Covering Movies, Television and Other Life Altering Issues
The Other Dan Delgado, James Gunn Gets Over, ScarJo Gets Paid, Would The Office Work Today, Lilo & Stitch, First Man, Bad Times at the El Royale, Goosebumps 2, Beautiful Boy, The Happy Prince, 22 July.
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Star Wars Russian trolls, Chris Evans farewell, Murphy Brown, Venom, A Star Is Born, Loving Pablo, The Hate U Give, Await Further Instructions, Studio 54.
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Mister Dugan had the potential to be a hit show. It was a topical series about a recently elected idealistic black congressman who gets elected and has to contend with his less than helpful staff. Norman Lear was producing, Cleavon Little was the star. However, just days before it was to air on CBS in 1979 Lear himself pulled the show from the schedule. What went wrong? We take a look at the troubled production that started when Lear’s hit series Maude ended.
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Books by Richard Irvin including Forgotten Laughs can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Irvin/e/B001KD7NAQ
Black Caucus Strangles Mr. Dugan – Jet Magazine March 29th, 1979:
The Recall of TV’s Mister Dugan – Washington Post, April 1st, 1979:
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Wild Bunch remake, Space Jam Part Dos, Dern for Reynolds, Night School, Hell Fest, The Old Man and the Gun, Smallfoot, Black ’47, Little Women.
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Guest Pierre Rivard joins Dan to talk about his experiences working at the Burt Reynolds Institute. The House with the Clock in it’s Walls, Assassination Nation, Life Itself, Colette, Fahrenheit 11/9.
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Hurricane Florence, RIP Burt Reynolds, DCEU Changes, Modern Family, Maude, The Predator, A Simple Favor, White Boy Rick, Unbroken: A Path to Redemption, Mandy
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RIP Neil Simon, Review of Operation Finale, HBO says no to porn, Who is Wile E Coyote?, Destination Wedding, Kin, The Little Stranger, Let The Corpses Tan, Blood Fest, Mary Poppins.
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In this bonus episode we take a look at how in the 1980s Cannon Films signed a major star to the biggest deal in entertainment history and still didn’t get the movie made. LaBrava was to be an adaptation of the Elmore Leonard (Justified, Get Shorty, Jackie Brown) novel and a signal that Cannon had moved into the big leagues. Instead Cannon’s own excitement over the project became it’s biggest problem.
Boyle leaves Bond, Review of Crazy Rich Asians, Bewitched update, Big Bang Theory ending, Gene Kelly, The Happytime Murders, AXL, Searching, Papillon, The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl, The Bookshop.
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