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In this SPECIAL EPISODE (of which you only get a little teaser) recorded in the SAME ROOM (which you can also see as a video on Patreon!), we discuss stand-up, Nicolas Cage (or should we say... Nicolas Coppola) and trains and more stuff.Sign up on Patreon for the full episode and loads more goodies here.

All right, Hamilton! This week, Curtis, Erin, and Gabe (AKA the “Learn It. Know It. Live It.” Troika) head to SoCal in search of some tasty waves, linguine with white clam sauce, and romance.Is Amy Heckerling's directorial debut—featuring an ensemble cast of future stars including Oscar-winners Sean Penn, Forest Whitaker, and Nicolas Cage (in a cameo as Nicolas Coppola), as well as knockout performances by Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, and Judge Reinhold—the definitive 80s high school film?We'll discuss, we'll share our thoughts on Mike Damone's 5-point plan, and the boys will confess their version of "side one of Led Zeppelin IV." That's a 100% guarantee.The most paused VHS moment ever!A woman's view of pleasure and power in hard rockWhat is prog rock?You must listen to Karina Longworth's amazing podcastPeanutsThe real SpicoliNicolas Cage was only 17Fast Times for DummiesTo shred our hot takes in this episode, email us at hello@ratedgenxpod.comAnd be sure to like and follow Rated Gen X on socials. To disagree or suggest movies for future episodes, engage with us on Instagram @ratedgenxpodNote: This episode has some audio that sounds like Jefferson's car, but we're always working on improving the audio quality, so stay tuned for even better sound in future episodes!PLUS:Curtis's Fast Times Mixtape

This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with Zach Schonfeld, a freelance writer, journalist, and critic based in New York. He contributes to Pitchfork, Paste Magazine, and other publications. He was formerly a senior writer for Newsweek, where he was on staff for five years. His first book, 24-Carat Black's Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth was published in 2020 as part of the 33 1/3 series. His latest book — entitled How Coppola Became Cage — is the focus of this episode. In 1982, a gangly teenager named Nicolas Coppola made his film debut and changed his name to Nicolas Cage, determined to distance himself from his famous family. Once he achieved stardom as the rebel hunk of 1983's Valley Girl, Cage began a career defined by unorthodox risks and left turns that put him at odds with the stars of the Brat Pack era. How Coppola Became Cage takes readers behind the scenes of the beloved cult movies that transformed this unknown actor into an eccentric and uncompromising screen icon with a wild-eyed gift for portraying weirdos, outsiders, criminals-and even a romantic capable of seducing Cher. Throughout How Coppola Became Cage Zach Schonfeld traces Cage's rise through the world of independent cinema and chronicles the stories behind his career-making early performances, from the method masochism of Birdy to the operatic torment of Moonstruck and abrasive expressionism of Vampire's Kiss, culminating with the astonishing pathos of Leaving Las Vegas. Drawing on more than 100 new interviews with Cage's key collaborators — including David Lynch, Martha Coolidge, John Patrick Shanley, and Mike Figgis — How Coppola Became Cage offers a revealing portrait of Cage's wildly intense devotion to his performances and his creative self-discovery as he drew on influences as far-flung as silent cinema and German Expressionism. These were all crucial ingredients in the creation of a singular acting style that rejects the limits of realism. Join in as host Michael Shields and Zach Schonfeld celebrate an actor that Ethan Hawke describes as “the only actor in the history of the form to really change the form” while invoking David Lynch to describe Cage as “the jazz musician of actors,” in an episode that is as Nic Cage as they come. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 042: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)We're talking Nicolas Cage's... I mean, Nicolas Coppola's very first screen credit, 1982's Fast Times at Ridgemont High. The film stars Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Pheobe Cates, Forest Whitaker, 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/1mVw6A52QjbMeQicIlj4i7RSS 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

This week I'm joined by Zach Schonfeld to discuss his new book, How Coppola Became Cage. Zach's look at the early years of Nicolas Cage's career is deeply researched, featuring interviews with directors like David Lynch (Wild at Heart), Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas), and Cage's own brother, Christopher Coppola (Deadfall). We talked about Cage's mythmaking, his anger at being accused of benefitting from nepotism, and his befuddlement at becoming a meme, among other topics. If you're a fan of the Raising Arizona star or need a Christmas gift for the Vampire's Kiss fan in your life, How Coppola Became Cage is a must-have. And if you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend!

NOTE: This episode was originally only for Patreon subscribers, but we've opened it up for everyone. Subscribe to our Patreon for more bonus material like this throughout the year at this link: https://www.patreon.com/filmshake*     *     *Two words: Nic Cage. Has there ever been two other words in the history of language that could contain the multitudes that these words represent? Maybe when the ancients were building the tower of Babel and the world's language was confused, there remained slivers of the pure language that contained the secrets to the universe. It's like Nic Cage knew this, changing his name from Nicolas Coppola to Nicolas Cage (after his favorite Marvel character Luke Cage). He knew he'd need to hold back that purity (put it in a Cage, if you will), because otherwise we would have built a tower to Heaven with the ridiculousness and awesomeness that is his filmography.Maybe it can still get us there. Like to Baby-O in Con Air, Nic is here to show us that, yes, God does exist, and He loves Nic Cage.That's good. Because we do too!Here, the other lesser Nic and I each choose our top 5 Cage moments, ranging from the ridiculous and the over-the-top (two phrases you'll here a lot) to the...well mainly more of that. These knobs go to eleven, baby, like no other Filmshake has shaken!Support the showConnect with us!PatreonTwitterFacebookEmailLinktr.eeLetterboxd - Nic & JordanThe Nicsperiment

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.

