltraumpilot steht schon bald zwischen den Fronten, denn die Wissenschaftler wollen den angriffslustigen Mutanten lebend. Schlussendlich ist es aber doch einer der Wissenschaftler, der die rettende Idee hat. Da er sich selbst im Endstadium der Krebskrankheit befindet, operiert er sich eigenhändig eine mit Metastasen versehene Niere raus. Die soll das Monster fressen und durch die Replikation davon kaputtgehen. Doch wer bringt das Alien dazu, diese Niere zu fressen... DVD/Blu Ray-Release: 21.09.2017 (Anolis Entertainment/i-catcher Media GmbH & Co.KG) Forbidden World Genre: Science Fiction, Horror Land: USA 1982 Laufzeit: ca. 82 min. FSK: 16 Regie: Allen Holzman Drehbuch: Tim Curnen, Jim Wynorski, R.J. Robertson Kamera: Tim Suhrstedt Musik: Susan Justin Produzenten: Roger Corman, Mary Ann Fisher Mit Jesse Vint, Dawn Dunlop, June Chadwick, Linden Chiles, Fox Harris, Ray Oliver, Scott Paulin, Michael Bowen, Don Oliviera, Victor Warren, ... https://youtu.be/Isl1zHDofiY

Story: Auf dem Planeten Xerbia arbeitet eine Gruppe von Elite-Wissenschaftlern daran, das Problem einer galaktischen Hungersnot zu lösen. Man versucht, aus menschlichen wie auch ausserirdischen Stammzellen, ein Lebewesen zu kreieren, das die Zellstruktur von allem, was es frisst, repliziert. Und ist erforderlich... Jedoch ist dieses Lebewesen keineswegs dummes Schlachtvieh, sondert dreht den Spiess um und fängt an, sich an den Bewohnern der Basis gütlich zu tun. Ein zu Hilfe gerufener Weltraumpilot steht schon bald zwischen den Fronten, denn die Wissenschaftler wollen den angriffslustigen Mutanten lebend. Schlussendlich ist es aber doch einer der Wissenschaftler, der die rettende Idee hat. Da er sich selbst im Endstadium der Krebskrankheit befindet, operiert er sich eigenhändig eine mit Metastasen versehene Niere raus. Die soll das Monster fressen und durch die Replikation davon kaputtgehen. Doch wer bringt das Alien dazu, diese Niere zu fressen... DVD/Blu Ray-Release: 21.09.2017 (Anolis Entertainment/i-catcher Media GmbH & Co.KG) Forbidden World Genre: Science Fiction, Horror Land: USA 1982 Laufzeit: ca. 82 min. FSK: 16 Regie: Allen Holzman Drehbuch: Tim Curnen, Jim Wynorski, R.J. Robertson Kamera: Tim Suhrstedt Musik: Susan Justin Produzenten: Roger Corman, Mary Ann Fisher Mit Jesse Vint, Dawn Dunlop, June Chadwick, Linden Chiles, Fox Harris, Ray Oliver, Scott Paulin, Michael Bowen, Don Oliviera, Victor Warren, ... https://youtu.be/Isl1zHDofiY

We were working in the lab late one night when our eyes beheld an eerie sight...it was a Twitter DM from Rock Talk to see if we wanted to record a crossover with them.  Spooky! So this week, we’ll be covering Walking Tall - an early starring vehicle for The Rock and perhaps the worst film in the long career of Michael Bowen.  Don’t miss it. And in the spirit of Halloween, our friends from the podcast “Rock Talk: A Guide to the Films of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson” will be covering a Hulk Hogan film - the venerable No Holds Barred.  So be sure to subscribe to their podcast and check out their take on this 1989 Hulk Hogan classic as well as any other Rock Talk episodes you’ve missed.   Follow Rock Talk @RockTalkPod Like Rock Talk on Facebook: facebook.com/RockTalkPod Follow Rock Talk on Instagram:  instagram.com/RockTalkPod/ Follow us on Twitter @WGDPod Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/WGDPod Email us at WGDPod@gmail.com Theme music:  “Find My Way” by Magnolia Brown Follow Magnolia Brown on Facebook (facebook.com/MagnoliaBrownJams) and Reverb Nation (ReverbNation.com/MagnoliaBrownJams)

