01/14/26 Show 294 : PREPPING 2027 OSCAR BAIT IN ADVANCE

in recent times, the film world’s powers that be have mercifully decided that biographies chronicling the lives of nobodies like Freddie Mercury, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen are no longer necessary, instead trying to mollify us with the saga  of a Neil Diamond tribute act. While I would not necessarily describe this as progress, it does slightly open a window of possibility of a forthcoming feature film telling the story of STUPIFY, one of Cleveland’s top 5 or 6 Disturbed tribute bands. Could such a project be some sort of karmic payback for Michael Chiklis, who suffered so many slings and arrows (well, mostly arrows) for being cast as John Belushi in “Wired”? I’d love to get into all of it during this week’s show, however East Village Radio only grants me 120 minutes a week and this subject really requires ten, nay, one hundred times that. I don’t think you’re quite ready for the One Hundred Hours That Feels Like Two Hundred Hours (I’m certainly not).