WFMU: Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 25, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 7:47pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:59pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:59 Welcome! Thanks for joining us.
	9:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:00 Always a joy
	9:01pm Charles: Just wanna listen to the radio
	9:01pm Mr Fab: hey Austin! Looking forward to Frank Sinatra "transcribed as" Rocky Fortune.
	9:01pm asheville jon: Howdy
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: Another reference to his work at Perry Shane's office. This was the "runner" that connected these later episodes.
	9:01pm Webhamster Henry: Rocky continues his continuity...
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: Charles, Mr. Fab, asheville jon, and Webhamster Henry! Hooray!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: I find the end-run of "Rocky Fortune" to be very good. The stories get better, the jokes are good, the show is firing on all cyliders. It's a bummer the show would only last a couple more episodes.
	9:06pm Mr Fab: "Don Ameche's favorite invention" = telephone.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:06 I was trying to puzzle that one out. Thanks for the tip!
	9:07pm Mr Fab: I think Ameche played Alexander Graham Bell in a movie or sumthin.
	9:08pm Imaginos: Is this another no thwack ep?
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:07 I suspected it was something like that, but I wasn't finding the connection quickly. I'm sure I'll google more after the show. Imaginos: I cannot say yet.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: The amount of things that people do in fiction after taking a vague "sedative" is pretty astounding. I barely even get tired when I talk a pill like that, let along sleepwalk and commit crimes.
	9:13pm Imaginos: Hmm? Gaslight?
	9:14pm Charles: Ladd, Masters, Bogart, Bacall, Sinatra.. it's wonderful how radio let's you get attached to voices. Doesn't take much more to have a good time.
	9:15pm Mr Fab: HAHA, a reference to both "Young At Heart" and "From Here To Eternity."
	9:15pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:12 I saw a movie where a gal took Thorazine and almost destroyed the world
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:14 I realize how much I respond to sound and voices more and more as I get older. I can watch someone in a movie for a while, and it isn't until they talk that I yell out something like, "Wait! That's Wallace Shawn!"
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:15 He get's pretty blatant with the references as the show keeps going, too.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:15 We gotta get a girl and some Thorazine, and we can take over the world! Bwahahahahahaha!
	9:17pm Webhamster Henry: This guy is so suspicious.
	9:17pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 Tzine and marshmallows
	9:23pm Charles: Tell me it's just a guy crouched next to her bed speaking in a cone that she keeps hearing.
	9:24pm Mr Fab: yeah, I thought it might be a "Gaslight"-type story.
	9:24pm univac: Hello, there.
	9:25pm Charles: I don't go along with this murder business :\|
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:24 I wasn't gonna say anything, but it was a very common plot device in 40's and 50's radio dramas.
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:24 univac! Thanks for popping in!
	9:26pm Imaginos: Excellent show so far
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: I think we only have one more Rocky Fortune show left! Enjoy 'em while you can!
	9:26pm univac: Nice to be here!
	9:27pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Oh no!
	9:27pm Webhamster Henry: I thought I recognized Marvin Miller, but wasn't sure!
	9:27pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Bummer. Rocky Fortune is great.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: No, I think two more Rocky's, now that I think about it. And April 1st will have some... special programming.
	9:27pm univac: Yum
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: I hope the show I use to follow Rocky with will be as entertaining. If nothing else: the hero gets knocked out nearly every episode!
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: Bold Venture wraps up in a few weeks, too. So, please, enjoy them while you can.
	9:29pm Charles: That's the real thread for the first slot shows. Pow!
	9:30pm Imaginos: Speaking of high seas adventures, I am thinking of an Imaginos fanfic where he turns into a kitten after getting washed overboard
	9:32pm Charles: By the way, I had to catch the show on the archives but you got a laugh out of me with the bit about King Moses bringing the big bucks to the station once upon a time.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:32 I do love that joke, too! I'm glad you caught that.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:30 You've caught my attention. I do love cats.
	9:33pm Mr Fab: Just looked it up: Sinatra‘s breakthrough album on Capitol “Songs for Young lovers“ came out in January 1954. So yeah, he was out the door.
	9:33pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:33 So do I
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:33 Movies were calling, too. Radio was just not as attractive, but he had fun with it.
	9:34pm Imaginos: Have to turn in extra early. I have an appointment tomorrow morning
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:34 Sleep well! Hopefully your appt goes well.
