Episode 282: Dick Tracy

Special Guests: Glenne Headly, Garyn G. Roberts, Dan Kampling
Guest Co-Hosts: Jared Case, Frank Santopadre

Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy is a beautiful recreation of the four-color world of Chester Gould's square-jawed detective. It's also something of an uneasy marriage of Stephen Sondheim songs, Madonna, and a cavalcade of character actors as Gould's "Rogues Gallery."

Interviews feature Glenne Headly who plays Tracy's love interest, Tess Trueheart, as well as author Garyn G. Roberts, and Dick Tracy afficianado Dan Kampling. We also hear just a bit of executive producer Floyd Mutrux from a previous interview.

Jared Case and Frank Santopadre join Mike to debate if the film ultimately works.

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Links:
Buy Dick Tracy on Blu-Ray
Buy Dick Tracy and American Culture: Morality and Mythology, Text and Context by Garyn G Roberts
Buy Chester Gould: A Daughter's Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy by Jean Gould O'Connell
Buy Dick Tracy The Official Biography by Jay Maeder
Read Dick Tracy: A (Re)appreciation by Jared Case
Read Looking Back at Dick Tracy by Becky Lea
Read Remember Dick Tracy? by Keith Phipps
Learn more about the Cash & Epps collection at MSU
Visit the official Stephen Sondheim website
Visit the official Frank Santopadre website
Hear more of Frank Santopadre on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast
Learn more about the Nitrate Picture Show
Hear more from Floyd Mutrux

Music:
"Bat/Tracy?" - Danny Elfman
"Dick Tracy" - The Ventures
"Tess's Theme" - Danny Elfman
"The Powerful Fully-Transistorized Dick Tracy Two-Way Wrist Radio" - Man or Astro-man?
"Dick Tracy" - Ice-T

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Episode 113: Two-Lane Blacktop

Special Guest: Monte Hellman

Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop is a transcendental road film starring James Taylor, Dennis Wilson, Laurie Bird and Warren Oates.

We spoke to director Monte Hellman about the film. We also talked to writer/director Floyd Mutrix about his history with the project.

Links:
Buy Two-Lane Blacktop on DVD
Buy the Two-Lane Blacktop screenplay
Buy Monte Hellman: His Life and Films by Brad Stevens

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Music:
"Once in a Lifetime" - Talking Heads
"Moonlight Drive" - The Doors
"2LB" - Roy Montgomery*
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" - Cat Power*
*Available on You Never Can Go Fast Enough compilation.

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Episode 75: Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)

Special Guest: Rex Weiner, Daniel Waters, Floyd Mutrux
Guest Co-Host: Stewart "Feedback" Andrews

It's booty time across the USA! We're discussing the ill-fated Andrew "Dice" Clay vehicle The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) in which he portrays a rock & roll detective with a dirty mouth and a bad attitude.

Interviews include discussions with the creator of Ford Fairlane, Rex Weiner, the film's original producer, Floyd Mutrux, and the film's screenwriter, Daniel Waters.

We're joined in the Projection Booth this week by Toronto's very own Stuart "Feedback" Andrews, host of the Rue Morgue and Cinephobia Radio podcasts.

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Bonus: Interview with Rex Weiner


Bonus: Interview with Floyd Mutrux


Bonus: Interview with Daniel Waters


Links
Subscribe to the Rue Morgue podcast
Here's Feedback's Cinephobia Radio site
Visit Floyd Mutrux's web site
Check out Rex Weiner's official site
Andrew "Dice" Clay's Facebook page
Stop by Renny Harlin's official website
Buy The Adventures of Ford Fairlane on DVD
Listen to the We Hate Movies episode about The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

Watch: Ford Fairlane, Inception Style