Posts Tagged ‘Mitt Romney’
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #288
November 19, 2012 | 
Author Today’s show is one of those special episodes where your friends in podcasting get on a roll and throw out the structure in favor of an organic, enlivening exchange that still manages to touch on such topics as The PEACE Fund (Protecting, Educating and Aiding Children Everywhere), the “Looper effect”, General David Petraeus and sex scandals, the most unfortunate entertainment headline in recent memory, news from HBO’S “The Newsroom”, the Daniel Craig “Bond” films, and the Sean Connery “Bond” films.
There is an “Explanation of the Week” involving Mitt Romney and there is a lengthy debate over 007′s latest big-screen adventure.
The theme of this week’s show? If you don’t stand for something, you’re likely to Skyfall for anything!
This week on YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour.
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Tags: Aaron Sorkin, acting, action, Adrian Paul, Casino Royale, CIA, convservative, David Petraeus, Dean Haglund, directing, Dr. No, filmmaking, films, Fox News, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, HBO, Ian Fleming, independent film, James Bond, Javier Bardem, Karl Rove I Love You, Looper, Marc Forster, Mitt Romney, movies, pacing, Patton Oswalt, Phil Leirness, Progressive, Quantum of Solace, Rosemarie Dewitt, Same Mendes, Sean Connery, show business, Skyfall, Spectres, suicide, television, The Lone Gunmen, The Looper Effecvt, The Newsroom, The Peace Fund, The Third Man, The Truth Is Out There, The X-Files, Thunderball, time travel, tone, Tony Scott, Top Gun 3D, writing, You Only Live Twice | 
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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #282
This week’s show is brought to by the letter “M” …
Mitt Romney, Marathons, The Mayan Calendar, The Book of Mormon, The Master, Movies, Monsanto and something called Melrose 2 all get discussed.
Free-wheeling, insightful and irreverent, it’s YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: acting, Adele, Bank of America, Bollywood, Coogan Law, Dean Haglund, directing, Empire State Gas, Eurydice, film, filmmaking, independent film, James Bond, Joaquin Phoenix, Knight and Day, Long Beach marathon, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Matt Stone, Mayan Calendar, Melrose 2, Mitt Romney, Monsanto, movies, Nick Frost, Paramount, Paul, Paul Bunnell, Paul Thomas Anderson, PBS, Phil Leirness, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Presidential debate, Proposition 37, SCR, Seth Rogen, Simon Pegg, Skyfall, South Park, The Book of Mormon, The Ghastly Love of Johnny X, The Lone Gunmen, The Master, The Truth Is Out There, The X-Files, Trey Parker, Uganda, Viacom, Waiting for Superman, Won't Back Down, writing | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #278
Dean Haglund has escaped from The Village and Phil Leirness has recovered enough from a nasty head cold that we are (finally) able to bring you this week’s episode, an installment that will leave you debating, “Did I just hear a great show, or the GREATEST show?!”
Topics include Dean’s travels to Wales and Ireland, Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner, publicity rights laws, vertical integration, The Ghastly Love of Johnny X, fuji film, Clint Eastwood’s empty chair, the RNC, the DNC, prohibition, Pink Martini and Disney’s California Adventure.
All that, PLUS what your friends in podcasting are reading, the films they’ve seen and several Live Events of the Week.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: acting, Anthony Lane, Bill Clinton, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Charlie Chaplin, City Lights, Clint Eastwood, Dean Haglund, Devol Patrick, directing, Disney's California Adventure, Disneyland, DNC, Dublin, Ethan Dettenmaier, film, filmmaking, Fuji film, Guinness, Harrison Ellenshaw, Hearts Like Fists, I Hate People, independent film, Ireland, Jaime Robledo, James Joyce, John Hillcoat, Jonathan Littman, Karl Rove I Love You, Keith Allen, Last Prince of Atlantis, Lawless, Leonard Clifton, Mamie Van Doran, Marc Hershon, Marilyn Monroe, Mitt Romney, Nobody's Perfect, Olandar, Paul Ryan, Peter Ellenshaw, Phil Leirness, Pink Martini, Portmeirion, prohibition, Racers, Radiator Springs, RNC, Rogue Machine Theatre, Shia Laboeuf, Sight and Sound, Smallville, Soaring over California, the empty chair, The Ghastly Love of Johnny X, The Greek Theatre, The Intouchables, The Lone Gunmen, The New Electric Ballroom, The Prisoner, The Raid Redemption, The X-Files, Theatre of NOTE, vertical integration, Voices of Liberty, Wales, writing | 2 Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #257
This week’s installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour begins with discussions inspired by emails from listeners, including such topics as Titanic, the behavior of James Cameron (and directors and actors in general), and the fact that “pronoia” (NOT “paranoia”) might destroy ‘ya.
Your friends in podcasting spend part of the show in the state capital of California, preparing to appear on the morning television news program “Good Day Sacramento” (you can view a clip of their appearance right here). While waiting in a secret location, they riff on the election challenge faced by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, the Family Research Council’s apparent dislike of vegetables, the staggering box office record of The Lion King stage musical and what it might mean for the future of performers’ unions.
All that, plus The Live Event of the Week and Dean and Phil weigh in on The Cabin in the Woods, The Hunger Games and a film about a machete-wielding clown during the Spanish Civil War.
And we hope you’ll take time to view the fantastic video Dean put together in support of the graphic novel he’s making.
Thanks!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: acting, Alex de la Iglesia, box office, Centered in the Universe, Dean Haglund, Disney, filmmaking, Gary Ross, Good Day Sacramento, graphic novels, Griffith Park Observatory, independent film, James Cameron, John Barrowman, Joss Whedon, Mitt Romney, motion pictures, movies, Movies on a Big Screen, Phil Leirness, pronoia, Sacramento, SAG-Aftra, Samuel Oschin Planetarium, televsion, The Cabin in the Woods, The Hunger Games, The Last Circus, The Lion King, The Lone Gunmen, The Truth Is Out There, The X-Files, Titanic, Torchwood, unions, vegetables | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #248
“From a secret location somewhere in America” your friends in podcasting, Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness are attending a very unique event. Pull up a chair and sit beside them in Exhibitor Booth 404 at the LAX Hilton as they discuss stop-motion animation, Clint Eastwood, California’s Proposition 8, SOPA, stop-motion animation, Whitney Houston, community theater, The Great Gatsby, Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, Kevin Costner, a record-setting box-office weekend, a lawsuit between Marvel comics and their artists, and the worst reception Dean and Phil have ever attended. A “freight train of fun”, it’s YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: AFTRA, Aretha Franklin, Baz Luhrman, Blade Runner, box office, Bruce Norris, Christopher Jacobs, Cissy Houston, Clint Eastwood, Clybourne Park, coast to coast, community theater, conscious life expo, consciousness, conspiracy, David Soul, Dean Haglund, documentary, film distribution, filmmaking, Get the Gringo, gulf oil spill, Harrison Ford, JC Chandor, Kevin Costner, LAX Hilton, Mark Taper Forum, Mel Gibson, Mitt Romney, Morgan Freeman, movies, Napster, Panache, Paul Michael Glaser, Phil Leirness, PowPAC, Proposition 8, Rob Simone, Robert Redford, SAG, SAG-Aftra merger, Scott Rudin, show business, Silent Running, Stephen Baldwin, stop-motion, storytelling, television, The Great Gatsby, The Lone Gunmen, The Wayfinders, The X-Files, Tom Cruise, Whitney Houston, Yoshi Kato | 3 Comments »