	👻 9:35pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Deadly Diamonds"" by "Bold Venture" Guest starring Peter Lorre, eh? Who's the actor that spoke with him?
	9:35pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:35 Thank you
	9:35pm Charles: I think the thing I'll miss most of Bold Venture is that it feels pretty good to have a show with two equally good leads.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:35 They really were a good match for each other. It makes sense people wanted to see them on screen together, too.
	9:39pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 March 16, 1954 - ooh, that would have been around the time of the Oscars, when Frank won for “From Here To Eternity.” His career might’ve been in a bit of a lull when he took on “Rocky fortune,“ but now he must’ve been itching to get out.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:39 Exactly. It's a nice curio of a career he could have had. Another singing actor is going to take over that show coming soon, and you get a sense of what Sinatra's career could have been.
	👻 9:41pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 The famous voice of the Masked Avenger in "Radio Days".
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:41 Yes. I've been noticing him in more and more movies, and it's usually a treat to see him. I was thinking about doing a tribute to "The Masked Avenger" on one of my shows.
	9:43pm Charles: just to combat the pep pills you took earlier ahah
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: I do like that King Moses tried a new tune here for a moment, then transitions to his normal song.
	👻 9:44pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:40 I wonder how much truth there was in the horse head scene in "The Godfather".
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: I think King Moses has done that one other time, in the run of the show.
	9:45pm Webhamster Henry: King's royalties are bigger than Frank's are on Rocky Fortune!
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:44 I don't know as much about that movie as I probably should.
	9:45pm Webhamster Henry: They _are_ a quipping couple!
	9:49pm univac: Lots of people dying in this episode...
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:49 If I were a better host, I would have a running body count on this show. They do seem to pile up the stiffs - ahem - when people are fighting over Bacall.
	9:55pm asheville jon: Oh those bold venturers
	👻 9:57pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:36 Of the four movies they costarred in, "Dark Passage" (1947, adapted from a David Goodis novel) is the least celebrated and my favorite. The P.O.V. technique (which doesn't show the hero) was used less effectively earlier that year in "Lady in the Lake" starring Robert Montgomery as Philip Marlowe.
	9:58pm wenzo: Gooodevenin’
	10:01pm wenzo: TIRED… must… stay… awake…
	10:01pm Webhamster Henry: Count those bullets! not only that, they die gruesome deaths that don't phase any of the characters.
	10:02pm Webhamster Henry: *faze that is!
	10:04pm univac: Gotta run! Thx Austin!
	10:06pm wenzo: I think to go with the singing detective you should serenade us during dimestore revelations…
	👻 10:06pm David Shortell: ↳ Mr Fab @9:07 "The Story of Alexander Graham Bell" (1939), Don Ameche's most famous role, inspired some comedy bits. My favorite is a college fraternity hazing scene in "Class of '44" (1973), the not as famous sequel to "Summer of '42" (1971). I wish I could find the scene online.
	10:09pm wenzo: Lol… yes yes ponder away…
	👻 10:09pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 Paul Anka once joked (or did he?) that he sold his song "My Way" to Frank because he didn't want to wake up with a horse head in his bed.
	10:10pm Mr Fab: Dick Powell's singing detective should have jammed with John Cassavetes' sax-playing private eye, Johnny Staccato.
	👻 10:10pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone! Sorry I’m late!
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:10 You're not late. You're precisely when you meant to show up!
	👻 10:18pm yerfriendpaul: I recently caught Woody’s Midnight in Paris and I enjoyed it for the time travel fantasy of it all. Loved seeing all the famous artists/writers
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:18 It's a bummer that he sucks because he did make some pretty good movies.
	10:21pm asheville jon: Bah, radio is just a fad
	👻 10:21pm David Shortell: ↳ Mr Fab @10:10 The 1986 BBC program “The Singing Detective” is beloved, but I could never get through much of it. In 2003, Robert Downey Jr starred in an American film version that flopped.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @10:21 "It'll never catch on!"
	10:24pm wenzo: Is Robert Downey Jr. a good singer?
	10:24pm wenzo: He didn’t sing Iron Man in Iron Man (that I remember)
	👻 10:25pm David Shortell: ↳ wenzo @10:24 The lip-synching was very unconvincing.