We're back, and it's Desmond's turn to interview Bryan about his Nic Cage fandom before they dive into a meaty review of Nicolas Coppola's feature film debut. Now, not even being Uncle Frank's nephew can guarantee a glorious film debut because, while the film is pretty widely considered a classic, our subject barely appears on-screen and utters zero lines. But why? Listen to our review of Fast Times at Ridgemont High to find out!

Remember when Nicholas Cage was known as Nicolas Coppola?  Remember when the mall was THE place to hang out?  Remember when half the girls in your high school class were trying to look like Pat Benatar?  Remember when Sean Penn was funny?? :o Well if you don't remember any of those things, here is an iconic tie capsule movie to remind of those and many other things from forty years ago.  Yes this high school comedy came out forty years ago and it was not only the directorial debut for Amy Heckerling who would go on to direct Clueless but it was also the screenwriting debut of Cameron Crowe who would go on to write and direct Jerry Maguire.  And it has a STACKED cast of future top talent including Penn, Cage, Forest Whitaker, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Judge Reinhold among several others.  It's time to go back to Ridgemont and find out if playing Led Zeppelin IV on the first date REALLY works….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/

Artoun and Christina have watched all of Cage in the 80s and are here to give you a short recap on the state of Cage! They take a look back and see how Nicolas Coppola became Nicolas Cage, rank his movies of the last decade, and get to the bottom of what the Cage rating means. Join us next week as we spring into the 90s with David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) [RATED R]. Don't forget to rate & review the pod, subscribe on your favorite platform, and follow us on Twitter & Instagram @cageoldquestion! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artoun-nazareth/support

We are taking a break from our normal programming to go back to 1981 to Nicolas Coppola in The Best of Times (1981). Artoun and Christina debate the complexities of being a teenager in the 1980s, young Nicolas's bold beach moves, and whether or not there is any merit to this at all. Join us next week as we talk about the VERY popular Nicolas Cage movie, Moonstruck (1987) [RATED PG]. Don't forget to rate & review the pod, subscribe on your favorite platform, and follow us on Twitter & Instagram @cageoldquestion! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artoun-nazareth/support

The premiere episode of the series begins with Artoun and Christina cliff-jumping into The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) to decide how the film answers the question: is Nicolas Cage the greatest actor alive? Join us next week as we discuss Nicolas Cage's first film appearance (as Nicolas Coppola) in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). Don't forget to rate and review the pod, subscribe on whatever platform you use, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram @cageoldquestion! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/artoun-nazareth/support

Your favourite Canadian National Treasure talks about one of the worlds treasures Nick Cage! A man with many names and personas who can do no wrong (statistically speaking anyways). His lifetime batting average is hall of fame status and as you can hear, we really like it (mostly). This is hard one because there are ups and downs but I think that's one of the things that makes our subject human, his imperfections. Really, aren't we all routing for the underdog? Sure, he's a Coppola, and really had a lot of opportunities but he always walked his own path and that's really admirable. We are cheering on the renaissance of our 90s stars. Brendan Frasers come back is right around the corner. Tune in and subscribe to Can You Confirm That? to make sure you don't miss it. Check cyctpod.com for more. Thanks for listening! JB & GW

This week Hayden and Clay discuss the ramifications of nepotism in Hollywood. Not really. They just discuss the Francis Ford Coppola movie Peggy Sue got Married starring Nicolas Coppola. Hosts: Clay Hiller (Twitter: @The_Red_Clay) Hayden Gilbert (Instagram: @Haydencomesalive) Theme Song: Written and Performed by KC Trimble (Twitter: @Shoesrobinson) Buy Hayden's books

