3. Pumpkinhead (1988)

A prettily-wrapped early Christmas present for movie fans, Quentin Tarantino's epic yet human-scale 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' both rewards and upends your expectations from "a Quentin Tarantino movie". Chris' signature intro (00:00), NO SPOILERS in this episode & Chris' favorite Tarantino movies (2:00), Jason loves 'Jackie Brown' (4:00), broad plot strokes of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood & Jay Sebring, Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate, and Charles Manson (5:00), Paul Thomas Anderson on Leo DiCaprio (7:00), Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth inspired by famous stunt-man/actor pairings (7:30), Once Upon A Time In Hollywood trailer (8:45), Neil Diamond's Hot August Night (10:15), Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Luke Perry, Bruce Dern, Mike Moh as Bruce Lee, Damian Lewis as Steve McQueen (12:00), Bruce Lee and other controversies after the film's release (13:30), Pitt's Cliff Booth character (15:00), Tarantino's interests in telling this Hollywood story (16:30), Spahn Ranch scene with Manson family (18:00), Lena Dunham's performance in the movie (22:00), the only clip released from the movie (23:30), DiCaprio's incredible scene with his 8-year-old co-star (27:00), Leonardo DiCaprio soundbite about playing Rick Dalton (29:00), Al Pacino as Schwarz (30:00), Tarantino's childhood memories of growing up in LA (32:00), Burt Reynolds was supposed to play George Spahn but died during filming (36:00), Brad Pitt soundbite about playing Cliff Booth (39:30), Luke Perry's final movie (43:00), Danny Bonaduce and David Cassidy anecdote (44:00), Nicholas Hammond (the first live-action Spider-Man) is brilliant as the Sam Wannamaker Director character in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood & clip (44:30), Leo's Oscar-worthy scene acting opposite him self in a mirror (46:00), Two Different Guys On A Bench promo and Chuckler.com (47:00), Brad Pitt's history in Academy Award noms and his plan to abstain from campaigning for an Oscar (47:30), Brad Pitt is a MOVIE STAR (50:00), Tarantino surprising Box Office Grosses (56:30), filming the Spahn ranch scene, destined to be a filmic classic (58:00), Rants N Raves, Jason takes Chris on for doing a lame FB "seven books in seven days" chain letter and the lamer cul de sac of social media (59:30), Pulp Fiction heart needle scene (01:04:00), Mickey Rourke disses Robert Deniro over 'The Irishman' snub (01:05:00), the infamous Mickey Rourke in Iron Man 2 as "Whiplash" anecdote (01:07:00), When Was The Last Time Deniro Was Really Good (01:09:05), clip from "About Endlessness", directed by Roy Andersson, Chris' personal favorite (01:13:00) Latch-Key TV (01:14:00): Beau Brummell, Brian De Palma movies, Ted Wass, Phantom Of The Paradise, Body Double, Craig Wasson, Blow Out, Sally Field, Places In The Heart, Warrior Of The Lost World, Donald Pleasance, Chris' Mystery Final Line Scene (01:18:50)...(email us if you know where this is from at fullcastandcrewpod@gmail.com.   Play the fantastic Once Upon A Time In Hollywood trailer Watch a spoiler-free clip from Once Upon A Time In Hollywood here

