Special Guests: Benni Korzen, Mike Starr Co-Hosts: Chris Stachiw, Richard Hatem
The Rankin on Bass podcast is still going strong so I wanted to share our most recent episode with Projection Booth listeners:
On episode 21 of the Rankin on Bass podcast we're discussing "Tom" Kotani's The Bushido Blade (1981). Written by William Overgard, it's the fictionalized account of Commodore Perry (Richard Boone) and his crew making a treaty with Japan. The film fractures into essentially three storylines featuring Frank Converse, Timothy Patrick Murphy, and Mike Starr in his first film role.
Interviews include a snippet of an earlier interview with Starr as well as a new interview with producer Benni Korzen who worked on the live action Rankin & Bass pictures going all the way back to The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye.
Special Guests: Larry Karaszewski, Mike Starr, Lydia Kavina, Andrew J. Rausch Guest Co-Hosts: Rob St. Mary, Steve Sholtes
Can your heart stand the shocking truth about Ed Wood? This week's discussion focuses on Tim Burton's 1994 film starring Johnny Depp and Martin Landau about the hapless B-movie director Edward D. Wood Jr.
Guests include the film's co-writer, Larry Karaszewski, actor Mike Starr, musician Lydia Kavina, and author Andrew J. Rausch.
Rob St. Mary returns for the episode along with composer/musician Steve Sholtes
Errata:
Mike mistakenly credited Roberta Findlay for Doris Wishman's Let Me Die a Woman.
Yes, Bela Lugosi played Frankenstein in the 1943 Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man but definitely not in the more famous and successful 1931 Frankenstein.
Music:
"Backlot" - Howard Shore
"Bride of the Monster" - Howard Shore
"Kuba Mambo" - Howard Shore
"Eddie Takes a Bow" - Howard Shore
"Ed Wood" - Howard Shore
"Bela Lugosi's Dead" - Bauhaus
Special Guest: Taimak, Christopher Murney, Mike Starr, Louis Venosta, Rupert Hitzig Guest Co-Host: Julian Boyance, Chris Cummins
We start off 2016 right with a discussion of Michael Schultz's The Last Dragon, the story of Leroy Green (Taimak), a young man on a quest to find wisdom who's beset by gangsters and the Shogun of Harlem.
On this star-studded episode we have interviews with Taimak, Christopher Murney, Mike Starr, Louis Venosta, and Rupert Hitzig. Mike's joined by fellow "Ultimate Film Fanatic" contestant Julian Boyance and frequent collaborator Chris Cummins.
Character actor Mike Starr dishes about working on GoodfellasEd Wood, The Ice Harvest, Cabin Boy, The Bushido Blade, Dumb and Dumber, and more. Hear the rest of our interview with Mr. Starr on our episode about The Last Dragon.
In The Ice Harvest,
Charlie (John Cusack) is a mob lawyer in Wichita, Kansas who decides to rip off his boss (Randy Quaid) of just over $2 million. Charlie decides to bring in his pal, Vic (Billy Bob Thorton) to help on this Christmas Eve caper. Soon the partnership between Charlie and Vic starts to crack as a femme fatale gets into the mix.
For our third anniversary show, we're taking a look at Black Dynamite (1999), one of the baddest muthas to ever take down kung-fu treachery. Our guests include director/writer Scott Sanders and writer/actor Byron Minns (Bullhorn).
Special Guests: Don Scardino, Randy Jurgensen, Travis Mathews
A highly controversial film, William Friedkin's Cruising was as confusing as it was confused. It's a slasher film, of sorts, set in the leather bar scene of the late '70s.
We're joined by Jeffrey Schwarz of I Am Divine, Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon, Vito! and more.
Music:
"Cruising" - Airspace
"Walk the Night" - Skatt Brothers
"You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" - Sylvester
"Gay Bar" - Electric Six
"Hell Bent for Leather" - Judas Priest
"When I Close My Eyes I See Blood" - Madelynn Von Ritz
Special Guests: Chris Elliott, Adam Resnick Guest Co-Hosts: Mike Sullivan
Hey... Wanna buy a monkey?
Cabin Boy (1994) is an absurdist comedy starring Chris Elliott as a snobbish "fancy lad" who makes a wrong turn, ends up on the wrong boat and heads out on the seas with a bunch of salty dogs aboard "The Filthy Whore." Get ready for hi-jinx on the high seas as we discuss the works of Elliott and writer/director Adam Resnick with writer Mike Sullivan.
My friends, we are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives...
When it comes to guilty pleasures, there's nothing that tops Geoff Murphy's Freejack. See Emilio Estevez running for his life in the distant future (2009) as he battles against Anthony Hopkins, David "Buster Poindexter" Johansen and Mick Jagger.
We're joined by Fred Fritz of the Movie Apocalypse show for this look at what the future might bring... And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future.
Links:
Buy Freejack on DVD
Buy Robert Sheckley's Immortality, Inc Hear what George Harrison and Ringo Starr had to say about the BBC adaptation of Immortality Inc
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My friends, we are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives...