Podcast appearances and mentions of Vic Morrow

Four directors remake several classic Twilight Zone episodes, as well adding as their own material. Does it work? Do anthology films work? Can this movie escape the tragedy that occured during production? Is this a movie, or just tv on a big screen? Starring Dan Ackroyd, Albert Brooks, Vic Morrow, Scatman Crothers, Kathleen Quinlan, and John Lithgow. Oh, and Dick Miller. Directed by John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, and George Miller. Written by John Landis, Richard Matheson, Melissa Mathison, George Clayton Johnson, Jerome Bixby, and Rod Serling.

Send us a textWas there ever an era in cinema history when the obsession with cars, speed, and outrunning the law—whether you were a hick, a hippie, or a world-weary urbanite—captured the public's imagination more than in the early 1970s?That's what we aim to ponder on this, our 106th episode of the Triple FFF as we discuss not one, not 2 but THREE POWERHOUSE mainstream movies of muscle-car mayhem starting with 1971's Vanishing Point directed by Richard C. Sarafian and starring Barry Newman, Dean Jagger, Paul Koslo, Severn Darden, Anthony James, John Amos and Cleavon Little followed by 1974's Gone in 60 Seconds directed and starring the great HB Halicki, his brother Ronald, Jerry Daugirda and Marion Busia. And topped off with Dirty Mary Crazy Larry also released in '74 directed by John Hough  and starring Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke, Roddy McDowell and Vic Morrow. My guests this week are car and driving averse bookworm Roseanne Caputi, and the actor photographer and funnyman who heavily encouraged this topic of road burning revelry, a man who spent his formative years at the local theater in Ketchikan Alaska with a dazed smile on his face while his chin and his elbows rested on the seat in front him, whether there was someone seated in front of him or not, Gordon Alex Robertson. Before we cue the getaway banjo music and yell, “Kiss my Grits!” the synopses: Vanishing Point: Kowalski, a Nam vet and former cop turned delivery driver, is tasked with transporting a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T from Colorado to San Francisco in record time. As he speeds across the desert, he becomes a symbol of freedom and defiance, pursued by a relentless law enforcement apparatus.  Gone in 60 Seconds (1974): Maindrian Pace, an insurance adjuster and skilled car thief, is tasked with stealing fifty cars in a single night for a dangerous crime syndicate. As the clock ticks down, Pace races against time and evades the law against every possible odd to complete his impressive score.    Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry: After pulling off a daring yet disturbing home invasion and supermarket safe heist, two over the hill race car drivers, Larry and Deke, hit the California highways while on the run from the law.  They run into a setback when they are joined by Mary, a feisty and free spirited former one night stand of Larry's. The oddball trio then speed through the CA Delta backroads pursued by the shrewd and determined Captain Everett Franklin.   Which film laps the others in the Grand Prix and stands as an indelible classic? Or do all three win the Championship? Find out! Watch the video podcast on Youtube: https://youtu.be/nSQrMM2TnsQ

Bienvenue dans un épisode palpitant où l'horreur se cache derrière chaque coin sombre de Saint-Guilhem. Plongez dans l'atmosphère oppressante d'une maison hantée, marquée par une odeur de miel pourri et des archives macabres. Découvrez une cave secrète où jouets anciens et inscriptions énigmatiques révèlent le sinistre passé des Delorme, une famille disparue dans la nuit d'un orage. Entre rires d'enfants fantomatiques et murmures inquiétants, laissez-vous emporter par un jeu macabre où le réel et le surnaturel se confondent. Préparez-vous pour une immersion totale dans un univers où certains secrets ne meurent jamais.Préparez-vous à explorer les zones d'ombre de la jungle, où le volontariat se mêle à l'inconnu et où la quête de vérité se heurte à un mystère qui persiste. Un épisode haletant pour tous les fans d'horreur, d'urban legends et de récits dérangeants, qui vous tiendra en haleine du début à la fin.

Dans cet épisode, nous plongeons dans l'énigmatique histoire de Kris Kremers et Lisanne Froon, deux jeunes Hollandaises venues à Panama pour un volontariat prometteur, qui se sont aventurées dans la jungle de Boquete sur le sentier sinueux d'El Pianista. Ce qui devait être une escapade légère se transforme rapidement en disparition inexplicable et en véritable cauchemar.À travers des photographies macabres et des images inquiétantes prises dans l'obscurité, nous décortiquons les indices troublants laissés derrière – des clichés révélant des ombres étranges et des détails que nul ne peut expliquer. L'enquête nous conduit à la découverte d'un ancien appareil photo Kodak dans une clairière mystérieuse, rapporté par Ernesto, un habitant local dont les confidences sur la jungle et ses secrets nous glacent le sang. Entre les murmures de la communauté Ngäbe et les témoignages terrifiants, le récit s'enrichit d'éléments de surnaturel et de légendes urbaines qui défient toute logique.Préparez-vous à explorer les zones d'ombre de la jungle, où le volontariat se mêle à l'inconnu et où la quête de vérité se heurte à un mystère qui persiste. Un épisode haletant pour tous les fans d'horreur, d'urban legends et de récits dérangeants, qui vous tiendra en haleine du début à la fin.

Title: The California Kid [Wikipedia] [IMDb] Director: Richard T. Heffron Producer: Howie Horwitz Writer: Richard Compton Stars: Martin Sheen, Vic Morrow, Michelle Philips, Nick Nolte, Stuart Margolin PROMO: Movie Wars (@MovieWarsPod) SHOWNOTES: Due to production issues, we are jumping ahead to our next episode ahead of Ghost in the Shell: we're reviewing the 1974 made-for-TV film starring Martin Sheen, The California Kid! This action thriller car movie is a blast to the past, filmed in the 70s and set in the 50s. While it may be one of our more obscure picks, Robert, Beau, and Ash tell you why we think it's worth a watch, not only for car enthusiasts but anyone interested in a TV flick with a rising star. We'll be back with Ghost in the Shell as soon as possible and then our next scheduled episode: the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special, "The Day of the Doctor"! Collateral Cinema is on Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, Threads, and Twitter, and is on Goodpods, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podbean, Google Podcasts, YouTube, iHeart, and wherever else you get your podcasts! Also, check out Collateral Let's Play! on our YouTube channel. Anime Talk! is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts! You can also follow the show on Instagram and Twitter. Collateral Media merch is now available on TeePublic! Check out everything from shirts and hats, to stickers and even tapestries, at our affiliate link now: teepublic.com/stores/collateral-media-group (Collateral Cinema is a Collateral Media Podcast. Intro song is a license-free beat. All music and movie clips are owned by their respective creators and are used for educational purposes only. Please don't sue us; we're poor!)

Plongez dans l'horreur mystérieuse de Juillet 1982, où le tournage de La Quatrième Dimension bascule dans le surnaturel. Alors que Vic Morrow affronte sa peur des hélicoptères lors d'une scène explosive, un crash brutal et une pyrotechnie incontrôlée transforment le plateau en un théâtre de tragédie. Dans le chaos, une ombre maudite apparaît, murmurant des secrets d'une présence étrange. Cet épisode vous entraîne dans une enquête haletante sur une explosion qui a laissé Hollywood marqué à jamais – entre mystère, horreur et réalité déformée.

Steve & Izzy continue 2025 the Year of the Apocalypse & Marky March, where they celebrate movies after the fall of man starring Marks, as they are joined by the homey Michael Bagford to discuss 1982's "1990: The Bronx Warriors" starring Mark Gregory, Fred Williamson, Vic Morrow & more!!! How can you tell a real tough guy? Whatever became of that drummer? Which is the real ultimate weapon of the apocalypse: A Net or a Flamethrower?!? Let's find out!!! So kick back, grab a few brews, stay outta the Bronx, and enjoy!!! This episode is proudly sponsored by Untidy Venus, your one-stop shop for incredible art & gift ideas at UntidyVenus.Etsy.com and be sure to follow her on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram & Patreon at @UntidyVenus for all of her awesomeness!!! Try it today!!! Twitter - www.twitter.com/eilfmovies Facebook - www.facebook.com/eilfmovies Etsy - www.untidyvenus.etsy.com TeePublic - www.teepublic.com/user/untidyvenus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week the Forgotten Filmcast journeys into the world of spaghetti westerns with a 1970 film directed by actor Vic Morrow. James Garner takes on a western role that is quite a departure from his famous western hero Maverick in A Man Called Sledge.  Nick Rehak from Play MST For Me joins us for this discussion. We also have our movie recommendations and the new trivia segment. 

pWotD Episode 2808: Twilight Zone accident Welcome to Popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today.With 386,179 views on Wednesday, 8 January 2025 our article of the day is Twilight Zone accident.On July 23, 1982, a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter crashed at Indian Dunes in Valencia, California, United States during the making of Twilight Zone: The Movie. The crash killed actor Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, who were on the ground, and injured the six helicopter passengers. The incident led to years of civil and criminal action against the personnel overseeing the film shoot, including director John Landis, and the introduction of new procedures and safety standards in the filmmaking industry.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:43 UTC on Thursday, 9 January 2025.For the full current version of the article, see Twilight Zone accident on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Aria.

