Covering Movies, Television and Other Life Altering Issues
In the 1970’s actor Tom Laughlin helped change the industry with his advertising and distribution ideas for his Billy Jack series. In the 1980’s he planned a comeback movie and another potential industry game changer, this time for home video. It did not go according to plan.
Robin Hutton, Laughlin’s former assistant and an author, helps the story of Laughlin’s attempted return.
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Disney is a bunch of weasels, RIP Bill Macy, The Current War, Girl on the Third Floor, Synonyms, Paradise Hills, Countdown, Black and Blue.
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Robertino Yanzanny was just a teenager in Puerto Rico when he fell in love with the movies and developed an admiration for super producer Dino De Laurentiis.
De Laurentiis left a huge impression in The Industry. Big successes and big flops and big risks were his standard. When Dino opened his own studio in the 1980s things did not go exactly according to plan. Then he had an idea. It involved garbage bags.
Yanzanny helps tell the story of what it was like to work with De Laurentiis during this time and his encounter with De Laurentiis after he had died.
Show notes available at http://industrypodcast.org/articles.
RIP Robert Forster, El Camino, Paul Dano is the Riddler, Clueless is the new Riverdale?, Zombieland: Douple Tap, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, The Lighthouse, Kinetta, Greener Grass, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, Fight Club turns 20.
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Jackie Gleason is an entertainment legend. He’s one guy who truly did it all. Movies, Broadway, conducted his own orchestra (!), and most of all television. He was The Great One, after all. That doesn’t mean the guy didn’t make mistakes. In 1961 Gleason made a huge mistake when, after a couple of years away from television, he made a highly anticipated return with what turned out to be a ridiculous game show. What he did next was unheard of.
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Shark Tank with Sir Darryl, Xfinity Problems, The Addams Family, The Gemini Man, Parasite, The King, Little Monsters, The House of the Devil.
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Tom Holland saves Spider-Man, Dolph Lundgren on CBS, Hogan’s Heroes sequel series, Joker, Lucy in the Sky, Pain and Glory, Pretenders, Low Tide, Dolemite Is My Name.
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