Welcome To My Niche
The Dana Gould Hour
This is a very special episode in that is constituted of a series of deep dives into several different subjects in which I have a rabid interest. Hopefully you do as well. If not, you’re in for a long-ass listen. Unless you’re new to the show, you know of my deep and abiding interest in all things David Lynch. So, it was a pleasant surprise when I learned of the book by Scott Meslow. Scott has written for such publications as GQ, New York and The Atlantic. And his book is far too in depth and accomplished to have been thrown together as a quickie cash-in following Mr. Lynch’s passing....
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A Man Named Beef
The Dana Gould Hour
Hello! And welcome to season 15 of the Dana Gould Hour Podcast. Fasten your enthusiasm harness, we are blasting off again. Mark Malkoff has a new book entitled . Johnny Carson is so larger than life now it’s important to sometimes take a step back and appreciate his accomplishment. Unlike today, when there are 8,000 channels, and three network late night talk shows. Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show when there were around ten channels total and one, count ’em, one late night talk show, which he hosted for 30 years. He interviewed over 25,000 guests, navigated America’s cultural...
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Three Eyes White
The Dana Gould Hour
Happy holidays! It’s the post-Thanksgiving pre-Christmas episode of The Dana Gould Hour Podcast. I think we can squeeze one more in before Christmas. That’s certainly my intention, which is not to say that this episode is not what you’d call BOFFO. Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald is here. Kevin is known for his TV show Emergency Room Vets on Animal Planet. In addition to being a veterinarian, he is an animal preservationist, a conservationist and before that, he was a rock 'n' roll tour bouncer. There are stranger tales to be told, I’m sure, but I can’t say I know of any off the top of my...
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Halloweenery From Outer Space
The Dana Gould Hour
It’s that time again! It’s October. The sun goes down in the afternoon now. Night has a chill. And at CVS and Walgreens, they are already putting up the Christmas decorations. That’s right, it’s Halloween. But none of that for us! We are firmly planted in autumn. As Ray Bradbury once wrote, “Something, something, something, autumn something.” By Ray Bradbury. We have enough show here to stuff your pillowcase, so grab a bag of candy and settle back. Howard Berger and Marshall Julius are here to discuss their new book, , inside stories from the creators of Hollywood’s most...
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Autumnally Yours
The Dana Gould Hour
Hello! And welcome to our September episode! Hopefully it’s still September by the time you hear it, but not to worry! The Halloween episode will be out long before Halloween. The reason this was so late is I basically did both episodes at once, in addition to getting three kids back in high school, college and grad school, so, ya know. It’s all here and / or on its way. Matt Braunger is here! Matt is a hilarious comedian and a good buddy of mine. A friend of the show, as they say. Matt has a brand new podcast out called Tank Top Talks and it’s exactly what it sounds like. People...
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Hollywood Underbelly!
The Dana Gould Hour
Welcome to the dog days of summer. We’ve got an action-packed episode to get you to through August, so fasten your enthusiasm harness, and get ready to listen, and enjoy. Eddie Muller is an expert in film noir. If you like movies with private eyes, tough guys and saucy dames who kiss and lie, Eddie is your dude. Eddie is the host of TCM’s Noir Alley, which is forever and always a celebration of all things noir. He has a new book out called , which examines the lives and careers of a group of actresses from the heyday of film noir. As you may suspect, their true life stories are often...
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True Tales From Lynchville
The Dana Gould Hour
Like a lot of you, I was moved by the passing of film director David Lynch this past January. Much more than I thought I would be, to be honest. A lot of it had to do with the timing. He was such a part of Los Angeles. He made movies set here. He did a daily weather report. He talked at length about how much he loved the light, the feeling of Old Hollywood, the smell of night-blooming jasmine, and he left as the city was on literally burning down around us. On top of that, we were four days away from a new president who is the embodiment of everything Lynch is not. It was like Dale Cooper died...
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Hollywood Or Don’t!
