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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #301
February 18, 2013 | 
Author Full of all the nourishing podcasting goodness long-time listeners have come to expect, this brand new serving is also a delicious introduction to your friends in podcasting.
The following topics are discussed, dissected, analyzed and turned on their heads by Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness:
The X-Files, including a hilarious story about David Duchovny and exciting news about Frank Spotnitz’s new adaptation of Philip K. Dick for SyFy …
Ancient wisdom and what we can learn about healthful self-care by looking to past cultures …
Books from Norway, Sweden and Stephen King …
3 live events, including one that Phil hopes to turn into a documentary …
A remake of the late Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds …
A film all about Jar-Jar Binks …
A documentary about the epidemic of sexual assault within the U.S. Armed Forces …
The revival of drive-ins …
David Fincher’s original series on Netflix …
And MORE. It’s YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour, which almost always features bonus minutes!
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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #299
Many topics covered on today’s installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour including:
An interesting study on violent video games … Dean’s latest half-marathon … Paul Auster’s The Book of Illusions … A table reading of Dean and Phil’s new film The Lady Killers … The location filming of an intriguing sci-fi short … The movie version of Les Miserables … JJ Abrams departing Star Trek for Star Wars (and whether he ever knew he was making Star Trek in the first place) … IFC’s “Portlandia” …
And even if that were enough for one show, your friends in podcasting keep it coming, analyzing the scarcity of employment opportunities for women behind-the-camera in Hollywood and analyzing this year’s Best Picture Oscar nominees thru the prism of the Becdel Test.
Finally, many listeners have asked whether Dean and Phil will be attending Dragon*Con this year and one asked Dean and Phil’s reactions to some disturbing news about where much of the revenue from the event goes each year. Whether you don’t know what Dragon*Con is or even if you go to the annual Labor Day Weekend event in Atlanta every year, you won’t want to miss the return of all-time classic Chillpak Hollywood Hour #121 (Live from Dragon*Con!), available NOW for the first time in more than two years!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: 30 Rock, Academy Awards, acting, Amazon streaming, Amour, Anne Hathaway, Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Bryan Singer, Carrie Brownstein, conscious life expo, Dean Haglund, directing, Django Unchained, Dragon*Con, Ed Koch, Edward Kramer, filmmaking, Fred Armisen, gun control, half-marathons, House of Cards, Hugh Jackman, IFC, Ilana Rein, independent film, Kyle MacLachlan, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, marathons, movies, Nancy Collins JJ Abrams, Netflix, Oscars, Paul Auster, Phil Leirness, Portlandia, Russell Crowe, sci-fi, short films, show business, Silver Linings Playbook, Star Trek, Star Wars, Superman, television, The Book of Illusions, The Lady Killers, The Lone Gunmen, The X-Files, The X-Men, Twin Peaks, usc, video games, violence, writing, Zero Dark Thirty, Zombieland | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #297
Leonard Da Vinci, The Last Supper, Alex Jones vs. Piers Morgan, 2nd Amendment vs. 1st Amendment, gun control, consciousness, aliens, the importance of “toasts”, authors Jonathan Littman, Marc Hershon and Magi Fowler, filmmaker Nagisa Oshima, actor Conrad Bain, an overrated Lincoln, a modern sci-fi classic …
What show would be audacious enough to tackle all of that (and more) in a mere sixty minutes?
Why, YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour, of course!
Hear what Dean and Phil are reading …
Hear about two “Live Events of the Week” …
Learn about three “Wingnuts of the Week” …
Learn about two “Celebrity Deaths” …
AND enjoy a preview of NEXT week’s spectacular (an annual tradition).
Trust us, this episode is AWESOME.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: 1st amendment, 2nd amendment, Academy Awards, acting, Alex Jones, Amour, Balls of Wool and Other Bits of Rubbish, Barbara Werner, Best Picture Nominees, box office, CNN, Conrad Bain, Dana Plato, Daniel Day-Lewis, David Bowie, Dean Haglund, Diff'rent Strokes, directing, film, filmmaking, freedom of the press, Gary Coleman, gun control, Holy Motors, I Hate People, In the Realm of the Senses, independent film, James Spader, Japan, Jon Lawlor, Jonathan Littman, Leonard Da Vinci, Leos Carax, Lincoln, Magi Fowler, Marc Hershon, Mark Bennett, Maude, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Metacritic, Michael Haneke, Michelle Williams, motion pictures, movies, Nagisa Oshima, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Page Branson, Phil Leirness, Piers Morgan, producing, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sabine Fischer, Sally Field, Sarah Polley, Sarah Silverman, Seth Rogen, Steven Spielberg, Take This Waltz, television, The B-Film Extras, The Last Supper, The Lone Gunmen, The X-Files, toastmasters, toasts, Todd Bridges, Tom Conti, World War II, writing | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #270
If you are a big fan of the “In Memoriam” section of awards shows, you are going to LOVE this week’s installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour. Much of the show is dedicated to remembering the show business legends that left us since your friends in podcasting last came to you from a certain “historic building in downtown Los Angeles” …
Dean and Phil also follow up on last week’s incredible interview of true Renaissance man Leigh J. McCloskey by discussing another Renaissance man, Dean Haglund!
Of course, there’s much, much more to enjoy, including “The Irving G. Thalberg Drinking Game”, “The Succotash Bump”, the Bob Hope Airport, Torchwood, Norman Rockwell, The Pageant of the Masters, Phil’s desire to get knighted by the King of Norway, and the “Lawsuit of the Week”.