  Meg was once on Disney's Dream Squad, and while that usually meant making dreams come true - one time it almost meant her job! Plus, Jay Sherer faces off with Josh Taylor in a game of Goldblumian and Nic Cagean proportions on Theme Park Pulse: The Game!-To support our work for as little as $1 a month on Patreon - click here!-AUTOMATED TRANSCRIPTION (will contain many, many, many errors) Kory: [00:00:00] welcome to  pulse, the game, the game show for theme park fans. I'm your host Kory in San Francisco, California. And I'll introduce you to the rest of the panel in just a second. Theme Park Pulse: The Game is a fan supported podcast. Meaning this ultimately costs us more money than we make. It's truly a labor of love for everyone you hear on the show and we can really use your support on our Patriot for as little as a dollar a month. You'll get some awesome benefits and you'll help us offset the costs associated with making this show. There's a link down in the show notes. If money is tight and we totally get that, help us out by telling a friend about the show and showing them how to subscribe. Hmm, thanks in advance. In the next half hour, you'll meet a former cast member and part of the Walt Disney world dream squad laid off during the pandemic and our buddy Jay Sherer from the story geek stops by for an unconventional showdown on rollercoaster. Rapid-fire up first. It's the Park's pop culture pop quiz. if you'd like to play theme park pulse the game. Call (213) 935-0513. That's (213) 935-0513. And leave a message. Let's welcome. Our listener contestant on theme park pulse the game from Orlando, Florida. It's Meg Patton. Hey meg. Great to be here. Thank you for joining us! In just a minute. I'm going to test your Park's knowledge with the Park's pop culture pop quiz. But first I'd like to introduce you to our legacy panel,  Albie: [00:01:54] Oh, that's not funny.  Kory: [00:01:56] Up first. Check again from the deck of a star ship that is randomly docked in Sacramento, California, for some reason, it's our scorekeeper Albie up high.  Adam: [00:02:05] Yeah.  Albie: [00:02:05] So I needed fuel some like, Hey, this place looks cool and it's not covered in snow. Let's stop here.  Kory: [00:02:11] And the gas prices are cheaper there than, you know, a lot of nearby cities.  Sean: [00:02:15] Yeah. I  Albie:[00:02:15] don't have to steal it from a. Pirates some space.  Kory: [00:02:19] It's just practical, just a few miles away from Alby there in California's capital city sits the host of Adam's theme park time machine on this channel, and very much in competition for the best beard on this show. It's Adam Vargas. Well, and see we're  Adam: [00:02:32] on zoom, so I'm not wearing a mask so you can see it. And it's newly trimmed. It's good  Kory: [00:02:37] for this next panelist known for her haikus. A poem roses are red. Violets are blue. Nikki loves kitties and podcasting. Oh,  Nikki: [00:02:48] that  Kory: [00:02:48] was wonderful. Co-host of Jack and Nicky weekday mornings on WVA Q in Morgantown, West Virginia. Hey man. Oh,  Nikki: [00:02:56] what's up? Y'all  Kory: [00:02:57] South South West of West Virginia in the suburbs of Greenville. South Carolina is where we find our friend Jack. Calls him Shawny. Shawn, Shawn, Shawn, or daddy. Goth Santa's is used regularly, but his friends just call him Sean.  Sean: [00:03:12] I'm also not wearing a mask, but when I do, you can still see my beard. They just become one after a while.  Kory: [00:03:20] It's true. And finally, he is the host of modern mouse on YouTube and in your podcast feeds. And he's the trivia. God. He wrote that on Tuesday nights for Disney trivia, Tuesday on the theme park pulse, Twitch and Facebook live. It's Josh Taylor in Denver, Colorado. Hey, John Corey, I wrote you a potent too. Adam: [00:03:37] Did you? Yeah. Uh, it  Unknown: [00:03:38] goes like this, uh, roses are red. You just introduced me. I'm here for some games and probably some hazing. Yeah. I.  Sean: [00:03:50] And a genius Kory: [00:03:55] continuing our series. He's on former cast members of the Walt Disney company. Maggie worked on the dream squad, which by the way, sounds super rad. Just get to make people's dreams come true. It's amazing. And you had a bit of a swash buckling interaction. You might say with a guest at up cuts, mouse gear, can you share that story? Meg: [00:04:15] I would say the, you know, the dreams, God was amazing, you know, given out dreams, nicest Cinderella, castle, suite, and Disney vacation club memberships. But when you were not doing all those high profile things, you were just literally wandering the park and. Looking for ways to amuse yourself and others. So I came out from our office and I look over and there's this older grandfather type gentlemen coming out of mouse gear, wearing a child's pirate hat is kind of standing there, you know, arms crossed. I was like, Oh, I have to go talk to this guy. So immediately, very chatty we're talking it up, I'm calling them a pirate, R B from Mayday and you know, he's going back and forth. I was like, Oh, this is great. What fun? I was like, wait, I have, I have a pirate button. I can like officially make this guy a pirate. So I take out the button, I make it this big thing. He's like all excited. And he goes, would you mind pinning it on me? And I was like, Oh, you know, okay. I don't, you know, any, I will never forget this. He like slow motion pulls his arm that had kind of been hidden, which I didn't. Well, he noticed out and on his hand is an honest to goodness, real life hook. So all of a sudden my brain goes, I just called a man to the hook. It  Unknown: [00:05:31] five times  Meg: [00:05:34] I. If going to get fired. I like look at the fellow dream squad member that is with me who thank goodness is the sweetest person on the planet. So I was like, they will believe Jackie that I will not  thank goodness. I have a witness and he like taps the button with his hook. So that like day, sir, I was like, Oh my God. Oh my God. So I immediately go upstairs, write a whole email to my leader like this. I was really trying to make magic. It really blew up in my face. So fast forward the end of the night, if you've ever been at the parks, sometimes we wave and so dreams called. We would do that. And I saw this man coming in a sea of like 30,000 people. I see my pirate. I was like, Oh my gosh, this is it. This is where he's going to call me out from everyone. And about these were this big family and they all yell my name. Everybody literally bought it.  Unknown: [00:06:26] So excited. They're like, he's been  Meg: [00:06:27] jogging about you all night. I'm so glad he got to meet you. He's so proud to be a pirate. So I was like, Oh,  Kory: [00:06:34] ultimately really happy with what you had done.  Adam: [00:06:37] But I was  Meg: [00:06:37] like, this is, I can't believe I called a man with a hook, a pirate.  