A live panel discussion with former Eureka Prize winners, hosted by Robyn Williams. In this live recording hosted by The Science Show's Robyn Williams, Dr Michael Bowen, Dr Richard Major, Professor Angela Moles and Sonya Pemberton share their Eureka Prize-winning work and discuss the big issues facing Australian science. This lively panel discussion covers a diverse range of topics including psycho-pharmacology, rapid evolution in introduced plant species, making compelling and challenging science documentaries, science in the era of Trump and the importance of building curiosity in the world from a young age. Our panellists for the evening were: Dr. Michael Bowen, School of Psychology, University of Sydney; Dr. Richard Major, Senior Research Scientist, Australian Museum Research Institute; Professor Angela Moles, Big Ecology Lab, UNSW Australia; and journalist and producer Sonya Pemberton, Genepool Productions. The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes reward excellence in the fields of research, innovation, leadership, science communication and school science. The 2017 Eureka Prize finalists will be announced at the end of July and winners at the end of August. To read more, visit www.australianmuseum.net.au/eurekaprizes. 0:00 – 13:50 Introduction from Kim McKay AO, Executive Director and CEO, Australian Museum 13:50 – 50:10 Panel discussion hosted by Robyn Williams 50:10 – 55:00 Close from Kim McKay AO, Executive Director and CEO, Australian Museum

Tonights episode, we talk about being ready to move up, the status of Straddleline ORV park, and our Blue Line Graphics "In the seat" guest is David Michael Bowen, owner of Let's Race Magazine & TV!

Tonights episode, we talk about being ready to move up, the status of Straddleline ORV park, and our Blue Line Graphics "In the seat" guest is David Michael Bowen, owner of Let's Race Magazine & TV!

Tonights episode, we talk about being ready to move up, the status of Straddleline ORV park, and our Blue Line Graphics "In the seat" guest is David Michael Bowen, owner of Let's Race Magazine & TV!

Moderator:  Michael Bowen, DPM, AACAS Panelists:  Mark Prissel, DPM, AACFAS; N. Jake Summers, DPM; Jessica Knight, DPM; Ryan Donegan DPM, AACFAS Release Date: October 17,  2016 Run Time: 17min 54sec

In the 5th episode Jeremy Krieger sits down with Michael Bowen, the owner of Bowen Games, the producer of the new truck and tractor pulling themed "Truck and Tractor Pulling USA" game available in your app store or online at www.bowengames.com     In the second half of the show, Jeremy visits with his brother miles, and has a nice discussion about 2014, and the Miles beyond 300 roadshow.  You may visit miles and his blog at www.milesbeyond300.com   Thanks for listening, like the pages, tell your friends, and email me at Jeremy@getpulledin.com, to let me know what you think.

For this podcast, we interviewed Dr. Michael Bowen, assistant director at the Bob Graham center for Public Service, about his article “The Strange Tale of Wesley and Florence Garrison: Racial Crosscurrents of the Postwar Florida Republican Party,” and the research involved in writing that article. The article appeared in this issue.

It's a long one! But, it's worth it! Comedian Alex Braslavsky and the owner of the Ottobar, Michael Bowen, join our courageous co-hosts Mike Moran and Josh Kuderna to discuss Incubus, Civil Rights Renactments, lake trout, Arsenio Hall, cuttin the cheese, hand claps, podcast drama, and of course, the gem in America's crown, Topeka, Kansas. Look for our podcast on facebook damnit.

After kidnapping and brutally assaulting two young women, a gang unknowingly finds refuge at a vacation home belonging to the parents of one of the victims: a mother and father who devise an increasingly gruesome series of revenge tactics. Director: Dennis Iliadis Writers: Adam Alleca, Carl Ellsworth, Wes Craven Stars: Garret Dillahunt, Michael Bowen, Josh Coxx See more » Awards: 1 win & 8 nominations. See more » --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gruesome-hertzogg/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gruesome-hertzogg/support