3 Okt 20191h 19min

Chris' signature thematic intro (00:00), the intricate plot of Hal Needham's Smokey and the Bandit (04:30), Coors Beer in the New York Times (06:00), Sally Field's memoir is fantastic (10:00), Bandit & The Bride meet cute scene (12:30), Sally & Burt's relationship (14:00), Burt & Dom DeLuise on The Match Game (17:30), CB Culture in pop culture (18:00), Jonathan Demme, Paul LeMat and Bruce McGill in 'Citizen's Band' (18:00), 'Convoy' by CW McCall & Mike Douglas Show music video commentary (18:45), Chip Davis is behind both 'Convoy' and Mannheim Steamroller (19:00), critical reception of Smokey and the Bandit (23:00), Sally Field's career (26:30), Out Of Jack's Mind from Jack Plotnick, Space Station 76, Grace And Frankie, Z Nation (27:00), Jackie Gleason's pullover scene in the movie (29:00), Smokey and the Bandit sequels, Jerry Reed, and Jackie Gleason playing multiple roles (32:00), Jackie Gleason's horrible 'Gaylord' character and Mountie characters in II (33:00), Mike Henry was 'Tarzan' (35:00), 'Eastbound & Down' song by Jerry Reed (36:30), Chris' D&D friends call him out (38:00), good Burt & Sally scenes (39:00), When The Bride Met Junior scene (43:00), let's dissect the plot mechanism literally (44:30), 1977 cultural happening (52:30), Smokey II plot involving transporting an elephant to the DNC (for real) (55:00), Cannonball Run (1:03:00), Burt Reynold's iconic laugh and Eddie Murphy's laugh (01:04:00), Alternative Casting (01:06:00), Headlines w/ Princess Bride, Hogan's Heroes remakes, Ivan Watson's 'The Spook Who Sat By The Door' (01:07:00), Last Lines Outro (1:10:00)   Smokey and the Bandit wiki   Other FCAC episodes referenced in this episode: Close Encounters: available here Saturday Night Fever: available here Lee Wilkof, An Actor's Life: available here   Subscribe to the podcast here   Email the pod @ fullcastandcrewpod@gmail.com

26 Sep 20191h 11min

Steven Spielberg's 1977 masterpiece "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" stands out as a deeply weird major-studio picture and, for many movie fans and directors like J.J. Abrams and Denis Villenueve, their favorite Spielberg movie of them all. Podcast Notes: Chris intro (00:01), putting Close Encounters Of The Third Kind in movie context (2:15), Being a Star Wars kid vs. a Star Wars kid (3:00), Aliens (4:00), Spielberg appreciation (4:15), the cute red dot of light UFO is so Spielberg (5:00), the great and naturalistic Air Traffic Control scene (7:20), Teri Garr and Dreyfuss 'Don't you think I'm taking this really well?' scene (12:45), Spielberg origin story of Close Encounters (15:00), the amazing Indian village singing scene w/ Bob Balaban and Francois Truffaut (21:00), J. Alan Hinnick, UFOlogist and his influence on Spielberg's approach to the movie and contribution of the title (24:00), Dreyfuss as Neary and Spielberg stand-in (26:00), Truffaut, Balaban and Dreyfuss in the interrogation scene (27:00),  Teri Garr is a colossally brilliant comic genius actor (23:30), Teri Garr's MJB Coffee commercial that got her the part in Close Encounters (34:00), Cary Guffey (Barry Guiler) turned in one of the greatest child performances in film history in his role as the kid in Close Encounters (36:00) Casting Cary Guffey stories by Melinda Dillon and Steven Spielberg (38:00), kids weird sleeping positions (42:00), Duck Dogers cartoon (42:30), casting Francois Truffaut stories from Steven Spielberg and Richard Dreyfus (45:00), Finding the landing zone set in Alabama on a disused military base and shooting on the largest set in film history (48:00), Melinda Dillon motel room set & Truffaut's reaction story (48:30), John Williams and his iconic score for the film (49:45), Matt The Engineer (51:00), John Williams and Steven Spielberg talk about finding the five tones for the Close Encounters Of The Third Kind theme music (52:00), Jason gets model-maker Dennis Muren's name wrong, sorry, Dennis! (55:00), remembering the glass-shattering scene from the Mother Ship landing sequence (57:00), the hidden R2D2 on the mothership (1:00:00), the Close Encounters Theme Disco Version (1:03:00), Alternative Casting stories (1:04:00), Steve McQueen crying casting story from Steven Spielberg (1:05:00), the insane and incredible living room grief scene from Michael Hanecke's 'Funny Games' (1:08:00), Latch Key TV (01:09:40), The Littlest Hobo theme song (1:11:45), Columbo Cinematic Universe appearance of Dukes of Hazard star Sorrel Booke in the Johnny Cash episode (1:15:30), George C Scott as Mussolini (1:18:00), Kate & Allie was a good show (1:19:30), Final Line Outro (1:21:20)

