Episode 634: November Men (1993)

Special Guest: Paul Williams
Guest Co-Hosts: Paul Cronin, Andras Jones

Released in 1993, The November Men tells the story of Arthur Gwenlyn (director Paul Williams), a filmmaker who gets the idea of crafting a film around the very real assassination of George H. W. Bush. He enlists his partner and production manager, Elizabeth (Leslie Bevis), and his friend and technical advisor Vincent Duggo (screenwriter James Andronica).

Andras Jones and Paul Cronin join Mike to discuss this under-seen film while filmmaker and provocateur Paul Williams discusses his career.

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Links:
Become a supporter of The Projection Booth
Listen to the World is Wrong episode on November Men
Buy Harvard, Hollywood, Hitmen, and Holy Men: A Memoir by Paul Williams

Music:
"The Creep List" - David Shire
"Dylan & Moses" - Andras Jones

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Episode 358: An American Carol (2008)

Special Guests: Myrna Sokoloff
Guest Co-Hosts: Mike Sullivan, Rob St. Mary

We’re looking at the Conservative comedy, An American Carol 2008. The child of Charles Dickens and Bill O'Reilly, the film tells the tale of Michael Malone -- a stand-in for filmmaker Michael Moore (Kevin P. Farley). He's a liberal know-nothing who’s inflamed hate against the Land that We Love and is visited by four ghosts -- well, three ghosts and a contemporary country singer -- to try and convince him to love country music and stop complaining about gun control, global warming, unjust wars, and other bleeding-heart liberal causes.

Directed by David Zucker (Airplane!, Top Secret), the film was co-written by Myrna Sokoloff, as a reaction to Hollywood intolerance.

Rob St. Mary returns to the show along with Mike Sullivan to discuss the film, satire, and falafels. This isn't a podcast, this is The Flintstones.

Note: The Thomas Jefferson joke is from Joe Machi.

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Links:
Buy An American Carol on Blu-Ray
Buy Hand of Fatima by Myrna Sokoloff
Buy Postal on Blu-Ray
Buy The Onion Movie on DVD
Buy Team America: World Police on Blu-Ray

Music:
"American Idiot" - Richard Cheese
"Freedom Isn't Free" - Trey Parker

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Episode 254: Showgirls (1995)

Special Guests: Rena Riffel, Jessica Flowers, David Schmader, Adam Nayman
Guest Co-Hosts: Heather Drain, Jay Bauman

Hey darlin's, was Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls just awful dreck from the pen of Joe Eszterhas or a subversive masterpiece about the subjugation of women?

Guest co-hosts Dangerous Minds' Heather Drain and Red Letter Media's Jay Bauman debate the topic with Mike. Our guests include the writer/director/star of Showgirls 2: Penny's From Heaven, Rena Riffel, the author of It Doesn't Suck: Showgirls, Adam Nayman, the provider of the Showgirls commentary track, David Schmader, and former exotic dancer, Jessica Flowers.

Put on your Ver-sayce, get yourself iced up, and prepare to be thrust into the world of Showgirls!

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Links:
Buy Showgirls on Blu-Ray
Buy Showgirls 2: Penny's From Heaven on DVD
Buy Showgirls 2: The Cut
Buy Trasharella on DVD
Buy It Doesn't Suck: Showgirls by Adam Nayman
Buy Weed: A User's Guide by David Schmader
Buy Showgirls: Portrait of a Film by Paul Veroeven
Buy Hollywood Animal by Joe Eszterhas
Visit the Showgirls! The Musical website
Read Showgirls is a Good Movie by Haley Mlotek
Read Paul Verhoeven on the Greatest Stripper Movie Ever Made by Jennifer Wood
Read The Real Reason Elizabeth Berkley Was So Over-The-Top In Showgirls by Brent McKnight
Find out more about Jessica Flowers
Learn more about Heather Drain
Visit Red Letter Media

Music:
"Private Dancer" - Tina Turner
"You're A Whore, Darlin'" - Showgirls! The Musical
"D*ncin' ain't F*ckin'" - Showgirls! The Musical
"Deep Kiss" - Rena Riffel
"I'm Afraid of Americans" - David Bowie

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Episode 21: Traxx (1988)

Special Guest: Shadoe Stevens

Chili flavored cookies anyone? This week the guys look back at this vastly forgotten and ahead of it's time not-on-DVD action spoof only from the mind of Dino De Laurentiis. A truly weird oddity of the VHS era.

Written by Gary DeVore and directed by Jerome Gary, Traxx (1988 ) stars Shadoe Stevens as the titular action hero who comes to a town beleaguered by baddies (including Robert Davi as Aldo Palucci). He cleans up crime with gusto, verve, and an endless amount of bullets. But Traxx really wants to give up his live as a one-man army to become the next Famous Amos.

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Links:
Buy Traxx on VHS
Subscribe to Shadoevision on YouTube
Visit the official Robert Davi website
Buy Robert Davi's Davi Sings Sinatra: On the Road to Romance
Listen to the Good Bad Flicks episode on Traxx
Listen to the Proudly Resents interview with Shadoe Stevens

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Recipe:
Mike's TRAXX Chilli Con Cookie Recipe

1 1/4 cups flour
1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon ancho chili powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup softened butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
2 tablespoons sugar mixed with 2 teaspoons cinnamon

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Sift together flour, chili powder and salt on paper and set aside. Beat butter with electric mixer for 1 minute until creamy. Add sugar and beat until light in color, 3 to 4 minutes. Scrape down sides of bowl. Add egg and beat 1 minute. Add the sifted ingredients and mix in. Refrigerate dough until firm, at least 30 minutes. Scoop cookies with 1-ounce scoop or rounded tablespoon onto ungreased pans. Bake 6 minutes, then turn and bake 5 minutes more. Let cool for a few minutes, then sprinkle with cinnamon sugar mixture. Finish the cookies and turn on Shadoe Stevens in TRAXX. Enjoy!