Exclusive And Fun Interview With Martha Smith From Scarecrow And Mrs. King! Martha Smith shares with John about auditioning for Scarecrow and Mrs. King, the first time she met Bruce Boxleitner on How the West was Won and her bond with Kate Jackson. In addition, Martha talks about her breakout role as Babs in Animal House, reflects on working with John Belushi, her now famous improvisations on the set, and the parties and cast moments at the motel they all stayed at while shooting Animal House. Martha talks about starting out in a small town in Michigan, working in a mental institution, being discovered by PLAYBOY and then being discovered by the Universal Studios Head of Casting. Martha recounts working with legends like Tony Randall, her idol, Jean Stapleton, and Beverly Garland, while also discussing her emotional moments tied to John Belushi and how she was about to visit her friend, Vic Morrow on The Twilight Zone set the day after he was killed. Additionally, she delves into her career shifts, from modeling and acting to real estate and her work on Selling Sunset. Martha thanks for all the laughs, what a life! From Martha regarding Judy Belushi's recent passing: Writing through tears to report another so sad passing of a brilliant and kind hearted woman, Judy Belushi-Pisano. To read Martha's dedication here is the facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/154944167855260/permalink/8746808218668769/ That's Classic! Merchandise: http://tee.pub/lic/2R57OwHl2tE Subscribe for free to That's Classic YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBtpVKzLW389x6_nIVHpQcA?sub_confirmation=1 Facebook: facebook.com/thatsclassictv Hosted by John Cato, actor, voiceover artist, and moderator for over 20 years for the television and movie industry. John's background brings a unique insight and passion to the podcast. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-cato/support

En el episodio 11 de esta temporada hablaremos de la película "EN LOS LÍMITES DE LA REALIDAD" ('Twilight Zone: The Movie', 1983). Esta película, estrenada en España en 1983, es una antología basada en la icónica serie de televisión The Twilight Zone. Bajo la dirección de cuatro cineastas destacados, como Steven Spielberg, John Landis, Joe Dante y George Miller, el filme reúne historias que exploran lo extraño y lo desconocido. Entre los intérpretes principales encontramos a Vic Morrow, John Lithgow y Dan Aykroyd, quienes dan vida a personajes atrapados en mundos inquietantes. *Sintonía de entrada: Lucidator de Saggitarius V.*

On July 23, 1982, a tragic accident on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie claimed the lives of actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, when a helicopter crashed during filming. The devastating event cast a shadow over the film's legacy and became a defining moment in Hollywood, prompting stricter safety regulations and a reevaluation of on-set practices to better protect cast and crew. Hosts: Jason Beckerman & Derek Kaufman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week's pick is the 1982 action/sci-fi flick 1990: the Bronx Warriors. According to IMDB: In a post-apocalyptic New York City, a policeman infiltrates the Bronx, which has become a battleground for several murderous street gangs. Featuring a maniacal Vic Morrow and a sharp-dressed Fred Williamson

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Acceso anticipado para Fans - Vuelve Maldito Hollywood, nuestro spin off dedicado a la parte más oscura del cine, esos hechos trágicos que se ocultan tras las luces y el brillo de la fama. En esta ocasión os vamos a hablar de una tragedia sucedida en el rodaje del film En los límites de la realidad. Si recordáis se trataba de un film que aglutinaba varias historias, producido por Steven Spielberg, y entre ellas estaba la del tipo racista que se veía transportado a una pesadilla donde él era el centro de algunos de los momentos de la historia donde vivirá en sus carnes aquello que odia. Más allá de la valía del episodio, lo cierto es que se cobró la vida del actor principal y de dos niños que hacían de extra, ¿cómo? Te lo contamos en el programa. Y si queréis más, recordad que tenéis el Maldito Hollywood dedicado a James Dean y Little Bastard, el coche que sesgó su vida: https://go.ivoox.com/rf/116785386 Guioniza, edita y dirige, Salva Vargas. Este programa cuenta con la producción ejecutiva de nuestr@s mecenas, l@s grandes, l@s únicos Kamy, Lobo Columbus, Enfermera en Mordor, Xama, Javier Ramírez, David, Rebe Sánchez, La Casa del Acantilado, Shinyoru, José Percius, Diana, Josemaria1975, Francisco Javier Chacón, Kal-el__80, David y Antonio. ¿Quieres ayudarnos a seguir mejorando y creciendo? Pues tienes varias opciones para ello. Dándole Me gusta o Like a este programa. Por supuesto estando suscrito para no perderte ninguno de los próximos episodios, y ya para rematar la faena, compartiendo el podcast con tus amigos en redes sociales y hablando a todo el que te cruce en la calle de nosotros…. Y todo esto encima, GRATIS!!! Y si ya nos quieres mucho, mucho, mucho y te sobra la pasta…. Puedes hacerlo económicamente de varias formas: Apoyo en iVoox: En el botón APOYAR de nuestro canal de iVoox y desde 1,49€ al mes: https://acortar.link/emR6gd Invitándonos a una birra en Ko-Fi: por solo 2€ nos puedes apoyar en: https://ko-fi.com/criterioceropodcast Patreon: por sólo 3€ al mes en: https://patreon.com/CriterioCeroPodcast PayPal: mediante una donación a criterioceropodcast@gmail.com También nos podéis ayudar económicamente de forma indirecta si tenéis pensado suscribiros a las modalidades Premium o Plus de iVoox al hacerlo desde estos enlaces: Premium Anual: https://acortar.link/qhUhCz Premium Mensual: https://acortar.link/gbQ4mp iVoox Plus Mensual: https://acortar.link/y7SDmV Con cada rupia que nos llegue sufragamos los costes del programa al mes, invertiremos en mejorar los equipos y por supuesto, nos daremos algún que otro capricho . Las recompensas por apoyarnos se explican en nuestro blog: https://criterioceropodcast.blogspot.com/2023/08/quieres-ayudar-criterio-cero-mejorar.html Y también puedes seguirnos en nuestras diferentes redes sociales: En Telegram en nuestro grupo: https://t.me/criteriocerogrupo En Facebook en nuestro grupo: https://www.facebook.com/groups/630098904718786 Y en la página: https://www.facebook.com/criterioceropodcast ✖️ En X (el difunto Twitter) como @criteriocero En Instagram como criterioceropodcast En TikTok como criteriocero ✉️ Para ponerte en contacto con nosotros al correo criterioceropodcast@gmail.com De paso aprovechamos para recomendaros podcasts que no debéis perderos: Hudson´s Podcast, Puede ser una charla más, Luces en el horizonte, La Catedral Atroz, La guarida del Sith, Crónicas de Nantucket, Más que cine de los 80, Fílmico, Tiempos de Videoclub, Sector Gaming , El Dátil de ET, La Casa del Acantilado, Kiosko Chispas, Just Live itEscucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de Criterio Cero Podcast. Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/1355645

Hello all you Ed-Heads. No Tim Yobo this week, thee was an ass farming convention upstate that he had to attend. Our thoughts and prayers are with him. Instead, in his stead we are joined by the newly minted third chair of the show Matt Anderson to talk about the 1999 sleeper horror comedy Lake Placid. An all star ensemble of character actors. Which to me are the best actors. Aren't they all supposed to be characters? huh. Anyhow, if you want to see betty white lure a blindfolded cow into a lake, and call people rooster suckers. This is your episode. (note from Matt, I acknowledge my mistake in thinking that Bridget Fonda was Vic Morrow's daughter when it was actually Jennifer Jason Leigh? Apparently, SINGLE WHITE FEMALE was more convincing than I remembered. Go listen to Matt on The Might Peculiar, and check out his tweeter at https://x.com/mattbegins Check us out on Twitter. me ⁠@eddietheaxe⁠ Tim ⁠@yobogold⁠  Also, like, rate, and subscribe. And if you can join our Patreon. Get access to our video episodes, as well as the Bloodbank at ⁠https://www.patreon.com/bloodybits

A washed-up, alcoholic ex-ballplayer is recruited to coach the worst team in little league, and sets off to pull them together into a real team, where the star pitcher is a girl and the best player is a dirtbike-riding juvenile delinquent. It's a classic 1970s snobs-versus-slobs story of rooting for the losers, the bums, the misfits. Starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neill, Vic Morrow, Jackie Earl Haley, and Joyce Van Patten. Written by Bill Lancaster. Directed by Michael Ritchie.