19 Sep 20191h 22min

In this rollicking and laugh-filled episode, Jason and Chris have an unreasonable amount of fun talking about 'Highlander', one of the strangest movies of the 1980's and one of the least likely franchise-spawning movies ever, still going strong 30 years later with innumerable sequels, prequels and spinoffs.   Chris' intro of 'Highlander' and its many accents (1986) @ 00:00   Co-Hosts Intro (@ 1:45)   When did they start playing movies on planes?  (@ 3:00)   Chris doesn't have any Dungeon and Dragons friends (sad trombone) (7:00)   Sword & rapier types as used in 'Highlander' (8:00)   'Highlander' co-star Peter Diamond in 'Star Wars: A New Hope' (9:00)   Christopher Lambert's varied and confusing nationalities & accents (11:00)   Interrogation Scene (11:30)   Clancy Brown in 'Highlander' (13:00)   The plot in 'Highlander' as told by Sean Connery (14:00)   Russell Mulcahey's music video career and The Buggles 'Video Killled The Radio Star' video (15:45)   The Shadow  & Alec Baldwin (18:00)   Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes (20:30)   Vangelis' theme to Chariots of Fire (21:00)   Ian Holm's french accent in Greystoke (22:00)   Sean Connery as Ramirez scene (24:30)   Training Montage scene / Feel The Stag! (28:00)   Kurgans (33:00)   Alternative Casting (34:00)   Michael Douglas, Richard Gere, Liam Neeson, Gary Oldman, Viggo Mortensen, Sting, Beastmaster, Mel Gibson, Mickey Rourke   Fops Dueling scene (39:00)   Brooke Adams, Karen Allen, Margot Kidder, Roseanne Arquette, Nick Nolte, Rutger Hauer, Roy Scheider, Lee Van Cleef, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Michael Caine (42:00)   Highlander's: They're Just Like Us (47:00)    3-2-1 Contact theme song (49:00)   Latch Key TV (55:00)   New Hampshire has no towns or cities  (56:45)   Dynasty & Die Fledermouse are one and the same (58:00)   HEADLINES (59:30)   Kevin Sorbo, faith-based cinema, guns, Antifa,    The Reliant trailer is NUTS (59:45)   Flirty the companion horse (1:06:00)

12 Sep 20191h 10min

Middle-aged, simple-minded Chance lives in the townhouse of a wealthy old man in Washington, D.C.. He has spent his whole life tending the garden and has never left the property. Other than gardening, his knowledge is derived entirely from what he sees on television. When his benefactor dies, Chance naively tells the lawyers that he has no claim against the estate and is ordered to move out. Chance wanders aimlessly, discovering the outside world for the first time. Passing by a TV shop, he sees himself captured by a camera in the shop window. Entranced, he steps backward off the sidewalk and is struck by a chauffeured car owned by elderly business mogul Ben Rand. In the car is Rand's much younger wife Eve, who mishears "Chance, the gardener" in reply to the question who he is, as "Chauncey Gardiner." Eve brings Chance to their home to recover. He is wearing expensive tailored clothes from the 1920s and 1930s, which his benefactor had allowed him to take from the attic, and his manners are old-fashioned and courtly. When Ben Rand meets him, he takes "Chauncey" for an upper-class, highly-educated businessman who has fallen on hard times. Rand admires him, finding him direct, wise and insightful. Rand is also a confidant and advisor to the President of the United States, whom he introduces to "Chauncey." In a discussion about the economy, Chance takes his cue from the words "stimulate growth" and talks about the changing seasons of the garden. The President misinterprets this as optimistic political advice and quotes “Chauncey Gardiner” in a speech. Chance now rises to national prominence, attends important dinners, develops a close connection with the Soviet ambassador, and appears on a television talk show during which his detailed advice about what a serious gardener should do is misunderstood as his opinion on what would be his presidential policy. Though he has now risen to the top of Washington society, the Secret Service and some 16 other agencies are unable to find any background information on him. During this time Rand's physician, Dr. Allenby, becomes increasingly suspicious that Chance is not a wise political expert and that the mystery of his identity may have a more mundane explanation. Dr. Allenby considers telling Rand this, but realizing how happy Chance is making him in his final days keeps him silent. The dying Rand encourages Eve to become close to "Chauncey." She is already attracted to him and makes a sexual advance. Chance has no interest in or knowledge of sex, but mimics a kissing scene from the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair, which happens to be showing on the TV. When the scene ends, Chauncey stops suddenly and Eve is confused. She asks what he likes, meaning sexually; he replies "I like to watch," meaning television. She is momentarily taken aback, but decides she is willing to masturbate for his voyeuristic pleasure, thereby not noticing that he has turned back to the TV and is now imitating a yoga exercise on a different channel. Chance is present at Rand's death and shows genuine sadness at his passing. Questioned by Dr Allenby, he admits that he "loves Eve very much" and also that he is just a gardener. When he leaves to inform Eve of Ben's death, Allenby says to himself, "I understand," but interpretation of that is left to the viewer. While the President delivers a speech at Rand's funeral, the pallbearers hold a whispered discussion over potential replacements for the President in the next term of office and unanimously agree on Chauncey Gardiner as successor. Oblivious to all this, Chance wanders off through Rand's wintry estate. He straightens out a pine sapling flattened by a fallen branch, then walks across the surface of a lake. He pauses, dips his umbrella deep into the water under his feet (confirming for the viewer that it is not just a skim of water on the ground), then continues on, while the President is heard quoting Rand: "Life is a state of mind."