Kory: [00:06:43] Maggie, you haven't let leaving the Disney company slow you down. You have a next page with mag where you put together a children's literature with related activities for kids. You've also created this thing that I'm fascinated by story hunts. What is story  Meg: [00:06:55] hunts? So I personally have always been a fan of. Trivia, you know, it's just something I naturally liked and there's this great Facebook group called for each other that allows cast members and folks that want to support the impact of cast members, ways to connect. And what are people looking for? And someone said, Hey, we're going to the parks. We know not everything's open. We're looking for like a scavenger hunt type of thing. And I was like, shh. I can't do that. You know, no one tells a story like Disney and there are so many details, teeny tiny ones, a big ones, you know, of course you can walk into agency expedition, Everest, and you know, you're in Asia, but do you also ever look at the prayer flags that are hanging and the dinged up pots and pans that are from the village? So it's, it's that type of stuff that I send people all over the park.  Kory: [00:07:39] I'm looking for. Where can people find your scavenger hunts? Cause that sounds really fun.  Meg: [00:07:42] Yes. People are like, which one's your favorite? I'm like, well, I really try not to make a lame one. I mean, they're all on both Facebook and Instagram as well as Gmail next page with Meg. All right,  Kory: [00:07:56] man. We're going to play the parks, pop culture, pop quiz. I'm going to ask you three questions about some recent news from Park's pop culture. If you get too correct, we'll send you a glow in the dark theme park pulse wristband. You're ready to play. Oh, yeah, let's do it. Here we go. Question one. It was once the rainforest cafe. Now it's Disneyland's first store outside the park dedicated to what space centric franchise,  Meg: [00:08:23] a desktop. Kory: [00:08:27] Oh, you can no longer get a burger under a drippy elephant. You can take home a grow goo of your very own. In my mind, I'm like. Can we do both room for all. How about a drippy Grogan? Can we get that? Sean: [00:08:43] Eat the crumbs  Unknown: [00:08:44] out of that little baby's mouth. Kory: [00:08:50] Okay. Mag question two. It was announced recently that Disneyland is considering a dedicated entrance gate for what,  Meg: [00:08:58] uh, annual pass  Unknown: [00:08:59] holders.  Kory: [00:09:01] That's right. An idea. And it's one that has already been implemented widely at Walt Disney world in Florida. But it makes me wonder before you give pass holders, their own entrance. Wouldn't you want to consider actually like having pass holders?  Unknown: [00:09:17] I don't know for us legacies.  Kory: [00:09:19] You have your own line to go buy a one day one park ticket. All right, Meg, last question. As part of the upcoming 18 month celebration of Walt Disney world's 50th anniversary, which spherical park icon is getting some lighting upgrades. Unknown: [00:09:34] I believe it is  Meg: [00:09:34] spaceship earth.  Kory: [00:09:37] That's right. It was also announced that those lighting upgrades will be permanent Disney. It's calling the 50th, the world's most magical celebration. It's rumored that Imagineers are already working on plans for the 60th anniversary of the resort, which they plan to call the world's more, most magical or celebration Topia. Adam: [00:09:56] They really need you on  Kory: [00:09:57] payroll. They do. I'll be headed back, do on the Park's pop culture, pop quiz. As the legendary  Adam: [00:10:02] RuPaul says,  Unknown: [00:10:03] you're a winner, baby. Kory: [00:10:08] I wondered if lb could make this show a little bit Geyer and he did. Thank you, Alby. Congratulations, Maggie. Will you stick around and play some more games later in the show? Up next. We meet our guest Jay Scherer and put him to the test against a member of our panel and a game of gold blue Meehan and Nick KGN proportions. See what I mean? Next on theme park pulse, the game. Welcome back to theme park, post the game. Our guests this week is a long time friend of the no midnight media family of podcasts. He's an author and is a part of the story geeks podcast and YouTube channel in Southern California. It's our pal, Jay Shearer. Welcome Jay. Hey,  Jay Sherer: [00:10:55] it is a pleasure to be here. It's like in pandemic days. I'm just  Kory: [00:10:58] glad I get to hang out with you guys. It does feel like hangs, not quite the same as the hangs we're used to, but almost how are you and your wife passing the time they're in. So Cal without Disneyland to run off.  Jay Sherer: [00:11:10] Oh, it is such a bummer. I will tell you, we do get down to downtown Disney when it, when it's open and we'll have, you know, a meal and try to get some ice cream and salt and straw, which is amazing. But yeah, a lot of times, I mean, we're just like watching TV, doing podcasts, working remotely, staying at home.  Kory: [00:11:27] You do what you can, in addition to being a super talented podcaster, definitely checkout story geeks. You're also an author and that you co-wrote an audio book called death of a bounty Hunter. That's getting a lot of attention. Tell us about that. What's death.  Jay Sherer: [00:11:42] Death of a bunny owner is my favorite thing that I have actually ever written. And one of the things that made it, my favorite thing is it exists as a novel. But we wrote it to be a full cast audio book. So we know we didn't have the budget to film a movie. And so what we did was we said, look, we can actually write this as a full cast audio book use all of our friends who are in the acting community and do this. And so we have three different narrators who were recording from the first person, but we have a total of 11 voice actors voicing 14 different characters. It's like a supernatural steam punk Western. So if you're into that kind of thing, it's a genre mashup, and it's a story about a Korean bounty Hunter who kind of, has to come face to face with the widow. Of a guy that he killed. And so it's a very intense, but very fun story. And you guys can check it out death of  Adam: [00:12:33] a bunny, hunter.com. Can I just say quickly as an avid audio book listener, I wish more audio books would do that. I get so sick of hearing the same white dude doing voices. Bravo, man. Good job,  Kory: [00:12:47] Jay. What is the story? Geeks podcast.  Jay Sherer: [00:12:50] We're all about storytelling. And so the art of storytelling is really important to us. So Kayla Monroe, who is a screenwriter, he wrote the Mongolian connection. And I, uh, and sometimes occasional guests will talk about the philosophy of storytelling and what goes on, um, when you're writing our story or telling a story. And then we also have a whole team of people who just like to geek out about geek stories, science fiction, fantasy comic book stories. And so that's kind of a big mashup of all the things that we do together. And I think almost everybody here has been on that  Adam: [00:13:22] show. Right?  Jay Sherer: [00:13:23] Almost everybody here has been on that show at one point in time or  Kory: [00:13:25] another analyst, Josh Taylor have hosted a podcast dedicated to the personalities and work of two great American actors. You've got one. You've already done one that's coming up. The first one was on Jeff Goldbloom. And the upcoming one is about Nick cage. Why those two actors and later why work with Josh Taylor? I'm just kidding.  