"They're Coming! Humanoids From the Deep!" It's June and we are proudly kicking off our "Roger Corman Tribute Month" with one of his most notorious and trigger warning packed 80s Horror Flicks! Join Henrique and David this week as they travel to Noyo, California where a quiet fishing village becomes the target of mysterious sea monsters who are killing the men and assaulting the women. The town must come together with a visiting biologist and fight back to fend them off in 1980's "HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP" !Directed by Barbra Peeters & Jimmy T. Murakmi, plus starring Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, & Vic Morrow. Hear our hosts discuss the incredible legacy of Roger Corman, what the problem with the original cut of the film was according to Corman, what makes "Humanoids" a 14-year old's ideal Horror film, how the first 10 minutes perfectly sets the tone by murdering kids and dogs, plus how close we were to getting a sequel! It's the kick off of Roger Corman Tribute Month and also David's Birthday Movie Pick on this episode of DYEM you don't wanna miss! Visit our website: DoYouEvenMovie.com Email us: doyouevenmoviepod@gmail.com LIKE us on Facebook: Do You Even Movie? - PodcastFollow Us on Instagram: @DoYouEvenMoviePod Twitter: https://x.com/dyempodWatch HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP on Tubi:https://tubitv.com/movies/452490/humanoids-from-the-deep

In this week's BONUS Hasty History episode, we will be discussing the tragic deaths of adult actor Vic Morrow and two children Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen (as well as the injuries of six others). This tragedy occurred as a result of an accident that happened in 1982 on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie. You see, on July 23rd of that year, director John Landis told the operator of a helicopter that was being used on set to hover dangerously low over the ground in order to capture a particular scene. This, amongst other violations, caused the helicopter to get caught in the pyrotechnic explosions, leading to the horrific deaths of Morrow, Le, and Chen. What's possibly worse is that, of those on set that night watching the horrendous tragedy occur, were the parents of both of the children. This awful incident would lead to Landis becoming the first ever film director to be charged with a death on the set of a feature film. For nearly a decade after the incident, a slew of civil and criminal actions against those involved would take place…which would eventually lead to a very unsatisfying and disappointing end. Hasty History BONUS episodes are no-nonsense, crash course, cram session History lessons. No cocktail segment, no ads, no bloopers. Just a quick download of some heavy History content. Submit your topic suggestion for future Hasty History episodes at HashtagHistory1865@gmail.com. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support

What a CreepSeason 25, Episode 2John LandisJohn Landis, a well-known director and father of past Creep Max Landis, has directed some of the most successful comedies, including Animal House, Trading Places, and Coming to America. While directing his segment for 1983's The Twilight Zone: The Movie, a helicopter accident tragically resulted in the deaths of actor Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen. In 1987, Landis was charged with involuntary manslaughter but was ultimately acquitted. In this episode, we discuss why he is a Creep. Max Landis episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/comedy-creep-chris-d-elia-non-creeps-jen-kirkman-alice-hamilton-plus-max-landis-replay--49509814 Sources for this episodeFly By Night by Steve ChainTwilight Zone Accident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone_accidentThe New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/movies/the-twilight-zone-the-movie-accident.htmlMovie Web: https://movieweb.com/vic-morrow-twilight-zone-accident/Reddit Thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/14v9hfg/director_john_landis_felt_personally_betrayed_by/#lightboxLAD Bible: https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/film/vic-morrow-death-twilight-zone-helicopter-crash-832067-20230913Slate: https://slate.com/culture/2012/07/the-twilight-zone-tragedy-how-vic-morrows-death-changed-the-way-films-are-made.htmlFar Out Magazine: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/full-story-twilight-zone-the-movie-tragedy/Buzz Feed: https://www.buzzfeed.com/crystalro/actors-who-died-while-making-a-movie?fbclid=IwAR0titX2fEpMGUBfgNeOsNOPyBVWJZcNga0ihOfonAODrkNmAraJaVAw1JMShowbiz Cheat Sheet: https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/gruesome-helicopter-accident-set-twilight-zone-the-movie-left-vic-morrow-two-child-actors-dead.html/Los Angeles Times (1988) https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-28-tm-1446-story.html Shudder “Cursed Films” https://meaww.com/cursed-films-twilight-zone-the-movie-set-vic-morrow-death-john-landis-steven-spielberg-helicopter Be sure to follow us on social media. But don't follow us too closely … don't be a creep about it! Subscribe to us on Apple PodcastsTwitter: https://twitter.com/CreepPod @CreepPodFacebook: Join the private group! Instagram @WhatACreepPodcastVisit our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/whatacreepEmail: WhatACreepPodcast@gmail.com We've got merch here! https://whatacreeppodcast.threadless.com/#Our website is www.whatacreeppodcast.com Our logo was created by Claudia Gomez-Rodriguez. Follow her on Instagram @ClaudInCloud

A photo shoot in a dry Nevada lakebed went horribly wrong when the wing of an airplane hit the model in the head. Miles O'Brien, Todd Curtis, and John Goglia discuss the June 2023 accident that involved an Aviate Husky plane.The pilot, photographer and his wife, who was the model for the photo session, met early on the morning of the accident. On the fly, they planned a complex photo session involving the aircraft flying close to the model. The pilot misjudged his approach and the wingtip of the aircraft struck the back of model's head and caused a serious injury. John compares this event to the 1982 fatal accident where actor Vic Morrow and two child actors were killed in a helicopter crash on the set of the Twilight Zone movie. Todd shares the pilot's prior experience with similar photo sessions, and compares his approach to the much more structured approach that occurs in professional film and television productions.Miles and John share personal experiences with risky decision making. For Miles, it was his decision to continue flying with low fuel and landing with little left in his tanks. For John, he recalled a flight over the Atlantic where he had concerns that aircraft would not make it to land, and how he had a sudden interest in the operation of the life raft! Don't miss what's to come from the Flight Safety Detectives - subscribe to the Flight Safety Detectives YouTube channel, listen at your favorite podcast service and visit the Flight Safety Detectives website. Music: “Inspirational Sports” license ASLC-22B89B29-052322DDB8

It's still WHAT WOULD WALT HAVE DONE? MONTH on Escape From Vault Disney! And for our second belated episode of What Would Walt Have Done? Month, the randomizer goes all the way back to 1976 to pick an ambitious misfire released just in time for America's bicentennial, a would-be epic treasure hunt adventure set in the Reconstruction-era American South that aims to be Budget Mark Twain by way of Budget Robert Louis Stevenson, depicting America as a chaotic lawless hellscape where former slaves run back to their plantations, snake oil medicine can be refashioned into Molotov cocktails, impromptu hoedowns turn into attempted gangbangs at the drop of a hat and we're supposed to take the big evil frightening villain seriously even though his name is "Spangler." Also the guy who voiced Prince John is in it but he doesn't suck his thumb even once. Join Tony Goldmark, Ryan Hipp, Madeline Maye and Chris Nebergall as they fruitlessly hunt for the TREASURE OF MATECUMBE! Pre-order Stephen Anderson's new book! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/disney-in-between-the-lost-years-1966-1986  Check out my guests' stuff! RYAN HIPP Twitter: https://twitter.com/RyanHippFTW  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/theryanhipp   MADELINE MAYE Bandcamp: https://madelinemaye.bandcamp.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/FriendlyCatWife YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@friendlycatwife CHRIS NEBERGALL Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/landbeforetimeland Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChrisNebergall YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq9hpBl49TYkjc_lzqStkCA And check out this show on social media! Twitter: https://twitter.com/efvdpodcast Host's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tonygoldmark Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/972385353152531 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/tonygoldmark Hear new episodes early and AD-FREE by supporting this show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tonygoldmark

This week, the fellas head to 1950s Korea with the Anthony Mann film Men in War! They debate if the movie takes Benson or Montana's point of view in terms of battle conduct and then discuss other topics like the career of James Edwards and the unfortunate "legacy" of Stepin Fetchit, the movie infuriating the Pentagon, the use (and absence) of music and much more.   Next week: It's gonna get good, bad and... Questions? Comments? Suggestions? You can always shoot us an e-mail at forscreenandcountry@gmail.com   Full List: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/war-movies/the-100-greatest-war-movies-of-all-time Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forscreenandcountry Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/fsacpod Our logo was designed by the wonderful Mariah Lirette (https://instagram.com/its.mariah.xo) Men in War stars Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith, Phillip Pine, Nehemiah Persoff, Vic Morrow and James Edwards; directed by Anthony Mann. Is It Streaming? USA: Roku Channel, Vudu, Tubi, Fandor and Plex. Canada: Plex. UK: Plex. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on the first part of a two part episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are speaking to Radames Pera whose name you might know as well as that of his mother actor Lisa Pera. Because this episode is so jam packed – and we honestly didn't even get to half of the stuff we wanted to talk about- so we split this episode into two parts. On this episode, we discuss Radames' being a child actor in not one but two of the 70s most beloved television series. He is best known as young Caine or Grasshopper, if you like, in the series Kung Fu, a show that not only launched the martial arts craze but also a film that launched a global phenomenon that still resonates to this day. Radames also starred in Little House on the Prairie in a recurring role as John Jr. Lisa Pera on the other hand, got her start in film and television as well, beginning in 1965 on the show Combat! in an episode directed by Vic Morrow. From there, she starred in films like The Hindenburg as well as shows like Perry Mason, Get Smart Man from Atlantis and even Hawaii 5-0 where she starred with Radames as his mother. Novel casting, that. Radames pulls no punches (no pun intended) on this episode as we explore his life being raised by a mother too young and emotionally unequipped to deal with raising a child after a horrific childhood of her own. Being a Ukrainian -Russian finding herself in Nazi Germany and eventually the United States after WWII is jaw dropping stuff that doesn't seem real. Suffices to say, this Part one is a ‘buckle up, it's going to be a bumpy ride' episode. But it's frankly just a palette cleanser for episode #2, coming next week. This is the Rarified Heir Podcast. Everyone has a story.