5 Sep 20191h 18min

Chris and Jason are joined by inflatable co-pilot Young Nick Blake, who shares his love for 1980's iconic, seminal Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker movie 'Airplane'.  The intrepid trio covers: Chris' inventive comedic introduction to the episode (00:01) The number of jokes in the entirety of "Airplane" (9:00) Airplane origin story (10:00) Bizarro scenes from 'Zero Hour', the film the ZAZ guys based Airplane on/ripped off.  (15:00) Clip of the ZAZ guys on Letterman (21:00) Ethel Merman clip from 'Airplane' (22:30) Nick Blake/Jason fight over cigarette smoking scene in Airplane (24:30) Julie Hagerty comedic genius scene in Albert Brooks' "Lost In America" with Garry Marshall and Brooks (26:30) Donna Pescow/Peter Johansen shout-out (30:00) Robert Hayes being Just Good Enough in the role (31:00) Jeff/Beau Bridges: Which Is The More Talented Bridgeses?  (33:00) How awesome is the MISSION IMPOSSIBLE TV THEME! (35:40) Great films with exclamation points in their titles (43:30) The joy of paperback photo sections in 1970's books (47:00) Johnny (Stephen Stucker) Comp Reel (51:00) Jim Nabors anecdote (55:00) ALTERNATIVE CASTING (56:00) David Letterman's Screen Test for 'Airplane' clip (57:45) Barry Manilow, Dom DeLuise, Christopher Lee, Fred Willard (59:00) Yuban Coffee Commercial (01:03:00) LATCH KEY TV (01:04:00) He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe, Skeletor, Transformers, Ghostbusters Cartoon, Lorenzo Music, Garfield, The Real Ghostbusters. Comic-Con, Flaming Carrot, PBS, NOVA   Airport '77 (01:15:00)  'Airplane!' Wiki Page 'Airplane!' IMDB Page Watch 'Airplane!' on iTunes Subscribe to the podcast Learn about Chris' beloved comic book Flaming Carrot

29 Aug 20191h 16min

Norman Jewison's film of John Patrick Shanley's FIRST EVER screenplay was a little movie that nobody, even the studio and the actors and filmmakers, ever thought would enter the culture like a couple of well-delivered slaps to that face, that FACE!  In this episode, Chris and Jason jump into 'Moonstruck' like a big apizza pie: Read Nic Cage's amazing NY Times INTV cited in the pod (2:00). Cher is amazing (15:00) Nic Cage's 'Beauty And The Beast' accent attempt. (19:00) Moonstruck screenplay origin story (20:00) The Bride & The Wolf kitchen scene b/t Nic Cage and Cher (21:00) "Where's my wedding?" speech (22:00) Anatomy of a deleted scene w/ Shanley & Jewison (24:00 Shanley speaks first). Watch 'Moonstruck' on Amazon Prime or on iTunes with all the extras we watched for this episode. Watch Cher's Academy Award Acceptance Speech for Best Actress presented by Paul Newman and Chevy Chase. Watch Olympia Dukakis' Academy Award Acceptance Speech for Best Supporting Actress. Watch John Patrick Shanley's Academy Award Acceptance Speech for Best Original Screenplay. Read the Moonstruck Wiki Page. Check out the Moonstruck IMDB Page. Subscribe to the podcast.

