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Movie Meltdown - Episode 428

This episode we pay tribute to just some of the celebrities that we lost in 2017. And while we try to decide what our theme song and montage for our lives would be, we also discuss... a Blue Steel Selfie, he would write everything long-form, the convention bubble, I\u2019m just going to tell another brief story where I\u2019m the bad guy, digging ditches, the greatest story ever told, fiction about real people, Keith Moon, won ten Obie Awards, you\u2019re supposed to read those dates, Cybill Shepherd, industrial films, Walk Hard, it\u2019s quiet\u2026 it\u2019s slow\u2026 it\u2019s poetic, was an elevator operator and a truck driver, it\u2019s nothing but a series of anecdotes\u2026 sectioned by theme, going to film school\u2026 in the trenches, deep black negativity, where so much of your performance is non-verbal, it\u2019s funny\u2026 all these people they mean something to us\u2026 but we don\u2019t really know them, she looks like she should be in an Errol Morris documentary, the sweet old man who showed me around Los Angeles, even Mr. T\u2019s got a mom, a ghost committing suicide, a resume builder, some sort of outlaw who becomes a priest, he was problematic before anybody was problematic, where he studied animal husbandry, I\u2019m calling you out John de Lancie, his emotional service support animal, Are you Anybody?, I just want to bedazzle things all day long, walk around happy\u2026 because you have no idea what your job is, a cutting edge woman in the working force, capitalizing on this famous figure, The Circle, the end of the studio system, it\u2019s one of those performances to where\u2026 it made me fall in love with that actress\u2026 immediately, then twenty years later they invented a world wide web, introduction of artificiality, Dream a Little Dream, the only film geek at school, the one that didn\u2019t sleep with him, Scooby-Doo, M. Emmet Walsh, you\u2019re all dead \u2013 there\u2019s no prize, trying to fight the spunk, it was an existential crisis, you have to try to collaborate with people, how do they figure out how to ruin every job, hey\u2026 musical television is a great idea, what horse are you riding, why don\u2019t you try journalism, can we just have a little margin of hate\u2026 for people that we just haven\u2019t heard the story yet, that weird turning point in film, Joanie loves Chachi destroyed my concept\u2026 basically of everything, more like a simile, Turner Classic Movies,\xa0 an inner-city pediatrician that believes in hug therapy, David Lynch, Neil Young doo-wop, something evangelical, The Battle of Okinawa, I\u2019m feeling lucky and why do I always have to be the dark one?!

\u201cHe literally lived every day of his life exactly the way he wanted to\u2026 so it\u2019s hard to be sad about his passing. Because he did it right.\u201d