Humanoids from the Deep. Join Ear for Fear as they discuss the 1980 Roger Corman produced classic Humanoids from the Deep. Does this campy goo-fest creature feature fix your heart's desire, or does this one need to be unceremoniously crowned "Salmon Queen" at your local backlot carnival? 

We've fallen behind on editing these Wasteland episodes so we're extending the Appreciation Month topic into the first couple weeks of December as well. So, we hope you don't mind a few more trips heading out into the Dystopian fueled nightmares of the Apocalypse. It's a month long celebration of all things Post-Apocalyptic so you can expect marauders, scavengers, mutants and mayhem, cool car chases, fights over water and fuel, and battles of epic proportions. Coming up next in the dystopian and action mayhem in our 5th episode is an Italian double feature of 1982's "1990; THE BRONX WARRIORS" and it's 1983 sequel "ESCAPE FROM THE BRONX" from legendary director Enzo G. Castellari (Warriors of the Wasteland, Inglorious Bastards, The Last Shark, Keoma , The Heroin Busters and dozens more!)  These films tell of the desolate future of 1990 where the Bronx has become an all out warzone ruled only by the street gangs that still inhabit the crumbling city. At the center of this mayhem is the unofficial leader of the gangs Trash (portrayed by the late Mark Gregory from the Thunder trilogy and Delta Force Commando). In supporting roles we have Fred 'The Hammer' Williamson, Vic Morrow, Henry Silva, George Eastman and many others. These two movies have to be seen to be believed. Our deep dive discussion on these Italian actioners is headed off by the duo of Cameron Scott (Post Mortem America 2021) with friend and frequent collaborator Scott Tepperman (The Cruel Summer Trilogy). Join them and buckle in because it's going to be a wild ride!    "Allow me to correct you, Mr. Clark - I'm worse than anyone."

"The Bad News Bears" comes to the the club and Coach & Comic Cash Levy is back to discuss all the cussing and competion with Host & Comedian Steve Mazan.  Is this the best Baseball movie ever? Is this the best Sports movie ever? Was Jackie Earl Haley the Kevin Costner of his time? Was Mathau robbed of an Oscar nomination? Was something in the sports movie water in '76? Is it an opera? All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast. "Bad News Bears" on IMDB Home of the Mazan Movie Club Steve Mazan on Instagram Home of Corporate Comedian Steve Mazan

S2E10 - The Music Business w/ All Night Long (1962) & King Creole (1958) Independent filmmaker Floyd Webb joins us once again for a pair of classic near-noirs that show that the music business was scammy and sleazy long before Spotify, but it was maybe a little cooler when you had Walter Matthau in a smoke-filled backroom plotting how to screw the talent. First, we've got Charles Mingus on bass, Dave Brubeck on keys and Patrick McGoohan from THE PRISONER (!) on drums--and he's really playing those drums--in ALL NIGHT LONG (1962), a jazzified retelling of Shakespeare's Othello from British director Basil Dearden. This movie's got jazz cigarettes, reefer madness, awesome mid-century modern set design and some amazing musical performances from Mingus, Brubeck, Tubby Hayes and John Dankworth. Then, our ELVIS EPISODE was unexpectedly the third most popular installment of OMFYS in June, so the King is back in KING CREOLE (1958), a musical New Orleans noir from the braintrust that brought us CASABLANCA--producer Hal Wallis and director Michael Curtiz. Joining Elvis are Walter Matthau as ruthless gangster Maxie Fields, Dean Jagger as Elvis' feckless father, film noir regular Paul Stewart as Maxie's rival, Vic Morrow as a street thug, future nun Dolores Hart as the good girl, and Morticia Addams herself Carloyn Jones as the hard-luck dame who hopes Elvis can help her go straight. All this plus some of the best songs of any Elvis movie. Floyd discusses his upcoming martial arts documentary, THE SEARCH FOR COUNT DANTE, that he's been working on for way too long now + some awesome screenings in Chicago that he has coming up. Find out more about Floyd and what he's got going on at https://floydwebb.com/ https://thesearchforcountdante.com Also featuring THE STRIKE TOK REPORT with PHILENA FRANKLIN, a rundown of reactions to the SAG AFTRA and WGA strikes on TikTok. Co-hosts: Bob Calhoun & Cory Sklar Greg Franklin is on assignment. Philena Franklin is on strike but will return for our public domain Halloween ep. ALL NIGHT LONG (1962) is currently streaming on Criterion Channel as part of their excellent British Noir series and it's also available for free with commercials on Tubi. KING CREOLE (1958) is part of Criterion Channel's Elvis series and it's available with ads on Pluto. The Elvis Episode (S1E8): https://soundcloud.com/omfys/s1e8-the-elvis-episode-w-roustabout-1964-the-worlds-greatest-sinner-62 Music: OMFYS Theme Song: Chaki the Funk Wizard The Deadliest Man Alive: Count Dante and the Black Dragon Fighting Society (1997). All rights reserved. "Greaser" and "Smoke Jacket Blues" TrackTribe courtesy of YouTube Studio Audio Library All trailer audio courtesy of archive.org Twitter: OM4YStoners Instagram/Facebook (Meta): oldmoviesforyoungstoners Contact: oldmoviesforyoungstoners AT gmail DOT com

On Episode 24 of our show "Grindhouse Pizzeria" which is dedicated to all things encompassing various Grindhouse, Drive-In, and Exploitation genres; we will be reviewing and dissecting one of the all time classic drive-in fare with "DIRTY MARY CRAZY LARRY" FROM 1974. Directed by John Hough (The Legend Of Hell House) and starring Peter Fonda as Larry, Susan George as Mary, and including Adam Roarke, Vic Morrow with special appearance by Roddy McDowall. It is the story of a couple of down and out racers that have taken to pulling off what they think is the perfect heist, but what they don't count on is a tag along named Mary and a hellbent police Captain who will stop at nothing to catch them. This film is known for some of the most impressive stunts and high octane action car chases done long before the days of CGI.  Our discussion is headed off by our regular hosts Tom Komisar and Cameron Scott! Join the two of them for a grueling good time!  Come on in at the Grindhouse Pizzeria, pull up a chair and grab yourself a slice!   "Hey listen, do you always meet someone for the first time and take an instant disliking to them?"

Jim takes a look at a sci-fi film celebrating its 40th anniversary and one that has had a major impact on him over the years - "Twilight Zone The Movie," starring Vic Morrow, Scatman Caruthers, Bill Quinn, Kathleen Quinlan, Patricia Barry, William Schallert, Kevin McCarthy, Dick Miller, John Lithgow, Dan Ackroyd and Albert Brooks. This homage to the classic TV show highlights some of Rod Serling's best episodes. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim takes a look at a sci-fi film celebrating its 40th anniversary and one that has had a major impact on him over the years – “Twilight Zone The Movie,” starring Vic Morrow, Scatman Caruthers, Bill Quinn, Kathleen Quinlan, Patricia Barry, William Schallert, Kevin McCarthy, Dick Miller, John Lithgow, Dan Ackroyd and Albert Brooks. This … Twilight Zone The Movie | Episode 372 Read More » The post Twilight Zone The Movie | Episode 372 appeared first on The ESO Network.

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Bobby, Mary, Fern, and Mike discuss the Italian definitely-not a rip-off of Jaws that features an incredible accent changing performance from Vic Morrow. This might be the most American movie ever, we're talking shark guns, mysterious cowboys, shotguns on boats, American flags, and the biggest fu^&ing net you've ever seen! So grab those pillows, load that meat pole, and get ready for some shark biting action! 

