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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #606
December 25, 2018 | 
Author Your friends in podcasting connected via Skype on Christmas Morning to slide down your virtual chimney and stuff your audio stocking full of podcasty goodness! Topics include comic book cataloging, engagement party advice, the role of the arts in the heart of a nation, travel guardian angels, an all-time great voice, a punk rock pioneer, and two actresses-turned-directors who are big reasons why we don’t need to say “female directors” any more. We can just start calling them “directors”. Happy Holidays! We think you will really enjoy this festive, 68 minute installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour!
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Tags: A League of Their Own, acting, Any Which Way You Can, Awakenings, Big, box office, Brass Target, Bronco Billy, Christmas, Clint Eastwood, comic books, conspiracy, conspiracy theories, Dean Haglund, Detroit, directing, Dirty Harry, Driving in Cars with Boys, engagement parties, Every Which Way But Loose, female directors, filmmaking, Garry Marshall, General Patton, George S. Patton, Green Day, guardian angels, Impulse, independent film, jazz, John Cassavetes, John F. Kennedy, Jon Lawlor, Laverne & Shirley, Los Angeles, Love is a Lonely Hunter, movies, Nancy Wilson, New York City, Nirvana, Patrick McGoohan, Penny Marshall, Pete Shelley, Phil Leirness, producing, punk rock, Ratboy, Sayuri Oyama, show business, Sondra Locke, Sudden Impact, The Buzzcocks, The Chevy Chase Club, the Kennedy Center, The Lady Killers, The Lone Gunmen, The Sex Pistols, The X-Files, travel, Washington D.C., writing | 
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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #522
It’s the first Top Ten show of year 11! After years of celebrating Live Events of the Week, your friends in podcasting count down their Top Ten All-Time Favorite Live Events, starting with a healthy and diverse list of “honorable mentions” … Musical concerts are NOT included. Those must be saved for another show! THIS episode is a fun and fascinating look into what your friends in podcasting find memorable and into what inspires them.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: A Behanding in Spokane, A Chorus Line, acting, al Gore, Alcatraz, Annie Baker, Anthony Mackie, Arye Gross, August: Osage County, Bard on the Beach, Barfleet, Bleed Rail, Broadway, Buster Keaton, Camelot, Charles, Christopher Walken, Circle Mirror Transformation, comedy, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Dean Haglund, directing, Fireworks, French Stewart, Hamlet, Hugo Armstrong, Hyde Park, immersive theater, improv, improv comedy, Jaime Robledo, James Kerwin, Land of the Tigers, Lily Holleman, Lily Tomlin, Linda Gehringer, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Opera, magic, Marin Hinkle, Martin McDonagh, Me and My Girl, Melrose, Moby Alpha, Monster in a Box, musical theater, musicals, NBA, New York City, Nia Peeples, one-person shows, Paranoia Will Destroy 'Ya, Penn & Teller, Phil Leirness, Placido Domingo, plays, Richard Harris, Ring Cycle, Rogue Machine, Ron Botita, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Sacred Fools, Sam Gold, Sam Rockwell, San Francisco, San Jose Civic Light Opera, Sci Fest, Shakespeare, show business, sketch comedy, Sleep No More, Spalding Gray, Steppenwolf, Stoneface, Sunset Limited, Swimming to Cambodia, Sydney, The Ahmanson, The Barber of Seville, the Curran Theatre, The Hurt Locker, The Lone Gunmen, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, the White House, The X-Files, The Zephyr Theatre, theatre, Theatre at Boston Court, Tim Curry, Tucker Smallwood, Utah Jazz, Vancouver, Vancouver Grizzlies, Wagner, Waiting for Godot, writing, X-Files Expo, Zoe Kazan | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #289
Dean Haglund is back from New York City. Phil “quatro quatro” Leirness is back from celebrating his birthday.
Your friends in podcasting are back in action with …
3 “Live Events of the Week” …
Discussion of six movies …
And … A live audience?
