Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934). The film was famously the first to win all of the top Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor. That feat was repeated, if I remember correctly, twice more, by One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Has there been a more recent example?
In this episode, we are proposing that the cinematic celebration of disco dancing, Saturday Night Fever, is the same movie as the Steven Seagal crapfest, the generically-titled Attack Force. And We say this every week, but this might be the WORST movie we have watched so far.
We also delve into Steven Seagal’s career at large, we talk about Scientology, and Mike goes into detail about one of his best birthdays - one which ended with a serious case of gurgle-butt. It’s a wild, epic episode.
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Lana Turner gets the star treatment, c.1940. She was originally a brunette, but MGM wanted a replacement for the departed Jean Harlow et voilá! She became a platinum blonde.
Remembering Elizabeth Taylor on her birthday (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011). She first appeared onscreen and worked for an amazing 60 years until retirement in 2011. She was never, during all those years, anything less than the epitome of a movie star, larger than life. These Old Broads, in which she costarred with other Fifties’ stars Shirley MacLaine, Debbie Reynolds and Joan Collins, was, fittingly, her last film.
“I’ve given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can’t divorce a book.” - Gloria Swanson
“Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.”- Gloria Swanson