An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in a competitive California little league. Directed by Michael Ritchie. Written by Bill Lancaster. Starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow and Jackie Earle Haley. FOLLOW US ON LETTERBOXD - Zach1983 & MattCrosby Thank you so much for listening! E-mail address: greatestpod@gmail.com Please follow the show on Twitter: @GreatestPod Subscribe on Apple Podcasts / Podbean This week's recommendations: Smile (1975) (blu-ray) Prime Cut (blu-ray)

CW: This episode delves into the coercion, harassment, and sexual assaults committed by Harvey Weinstein throughout his career. If you wish to skip this portion of the episode, coverage starts at timecode 30:54 and ends at timecode 1:01:09. Further warning for sexism. We continue our deconstruction of Joe Esterhaz's An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn, the winner of the 19th Annual Golden Raspberry for Worst Picture! We learn the history of the use of the Alan Smithee pseudonym for directors, cover Esterhaz's overall demeanor and public perception, and (unfortunately) shine a light on the awful deeds of Harvey Weinstein (who is in this damn movie for some reason), and attempt to fix this thoroughly flawed and confused mockumentary. Podcast Plugged In This Episode: Making a Martini (@MartiniMaking on Twitter) Stuff mentioned in this episode: Paul Verhoeven, Showgirls, #MeToo, Rose McGowan, Mel Gibson, the Directors' Guild of America (DGA), Death of a Gunfighter, Robert Totten, Don Siegel, Robert Smith, The Simpsons, kayfabe, Mick Foley, Gone With The Wind, The Birds 2, National Lampoon's Senior Trip, The Twilight Zone, Vic Morrow, Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Dune, Judas Iscariot, John Wilkes Booth, Denis Villeneuve, Bruce Campbell, Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Bill Cosby, The Cosby Show, Daredevil, D. G. Chichester, Metal Gear Solid 4, Hideo Kojima, Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, Gwenyth Paltrow, Brad Pitt, The 400 Blows, Shakespeare In Love, Elizabeth, Life Is Beautiful, The Thin Red Line, Saving Private Ryan, Lucia Evans, Asia Argento, Florence Pugh, Midsommar, Mira Sorvino, Emily Nestor, Miramax, The Weinstein Company, Amy Adams, Emma de Caunes, Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, Silvio Berlusconi, Roger Ailes, Bill O'Reilly, Hannibal Burress, Rian Johnson, Kate Beckinsale, Rosanna Arquette, Helena Bonham Carter, Daryl Hannah, Eva Green, Heather Graham, Angelina Jolie, Ashley Judd, Sarah Polley, Lupita Nyong'o, Madonna, Sean Young, Uma Thurman, Forest Whitaker, Charlie Kaufman, WGA Strike, Adam Scott, Hellraiser: Bloodlines, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Dan Aykroyd, Dragnet, David Duchovny, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Kyle McLachlan, Rosie Perez --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/derazzled/support

Movie Meltdown - Episode 601 Join us as we venture into the grindhouse world of 1990: The Bronx Warriors directed by Enzo G. Castellari.  And while we mistakenly get off at the wrong stop on the subway, we also bring up… No Exit, Knock at the Cabin, John Wick: Chapter 4, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Italian genre cinema, Vic Morrow, loving Keanu Reeves, where did the horses come from, Sam Raimi, a fistful of funeral, Mark Gregory, a great moment for theater kids, Shane Black, Mad Max, Samuel L. Jackson, looks like a war zone, George Eastman, Ana de Armas, a giant elaborate birthday cake, Geena Davis, Ennio Girolami, action scenes in slo-mo, dark elves, The Warriors, Escape from New York and Fosse!  Spoiler Alert: Full spoilers for 1990: The Bronx Warriors, so watch the movie before you listen.  “He's definitely very Snake Plisskenny… without the charm.”

Lee and Leah are joined this episode by guest host Robby Roberson to talk about one of the iconic 1970s car chase films, "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry" (1974), directed by John Hough. How do the leads Peter Fonda, Susan George, and Adam Roarke stack up to the amazing stunt work in the film? Is the antagonist, Vic Morrow, more sympathetic, even though he's a cop? Aside from the fun conversation, Robbie gets to play the Movie God Game, and all the hosts talk about what they've been watching as of late. Buckle up, this one is a ride! "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry" IMDB  Featured Music: "Driving Song" by Jethro Tull & "Road Runner" by Bo Diddley.

