PREVIEW: TCBCast x SUDDENLY - A Very Clambake Christmas (Part 1)
During the 2022 Christmas break, we went over to TCBCast and embarked on an epic four-part, six-hour deep-dive into Elvis Presley's CLAMBAKE (1967). Here's a special preview of Part 1. The rest can be...
13 Dec 20222h 4min
20: A Day in the Life (with Henry Giardina)
It's our final episode of 2022 and we're joined by Henry Giardina, Los Angeles-based film critic and co-host of Totally Trans Podcast, who discovered our show by chance while fending off an airport an...
12 Nov 20223h 42min
19: Boys and Girls Like You and Me
What happens when a brand mascot transitions? Cracker Jack - one of the original junk foods, and a brand that has been part of American culture since the late 19th century, most famously in the song "...
1 Nov 20222h 1min
18: Sharkey's Night (with Gary Bohan Jr.)
History forgot to record that Sinatra's first acting role was inherited from a sea lion. Both stage & film versions of HIGHER AND HIGHER (1944) were poorly reviewed as a whole but succeeded anyway on ...
22 Okt 20221h 36min
17: Don't Worry Darling
This week we're forced to soberly confront our own mortality to the stark strains of a Polish funeral dirge sung in a small-town graveyard. In MIRACLE OF THE BELLS (1948), Sinatra's film career makes ...
18 Okt 20221h 53min
16: The Kissing Bandit Diaries (with Alison Evans and Justin Gausman)
*WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD FOR EPISODE 15* As a tribute to the spirit of Peeter Pedaja and last week's guest, Tim Batt of The Worst Idea of All Time, I, Rabia, watched THE KISSING BANDIT (1948) a total ...
10 Okt 20224h 7min
15: This is Not a Book (with Tim Batt)
This week on SUDDENLY, an unbelievable true story. At age 19, Estonian-Australian immigrant Peeter Pedaja had his life changed by a Frank Sinatra film, THE KISSING BANDIT (1948). You will NEVER guess ...
3 Okt 20222h 5min
14: Q-Day
Following on from Episode 13, we examine the housing crisis that gripped postwar New York City in the 1940s. This pressing social issue was depicted in both Frank Sinatra's IT HAPPENED IN BROOKLYN (19...
25 Sep 20221h 17min