	👻 10:25pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 It’s true. On a different but similar topic, I saw The Naked Gun on TV over the weekend. Such a funny movie but OJ’s presence takes some of the joy away from it. His character was so funny too - so his real life actions had to go and spoil this really good comedy for me
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:25 I do recall that first Naked Gun movie being pretty hilarious. I think I saw it in the theater, even? Or if not then, very soon after.
	👻 10:27pm David Shortell: ↳ wenzo @10:24 Too bad. That's a catchy song. youtube.com...
	👻 10:27pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 I think it holds up. It had me laughing throughout the whole thing again
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:27 That Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker were pretty funny, back in the day.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:09 Oh! I sort of love that. (Also could imagine that being a terrifying possibility, too.)
	10:33pm asheville jon: So many colors in this episode, was everyone tripping?
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: I took some Purple Dragon once in the 90's, and spent a night in a park near the sandboxes, talking about everything and nothing.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: Looks like we'll go about nine minutes over this week. Sorry everyone!
	10:40pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: ""Death Strikes From The East, Part 1"" by "The Bl... Sounded like Korla Pandit on the mysterious Oriental organ. Chandu flashbacks!
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:40 We will be getting back to Chandu eventually! But yeah, that was some of the best music on Blue Beetle in a while.
	👻 10:41pm David Shortell: ↳ David Shortell @9:57 I first read about those movies in the footnotes to a Kitchen Sink Press reprint of the December 8 1946 "The Spirit" strip, "The Killer", which used a similar P.O.V. technique.
	👻 10:42pm yerfriendpaul: Great scream
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:41 When I read old Sprit comics, I'm constantly astounded by how modern it seems, for something from decades ago. Those Will Eisner stories were so much better than most of his peers.
	👻 10:45pm Heather: Been tuned in an enjoying the show! Psyched for a bonus 9 minutes! Hope everyone is having a great night or whatever time of day it is for you!
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:45 Thanks for dropping in.
	10:48pm wenzo: Haven’t seen naked gun since I was a kid… forgot OJ was in it
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: Fighting wars for no good reason! What possible commentary could this story be trying to make?
	10:48pm wenzo: My initials are OJ but for SOME REASON nobody ever calls me that lol
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:48 He used to be in so much comedy right around then... not so much anymore.
	👻 10:53pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:43 The strip was indeed influential. "Life Below" (Feb 22, 1948) may have inspired Frank Miller's portrayals of subway squatters in his "Daredevil" and "Ronin". Frank admitted that Sand Saref inspired his character Elektra. William Friedkin stated that one strip (I can't remember which) influenced a scene in "The French Connection".
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:53 I just love his panels and design. It seems so much more modern than even some current artists.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:45 Puzzles or painting?
	10:56pm Mr Fab: this Mullin guy kinda sounds like The Weatherman.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:56 Ha!
	👻 10:57pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:55 Painting! Sticking those little diamonds! Still have to find me a beautiful skull with flowers canvas but the mushrooms are coming out cool!
	👻 10:59pm David Shortell: ↳ David Shortell @9:35 I didn't catch his name but he sounded like Phil Hartman.
	👻 11:04pm David Shortell: ↳ David Shortell @9:57 The 1976 Mohomet biopic, "The Message", also used the first person camera technique. We neither see nor hear the "prophet", so as not to offend believers.
	👻 11:04pm yerfriendpaul: Mullen!
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: Thanks again, everyone. See ya next week!
	11:07pm Mr Fab: That Asimov guy was good, eh?
	👻 11:07pm yerfriendpaul: Good stuff! Thanks Austin!
	👻 11:07pm WR: Thank you! Austin!
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @11:07 Not bad, not bad.
	11:09pm Mr Fab: be seeing you, Austin!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 25, 2024

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March 25, 2024: Episode #88

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Rocky Fortune	"Psychological Murder"	16 March 1954	NBC		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Bold Venture	"Deadly Diamonds" ""Deadly Diamonds"" by "Bold Venture"	17 March 1952	Santana Productions		0:28:42 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ralph Flanagan	Hot Toddy "Hot Toddy" by "Ralph Flanagan"				0:57:47 (Pop-up)
Unpublished History	Radio in the 1920s (Part 3)	Radio In The 1920s	Self-Released	2024	1:15:55 (Pop-up)
The Blue Beetle	"Death Strikes From The East, Part 1"	5 June 1940	Mutual–Don Lee Network		1:23:41 (Pop-up)
X-Minus One	"The C-Chute" ""The C-Chute"" by "X-Minus One"	8 February 1956	NBC Radio		1:39:09 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 7:47pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:59pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:59 Welcome! Thanks for joining us.