On this episode, we do our first deep dive into the John Landis filmography, to talk about one of his lesser celebrated film, the 1985 Jeff Goldblum/Michelle Pfeiffer morbid comedy Into the Night. ----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.   Long time listeners to this show know that I am not the biggest fan of John Landis, the person. I've spoken about Landis, and especially about his irresponsibility and seeming callousness when it comes to the helicopter accident on the set of his segment for the 1983 film The Twilight Zone which took the lives of actors Vic Morrow, Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, enough where I don't wish to rehash it once again.   But when one does a podcast that celebrates the movies of the 1980s, every once in a while, one is going to have to talk about John Landis and his movies. He did direct eight movies, one documentary and a segment in an anthology film during the decade, and several of them, both before and after the 1982 helicopter accident, are actually pretty good films.   For this episode, we're going to talk about one of his lesser known and celebrated films from the decade, despite its stacked cast.   We're talking about 1985's Into the Night.   But, as always, before we get to Into the Night, some backstory.   John David Landis was born in Chicago in 1950, but his family moved to Los Angeles when he was four months old. While he grew up in the City of Angels, he still considers himself a Chicagoan, which is an important factoid to point out a little later in his life.   After graduating from high school in 1968, Landis got his first job in the film industry the way many a young man and woman did in those days: through the mail room at a major studio, his being Twentieth Century-Fox. He wasn't all that fond of the mail room. Even since he had seen The  7th Voyage of Sinbad at the age of eight, he knew he wanted to be a filmmaker, and you're not going to become a filmmaker in the mail room. By chance, he would get a job as a production assistant on the Clint Eastwood/Telly Savalas World War II comedy/drama Kelly's Heroes, despite the fact that the film would be shooting in Yugoslavia. During the shoot, he would become friendly with the film's co-stars Don Rickles and Donald Sutherland. When the assistant director on the film got sick and had to go back to the United States, Landis positioned himself to be the logical, and readily available, replacement. Once Kelly's Heroes finished shooting, Landis would spend his time working on other films that were shooting in Italy and the United Kingdom. It is said he was a stuntman on Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, but I'm going to call shenanigans on that one, as the film was made in 1966, when Landis was only sixteen years old and not yet working in the film industry. I'm also going to call shenanigans on his working as a stunt performer on Leone's 1968 film Once Upon a Time in the West, and Tony Richardson's 1968 film The Charge of the Light Brigade, and Peter Collinson's 1969 film The Italian Job, which also were all filmed and released into theatres before Landis made his way to Europe the first time around.   In 1971, Landis would write and direct his first film, a low-budget horror comedy called Schlock, which would star Landis as the title character, in an ape suit designed by master makeup creator Rick Baker. The $60k film was Landis's homage to the monster movies he grew up watching, and his crew would spend 12 days in production, stealing shots wherever they could  because they could not afford filming permits. For more than a year, Landis would show the completed film to any distributor that would give him the time of day, but no one was interested in a very quirky comedy featuring a guy in a gorilla suit playing it very very straight.   Somehow, Johnny Carson was able to screen a print of the film sometime in the fall of 1972, and the powerful talk show host loved it. On November 2nd, 1972, Carson would have Landis on The Tonight Show to talk about his movie. Landis was only 22 at the time, and the exposure on Carson would drive great interest in the film from a number of smaller independent distributors would wouldn't take his calls even a week earlier. Jack H. Harris Enterprises would be the victor, and they would first release Schlock on twenty screens in Los Angeles on December 12th, 1973, the top of a double bill alongside the truly schlocky Son of The Blob. The film would get a very good reception from the local press, including positive reviews from the notoriously prickly Los Angeles Times critic Kevin Thomas, and an unnamed critic in the pages of the industry trade publication Daily Variety. The film would move from market to market every few weeks, and the film would make a tidy little profit for everyone involved. But it would be four more years until Landis would make his follow-up film.   The Kentucky Fried Movie originated not with Landis but with three guys from Madison, Wisconsin who started their own theatre troop while attending the University of Wisconsin before moving it to West Los Angeles in 1971. Those guys, brothers David and Jerry Zucker, and their high school friend Jim Abrahams, had written a number of sketches for their stage shows over a four year period, and felt a number of them could translate well to film, as long as they could come up with a way to link them all together. Although they would be aware of Ken Shapiro's 1974 comedy anthology movie The Groove Tube, a series of sketches shot on videotape shown in movie theatres on the East Coast at midnight on Saturday nights, it would finally hit them in 1976, when Neal Israel's anthology sketch comedy movie TunnelVision became a small hit in theatres. That movie featured Chevy Chase and Laraine Newman, two of the stars of NBC's hit show Saturday Night Live, which was the real reason the film was a hit, but that didn't matter to Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker.   The Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker team decided they needed to not just tell potential backers about the film but show them what they would be getting. They would raise $35,000 to film a ten minute segment, but none of them had ever directed anything for film before, so they would start looking for an experienced director who would be willing to work on a movie like theirs for little to no money.   Through mutual friend Bob Weiss, the trio would meet and get to know John Landis, who would come aboard to direct the presentation reel, if not the entire film should it get funded. That segment, if you've seen Kentucky Fried Movie, included the fake trailer for Cleopatra Schwartz, a parody of blaxploitation movies. The guys would screen the presentation reel first to Kim Jorgensen, the owner of the famed arthouse theatre the Nuart here in Los Angeles, and Jorgensen loved it. He would put up part of the $650k budget himself, and he would show the reel to his friends who also ran theatres, not just in Los Angeles, whenever they were in town, and it would be through a consortium of independent movie theatre owners that Kentucky Fried Movie would get financed.   The movie would be released on August 10th, 1977, ironically the same day as another independent sketch comedy movie, Can I Do It Till I Need Glasses?, was released. But Kentucky Fried Movie would have the powerful United Artists Theatres behind them, as they would make the movie the very first release through their own distribution company, United Film Distribution. I did a three part series on UFDC back in 2021, if you'd like to learn more about them. Featuring such name actors as Bill Bixby, Henry Gibson, George Lazenby and Donald Sutherland, Kentucky Fried Movie would earn more than $7m in theatres, and would not only give John Landis the hit he needed to move up the ranks, but it would give Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker the opportunity to make their own movie. But we'll talk about Airplane! sometime in the future.   Shortly after the release of Kentuck Fried Movie, Landis would get hired to direct Animal House, which would become the surprise success of 1978 and lead Landis into directing The Blues Brothers, which is probably the most John Landis movie that will ever be made. Big, loud, schizophrenic, a little too long for its own good, and filled with a load of in-jokes and cameos that are built only for film fanatics and/or John Landis fanatics. The success of The Blues Brothers would give Landis the chance to make his dream project, a horror comedy he had written more than a decade before.   An American Werewolf in London was the right mix of comedy and horror, in-jokes and great needle drops, with some of the best practical makeup effects ever created for a movie. Makeup effects so good that, in fact, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences would make the occasionally given Best Makeup Effects Oscar a permanent category, and Werewolf would win that category's first competitive Oscar.   In 1982, Landis would direct Coming Soon, one of the first direct-to-home video movies ever released. Narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis, Coming Soon was, essentially, edited clips from 34 old horror and thriller trailers for movies owned by Universal, from Frankenstein and Dracula to Psycho and The Birds. It's only 55 minutes long, but the video did help younger burgeoning cineasts learn more about the history of Universal's monster movies.   And then, as previously mentioned, there was the accident during the filming of The Twilight Zone.   Landis was able to recover enough emotionally from the tragedy to direct Trading Places with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd in the winter of 1982/83, another hit that maybe showed Hollywood the public wasn't as concerned about the Twilight Zone accident as they worried it would. The Twilight Zone movie would be released three weeks after Trading Places, and while it was not that big a hit, it wasn't quite the bomb it was expected to be because of the accident.   Which brings us to Into the Night.   While Landis was working on the final edit of Trading Places, the President of Universal Pictures, Sean Daniels, contacted Landis about what his next project might be. Universal was where Landis had made Animal House, The Blues Brothers and American Werewolf, so it would not be unusual for a studio head to check up on a filmmaker who had made three recent successful films for them. Specifically, Daniels wanted to pitch Landis on a screenplay the studio had in development called Into the Night. Ron Koslow, the writer of the 1976 Sam Elliott drama Lifeguard, had written the script on spec which the studio had picked up, about an average, ordinary guy who, upon discovering his wife is having an affair, who finds himself in the middle of an international incident involving jewel smuggling out of Iran. Maybe this might be something he would be interested in working on, as it would be both right up his alley, a comedy, and something he'd never done before, a romantic action thriller.   Landis would agree to make the film, if he were allowed some leeway in casting.   For the role of Ed Okin, an aerospace engineer whose insomnia leads him to the Los Angeles International Airport in search of some rest, Landis wanted Jeff Goldblum, who had made more than 15 films over the past decade, including Annie Hall, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Big Chill and The Right Stuff, but had never been the lead in a movie to this point. For Diana, the jewel smuggler who enlists the unwitting Ed into her strange world, Landis wanted Michelle Pfeiffer, the gorgeous star of Grease 2 and Scarface. But mostly, Landis wanted to fill as many of supporting roles with either actors he had worked with before, like Dan Aykroyd and Bruce McGill, or filmmakers who were either contemporaries of Landis and/or were filmmakers he had admired. Amongst those he would get would be Jack Arnold, Paul Bartel, David Cronenberg, Jonathan Demme, Richard Franklin, Amy Heckerling, Colin Higgins, Jim Henson, Lawrence Kasdan, Jonathan Lynn, Paul Mazursky, Don Siegel, and Roger Vadim, as well as Jaws screenwriter Carl Gottlieb, Midnight Cowboy writer Waldo Salt, personal trainer to the stars Jake Steinfeld, music legends David Bowie and Carl Perkins, and several recent Playboy Playmates. Landis himself would be featured as one of the four Iranian agents chasing Pfeiffer's character.   While neither Perkins nor Bowie would appear on the soundtrack to the film, Landis was able to get blues legend B.B. King to perform three songs, two brand new songs as well as a cover of the Wilson Pickett classic In the Midnight Hour.   Originally scheduled to be produced by Joel Douglas, brother of Michael and son of Kirk, Into the Night would go into production on April 2nd, 1984, under the leadership of first-time producer Ron Koslow and Landis's producing partner George Folsey, Jr.   The movie would make great use of dozens of iconic Los Angeles locations, including the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, the Shubert Theatre in Century City, the Ships Coffee Shot on La Cienega, the flagship Tiffanys and Company in Beverly Hills, Randy's Donuts, and the aforementioned airport. But on Monday, April 23rd, the start of the fourth week of shooting, the director was ordered to stand trial on charges of involuntary manslaughter due to the accident on the Twilight Zone set. But the trial would not start until months after Into the Night was scheduled to complete its shoot. In an article about the indictment printed in the Los Angeles Times two days later, Universal Studios head Sean Daniels was insistent the studio had made no special plans in the event of Landis' possible conviction. Had he been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, Landis was looking at up to six years in prison.   The film would wrap production in early June, and Landis would spend the rest of the year in an editing bay on the Universal lot with his editor, Malcolm Campbell, who had also cut An American Werewolf in London, Trading Places, the Michael Jackson Thriller short film, and Landis's segment and the Landis-shot prologue to The Twilight Zone.   During this time, Universal would set a February 22nd, 1985 release date for the film, an unusual move, as every movie Landis had made since Kentucky Fried Movie had been released during the summer movie season, and there was nothing about Into the Night that screamed late Winter.   I've long been a proponent of certain movies having a right time to be released, and late February never felt like the right time to release a morbid comedy, especially one that takes place in sunny Los Angeles. When Into the Night opened in New York City, at the Loews New York Twin at Second Avenue and 66th Street, the high in the city was 43 degrees, after an overnight low of 25 degrees. What New Yorker wants to freeze his or her butt off to see Jeff Goldblum run around Los Angeles with Michelle Pfeiffer in a light red leather jacket and a thin white t-shirt, if she's wearing anything at all? Well, actually, that last part wasn't so bad. But still, a $40,000 opening weekend gross at the 525 seat New York Twin would be one of the better grosses for all of the city. In Los Angeles, where the weather was in the 60s all weekend, the film would gross $65,500 between the 424 seat Avco Cinema 2 in Westwood and the 915 seat Cinerama Dome in Hollywood.   The reviews, like with many of Landis's films, were mixed.   Richard Corliss of Time Magazine would find the film irresistible and a sparkling thriller, calling Goldblum and Pfeiffer two of the most engaging young actors working. Peter Travers, writing for People Magazine at the time, would anoint the film with a rarely used noun in film criticism, calling it a “pip.” Travers would also call Pfeiffer a knockout of the first order, with a newly uncovered flair for comedy. Guess he hadn't seen her in the 1979 ABC spin-off of Animal House, called Delta House, in which she played The Bombshell, or in Floyd Mutrix's 1980 comedy The Hollywood Knights.    But the majority of critics would find plenty to fault with the film. The general critical feeling for the film was that it was too inside baseball for most people, as typified by Vincent Canby in his review for the New York Times. Canby would dismiss the film as having an insidey, which is not a word, manner of a movie made not for the rest of us but for the moviemakers on the Bel Air circuit who watch each other's films in their own screening room.   After two weeks of exclusive engagements in New York and Los Angeles, Universal would expand the film to 1096 screens on March 8th, where the film would gross $2.57m, putting it in fifth place for the weekend, nearly a million dollars less than fellow Universal Pictures film The Breakfast Club, which was in its fourth week of release and in ninety fewer theatres. After a fourth weekend of release, where the film would come in fifth place again with $1.95m, now nearly a million and a half behind The Breakfast Club, Universal would start to migrate the film out of first run theatres and into dollar houses, in order to make room for another film of theirs, Peter Bogdanovich's comeback film Mask, which would be itself expanding from limited release to wide release on March 22nd. Into the Night would continue to play at the second-run theatres for months, but its final gross of $7.56m wouldn't even cover the film's $8m production budget.   Despite the fact that it has both Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer as its leads, Into the Night would not become a cult film on home video the way that many films neglected by audiences in theatres would find a second life.   I thought the film was good when I saw it opening night at the Aptos Twin. I enjoyed the obvious chemistry between the two leads, and I enjoyed the insidey manner in which there were so many famous filmmakers doing cameos in the film. I remember wishing there was more of David Bowie, since there were very few people, actors or musicians, who would fill the screen with so much charm and charisma, even when playing a bad guy. And I enjoyed listening to B.B. King on the soundtrack, as I had just started to get into the blues during my senior year of high school.   I revisited the film, which you can rent or buy on Apple TV, Amazon and several other major streaming services, for the podcast, and although I didn't enjoy the film as much as I remember doing so in 1985, it was clear that these two actors were going to become big stars somewhere down the road. Goldblum, of course, would become a star the following year, thanks to his incredible work in David Cronenberg's The Fly. Incidentally, Goldblum and Cronenberg would meet for the first time on the set of Into the Night. And, of course, Michelle Pfeiffer would explode in 1987, thanks to her work with Susan Sarandon, Cher and Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick, which she would follow up with not one, not two but three powerhouse performances of completely different natures in 1988, in Jonathan Demme's Married to the Mob, Robert Towne's Tequila Sunrise, and her Oscar-nominated work in Stephen Frears' Dangerous Liaisons. Incidentally, Pfeiffer and Jonathan Demme would also meet for the first time on the set of Into the Night, so maybe it was kismet that all these things happened in part because of the unusual casting desires of John Landis.   Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again soon, when Episode 108, on Martha Coolidge's Valley Girl, is released.     Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about Into the Night.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

