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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #258
April 23, 2012 | 
Author Dean and Phil’s last “live” show for a few weeks is full of all the rich, delicious, nourishing podcasty goodness you’ve come to expect from YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour!
Your friends in podcasting discuss their Sacramento adventures, the creators of Superman, a present-day comic book master, absurdist theatre, Samuel Beckett, Bully, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy, the Occupy movement, the mysterious life of Frances Farmer, the brilliant writing of David McCullough, the best stage actor in Los Angeles, and Torchwood.
All that plus more on The Hunger Games, more on “pronoia”, a celebrity death and a lawsuit involving the paranormal …
And don’t worry, even though they are hitting the road, Dean and Phil have two special shows planned during their absence!
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Tags: absurdism, acting, Alan Mendell, B Media Collective, Barry McGovern, Bully, Chris Pine, Cosntantine, David McCullough, Dean Haglund, Dick Clark, directing, Enrique Acosta, filmmaking, Frances Farmer, Francis Lawrence, Free Will Astrology, Hugo Armstrong, independent film, James Cromwell, James Kerwin, John Adams, John Barrowman, Lee Hirsch, motion pictures, movies, Movies on a Big Screen, MPAA, Occupy Wall Street, Phil Leirness, pronoia, Reese Witherspoon, Rob Breszny, Robert McKeown, Sacramento, Samuel Beckett, Shadowland, Spider Baby the Musical, The B-Film Extras, The Hunger Games, The Lone Gunmen, The Mark Taper Forum, The X-Files, This means War, Tom Hardy, Torchwood, Triggers, Vincent Gallo, Waiting for Godot, Wallace Stevens, writing, YeaHeavy Gallery | 
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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #255
Wow. This week’s installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour is one for the vaults. There’s something for everyone, especially if you love good stories and insightful, hilarious and inspiring conversation.
Your friends in podcasting discuss the SAG-AFTRA merger, doing what you love, loving what you do, the cool history of the Pickfair studio, Phil’s atrocious handwriting, the conspiracy theory surrounding The Hunger Games, a lawsuit against an award-winning playwright and another lawsuit against the worst filmmaker of all time.
Finally, Dean and Phil tell the legend of Edmund Kean’s sword and debate how Laurence Olivier’s failure to pass that sword on either represents the way knowledge is lost or the way that knowledge is never forgotten!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: acting, AFTRA, Akira Kurosawa, Andrew Lloyd Webber, art, Battle Royale, Bram Stoker, casting, conspiracy, conspiracy theories, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, David Sobolov, Dean Haglund, Dracula, Ed Asner, Ed Harris, Edmund Kean, Edmund Kean's sword, filmmaking, Henry Irving, Henry V, Howard Huges, Hunger Games, James Kerwin, Jason Duplissea, John Adams, John Ford, John Gielgud, John Patrick Shanley, John Sayles, Julius Caesar, Kate Terry, Kate Terry Gielgud, Koushoun Takami, Laurence Olivier, Lawrence Kasdan, Lord Byron, Lyceum, Mare'ka, Mike Medavoy, movies, Nordstroms, Othello, painting, Phantom of the Opera, Phil Leirness, Picfair, Return of the Seacaucus Seven, Richard III, Running Man, SAG, SAG-Aftra, Sam Peckinpah, show business, Spaghetti Westerns, St. Crispin's Day speech, St. Francis High School, Steven Berkoff, Steven King, Suzanne Collins, The Aviator, The Big Chill, The Blank Theatre, The Lone Gunmen, The Long Walk, The Most Dangerous Game, The X-Files, theatre, unions, Uwe Boll, voice-overs, Westminster Abby, What Duvet Said | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #254
It’s business as usual on this week’s show. What do we mean by that? Well, your friends in podcasting discuss how innovative ideas and inventions that could change the world and help people don’t get widespread attention because they don’t fit into an industry’s bottom line or the pre-existing marketing and distribution paradigms. This discussion leads to such examples as electric cars, laptops, iPads and even the entertainment industry.
Of course, it’s also business as usual in that Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness discuss the Live Event(s) of the Week, the Chillpak Hollywood Lawsuit of the Week and Celebrity Deaths.
All that, plus what films Dean and Phil have seen and what they are reading.
If you would like to learn more about the planned demolition of famed Pickfair Studios in Hollywood, please visit this site.
If you’re going to be in Los Angeles on Friday 30 March, or in Sacramento on Sunday 15 April, why not come on out to meet Dean and Phil and see their film The Truth is Out There? Learn how, right here.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: 10 Rillington Place, acting, Amarcord, And the Ship Sails On, Andrei Tarkovsky, Angel, Billie Jean King, Blow-Up, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Bully, chillpak, conspiracy, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, David Boies, David McCullough, Dean Haglund, Dinner and a Movie, directing, Drusilla, Dustin Hoffman, Ed Wood, Federico Fellini, film, flash animation, George W Bush, Geraldine Page, Getty Villa, Harvey Weinstein, Horton Foote, inventions, iPad 3, John Adams, John Hurt, John McNaughton, John Patrick Shanley, Juliet Landau, L'avventura, L'eclisse, La Notte, laptop computers, Mare'ka Live, Marriage Italian-Style, Martin Sheen, Matthew J Williamson, Meryl Streep, Michelangelo Antonioni, movies, Movies on a Big Screen, MPAA, Northwest Film Forum, Nostalghia, Peter Masterson, Phil Leirness, Pickfair Studios, Pierre Louys, producing, R rating, Richard Attenborough, Richard Fleischer, Robert Duvall, Sacramento, Songs of Bilitis, Straight Time, Ted Olsen, television, Tesla, The Catechism Cataclysm, The Deep End of the Ocean, The Lone Gunmen, The Subject Was Roses, The Toolbox Murders, The Trip to Bountiful, The X-Files, theatre, Titian, Todd Rahal, Tonino Guerra, Ulu Grosbard, Vittorio De Sica, Wallace Stevens, Who is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me, writing, Zabriskie Point | 1 Comment »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #253
From artists and actors who have committed crimes to movie studios and authors’ estates suing each other, this installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour is full of show people behaving badly. Not YOUR friends in podcasting, of course. Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness are on their best behavior, discussing such a wide range of topics as …
The inspiration that can be drawn from a man like John Adams when dealing with issues like the proposed SAG-Aftra merger …
The storytelling AND marketing failures of John Carter …
More on the state of romantic comedies …
The lack of demand for any new books, movies or television shows and what that lack of demand might mean to storytellers and conglomerates …
And after all that, if you still haven’t had enough of your friends in podcasting, please enjoy their appearance on 16 March’s Combat Radio (you’ll learn why Dean is on “double-secret probation”).
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: A Better Life, acting, AFTRA, All My Sons, Andrew Stanton, animation, Arthur Miller, Bicycle Thief, books, Brandon Routh, Bryan Singer, Caravaggio, Chris Weitz, Combat Radio, David McCullough, Dean Haglund, Declaration of Independence, Demian Bichir, Donald Margulies, Eiko Ishioka, Emily Blunt, Ethan Dettenmaier, Ewan McGregor, filmmaking, Finding Nemo, John Adams, John Carter, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lasse Hallstrom, Linda Park, Mario Puzo, Matrix Theatre, Mirror Mirror, movies, Neorealism, Paramount Pictures, Phil Leirness, Pixar, SAG, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, show business, Sight/Unseen, Siren FM, South Coast Rep, Tarsem Singh, television, the American Dream Team, The Godfather, The Lone Gunmen, The Midweek Drive, The X-Files, theatre, Titian, unions, voice acting, voice-overs, Wall-E, Wallace Stevens | No Comments »