Adam: [00:13:49] It's fair. Actually. I want to do  Jay Sherer: [00:13:51] those podcasts because I get to work with Josh Taylor, who I think is super fun to work with. He's the best. Basically Josh came to me and it was like, I love Jeff Goldbloom and I think you're going to fall in love with Jeff Goldblum. I was like, all right, let's see. And then of course you do because he's Jeff Goldbloom. We had a blast on that podcast. That was a fun one. That was good. I think we just said to ourselves, like we chose one huge nineties celebrity. Who else was big in the nineties. Oh, Hey, that guy, Nick cage big. Let's go after  Kory: [00:14:17] him. Scope living still out there somewhere. Josh  Sean: [00:14:20] Taylor. Yeah. You can still listen to global blooming currently  Unknown: [00:14:24] at the. Network 1901 or modern mouse website.  Kory: [00:14:27] After all that work, you should be an expert on both of those men by now, but so HSA Josh Taylor. So this time on theme park, post the game, we are pitting you against each other. It's rollercoaster. Rapid-fire the Goldbloom cage Taylor Scherer showdown, Adam.  Adam: [00:14:46] All right. I'll admit, I don't think Nicholas cage and Jeff Goldbloom have that much to do with theme parks, but you know what? You guys love those guys. And we like to have fun. It's  Kory: [00:14:55] technicality. They like parks and they like these guys. Adam: [00:14:58] It's two degrees of separation. I guys, we played rollercoaster. Rapid-fire, uh, quite a few times here on theme park, host the game, but just a quick refresher on how this works. I am going to ask you five questions with a number. That is incorrect. All you have to do is tell me, is the correct number higher or lower for no other reason than the fact that Josh is before Jay on my screen, Josh is going to go first. And Jeff Goldbloom is going to be the first set of questions. No roller coaster rep fire, the marvelous Jeff Goldblum. Here we get the number of Portlandia episodes that Jeff Goldbloom stars in six.  Sean: [00:15:41] Oh, uh, uh, lower  Adam: [00:15:48] eight. My favorite roles include the doily salesman and the karaoke coach. Everybody needs to watch Jeff Goldbloom on Portlandia. Kory: [00:15:55] I think he's great. As the pullout King,  Adam: [00:15:57] he is very good as a pullout thing as well. Appearances in best picture, Oscar nominees, three lower. For Annie hall, the big chill, the right stuff. And the grand Budapest hotel. I don't know anything  Sean: [00:16:16] about Adam: [00:16:19] the number of times. Ian Malcolm says the word chaos or chaotic in Jurassic park nine. I'm  Sean: [00:16:28] going to go lower,  Adam: [00:16:30] correct. Six times. The word is said seven times in the movie once by Dr. Sattler and the other six by Dr. Malcolm Jeff gold blooms, Instagram followers, 1.5 million. Let me go higher 1 million, which honestly, that, that is criminally underrated. Yeah, man  Sean: [00:16:54] fashion icon that is still too low for our Lord and savior  Adam: [00:16:59] fifth and final question. The year he appeared on Saturday night live as Dr. Kent Waller opposite will Farrell as Harry Carey, 1999. Slower. 1997. And I only have one question for you. Hey, eat the moon. If it was made of ribs,  Kory: [00:17:22] I'll be, how many did he get?  Unknown: [00:17:24] He got three, right? So I guess he kind of does know  Adam: [00:17:26] Jeff Goldbloom ish. He recovered. Nice. All right. J three is the number to beat. And I'm nervous about this guys. Nicolas cage. Joshua  Jay Sherer: [00:17:35] was the one that did all the history stuff for this. Kory: [00:17:39] I'm trying  Adam: [00:17:40] to be interesting.  Kory: [00:17:41] Oh, is this big trouble? I guess  Jay Sherer: [00:17:42] let's see what I can do.  Adam: [00:17:45] Number of IMD B after credits 90. Oh,  Unknown: [00:17:50] higher.  Adam: [00:17:53] 102. I don't have a joke for that. That's a lot of movies, the rotten tomatoes approval rating for the Wicker man, 20% lower 15%. They're probably just all people who really, really liked. B's  Kory: [00:18:14] Josh, how are you feeling right now? I'm  Adam: [00:18:16] just really  Sean: [00:18:17] excited that we're talking  Unknown: [00:18:18] about  Jay Sherer: [00:18:19] Nick cage and  Adam: [00:18:19] Jeff Hogan movies in which he's credited by his birth name, Nicolas Coppola for if  Jay Sherer: [00:18:28] you would've asked me what his birth name was, I would not have known  Kory: [00:18:31] it. I'm going to say lower. Adam: [00:18:36] Yeah. Nicolas Coppola is for folks who don't know is the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola. He was credited by his birth name and two movies, a TV movie in the early eighties and fast times at Ridgemont high, where he's the pizza delivery guy amount of time that he was married to Lisa Marie Presley 100 days  Jay Sherer: [00:18:56] a minute, say higher, Adam: [00:19:01] just barely 107 days, which means of course he has something in common with Michael Jackson. One of the only people weirder than Nicholas cage. Ah, we got to do that. Jackson podcast, Jay Sherry, you're going for the clean sweep on Nicholas cage, the amount of money he spent on a T-Rex skull, $250,000.  Kory: [00:19:25] I don't even care what the answer is. Oh,  Jay Sherer: [00:19:28] I'm going to say that it's  Adam: [00:19:29] higher than that. Unknown: [00:19:34] Perfect  Adam: [00:19:35] score in rollercoaster, rapid fire. $270,000. He returned it when he found out it was stolen. Now maybe I'm a cynical guy, but if somebody said you'll want to buy this T-Rex skull, I would just assume that he didn't get it legitimately. What's the legitimate  Sean: [00:19:52] way to  Adam: [00:19:52] get it. See Rex  Sean: [00:19:53] skull, then  Kory: [00:19:55] Jeff Goldbloom would have, uh, found a way one roller coaster, rapid fire this  Adam: [00:20:01] time. I mean, see, I'm obsessed  Unknown: [00:20:03] with Cardi B and obviously. BJ's obsessed with Nick cage. So Jay won. Congratulations.  Kory: [00:20:09] I don't know what  Jay Sherer: [00:20:09] it says about me,  Kory: [00:20:12] Jay, will you hang out on the panel for a bit and play the eighth to work with us at the end of the show? Sure. Up next on the podcast, you see, Nikki will read haiku's exactly. Three. If Meg can guests two out of three, she might just be the champion of our next game by Nikki. I know. Oh my God. Thankfully, Nikki is a way more effective poet than I am happy. Hi, cruise is next on theme park pulse. welcome back to theme park, post the game. If you'd like to be a contestant call (213) 935-0513 and leave a message or you can email Nikki in IKK I at noon, midnight media.com. Let's welcome back to the show from Orlando, Florida. It's Meg Patton. Welcome back. Thank you, Meg, we've invited you back to play a game of silly lines and crispy rhymes. Yes. I made that up. It's a game Nikki invented. It's called happy haikus. Nikki  Nikki: [00:21:17] Meg, you create scavenger hunts for families at Walt Disney world and the resorts and beyond. So I thought I would create a little puzzle for you to solve, but we're going with Disney land rides.  