Finally, this week’s show includes big shout outs to Ethan Dettenmaier and “Combat Radio”, “Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis”, Pepper Jay, Yi Tian and Actors E Chat Show, Susan Larison Danz and “The Frontier Beyond Fear”, Marc Hershon and “Succotash”, Shaun Parker, David Sobolov and Agent Summer.
Oh, and if funny videos are something you enjoy, then by all means, check out this clip of Dean Haglund interviewing another sci-fi icon, a true “Star Wars” legend.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: A Face in the Crowd, Academy Awards, acting, acting classes, Actors E Chat Show, Agent Summer, Alex Lewczuk, Alice in Wonderland, All About Eve, Andy Griffith, Andy Griffith Show, Arrested Development, Bad Day at Black Rock, BBC, Big Fish, Celeste Holm, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Clyde Lewis Ground Zero, Come to the Stable, comedy, Compulsion, consciousness, conspiracy, Creative Arts Rehabilitation Center, Dan Butler, Dark Shadows, Daryl F. Zanuck, David Dean Bottrell, David Sobolov, Dean Haglund, directing, Dragon*Con, Driving Miss Daisy, Elia Kazan, Ernest Borgnine, Escape from New York, Ethan Dettenmaier, film, filmmaking, Forbidden Planet, From Here to Eternity, Galileo, Gary Cooper, Gentlemen's Agreement, Griffith Observatory, Hieroglyph of the Human Soul, Ice Station Zebra, independent film, Indiemondo, Irving G. Thalberg, Jake La Motta, Jaws, John Carpenter, Karl Rove I Love You, Kickstarter, King Olav, Kirk Douglas, Leigh J. McCloskey, Leslie Neilsen, Lili Fini Zanuck, Lily Holleman, Long Hot Summer, Marc Hershon, Marc Zicree, Margot Kidder, Martin Ritt, Marty, Matlock, MGM, Midweek Drive, Miracle Day, movies, National Council of the Arts, National Mental Health Association, Nightwatch, Norman Rockwell, Norway, Open Minds TV, Orson Welles, Oscars, Paths of Glory, Patrick McGoohan, Pepper Jay, Phil Leirness, PopCon LA, producing, Raging Bull 2, Red, Richard Anderson, Richard D. Zanuck, Sage Stallone, Save the Theatres Committee, Shaun Parker, Siren FM, Southside Broadcasting, Space Command, Spencer Tracy, Stanley Kubrick, Succotash, Susan Larison Danz, Sweeny Todd, Sylvester Stallone, television, televsion, The Bionic Woman, The Dirty Dozen, The Frontier Beyond Fear, The Lone Gunmen, The Pageant of the Masters, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Truth Is Out There, The Verdict, The Wild Bunch, The X-Files, Tim Burton, Torchwood, UA, UNICEF, William Holden, wirting, Yi Tian | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #245
Another installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour on the open road … This week, your friends in podcasting brave the elements and curving mountain roads. Their adventure begins at a warehouse in downtown Los Angeles where they are investigating the company that was supposed to manufacture the blu-ray edition of The Truth Is Out There but that defrauded them instead. The drive ends in Malibu, California, where Dean and Phil will be shooting another chapter in their latest video production. In between, they discuss the Chinese New Year, magical realism, flash animation, freeways, African-American theatre, Joe Paterno, college athletics, sports fans, film critics, film industry awards, the box office, and oh, yes, getting defrauded!
This is one VERY hot episode of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour … If only because we have the car defroster on maximum!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: Academy Awards, Bear Bryant, Bobby Bowden, Bridesmaids, Chinese New Year, Chris Martens, Clio Barnard, Dean Haglund, film critics, filmmaking, flash animation, football, freeways, Glasgow to the Movies, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Hugo, Isabel Allende, jazz, Joe Paterno, John Wooden, Josh Glasgow, Kool and the Gang, Kyle Williams, Leigh J. McCloskey, Lily Holleman, magical realism, Malibu, Mark Helprin, movies, Pacific Disc, Phil Leirness, Pirates on the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, San Francisco 49ers, Sean Sanders, show business, South Coast Repertory, sports, The Arbor, The Artist, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Lone Gunmen, The Truth Is Out There, The X-Files, theatre, Topdog/Underdog, Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon, Twisted Geeks, Winter's Tale | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #198
It’s Oscar Week here in Hollywood and it’s here on the Chillpak Hollywood Hour Oscar post-game show where the games REALLY begin! Dean and Phil have, as always, ten dollars wagered on the outcome of their predicted winners in all twenty-four categories. Last year, Dean finally notched a win after losing to Phil three consecutive years. Will he maintain that momentum this time around? Find out and enjoy Dean and Phil’s insightful, irreverent and sometimes scathing takes on the motion picture industry’s night of nights. Before the festivities can commence, however, Dean and Phil tantalize you with some details about a trip they took to San Leandro, California, for the UFO X-Fest’s Quest 4 Truth Conference at the historic Bal theatre.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: Aaron Sorkin, Academy Awards, Alec Baldwin, Alice in Wonderland, animated films, Anne Hathaway, Annette Bening, Bal Theatre, Barney's Version, Billy Crystal, Bob Hope, box office, Christian Bale, Colin Firth, David Fincher, Dean Haglund, Documetnaries, film, filmmaking, Hailee Stanfield, In Memorium, Inception, independent film, Inside Job, James Franco, Javier Bardem, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Brolin, Jude Law, Melissa Leo, movies, Natalie Portman, Oscar pools, Oscars, Phil Leirness, Quest 4 Truth, Robert Downey Jr., San Leandro, Sandra Bullock, short films, The King's Speech, The Lone Gunmen, The Socail Network, The Woflman, The X-Files, Tom Hooper, Toy Story 3, True Grit, UFO X Fest, Witner's Bone | No Comments »
