Robert Evans and Francis Ford Coppola would-be comeback movie The Cotton Club was supposed to be The Godfather with music. What the hell went wrong?
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Writer/podcaster extraordinaire Jake Folgenest joins us to chat about two surprisingly musical films in Travolta and Cage’s filmography — the 1978 smash-hit musical Grease and Francis Ford Coppola’s ambitious flop The Cotton Club!
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We Hate Movies’ Andrew Jupin joins us to talk about Travolta’s big breakout and a surprisingly sweet curio from earliy in Cage’s career!
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A never-better John Travolta disco-danced his way to super-stardom in 1977’s masterful Saturday Night Fever, a bracingly grim exploration of the cruelty and arrogance of youth and the seedy underbelly of the American dream.
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Nicolas Cage and Sean Penn learning about love and life and war in the lovely 1940s period piece Racing With the Moon.
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Before they were Nicolas Cage and Crispin Glover, Cage and Glover starred in a magnificently bonkers failed comedy pilot called The Best of Times that’s like Laugh In for teens with the video games and song and dance numbers and Jackie Mason kvetching up a storm.
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As part of our immersion into the world of John Travolta and Nicolas Cage we figured we check out Cage’s latest movie, a hilariously sleazy “erotic thriller” that’s like Zalman King minus the class.
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‘70s TV-movie expert Noel Murray joins us to talk about The Boy in the Plastic Bubble and Rumble FIsh!
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Travolta won our hearts as a strapping, virile bubble boy in the iconic 1976 television movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.
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Episode 1 of the podcast brings on Scott Weinberg (Science vs. Fiction) to talk about teenage rapscallions Billy Nolan from Carrie and Randy from Valley Girl!
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