Kory: [00:21:32] Just out of sheer cruelty. Really? I'm sorry. Tricky. Tricky.  Unknown: [00:21:38] I  Nikki: [00:21:38] have created three haikus for you. You need to guess two out of three, correct? Two wins. So keep those Disneyland rides in mind. All right. Haikus number one, who even are you eat? Drink grow shrink heads will roll a tumbling down. We go.  Meg: [00:21:58] I feel like that. I forget what it's called. Alice in Wonderland.  Nikki: [00:22:04] There you go. All right. This one might be a little bit tougher. Hey, number two. What a waste of pies? I hope you have insurance look out for that  Unknown: [00:22:17] train.  Meg: [00:22:20] Mr. Toad's wild ride  Nikki: [00:22:24] pass. He needs one  Meg: [00:22:25] insurance.  Adam: [00:22:27] Didn't that watch out for that train thing. Was that like a, what were you like doing a little Georgia? The jungle tie-in thing. That's what my mind went  Sean: [00:22:33] to.  Nikki: [00:22:34] Oh yeah. I didn't even think  Kory: [00:22:36] of that. I'm actually just surprised you didn't find a way to Ryman goes to hell in there somewhere because I mean, that's a real, real thing. You've got to give the devil his due. It's an important plot point,  Unknown: [00:22:47] right?  Sean: [00:22:48] Crispy rhymes,  Meg: [00:22:50] haiku, number three,  Nikki: [00:22:52] a code adventure, stop and play some basketball. Harold waits for  Kory: [00:22:57] you. Oh, this one's tricky. Matter what?  Unknown: [00:23:00] Yeah,  Kory: [00:23:04] that was very insightful. Basketball, I guess she would say I'll be, how did Meg do on happy haikus, our special  Unknown: [00:23:12] guest three questions. You're a winner. Kory: [00:23:20] close enough. We'll wrap up the show with park guests behaving badly. The eighth dwarf is next on the game. Hey, it's Corey real quick while I have you at the park post, the game is a completely fan supported podcast. And well, last year we almost broke even, but because of the pandemic and the economic downturn, we've seen a lot of our financial support dry up. If you've been thinking about supporting our work now would be a really great time to join us on Patrion. Just search for a patrion.com/no midnight. And join for as little as a dollar a month. You'll pick up multiple cool bonus episodes every week and get early access to all of our shows with no ads like this one. There's a link down in the description of this podcast. Take a look at that. Join us on Patrion. If you can, either way. Thank you so much for listening now back to the show. before we wrap up the show this week, we're going to play another round of the eighth dwarf play along at home or on social media using the hashtag eighth dwarf, Sean, take it away.  Sean: [00:24:35] All right. So we all know the seven doors they're designed to represent specific behaviors, personality traits. And at some point during any Disney trip, we're likely to see or be sleepy, dopey, happy, or. While 2020 keeps casting its shadow over 2021 grumpy, but every now and then we witnessed people in the parks. So we just can't categorize as one of the seven dwarfs. Their behavior is so outrageous that we fit these people into their own category that we call. The eighth dwarf. All right. We're all avid Disney fans park goers. Or we were back in the house the on days of 2019, you know, back in the before times. And we're all guilty, a little bit. Some of us made more than others of being that friend. You know, the one that, the note, all that is more than happy to offer tons of unsolicited advice. The minute you hear someone say the word Disney, most of us. Meanwhile, but then there are folks like Alex, no matter what Alex, who is single with no kids mind, you knows what's best for you on your trip with your family. It doesn't matter that your family five who is bringing along grandma and grandpa, which was not an uncommon occurrence before 2020, Alex has yet. Do it counter a trip that he can't micromanage all the help. He will gladly make all of your decisions for you. Context, be damned. He has a foolproof, one size fits all plan that you need to know. And clearly, if you don't listen to Alex, you are the stubborn one. Corey, what do we call Alex?  Kory: [00:26:08] Daddy  Sean: [00:26:11] buffoon. He,  Nikki: [00:26:14] you said he's single, right? Yeah, Unknown: [00:26:21] this is Len Testa from touringplans.com ah,  Adam: [00:26:28] E type a,  Kory: [00:26:33] I  Jay Sherer: [00:26:33] literally do not have a better answer than  Kory: [00:26:37] shots. Also. We have two Lin testers. That's the first  Sean: [00:26:44] and Meg.  Kory: [00:26:47] I see,  Sean: [00:26:49] I think Papa's he takes it. That's got a good flow. Good. All right. Next up, we have Danny with an eye. Let me start this whole thing by saying I'm old ish and I'm aware of this, but I don't reflectively hate all young people. For example, I think I do a wonderful job of tolerating, Jackie, Jack, Jack, and all of his shenanigans jokes aside. I do try to do my best to remember that I was in my twenties once and well, it's kind of a Rite of passage. You dumb manned or short-sighted things in your twenties. Oh, but Danny, she goes just a little bit too far, or at least Danny goes too far when she's on trips, surrounded by five of her friends, flash photography on pirates, reciting the script in the haunted mansion, singing loudly and poorly on carousel of progress, saving quote unquote spots in line for all of their new friends in the space, mountain queue, perhaps the most egregious. Practically stampeding over a young girl, dressed like bell so they can record themselves with guest on for their followers. Quote, unquote, I'll admit to being too old to get tick tock, but I sort of feel like it's not old fashioned to suggest that people not run over children. Unless, of course you are guest on, and then it's pretty much on brand. But come on, Danny. Corey, what is Danny's eighth dwarf name? This  Kory: [00:28:15] is why we can't have nice things. He  Sean: [00:28:19] Al be exasperated.  Unknown: [00:28:23] Look at me. Sean: [00:28:29] I feel like that he would just go on.  Unknown: [00:28:32] Josh, this would be entitled influencers, David Dilbert in his blog squad, Sean: [00:28:41] Adam  Adam: [00:28:42] hashtag the worst.  Jay Sherer: [00:28:46] Mine's kind of similar to Nikki's, but it's selfie E Sean: [00:28:53] and Meg  Meg: [00:28:54] non influencing  Kory: [00:28:58] non-influenza  Meg: [00:29:00] fluid.  Sean: [00:29:02] I think we're going to go with selfie, Jay. Well done. The extended E's really sell that one. I  Kory: [00:29:07] think Jay and Meg, thank you so much for joining us this week on theme park,  Jay Sherer: [00:29:11] post the game. 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The Cage Boy's go alllllllllll the way back to the start, looking at the first ever appearance of Nic Cage in Valley Girl, and then bring it right back with his latest cinematic offering - Grand Isle. There's even a little Nicolas Coppola thrown in with a quick look at Fast Times at Ridgemont High too. Twitter: @cagefightingpod Email: cagefightingpod@gmail.com

