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Season 2 Episode 91

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2021/08/31

Original Air Date: Monday 30 August, 9 pm EasternDescription:Pre-recorded this past week in Los Angeles and Birmingham, Michigan, and edited at the Montecito Club weekend, this week’s show features irreverent, insightful and occasionally inspired and inspiring discussion on a wide range of topics, including: The California Gubernatorial Recall Election, a paranormal convention Dean was attending, some long-awaited good news at the North American box office, the recent CinemaCon (a convention for

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Season 2 Episode 90

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2021/08/24

Original Air Date: Monday 16 August, 9 pm EasternDescription:Dean and Phil welcome back a good friend to the show, special guest Chris Mancini! A comic, a podcaster, a filmmaker, and an author, Chris has a new graphic novel and two terrific new podcasts to discuss. He also shares the story of writing, then attempting to save, the ill-fated horror film Asylum, which he turned into a Christopher Guest-like improv comedy (boasting the talents of Dean Haglund)! All in all, it’s a thoughtful, insightful,

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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #188

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2021/08/23

Original Date: December 20, 2010Chris Mancini is a stand-up comic, filmmaker and author, who was the guest on Chillpak Hollywood Hour #103 when he discussed his just-published book Pacify Me: A Handbook for the Freaked-Out New Dad with Dean Haglund. Now, he’s back to discuss how the book was received (both commercially and critically), the state of (and future of) publishing, as well as of stand-up comedy, short filmmaking, and CHH “sister” podcast “Comedy Film Nerds”. This week’s installment of

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Season 2 Episode 89

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2021/08/17

Original Air Date: Monday 16 August, 9 pm EasternDescription:After their most drunken episode ever, this week's show finds Dean back in the Detroit suburb of Birmingham and Phil in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. Thanks to an email from a loyal listener and frequent collaborator, they will be revisiting a discussion of Wu Tang Clan from two weeks ago. And thanks to developing news, they will follow up on last week's discussion of the movement to remove tributes to D.W. Griffith's legacy

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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #89

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2021/08/16

Original Date: January 26, 2009Philip Newby was an incredibly gifted actor-writer-performer, and the first guest Dean and Phil ever welcomed to Chillpak Hollywood Hour (27 August 2007, episode #17, back when we were still “From the Heart of Hollywood”). Philip killed himself this past week. Phil and Dean share memories of their friend and try to put this deeply felt loss into some sort of perspective.Always grateful for the feedback from their listeners, Dean and Phil share some thoughts about their

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Season 2 Episode 88

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2021/08/10

Original Air Date: Monday 9 August, 9 pm EasternDescription:Phil is back from exploring the east coast of the USA. Dean has been in Los Angeles, celebrating his birthday. You can join them poolside atop a certain “historic building in downtown Los Angeles” for big laughs, a lot of wine, and attempted conversations about Dean’s birthday, the joys of Maine, an awesome bookstore, the influence Jack Benny had a on a great law professor, the movement to tear down a possibly racist monument in Hollywood,

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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #88

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2021/08/09

Original Date: January 19, 2009It’s Martin Luther King Day – a holiday for most, but not for Dean and Phil, who pack even more into an hour (plus) than usual! From discussing the legacies of the dearly departed Patrick McGoohan and Ricardo Montalban, to answering the screenwriting questions of their loyal listener the Venerable Pooh, to filling out their Screen Actors Guild Awards ballots on the air, there’s something for everyone in this week’s show.

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Season 2 Episode 87

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2021/08/03

Original Air Date: Monday 2 August, 9 pm EasternDescription:Happy August, everybody! This month might well tell the tale of whether the USA puts the pandemic behind it or whether Covid-19 stays with us in some form or another for quite a while longer … Before we let go of July, however, Dean and Phil want to celebrate the recent Cannes Film Festival, putting several very promising and fascinating films on your radar. They also want to celebrate the recent, groundbreaking Emmy Award nominations,

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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #489

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2021/08/02

Original Date: September 26, 2016Recorded a few days early, this week’s show truly has something for everyone, and if anyone claims it doesn’t, we hope they feel better soon! True gentleman and outstanding filmmaker Curtis Hanson is remembered in “Celebrity Deaths”. The Emmy Awards, and especially Jimmy Kimmel’s performance hosting them, are discussed. The Colin Kaepernick National Anthem protest saga is re-visited in the wake of more African-American deaths at the hands of police and in the wake of