	9:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:00 Always a joy
	9:01pm Charles: Just wanna listen to the radio
	9:01pm Mr Fab: hey Austin! Looking forward to Frank Sinatra "transcribed as" Rocky Fortune.
	9:01pm asheville jon: Howdy
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: Another reference to his work at Perry Shane's office. This was the "runner" that connected these later episodes.
	9:01pm Webhamster Henry: Rocky continues his continuity...
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: Charles, Mr. Fab, asheville jon, and Webhamster Henry! Hooray!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: I find the end-run of "Rocky Fortune" to be very good. The stories get better, the jokes are good, the show is firing on all cyliders. It's a bummer the show would only last a couple more episodes.
	9:06pm Mr Fab: "Don Ameche's favorite invention" = telephone.
	👻 9:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:06 I was trying to puzzle that one out. Thanks for the tip!
	9:07pm Mr Fab: I think Ameche played Alexander Graham Bell in a movie or sumthin.
	9:08pm Imaginos: Is this another no thwack ep?
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:07 I suspected it was something like that, but I wasn't finding the connection quickly. I'm sure I'll google more after the show. Imaginos: I cannot say yet.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: The amount of things that people do in fiction after taking a vague "sedative" is pretty astounding. I barely even get tired when I talk a pill like that, let along sleepwalk and commit crimes.
	9:13pm Imaginos: Hmm? Gaslight?
	9:14pm Charles: Ladd, Masters, Bogart, Bacall, Sinatra.. it's wonderful how radio let's you get attached to voices. Doesn't take much more to have a good time.
	9:15pm Mr Fab: HAHA, a reference to both "Young At Heart" and "From Here To Eternity."
	9:15pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:12 I saw a movie where a gal took Thorazine and almost destroyed the world
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:14 I realize how much I respond to sound and voices more and more as I get older. I can watch someone in a movie for a while, and it isn't until they talk that I yell out something like, "Wait! That's Wallace Shawn!"
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:15 He get's pretty blatant with the references as the show keeps going, too.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:15 We gotta get a girl and some Thorazine, and we can take over the world! Bwahahahahahaha!
	9:17pm Webhamster Henry: This guy is so suspicious.
	9:17pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:17 Tzine and marshmallows
	9:23pm Charles: Tell me it's just a guy crouched next to her bed speaking in a cone that she keeps hearing.
	9:24pm Mr Fab: yeah, I thought it might be a "Gaslight"-type story.
	9:24pm univac: Hello, there.
	9:25pm Charles: I don't go along with this murder business :\|
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:24 I wasn't gonna say anything, but it was a very common plot device in 40's and 50's radio dramas.
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:24 univac! Thanks for popping in!
	9:26pm Imaginos: Excellent show so far
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: I think we only have one more Rocky Fortune show left! Enjoy 'em while you can!
	9:26pm univac: Nice to be here!
	9:27pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Oh no!
	9:27pm Webhamster Henry: I thought I recognized Marvin Miller, but wasn't sure!
	9:27pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:26 Bummer. Rocky Fortune is great.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: No, I think two more Rocky's, now that I think about it. And April 1st will have some... special programming.
	9:27pm univac: Yum
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: I hope the show I use to follow Rocky with will be as entertaining. If nothing else: the hero gets knocked out nearly every episode!
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: Bold Venture wraps up in a few weeks, too. So, please, enjoy them while you can.
	9:29pm Charles: That's the real thread for the first slot shows. Pow!
	9:30pm Imaginos: Speaking of high seas adventures, I am thinking of an Imaginos fanfic where he turns into a kitten after getting washed overboard
	9:32pm Charles: By the way, I had to catch the show on the archives but you got a laugh out of me with the bit about King Moses bringing the big bucks to the station once upon a time.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:32 I do love that joke, too! I'm glad you caught that.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:30 You've caught my attention. I do love cats.