Having been deceived by the size of Nicolas Coppola's role in his first major film, 1982's "Fast Times at Ridgemont High", the boys introduce a hot new segment in an effort to get to better know their new friend.

The boys watch ABC's 1981 TV Movie "Best of Times" and begin their quarantine adventure with their new friend Nicolas Coppola. What could go possibly wrong?

Look Back Topics -- Nic Cage Interview: One of our favorite people to talk about, whether for jokes or for real, did an interview that really dug deep into who is Nicolas Coppola. Making everyone take a different look at the man that has become a joke, myth, and a legend. -- Finding Planets in the Goldilocks Zone: Science has been able to figure out how to narrow down the number of Earth like planets. New technology can tell us just how many planets meet the Goldilocks zone , and are therefore habitable. -- Masters of the Universe - Revelation: Netflix's is bringing an all new MOTU cartoon series that will answer all the question left from the original 80's cartoon. What's the cherry on top? The show runner for the new series is none other then Kevin Smith! -- TSA Bans Galaxy's Edge Soda Bottles: One of the coolest, and least expensive collectibles from Star Wars Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland was banned on flights. The soda bottles shaped like thermal detonators from a long time ago in a galaxy far far away couldn't be put into you checked luggage. Thousands of voices cried out in pain simultaneously. -- Left Handed and Your DNA: What makes someone left handed. If you thought it was a choice, or someone being forced into it? Then science just proved you wrong. Discovering what is in your DNA that contributes to being left handed. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Get your geek on with Malice Corp and All Things Nerd on Social Media -- Website - http://malice-corp.com -- Discord - https://discord.gg/F52YJuN -- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/malice_corp -- Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/allthingsnerdpodcast -- Cast Twitter - https://twitter.com/allnerdpodcast -- Mest 5150 - https://twitter.com/Mest_MaliceCorp