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Season 2 Episode 86

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2021/07/27

Original Air Date: Monday 26 July, 9 pm EasternDescription:Much of what we think we see in a movie is based on what we hear. To this day, much of what we expect of how a movie will sound is because of the indelible impacts made by such legendary composers as Max Steiner and Bernard Hermann. Steven Smith is a prolific documentary filmmaker, an historian, a lecturer and the author of books detailing the lives and careers of these two giants of motion picture music. Steven is also a good friend Phil

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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #86

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2021/07/26

Original Date: January 5, 2009Phil just got back from rubbing elbows with the D.C. social set. Dean stayed in town and hit a Hollywood party and hit it hard based on the stories he shares (Fran Drescher? Poop? Three bottles of champagne?). In addition to comparing notes on their holiday hijinx, Dean and Phil discuss the many films they’ve seen during the past two weeks. Phil saw several foreign language films, including a couple of fantastic ones you won’t want to miss. Dean reveals he saw The

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Chillpak Hollywood Hour – Season 2, Episode 85

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2021/07/20

Original Air Date: Monday 19 July, 9 pm EasternDescription:If you have listened to our last few episodes, you know that conversation has really started to focus on great movies, great directors AND on silent film being appreciated as its own art form. On this week’s show, Dean and Phil really drill down into each of these topics by focusing on the careers, artistry and legacies of two formative giants of the motion picture industry: Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin. Even if you don’t like silent

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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #411

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2021/07/19

Original Date: March 30, 2015Dean Haglund is back from Australia where he was busy laying the groundwork for his full-time move down under in May. While he was there, he Skyped with Phil Leirness because, well, your friends in podcasting miss each other when they are apart AND because there was the big news about the return of “The X-Files” to discuss. Part of this week’s show will be that (recorded) conversation, wherein they also discuss Gillian Anderson’s “other” current series, the absolutely

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Chillpak Hollywood Hour – Season 2, Episode 84

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2021/07/13

Original Air Date: Monday 12 July, 9 pm EasternDescription:Your friends in podcasting celebrate summer and the traditional "summer movie season" with a show full of great movie directors. First, Dean and Phil remember three groundbreaking directors in "Celebrity Deaths" - one of whom directed some of the best box office hits of the 70's, 80's and 90's, one of whom was a key figure in underground cinema and one of whom directed one of the greatest American movies of all time! Such titans of

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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #454

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2021/07/12

Original Date: January 26, 2016As you know, each year, your friends in podcasting celebrate what they think were the best films of the previous year. Well, this year, Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness welcome special guest, film critic and Los Angeles Film Critics Association member Luke Y. Thompson to help them as they discuss the best films AND the worst films of 2015!Best and worst in one show?! Why, that sounds like two shows!And it almost is. At almost 1 hour and 50 minutes, this is our longest

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Chillpak Hollywood Hour – Season 2, Episode 83

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2021/07/06

Original Air Date: Monday 5 July, 9 pm EasternDescription:The USA celebrated its independence this weekend, but the fireworks continue on this brand new installment of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour! Dean shares a hysterical story about the making of a film he did many years back. Then he and Phil discuss in detail a wide array of movies, including a silent classic from Hitchcock, a current horror sequel, a masterpiece of surrealism from a Swedish filmmaker who has emerged as a titan of world cinema,

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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #83

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2021/07/05

Original Date: December 15, 2008Dean is back from the Eco Gift Fest with some rather sad news about the state of “Green” commerce in the face of the current “economic downturn.” That downturn isn’t keeping people away from movie theatres and Dean and Phil analyze the latest box office returns. They also get into some filmmaking nitty-gritty, discussing the importance of tone, as well as the art and business of choosing roles as an actor. Finally, they discuss a wide range of films, including a few

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SEASON 2 EPISODE 82

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2021/06/29

Original Air Date: Monday 28 June, 9 pm EasternDescription:Following a “cold open” all about another of Dean’s all-time favorite episodes of “The X-Files”, Dean and Phil open their mailbag to answer questions from listeners like you (yes, YOU!). One email concerns why actor Nicholas Lea never appeared on the spin-off series “The Lone Gunmen” and whether Dean would ever join the internet service “Cameo”. Another is from friend of the show Yoshi Kato, who can’t quite remember whether his friends in

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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #497

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2021/06/28

Top 10 Musicals

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Season 2 Episode 81

Chillpak Hollywood Hour ·

2021/06/22

Original Air Date: Monday 21 June, 9 pm EasternDescription:Dean and Phil follow up on last week’s awesome show by discussing more about “Hollywood accounting” and how in show biz the “bottom line” is often NOT the bottom line! Last week, while discussing the box office struggles of the brand new In the Heights, Dean and Phil were inspired to look back at two dance films based on the same craze that opened on the same day many years ago, one of which boasted a music score from Phil’s frequent

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