	9:33pm Mr Fab: Just looked it up: Sinatra‘s breakthrough album on Capitol “Songs for Young lovers“ came out in January 1954. So yeah, he was out the door.
	9:33pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:33 So do I
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:33 Movies were calling, too. Radio was just not as attractive, but he had fun with it.
	9:34pm Imaginos: Have to turn in extra early. I have an appointment tomorrow morning
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:34 Sleep well! Hopefully your appt goes well.
	👻 9:35pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: ""Deadly Diamonds"" by "Bold Venture" Guest starring Peter Lorre, eh? Who's the actor that spoke with him?
	9:35pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:35 Thank you
	9:35pm Charles: I think the thing I'll miss most of Bold Venture is that it feels pretty good to have a show with two equally good leads.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Charles @9:35 They really were a good match for each other. It makes sense people wanted to see them on screen together, too.
	9:39pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 March 16, 1954 - ooh, that would have been around the time of the Oscars, when Frank won for “From Here To Eternity.” His career might’ve been in a bit of a lull when he took on “Rocky fortune,“ but now he must’ve been itching to get out.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:39 Exactly. It's a nice curio of a career he could have had. Another singing actor is going to take over that show coming soon, and you get a sense of what Sinatra's career could have been.
	👻 9:41pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 The famous voice of the Masked Avenger in "Radio Days".
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:41 Yes. I've been noticing him in more and more movies, and it's usually a treat to see him. I was thinking about doing a tribute to "The Masked Avenger" on one of my shows.
	9:43pm Charles: just to combat the pep pills you took earlier ahah
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: I do like that King Moses tried a new tune here for a moment, then transitions to his normal song.
	👻 9:44pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:40 I wonder how much truth there was in the horse head scene in "The Godfather".
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: I think King Moses has done that one other time, in the run of the show.
	9:45pm Webhamster Henry: King's royalties are bigger than Frank's are on Rocky Fortune!
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:44 I don't know as much about that movie as I probably should.
	9:45pm Webhamster Henry: They _are_ a quipping couple!
	9:49pm univac: Lots of people dying in this episode...
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:49 If I were a better host, I would have a running body count on this show. They do seem to pile up the stiffs - ahem - when people are fighting over Bacall.
	9:55pm asheville jon: Oh those bold venturers
	👻 9:57pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:36 Of the four movies they costarred in, "Dark Passage" (1947, adapted from a David Goodis novel) is the least celebrated and my favorite. The P.O.V. technique (which doesn't show the hero) was used less effectively earlier that year in "Lady in the Lake" starring Robert Montgomery as Philip Marlowe.
	9:58pm wenzo: Gooodevenin’
	10:01pm wenzo: TIRED… must… stay… awake…
	10:01pm Webhamster Henry: Count those bullets! not only that, they die gruesome deaths that don't phase any of the characters.
	10:02pm Webhamster Henry: *faze that is!
	10:04pm univac: Gotta run! Thx Austin!
	10:06pm wenzo: I think to go with the singing detective you should serenade us during dimestore revelations…
	👻 10:06pm David Shortell: ↳ Mr Fab @9:07 "The Story of Alexander Graham Bell" (1939), Don Ameche's most famous role, inspired some comedy bits. My favorite is a college fraternity hazing scene in "Class of '44" (1973), the not as famous sequel to "Summer of '42" (1971). I wish I could find the scene online.
	10:09pm wenzo: Lol… yes yes ponder away…
	👻 10:09pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 Paul Anka once joked (or did he?) that he sold his song "My Way" to Frank because he didn't want to wake up with a horse head in his bed.
	10:10pm Mr Fab: Dick Powell's singing detective should have jammed with John Cassavetes' sax-playing private eye, Johnny Staccato.
	👻 10:10pm yerfriendpaul: Hey Austin, everyone! Sorry I’m late!
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:10 You're not late. You're precisely when you meant to show up!
	👻 10:18pm yerfriendpaul: I recently caught Woody’s Midnight in Paris and I enjoyed it for the time travel fantasy of it all. Loved seeing all the famous artists/writers
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:18 It's a bummer that he sucks because he did make some pretty good movies.
	10:21pm asheville jon: Bah, radio is just a fad
	👻 10:21pm David Shortell: ↳ Mr Fab @10:10 The 1986 BBC program “The Singing Detective” is beloved, but I could never get through much of it. In 2003, Robert Downey Jr starred in an American film version that flopped.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ asheville jon @10:21 "It'll never catch on!"