FLY BY NIGHT is about the helicopter crash on the set of "Twilight Zone: The Movie" – the Warner Bros. film co-produced by Steven Spielberg and John Landis – that killed actor Vic Morrow, and two children who had been hired illegally.Confidential sources in the studios and in the private worlds of Spielberg and Landis – and in the DA's office, the sheriff's office, Interpol and the FBI – and newly uncovered internal Warner Bros. documents – let the author show the cover-up that ensued, a $5-million-dollar scheme to keep Landis out of jail and Spielberg out of the headlines, resulting in an unbelievable acquittal by a jury that had fallen under the spell of Hollywood. From John Huston, Jackie Cooper, Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche to Chevy Chase, George Lucas, Dan Aykroyd and Carrie Fisher, both old and new Hollywood found themselves party to this unprecedented event.

The concept of Russian Roulette has a very interesting history and over time, this soldiers' trick game became a dangerous film stunt.In this episode we're re-watching the Deer Hunter, the first film made about the Vietnam War after it ended, which featured scenes of POWs (and paid participants in back-alley gambling houses) playing what we know as "Russian Roulette", in which two participants shoot a revolver at their own heads with a bullet randomly placed into one chamber of the gun. If you like our content please become a patron to support us, and you'll get our public episodes ad-free. It turns out that the history of Russian Roulette started as a ficitonal plot device but became more "real" for lack of a better word when it made it to American film audiences, as multiple people have actually died imitating the scenes from the movie with real guns and real bullets. The film was a massive success for the director Michael Cimino, it was nominated for 9 Oscars and won 5 of them. It also launched the career of Meryl Streep, who was the lead actress of the film alongside her tragically dying lover at the time, John Cazale, who passed away from cancer shortly after the film was completed. Christopher Walken and Robert De Niro also starred in the film, and they of course went on to great acting careers as well. 1 Long term success was not in the cards for Cimino, however. He tried to rip off the author of the Deer Hunter, Deric Washburn, when the original story was modified into a film script but history has proven Washburn to be a more capable writer than Cimino. Cimino's next film, Heaven's Gate, was a massive failure that actually bankrupt United Artists, the studio which financed it. While the film industry is distinctly American, Sandra's home country was not spared having to sit through all 3 and a half hours of the Deer Hunter either, she has a hilarious story of the one lady who translated all bootleg American films during the last days of communism, to varying degrees of accuracy. Irina Margareta Nistor was the voice of everyone in a film she translated, and thus the voice of American film for many Romanians. Sadly the title of the Deer Hunter was not available when she translated it back in the 1980s and it came out as "Dear Hunter" which Sandra says is still a running joke today. 2 We also talk about other dangerous (or marketed as dangerous) film stunts, such as the tragic deaths of Vic Morrow and two children on John Landis's set for the film version of The Twilight Zone in the 1980s, The multiple cases of accidental shootings on film sets most notably Brandon Lee's fatal shooting on the set of The Crow, and Alec Baldwin's accidental shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust. 3, 4 1. Peter Biskind on Michael Cimino's Twisted, Tortured Legacy: “A Mystery in Death as He Was in Life”. Hollywood Reporter. July 2016. ⇤2. Kit Gillet. The Voice That Brought Hollywood Films to Communist Romania's TV Screens. The Guardian. December 2014. ⇤3. youtube user Seawyatt. "The Program" deleted scene. Youtube. September 2012. ⇤4. Pilot Voiced Fears, 'Zone' Co-worker Says. The Washington Post. January 1987. ⇤

My first recall of such a thing was likely from watching stories about war. Combat was a popular TV show when I was a kid. It was a show about World War II and aired from 1962 to 1967. Men would be injured in combat and their buddies would tell them, "Don't worry. We're not leaving you behind." The U.S. Marines have been known for never leaving anybody behind, even fallen comrades. Vic Morrow, as the sergeant in Combat! was awesome as Sergeant Chip Saunders. In 1982 Morrow and two children were tragically and gruesomely killed when a helicopter crashed on top of them during the filming of The Twilight Zone. They were on the ground acting out an escape from Viet Nam. When I heard the news I remembered all the times I was glued to the TV watching Combat! In 1966 I was nine. I bought my first record - at least the first one I can remember. It was by a Green Beret sergeant, Barry Sadler. Known for never leaving a man behind, I was fascinated with the Green Berets, likely because the news of Viet Nam was always talking about them. They were among the first Americans engaged in that "conflict." When you're a kid and your country is embroiled in a war it's bound to have an impact. I wasn't attracted to the guns, the violence, the injuries, or the death. I was attracted to guys working together, heroism, and having such a single-minded focus. The camaraderie fascinated me because as a little kid, I'd never experienced that. Yet. I was in 5th grade when I played on my first sports team, tackle football. I had never been in a spot where I had to leave a friend behind. On the playground, I didn't leave a friend behind if I got selected to form one of the teams. That's as close as I'd ever come to having to decide if I'd leave a friend behind. When I read this little story - I think I first saw it on some pet website about dogs because I'm on the board of the Westie Foundation of America...and I love dogs. A man and his dog were walking along a road. The man was enjoying the scenery when it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead. He remembered dying, and that the dog walking beside him had been dead for years. He wondered where the road was leading them. After a while, they came to a high, white stone wall along one side of the road. It looked like fine marble... At the top of a long hill, it was broken by a tall arch that glowed in the sunlight. When he was standing before it, he saw a magnificent gate in the arch that looked like mother-of-pearl, and the street that led to the gate looked like pure gold. He and the dog walked toward the gate, and as he got closer, he saw a man at a desk to one side. When he was close enough, he called out, ‘Excuse me, where are we?' ‘This is Heaven, sir,' the man answered. ‘Wow! Would you happen to have some water?' the man asked. ‘Of course, sir. Come right in, and I'll have some ice water brought right up.' The man gestured, and the gate began to open. ‘Can my friend,' gesturing toward his dog, ‘come in, too?' the traveler asked. ‘I'm sorry, sir, but we don't accept pets.' The man thought a moment and then turned back toward the road and continued the way he had been going with his dog. After another long walk, and at the top of another long hill, he came to a dirt road leading through a farm gate that looked as if it had never been closed. There was no fence. As he approached the gate, he saw a man inside, leaning against a tree and reading a book…. ‘Excuse me!' he called to the man. ‘Do you have any water?' ‘Yeah, sure, there's a pump over there, come on in.' ‘How about my friend here?' the traveler gestured to the dog. ‘There should be a bowl by the pump,' said the man. They went through the gate, and sure enough, there was an old-fashioned hand pump with a bowl beside it. The traveler filled the water bowl and took a long drink himself, then he gave some to the dog. When they were full,

Join our hosts Dominic Lawton & Ken B Wild as they head out to sea with a shotgun and a suitcase full of meat. It's the 1981 film - THE LAST SHARK aka GREAT WHITE! The boys discuss the many Jaws knock-offs of the time, Vic Morrow's ever changing accent and the best shark related death ever caught on film! Meanwhile, Dom questions the use of grenades as a way of fishing whilst Ken wonders why our hero chooses to remind his own daughter of the times she had two legs right after one is bitten off! The film pitch this week sees the BMC giving us one of those Freddy Vs Jason/ Alien vs Predator-style face offs we all love so much! The quiet seaside resort town of Seaman's Cove is rocked when bodies wash up showing clear signs that a shark has set its sights on the local surfers. With pressure to keep the beaches open for the annual Chilli Cook-Off Jamboree from the town's mayor, the Sherriff and his deputies find themselves in a race against time to stop the shark before beach season...but hang on! Bodies are piling up on the land as well....and are those chainsaw injuries? It's LEATHERFACE vs JAWS! Cast includes Morgan Freeman, Bill Moseley, Demi Moore, Danny Trejo, Clint Howard, Daniel Radcliffe, Vincent Cassel, Ainsley Harriott, Dominic Lawton, Ken B Wild and Carl Weathers as Sheriff Carl Weathers! Have you got a question, want to suggest a film to review or would you like to send us your own film pitch that we will read out on the podcast? Email us! Visit our website for more episodes & written reviews : WWW.BADMOVIECULT.COM Follow us on TWITTER Follow us on INSTAGRAM Join us on FACEBOOK Dominic Lawton can be found on TWITTER Ken B Wild can be found on TWITTER Got a spare minute? Leave us a rating or review on iTunes!