The Dana Gould Hour
Aaaaaaand we’re back. It’s summer here and the livin’ is easy. For someone. Somewhere. It must be, right? It’s summertime and the livin’ is easy. For bears. It was also the night that the skeletons came to life! Will Sloan is here! Will is a journalist and author. He is the host of the podcast The Important Cinema Club (highly recommended). Will has a new book coming out called Ed Wood, Made in Hollywood USA which is a serious reappraisal of Wood’s filmography. No, it doesn’t posit that he was actually the greatest filmmaker of all time but it does make an attempt to put...
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Doomsday Cults & Other Delights
The Dana Gould Hour
Aaaaaaand we’re back so let’s get to it. Jane Borden is here. Jane is the author of the book, Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America. It is everything I love in a book. It’s informative, it’s funny, it’s about weird shit that’s true and I can’t recommend it highly enough. Jane Borden, coming right up. Mike Reiss is here! Mike is an old pal of mine. Incredible, smart, kind and funny gentlemen. One of the original Simpsons writers, he goes back to season… one. If that’s good enough for you. He is also, a world traveller, although he doesn’t really want to be, and...
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Garmonbozia-A-Go-Go
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Hello and welcome back to The Dana Gould Hour. Your brief audio respite from the world’s worst reality show, reality. Samm Deighan is here. She is a film historian and author and has written such books as The Legacy Of World War 2 in European Art House Cinema and a study of Fritz Lang’s child murder romp M. Her new book, written with Andrew Nette is entitled Revolution In 35 MM, Political Violence And Resistance In Cinema, From The Art House To The Grindhouse 1960 to 1990. It covers everything from The Battle Of Algiers to Coffin Joe to Zabriskie Point. Harry Medved and Bennet Yellin...
info_outlineThis is a very special episode in that is constituted of a series of deep dives into several different subjects in which I have a rabid interest. Hopefully you do as well. If not, you’re in for a long-ass listen.
Unless you’re new to the show, you know of my deep and abiding interest in all things David Lynch. So, it was a pleasant surprise when I learned of the book A Place Both Wonderful and Strange: The Extraordinary Untold History of Twin Peaks by Scott Meslow. Scott has written for such publications as GQ, New York and The Atlantic. And his book is far too in depth and accomplished to have been thrown together as a quickie cash-in following Mr. Lynch’s passing. Quite, as it turns out, the contrary. Scott had pitched his book years before and was well into the writing of it at the time of his passing. And he talks about how the attitudes of his interview subjects changed from before and then after that event. And the book itself if great. You don’t have to be a Twin Peaks nut to enjoy it, as it’s also a story of how an idea becomes a show, what happens when that show, which was always greater than the sum of its parts becomes a cultural touchstone, etc. etc. etc., Scott Meslow, the author of A Place Both Wonderful and Strange: The Extraordinary Untold History of Twin Peaks is here.
As of that weren’t enough, Thom Shubilla, who has been here before to discuss his books Prime Time 1966 – 1967: The Study Of Television’s First All Color Season, and James Bond And The Sixties Spy Craze. He is also one of the producers of the documentary Drew Friedman Vermeer Of The Borscht Belt, and has another in series of “I Know Dana Gould Will Buy It So That’s One Sale Right There” books, King Kong Vs. Godzilla: The Most Colossal Conflict The Screen Has Ever Known. It’s ostensibly about the making of the 1962 Toho Studios love letter to me known as King Kong Vs, Godzilla, but it’s also just a fantastic story of show biz and deal making. It has everything: guys selling properties they think they have the rights to but don’t, guys selling properties they know they don’t have the rights to but selling them anyway, and yes… murder.
True Tales From Weirdsville takes a deep dive into the life career and bizarre death of 1950’s scream queen. She made some weird ass movies, Attack Of The Fifty Foot Woman, Attack of The Giant Leeches, but what she did on screen could not compare to what happened in real life and that is a promise. The late, lovely and talented Yvette Vickers.
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