	10:24pm wenzo: Is Robert Downey Jr. a good singer?
	10:24pm wenzo: He didn’t sing Iron Man in Iron Man (that I remember)
	👻 10:25pm David Shortell: ↳ wenzo @10:24 The lip-synching was very unconvincing.
	👻 10:25pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:19 It’s true. On a different but similar topic, I saw The Naked Gun on TV over the weekend. Such a funny movie but OJ’s presence takes some of the joy away from it. His character was so funny too - so his real life actions had to go and spoil this really good comedy for me
	👻 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:25 I do recall that first Naked Gun movie being pretty hilarious. I think I saw it in the theater, even? Or if not then, very soon after.
	👻 10:27pm David Shortell: ↳ wenzo @10:24 Too bad. That's a catchy song. youtube.com...
	👻 10:27pm yerfriendpaul: ↳ Austin Rich @10:27 I think it holds up. It had me laughing throughout the whole thing again
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ yerfriendpaul @10:27 That Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker were pretty funny, back in the day.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:09 Oh! I sort of love that. (Also could imagine that being a terrifying possibility, too.)
	10:33pm asheville jon: So many colors in this episode, was everyone tripping?
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: I took some Purple Dragon once in the 90's, and spent a night in a park near the sandboxes, talking about everything and nothing.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: Looks like we'll go about nine minutes over this week. Sorry everyone!
	10:40pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: ""Death Strikes From The East, Part 1"" by "The Bl... Sounded like Korla Pandit on the mysterious Oriental organ. Chandu flashbacks!
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:40 We will be getting back to Chandu eventually! But yeah, that was some of the best music on Blue Beetle in a while.
	👻 10:41pm David Shortell: ↳ David Shortell @9:57 I first read about those movies in the footnotes to a Kitchen Sink Press reprint of the December 8 1946 "The Spirit" strip, "The Killer", which used a similar P.O.V. technique.
	👻 10:42pm yerfriendpaul: Great scream
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:41 When I read old Sprit comics, I'm constantly astounded by how modern it seems, for something from decades ago. Those Will Eisner stories were so much better than most of his peers.
	👻 10:45pm Heather: Been tuned in an enjoying the show! Psyched for a bonus 9 minutes! Hope everyone is having a great night or whatever time of day it is for you!
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:45 Thanks for dropping in.
	10:48pm wenzo: Haven’t seen naked gun since I was a kid… forgot OJ was in it
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: Fighting wars for no good reason! What possible commentary could this story be trying to make?
	10:48pm wenzo: My initials are OJ but for SOME REASON nobody ever calls me that lol
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @10:48 He used to be in so much comedy right around then... not so much anymore.
	👻 10:53pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:43 The strip was indeed influential. "Life Below" (Feb 22, 1948) may have inspired Frank Miller's portrayals of subway squatters in his "Daredevil" and "Ronin". Frank admitted that Sand Saref inspired his character Elektra. William Friedkin stated that one strip (I can't remember which) influenced a scene in "The French Connection".
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:53 I just love his panels and design. It seems so much more modern than even some current artists.
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:45 Puzzles or painting?
	10:56pm Mr Fab: this Mullin guy kinda sounds like The Weatherman.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:56 Ha!
	👻 10:57pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:55 Painting! Sticking those little diamonds! Still have to find me a beautiful skull with flowers canvas but the mushrooms are coming out cool!
	👻 10:59pm David Shortell: ↳ David Shortell @9:35 I didn't catch his name but he sounded like Phil Hartman.
	👻 11:04pm David Shortell: ↳ David Shortell @9:57 The 1976 Mohomet biopic, "The Message", also used the first person camera technique. We neither see nor hear the "prophet", so as not to offend believers.
	👻 11:04pm yerfriendpaul: Mullen!
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: Thanks again, everyone. See ya next week!
	11:07pm Mr Fab: That Asimov guy was good, eh?
	👻 11:07pm yerfriendpaul: Good stuff! Thanks Austin!
	👻 11:07pm WR: Thank you! Austin!
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @11:07 Not bad, not bad.
	11:09pm Mr Fab: be seeing you, Austin!

Dimestore Radio Theater with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 25, 2024

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