A quiet, restful summer in the lazy coastal town of Port Harbor is abruptly about to end, cause 80s Revisited is BACK to talk about The Last Shark (1981)! Then, we talked about it on 80s Revisited! 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.

Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast, we talk to Julie Nimoy and husband David Knight about Julie's dad, actor and raconteur Leonard Nimoy. It was great to connect with Julie about her father and what it was like being the daughter of a pop culture icon. The thing is, Leonard Nimoy was so much more than just Mr. Spock.  He was a photographer, a poet, a singer, a director, a voice over artist, a pitchman and more. Did you know he directed the top grossing movie of 1987 which was NOT a Star Trek film? Did you know he was such a fan of Vincent Van Gogh that he wrote a one man show, starred in it and had it taped for PBS? Nimoy was also the host of In Search of….where he showed off his amazing collection of houndstooth jackets and turtleneck shirts. He replaced Peter Graves in Mission Impossible. He stared inNight Gallery, Deathwatch, an independent film directed by pal Vic Morrow, a TV movie A Woman Called Golda which got him an Emmy nomination, The Outer Limits and much more. Nimoy was also interested in the paranormal, science (and cars) which led him to Baffled!which is synonymous for our host Josh Mills with Afrin and fever dreams, he recorded albums for Dot Records such as The Touch of Leonard Nimoy, did summer stock, owned a single engine plane he flew, a boat at Lake Mead…it's like they based the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across The 8th Dimension on Leonard Nimoy the man. So it was great talk to Julie and David about their PBS documentary Remembering LeonardNimoy about his battle with COPD as well as their upcoming documentary Wilder! on comedian Gene Wilder & his battle with Alzheimer's.  Did you know who directed Wilder in the film Funny About Love? You guessed it. And yes, we talk more about University High School, LA restaurants, the Century City Mall and much more on the next episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast. Take a Listen.

This week the gang must depend on James Franciscus and Vic Morrow to save them and the helpless citizens of Port Harbor after a Great White Shark starts terrorizing their charming coastal town. Please join us for Enzo Castellari's 1981 film The Last Shark (L'ultimo Squalo - Great White). Intro: Great White Official Trailer from 1981. Outro: Last Line in the feature film. This episode features music from Guido & Maurizio De Angelis and Morton Stevens and clips from the film.

In 1982 John Landis was hired to direct a segment of the Twilight Zone movie being produced by Steven Spielberg. Unfortunately, after a series of bad -and illegal- decisions, actor Vic Morrow and two small children died from a helicopter crash. The accident was completely preventable, and ultimately no one was held accountable.Webcrawlerspod@gmail.com626-604-6262Discord / Twitter / Instagram / Patreon / MerchSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/webcrawlers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Brewboss Shawn & Chelsea The Regulator welcome Travisito & Marko back to the Shop to discuss the 1983 release, Twilight Zone: The Movie, and the tragic controversy surrounding its production. In Memoriam:  Vic Morrow, Renee Shinn Chen, and Myca Dinh Le   Sources and Props:  https://slate.com/culture/2019/04/twilight-zone-theme-jordan-peele-grateful-dead-korn-marius-constant-bernard-herrmann-manhattan-transfer.html   https://www.youtube.com/user/VICMORROWFAN   https://www.shudder.com/series/watch/cursed-films/62bd7871627dfc6b?season=1  

Great car chases? Check. For this month's member bonus episode, our members voted for a return to great car chases, and of the movies on the list, The Blues Brothers shot to the top. Is it nostalgia that draws us all back to this film over and over again? The great musical performances? Is it that strong a comedy? Join us – Pete Wright and Andy Nelson – as we return to our Great Car Chases series to discuss John Landis' 1980 film The Blues Brothers. It's a Member Bonus Episode for Everybody! This is our May member bonus episode. So why are you hearing it? Because once in a while, we like to throw one of our member bonus episodes out for everyone to enjoy as a reminder of the sorts of additional shows you get if you become a member. Please consider becoming a member to support this show. You'll not only be helping us out but you'll get TONS of bonus episodes. Learn more about supporting The Next Reel Film Podcast through your own membership.. We Need to Talk About John Landis. This is the fifth movie of Landis' that we've discussed on the show, yet we've never really brought up the horrific accident on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie during Landis' segment that killed two children and actor Vic Morrow. We figure it's time to have that discussion and see if we can sort out the complexities of artists and art. There isn't an easy answer in general, but it does seem clear that Landis – particularly from the accident and beyond – should be judged more harshly than, say, a director whose criminal activities didn't take place on set. But The Blues Brothers is more than just John Landis... All that aside, a lot of other people were involved in The Blues Brothers, and we're here to celebrate them, notably Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi. Clearly, they share a love for this rhythm and blues music and feel it's important to celebrate the history of the music by including many great performers in the film like Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Cab Calloway, and John Lee Hooker. Plus, John and Dan as Jake and Elwood Blues seriously know how to perform. But the movie is also an element of its time. Not only do we have the American Nazi party represented (even if it is to mock them), we also have the characters treating the female characters with little respect. It was a misogynistic time, and we certainly feel it here. Looking specifically at why it's in this series (and perhaps not our Couples on the Run series), the car chases are extravagant. Landis spent more than twice the initial budget presented by the studio and a lot of that went into creating some of the biggest car chases with the most cars destroyed than any other movie – even action movies. In fact, its record for the most cars destroyed in a film wasn't broken until this film's not-so-great 1998 sequel. This is one of the eleven films born from Saturday Night Live sketches, and it's generally considered one of the best ones. It's certainly one of the most successful of the bunch. We spend a bit of time digging into the history, success, and longevity of these spinoffs. Is this a film that works for younger generations or is this truly a product of its time that doesn't work that well for people who aren't dads? Well, we both love it but then again, we're both dads. So maybe that's saying something. Then again, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing rose-colored glasses. Hit it. So watch the film then tune in right here or on your favorite podcatcher. The Next Reel – when the movie ends, our conversation begins! Join the conversation with movie lovers from around the world on The Next Reel's Discord channel! Film Sundries Watch this on Apple or Amazon, or find other places at JustWatch Script Transcript Theatrical trailer Poster artwork Original Material Flickchart Letterboxd Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego, and the Twilight Zone Case

FLY BY NIGHT is about the helicopter crash on the set of "Twilight Zone: The Movie" – the Warner Bros. film co-produced by Steven Spielberg and John Landis – that killed actor Vic Morrow, and two children who had been hired illegally. Confidential sources in the studios and in the private worlds of Spielberg and Landis – and in the DA's office, the sheriff's office, Interpol and the FBI – and newly uncovered internal Warner Bros. documents – let the author show the cover-up that ensued, a $5-million-dollar scheme to keep Landis out of jail and Spielberg out of the headlines, resulting in an unbelievable acquittal by a jury that had fallen under the spell of Hollywood. From John Huston, Jackie Cooper, Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche to Chevy Chase, George Lucas, Dan Aykroyd and Carrie Fisher, both old and new Hollywood found themselves party to this unprecedented event.

FLY BY NIGHT is about the helicopter crash on the set of "Twilight Zone: The Movie" – the Warner Bros. film co-produced by Steven Spielberg and John Landis – that killed actor Vic Morrow, and two children who had been hired illegally. Confidential sources in the studios and in the private worlds of Spielberg and Landis – and in the DA's office, the sheriff's office, Interpol and the FBI – and newly uncovered internal Warner Bros. documents – let the author show the cover-up that ensued, a $5-million-dollar scheme to keep Landis out of jail and Spielberg out of the headlines, resulting in an unbelievable acquittal by a jury that had fallen under the spell of Hollywood. From John Huston, Jackie Cooper, Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche to Chevy Chase, George Lucas, Dan Aykroyd and Carrie Fisher, both old and new Hollywood found themselves party to this unprecedented event.

So much to get to today. Takes are a-brewing today. Plowsy's fantasy baseball name is a direct shot at the commissioner. Pittsburgh. Philly radio. Favorite New York boroughs. StrodeCast. Gardening. Would Iggy be different if he was rich? Callers. Big Mike issues a public statement. Angry texters. Vic Morrow. Best John Lithgow movie. The Ryan Kelley/Timberfake fight circa 2017. Iggy writes a script for a fake fight. The Loomster issues a statement in response to Big Mike. Getting a doctorate in Journalism. Are we conducting Journalism?