Movie Breakdown week as Brian & Pat dig into one of the first high school comedies ever made: Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Topics include early product placement, Jennifer Jason Leigh's career goal of never being famous, Phoebe Cates and about as deep as deep dives get on her red bikini pool scene, Nicolas Coppola's first acting role, creepy dudes at mall food courts, teen relationship windows sailing away, 80s hair, first date etiquette, Brad's formal fantasies, and Spicoli's ground-breaking stoner performance. Featuring player breakdowns, hypothetical role plays, MCITW (sponsored by Wicklow Wear), Ryan Philipee Practice Hero Award, and MVP of the Week (sponsored by the industry of Japanese Denim).

Hey bud, let's party! Hosts  Sonia Mansfield and Margo D. dork out about 1982's "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." Directed by Amy Heckerling and based on Cameron Crowe's book, the movie stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sean Penn, Phoebe Cates, Judge Reinhold, Brian Backer, Robert Romanus, Forest Whittaker, Ray Walston and - in very small parts - Anthony Edwards, Eric Stoltz and someone named Nicolas Coppola. Dork out everywhere … Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Google Play Spotify Libsyn Tune In Stitcher Twitter Facebook

Join Jake, Jeff and Nick as their childhood memories are destroyed while they discuss the Nicolas Coppola masterpiece, Gone in 60 Seconds. They should have let Eleanor die.

In this episode we discuss the Man, the Myth, the Legend that is Nicolas Coppola aka actor & film icon Nic Cage! From his small roles in the 80's; his rise to the A-list action and Oscar winning drama star of the 90's: and after his National Treasure films in the 2000's steady stream of direct to digital download "B' films! We talk about the highs, the lows & where we think he can go! Plus...that glorious hair and Accent in 1997's Con-Air of course! Sit back and enjoy the ride in Episode 9 with K-Dog & Fish! K-Dog & Fish Podcast is a show about our moronic ideas & reviews on everything from Movies, TV, Pop-Culture & Funko Pops. http://kdogandfish.com

His first film as Nicolas Cage, no longer Nicolas Coppola. His young beautiful physique and absolute butterface falls in love in this Romeo & Juliet mashup. Hosts Aja and Marta absolutely tear apart everything from his acting to his buck tombstone teeth.Instagram: @goneinNICstysecondsTwitter: @GINSpodSUBSCRIBE: Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | Other

Is Nicolas Cage aka Nicolas Coppola a vampire, civil war soldier, and a baseball player??? Megan and I investigate --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/popculturedswine/support

We dug deep to find the on-screen debut of a young, teenage Nicolas Coppola, in the never-picked-up pilot episode of a musical teen dramedy called The Best of Times. It's got everything you'd expect from a series boasting a full understanding of adolescent America - it's got angst, it's got lust, it's got... Crispin Glover?!   Check out rattlingthecagecast.com for full show notes.

Hoo boy, today's something of a double goof, and you can blame each individual goof on each brother. First, Alex didn't set up the recording equipment right, so the audio quality's a bit off, and Josh managed to not get a copy of The Cotton Club in time because Frankie Ford Coppola is super ashamed of it. HOWEVER! We found the legit first professional acting work for Our Sainted Cage, an ABC pilot called The Best of Times. It's only forty-eight minutes long, and it's all right here on Youtube. Check it out and come right back, because you get to see a very young Nicolas Coppola pointing at his biceps, screaming, and then debating the nature of being young and called up to war and using that story to get some trim. Join your favorite brothers and their guest, comedian and doctoral candidate Francesca Lyn. If you're in the Richmond area, check out her event at the Coalition Theater, Stand-up for Access: A Comedy Benefit for the Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project. Tell your friends, tell your enemies, write us a review with a five-star rating on iTunes, name your firstborns either Alex, Josh, or Francesca, or sacrifice yourself to yourself for power over Podcast Magick.

Our inaugural episode! Unfortunately, Nicolas Cage is barely in this one, and he's billed for the first and only time as Nicolas Coppola, so we mostly just talk about Cage in abstract and cringe at how racist and homophobic this "classic" gets.

Academy Award winning Nicolas Coppola (he's not the Nic Cage we know and love yet) stars as a completely insane man and gives a completely insane performance in a movie that seems to be about vampires but....no. It's known as a true stinker but we have a different take. This film has its flaws for sure. There's some technical flaws, there's some bad shots, way too much stock footage, a piss poor actress with a huge head that isn't deserved but for the most part it's a solid piece. The mystery from Vampire's Kiss stems from the over the top performance by Nic. So let's just discuss his little acting job. So the film does have it's problems, but Nic Cage is NOT it. He's brilliant and incredibly fun to watch. He nails the role. Whether over the top or not, that's what his job was and he does it. The story is great (in fact, it's a pretty similar story to praised Fight Club) and it's intentionally hilarious. This is a black comedy folks. If you think it's a bad movie then film may not be your thing. Try dirt bikes or backyard wrestling.

In this episode we delve into the last of Nicolas Coppola’s onscreen credits before his butterfly-like transformation into the man we know as Nic Cage.