Plus, the show concludes with a discussion about an event in which Dean and Phil are honored to be participating. To learn more about that event, please watch:
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: 2nd Unit, acting, Anne Hathaway, Anthony Perkins, Argo, Brandon Wells, Broadway, Combat Radio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Dark Knight Rises, David O. Russell, Dead Accounts, Dean Haglund, Diamonds are Forever, Die Anotehr Day, directing, Ethan Dettenmaier, FEMA, French Stewart, George and Ira Gershwin, George Takei, HBO, Helen Mirren, Hitchcock, Home Alone, Jaime Robledo, James Bond, James D'Arcy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Katie Holmes, Kong a Goddamn 30 Foot Gorilla, Lincoln, Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, Matthew Broderick, Mattie Giles, Mayan Calendar, Michael Caine, movies, New York City, Newsweek, Nice Work If you Can Get it, Phil Leirness, Ralph Macchio, rurouni kenshin, Saul Bass, Silver Linings Playbook, Skyfall, Steven Spielberg, Stoneface The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton, superstorm Sandy, Tara Summers, television, Thanksgiving, The Fighter, The Girl, The Lone Gunmen, The X-Files, Toby Jones, Twilight, Wallace Langham, Watson, writing | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #161
Dean flew back from Austin, Texas (on United), and Phil flew back from New York City (on JetBlue) just to bring you this evening’s installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour. They begin the show by regaling you with tales of airline awfulness, before holding court on the sights, sounds and tastes of their weekend adventures. Such artists as Benini, Judy Chicago and Rene Magritte get discussed and such locales as Highline Park, the Brooklyn Esplanade and the West Hills of Texas get described. Global issues are tackled as well, from the World Cup to a remarkable discovery in Afghanistan, from the BP oil spill to urban renewal. Your friends in podcasting still discuss show business, of course, and this week they tackle The Hollywood Reporter, the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Steven Seagal, remakes from the 80’s and ill-advised sequels and remakes on the horizon. It’s a pretty darn hilarious hour. How could it not be when Dean and Phil are reunited and it feels so good?!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: 1980's, acting, Afghanistan, Austin, Benini, BP Oil spill, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Esplanade, Creative Arts Agency, Dean Haglund, directing, filmmaking, films, Highline Park, independent film, JetBlue, Judy Chicago, movies, New York City, Phil Leirness, producing, remakes, Rene Magritte, sequels, show business, Steven Seagal, The Hollywood Reporter, The Lone Gunmen, The X-Files, United, urban renewal, West Hills of Texas, World Cup, writing | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #157
It’s the first episode of Season 4 and your friends in podcasting are finally back in Los Angeles bringing you a brand new hour of heated conversation. Phil has been completely immersed in logging selects from the footage Dean and he shot over the past ten months for their documentary The Truth Is Out There, and you hear what being immersed in the darkness of certain points of view can do to a person as his tries to explain something he’s realized about conspiracy theorists … A secret he shares on the show. Adventures at an archery range, at the Getty Villa, and at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are also discussed, as is the recent furor over a Newsweek blogger declaring Sean Hayes “too gay to play straight” as well as the loss of Phil’s favorite NYC restaurant. All that, plus a screenwriting question from a loyal listener, advice on going into designer chain coffee stores locked and loaded and what Dean and Phil are reading … It’s YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: acting, Archery, coffee shops, consciousness, conspiracies, conspiracy theories, controversy, Dean Haglund, directing, documentaries, editing, filmmaking, Getty Villa, independent film, JPL, movies, NASA, New York City, Newsweek, Phil Leirness, screenwriting, Sean Hayes, show business, The Lone Gunmen, The Truth Is Out There, The X-Files, writing | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #149
This week’s show begins with a quote from Albert Einstein and ends with a quote from playwright Martin McDonagh. In between, Dean and Phil wade around in the deep end of the pool, discussing such topics as the weight of the human soul, the mysterious lights that recently appeared (for eight nights in a row) over Lake Erie, the Spiral that opened in the skies of Norway in November, how artists might be responsible for the events of 9/11, why your friends in podcasting have a hard time believing all this “freedom is dead” talk they’ve been hearing, and why Phil has heard just about enough religion-bashing. Plus Phil reports on his trip to the Big Apple, including the three plays he saw and the two meetings he had with loyal Chillpak Hollywood Hour listeners.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: 9/11, acting, Albert Einstein, artists, Dean Haglund, directing, filmmaking, films, Freedom, human soul, independent film, Lake Erie, Martin McDonagh, Matt Giles, movies, mysterious lights, New York City, Phil Leirness, plays, religion, show business, Takako Nagumo, The Lone Gunmen, the Norwegian Spiral, The X-Files, theatre, writing | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #133
Phil Leirness is back from the east coast, and he brings with him a suitcase full of stories, ranging from the White House State Dinner crashers to Japanese “herbivores” to his own debut on the Broadway stage! Plus, he plugs the next production from Rational Exuberance and an interview he will be doing on Blog Talk Radio’s Good Karma Stories hosted by Ed Moy.
Dean Haglund is taking off for the east coast, for a starring role in a sci-fi horror adventure Atlantis Down. He previews that experience and discusses how his dance training has come in handy both as an actor and as a performer in action sequences.
Finally, ’tis the season for giving, so Dean and Phil leave you with a musical gift: A short snippet of the theme song from their forthcoming documentary The Truth Is Out There, written and performed by The B-Film Extras.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: acting, Atlantis Down, Broadway, Dean Haglund, directing, documentary film, Ed Moy, filmmaking, Good Karma Stories, Hair, herbivores, independent film, Jon Lawlor, movies, music, New York City, Phil Leirness, producing, sci-fi, science fiction, show business, teleivision, The B-Film Extras, The Lone Gunmen, The Truth Is Out There, The X-Files, theme songs, Virginia, Virginia Beach, Washington DC, White House, writing | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #57
Phil returns from a triumphant trip to New York City; theater is discussed; Union/strike talk looms again and much much more. Enjoy!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: August: Osage County, Broadway, Dan Butler, Dean Haglund, directing, filmmaking, Highline Park, independent film, labor unions, movies, New York City, Phil Leirness, plays, producing, SAG, show business, strikes, The 39 Steps, The Lone Gunmen, The X-Files, theatre, WGA, writing | No Comments »
