Jan 14, 2017
Movie Meltdown - Episode 379
This week we return to our annual
segment People Who Died... Died, as we discuss just some
of the performers we lost in 2016.
And as we are smacked in the face
with our own mortality, we also mention... Alec Guinness in drag,
in Warsaw when the blitzkrieg occurred, Mitch Miller, Brazil, Good
Burger, Scrooge McDuck, The Phil Silvers Show, South Park, fireside
chats, Volgograd, in a Santa Claus suit, using anamorphic, what is
this land... why are we paying so much, Dick Tracy, buys a horse
and cart, unscrupulous... yes, buckets of blood... in vivid color,
spend three years in prison, living for nostalgia, The Time
Machine, everyone feels like everything personally affects them
now, a pioneer in his own right, Sam Peckinpah, it's like we were
in a trench in World War I together, perpetual media cover of every
horrendous event, dying for 40 years, every time I go to the flea
market... I feel like a Coen Brothers casting agent, Paul Bartel,
him dying is just... all part of the show, a society of arrested
development, Indiana Jones, Johnny Depp, a musical comedy version
of Grapes of Wrath, Julian Glover, he was married continually since
he was 21, this movie about the devil's daughter, I feel like our
generation lives for nostalgia... more then any other one, has
two-time Academy Award winner Shelley Winters, you're playing
chicken with yourself, creatives who experience a lot of success,
Zero Mostel, I was trying to save her with my meme, Bob Kane,
United Artists who ultimately ended up buckling because of the
enormity of the failure, Mel Brooks, sleeping next to your camera,
line group friends and the ethics of CGI
performances.
"Once I delved into his past a
little bit, I was like 'What a fascinating life this guy
had!'"