Posts Tagged ‘Universal Studios’
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #596
October 15, 2018 | 
Author Dean Haglund stopped off in Los Angeles for a couple days and while he was there, he recorded a special 2 part installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour. Put on your walking shoes and join and Phil Leirness as they take an audio stroll through some of the most historic parts of downtown Los Angeles! The adventure begins in the iconic Union Station, continues through the original location of Chinatown, includes a stop at Olvera Street and ends high atop City Hall. Through it all, your friends in podcasting will discuss Blade Runner, Harvey Houses, It Happened One Night, classic Hollywood dirt, a controversial and long-lost mural, the challenging art of portrait painting, a bizarre piece of Americana, the history of L.A.’s mayors, Phil’s fear of heights and much more on part 1 of this movable feat for the ears, the spirit and the funny bone!
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Tags: Academy Awards, acting, Alfred Hitchcock, Americana, architecture, art, Australia, Blade Runner, Chinatown, Clark Gable, classic film, Claudette Colbert, Dean Haglund, directing, downtown Los Angeles, DTLA, Empire State Gas, filmmaking, Frank Capra, Frenzy, Harry Cohn, independent film, It Happened One Night, Los Angeles, Mayors, movie locations, movies, murals, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Oscars, painting, Phil Leirness, portraits, producing, Retro Futurism, Roman Polanski, show business, Siqueiros, Sydney, television, The Lone Gunmen, The X-Files, Union Station, Universal Studios, writing | 
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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #576
It’s Memorial Day here in the USA, so this episode is coming out about 12 hours later than we like. Nevertheless, Dean and Phil remember a wonderful actress, the artist who designed so many classic movie posters, a pop artist whose sculpted work is iconic, a movie actor and television star from the Golden Age of Hollywood, and a prolific and controversial award-winning novelist. Following “Celebrity Deaths”, your friends in podcasting will weigh in on the criminal charges filed against former mogul Harvey Weinstein and his lawyer’s rather shocking public defense of Weinstein’s actions. Then, it’s time to dig into the latest “Star Trek” news and a handful of recent cinematic releases a half-dozen or more current or recent cinematic releases, including a new “Star Wars Story”, two superhero movies, and an indie comedy. All that, plus a Memorial Day-inspired re-appraisal of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: acting, Alden Ehrenreich, Alfred Hitchcock, American Pastoral, Armando Ianucci, art, authors, Bill Gold, Burt Bulos, Casablanca, casting couch, Cheyenne, Chris Miller and Phil Lord, Claire Bloom, Clint Walker, comedy, Deadpool 2, Dean Haglund, directing, Donald Glove, editing, Elizabeth Sung, filmmaking, Han Solo, Harvey Weinstein, Humphrey Bogart, improv, independent film, Inglourious Basterds, Jason Isaacs, Love, Memoirs of a Geisha, Memorial Day, movie posters, movies, novels, painting, Phil Leirness, Philip Roth, pop art, Portnoy's Complaint, producing, Quentin Tarantino, rape, Robert Indiana, Ron Howard, Sculptures, sexual assault, Solo, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Star Trek, Star Wars, Steve Buscemi, The Avengers: Infinity War, The Death of Stalin, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, The Joy Luck Club, The Lady Killers, The Lone Gunmen, the Los Angeles Breakfast Club, The Ten Commandments, The X-Files, The Young and the Restless, theme parks, Universal Studios, war movies, Woody Harrelson, writing | No Comments »
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #286
Cataclysmic storms, divisive Presidential elections, erstwhile Italian Prime Ministers sentenced to prison, Disney making more Star Wars films, unnecessarily Americanized/Anglicized versions of compelling stories, the end of the Mayan Calendar, Dean Haglund action figures and a “Sherlock Holmes” television series that is more House than Holmes …
On this week’s installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour, your friends in podcasting attempt to make sense of a world gone wild.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: 10k Fun Run, acting, alcoholism, Allan Piper, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brian Epstein, Carrie Fisher, Christopher Jacobs, climate change, Cloud Atlas, Daniel Craig, David Fincher, Dean Haglund, Denzel Washington, directing, Disney, Elementary, entertainment, Entertainment Tonight, Ewan McGregor, film, Flight, From Russia with Love, genetically modified food, global warming, Harrison Ford, House, independent film. filmmaking, Indiana Jones, James Bond, Jaws, Johnny Lee Miller, King Kong, Kong: A Goddamn Thirty-Foot Gorilla, Lucasfilm, Lucy Liu, Mark Hamill, Married and Counting, Mayan Calendar, Mediaset, Monsanto, movies, Naomi Watts, Newsweek, Overhaulin, Paramount, Paul Bunnell, Phil Leirness, Proposition 37, reincarnation, Sandy, Sherlock, show business, Silvio Berlusconi, Skyfall, SkyPilot, Star Wars, television, The Ghastly Love of Jonny X, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Impossible, The Lone Gunmen, The Sherry Lansing Theater, The X-Files, Tree of Life, tsunami, U.S. Presidential Election, Universal Studios, ValleyCon, writing | 1 Comment »