22 Aug 20191h 20min

In this special episode of the Full Cast And Crew Podcast, we interview Lee Wilkof, an actor and director whose career on stage and screen has spanned more than 42 years.  He graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1972 and has more than 101 IMDB credits as an (and counting) and has garnered Obie and Drama Desk Awards and a Tony nomination on Broadway.  Lee is a charming and self-effacing guy who we were thrilled to nerd out with about his journey through Show Business and his great anecdotes about so many of the people he's worked with over the years.  One of our favorite episodes to date on the podcast and a special chance to go behind the scenes of 40 years of stage and screen history, filled with great advice for actors and human beings. In this episode (as a thunderstorm briefly rages dramatically outside the FCAC studio) Lee shares with Chris and Jason stories about: The origins of Lee's directorial debut/cautionary tale of the acting life 'No Pay, Nudity' (13:40), the vibe and characters hanging around the old Actor's Equity Lounge (14:40), meeting Nathan Lane as young actors in NYC in 1972 (16:50), a clip from 'No Pay, Nudity' featuring Nathan Lane and Jon Michael Hill ('Eastbound & Down', 'Elementary') (25:00), some George R.R. Martin stories (30:45), 'Silence Of The Lambs' co-star Ted Levine (34:15), Loudon Wainwright III playing a character loosely based on Stephen Sondheim (42:20), Joel Higgins and 'Silver Spoons' (47:25), inadvertently insulting James Lapine and 'Into The Woods' and then making up for it with a self-effacing letter (49:22), Jeff Perry as Mr. Katimski in 'My So-Called Life' and presence in the Columbo Cinematic Universe (55:20), National Lampoon's 'Disco Beaver From Outer Space' (57:25), Influential show 'The Present Tense' and Roger Ailes trying to manage a young Lee Wilkof, who got  as six-paragraph rave review, and Obie and a Drama Desk noms (59:16), Getting cast in the 'Animal House' tv spinoff 'Delta House' and being told to "town it down" (01:02:48), Dressing room 'Hart To Hart' chats with Natalie Wood and RJ Wagner while Stephanie Powers was not warming to Lee on-set (01:04:00), Lee's 'The Gong Show' appearance and getting gonged by JP Morgan while a struggling actor in LA and waiting for his big break and getting two pilot offers in one day (01:08:14), Bob Newhart reportedly not being thrilled with Lee as agent Elliot Gabler on 'Newhart' (01:14:08), working with Madeline Kahn (01:17:05), a 'Hunter' (Fred Dryer, Stepfanie Kramer) clip featuring Lee (01:18:23), Lee on the difference b/t guesting and being a regular on a TV series (01:21:57), working closely with Tim Blake Nelson ('O Brother Where Art Thou', 'The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs') (01:23:44), doing 'Ally McBeal' and a falling-out with David E. Kelley story (01:24:15), being a series regular on the iconic 'Max Headroom' ABC series (01:25:55), Steven Bochco's 'Cop Rock' and Lee convincing the director he didn't blow a take (01:28:45), doing 'Beverly Hills Buntz' (01:35:17), Lee tells us what he'd watch on tv in our 'Latch Key TV' segment (01:38:59), having Thanksgiving dinner with Gary Oldman and Dennis Hopper but not M. Emmett Walsh, sadly, on the set of Mick Jackson's 'Chattahoochee' (01:42:10), meeting Cary Grant in 1985 (01:45:00), Watching "Ghoulardi" as a kid growing up in Cleveland (01:49:20), On not being cast in the movie version of 'Little Shop Of Horrors' (01:51:00).   Connect with Lee online: @leewilkof on Instagram   Check Out Lee's IMDB Page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0929502/   Watch Lee's Directorial Debut 'No Pay, Nudity': https://www.amazon.com/No-Pay-Nudity-Francis-Conroy/dp/B01MQU3H9M   The 'Hart To Hart' Stanley Friesen Comp Reel we play in this episode:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MecYgXiEfaY   Chuckler Comedy on Facebook.   Share this podcast with your Twitter followers using this Click To Tweet link: https://ctt.ac/0dtX3+    Subscribe to the podcast.

15 Aug 20191h 56min