Episode 396: Fat City (1972)

Special Guest: Stacy Keach
Guest Co-Hosts: Heather Drain, Jedidiah Ayres

Based on a book by and adapted by Leonard Gardner, Fat City (1972) was directed by John Huston and stars Stacy Keach as Tully, an over the hill fighter who says he wants to pick himself up and revive his career after he meets Ernie (Jeff Bridges), a kid who seems to have a lot of promise in the boxing world. We see their stories parallel and contrast one another as we watch Fat City unfold.

Jedidiah Ayres and Heather Drain join Mike to discuss this wonderfully downbeat film.

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Links:
Read Fat City: Fifty Years Later by David Lida
Read A Day On The Set Of Fat City, John Huston's Cult Classic by Grover Lewis
Read John Huston Part 3: Fat City (1972) by William Hare

Music:
"If" - Bread
"Unchained" - Van Halen
"Help Me Make It Through The Night" - Kris Kristofferson

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Episode 323: The Ninth Configuration (1980)

Special Guest: Stacy Keach
Guest Co-Hosts: Samm Deighan, Heather Drain

Written and directed by William Peter Blatty, The Ninth Configuration (1980) has been known at points and was based on his novel Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane. The film stars Stacy Keach as Col. Hudson Kane, a new psychiatrist at an unusual retreat for men who have cracked up during the Vietnam War. Also at this fog shrouded castle is Captain Billy Cutshaw (Scott Wilson), an astronaut who freaked out before his mission to the moon. The two men are at odds about the world, especially around the question of faith.

Heather Drain and Samm Deighan join Mike to discuss the Blatty, The Exorcist, Legion, and starting a Joe Spinell street gang.

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Links:
Buy The Ninth Configuration on Blu-Ray
Buy The Ninth Configuration by William Peter Blatty
Buy Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing: A Fable by William Peter Blatty
Buy All in All: An Actor's Life On and Off the Stage by Stacy Keach
Visit the official Stacy Keach website
Hear Tom Atkins's recollections of working on The Ninth Configuration
Read more about Ed Flanders
Visit the Ninth Configuration fan site
Hear more Samm Deighan on the Daughters of Darkness podcast
Visit the Mondo Heather website

Music:
"Killer Kane" - Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell
"San Antone" - Denny Brooks
"Ninth Configuration" - The Other Two

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