Capracornacopia (Part One) Dick Dinman and guest Frank Capra Jr. salute legendary director Frank Capra.
Capracornacopia (Part Two) Dick Dinman's guest Frank Capra Jr. returns with more Capraesque stories about his father.
Errol Flynnathon (Part One) Dick Dinman's guest: Flynn co-star Ann Rutherford
Errol Flynnathon (Part Two) Dick Dinman's guest is Errol Flynn's daughter Rory, plus comments from swashbuckler Stewart Granger.
John Wayne's 100th Birthday! (Part One) Dick Dinman's guests: Angie Dickinson and Andrew V. McLaglen.
John Wayne's 100th Birthday! (Part Two) Dick Dinman's guests: Michael Anderson Jr. and Andrew V. McLaglen.
John Wayne's 100th Birthday! (Part Three) Dick Dinman's guests: Michael Anderson Jr. and Andrew V. McLaglen.
John Wayne's 100th Birthday! (Part Four) Dick Dinman's guest: Andrew V. McLaglen.
Cinema Literary Classics! Dick Dinman's guest Stewart Granger reveals the story behind his "Prisoner of Zenda."
Katherine Hepburn's 100th Birthday! Katherine Hepburn's last three performances were in projects produced by Dick Dinman's guest, writer-producer John Dayton.
Joan Collins and the Seven Thieves Michael Dante, one of the stars of the classic thriller SEVEN THIEVES, reveals the real story of the on-set friction between Joan Collins and Rod Steiger and remembers legendary star Edward G. Robinson.
TWO REBEL DIRECTORS Michael Dante returns and paints a vivid picture of two directors he worked with, Samuel Fuller and Budd Boetticher, who defied the Hollywood "system" --- and paid a terrible price.
TALENT, GUTS, and PERSEVERANCE: THE STANLEY KRAMER SAGA (part one) Dick Dinman's guests Tony Curtis, Jonathan Winters, Abby Mann and Karen Sharpe Kramer pay tribute to Hollywood's bravest director.
TALENT, GUTS, and PERSEVERANCE: THE STANLEY KRAMER SAGA (part two) Dick Dinman's guests Tony Curtis, Jonathan Winters, Abby Mann and Karen Sharpe Kramer pay tribute to Hollywood's bravest director.
IN THE SWIM WITH ESTHER WILLIAMS (track one) Dick Dinman's guest Betty Garrett shares revealing stories about her experiences with Hollywood's Million $ Mermaid.
IN THE SWIM WITH ESTHER WILLIAMS (track two)
BETTY GARRETT and OTHER SONGS Dick Dinman pays tribute to his guest Betty Garrett who survived the heinous blacklist and emerged victoriously not only as a stage, tv, and screen star, but also as an award-winning director and author.
FILM NOIR -THE BLEAKER THE BETTER (part one) Farley Granger (star of the two Hitchcock masterpieces STRANGERS ON A TRAIN and ROPE) and author Robert Calhoun share stories about Farley's experiences with directors Alfred Hitchcock, Nicholas Ray and Anthony Mann.
FILM NOIR -THE BLEAKER THE BETTER (part two) Dick Dinman's guest is Film Noir's Queen of Mean, Audrey Totter, who reveals a different side of this talented lady.
MIKLOS ROZSA : MOVIELAND'S MAGICAL MUSICAL MAESTRO. 10/03/07 (part one) The first of a three-show 100th Birthday Salute to Miklos Rozsa (BEN-HUR, SPELLBOUND, EL CID, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, THE KILLERS, etc.) as Rozsa's daughter Juliet joins host Dick Dinman in a series of shows that reveal aspects of the creative and human side of the man behind the music as well as feature generous samples of some of his most revered works.
MIKLOS ROZSA : MOVIELAND'S MAGICAL MUSICAL MAESTRO. 10/10/07 (part two) Why were Hitchcock and David O. Selznick not on speaking terms with Miklos Rozsa? The real scoop on Rozsa's DRAGNET theme lawsuit.
MIKLOS ROZSA : MOVIELAND'S MAGICAL MUSICAL MAESTRO. 10/17/07 (part three) Dick Dinman's tribute to Miklos Rozsa concludes with the broadcast world premiere of a suite from a Rozsa score never before released on any home audio format.
ROBERT TAYLOR: MOST UNDER-RATED SUPERSTAR? Taylor co-stars Arlene Dahl, Chad Everett, and Audrey Totter join Dick Dinman in a tribute to one of filmdom's most under-appreciated superstars with clips spotlighting Taylor's versatility.
DANCIN' ON AIR WITH FRED ASTAIRE: Fred Astaire's co- star Joan Leslie and host Dick Dinman explore the incomparable genius of film legend Astaire not only as a dancer supreme but as a vocalist, actor, piano soloist, choreographer and songwriter. Archival comments by Audrey Hepburn and David Niven.
THE MICKEY and JUDY SHOW: Dick Dinman and his guest Ann Rutherford (Mickey Rooney's leading lady in twelve Andy Hardy films) marvel at the length and breadth of Rooney's musical talents in a show that includes songs by Rooney and Judy Garland as well as generous samplings of Rooney's untutored mastery of a multitude of musical instruments.
GARY COOPER: MAN OF THE WEST: When Joan Leslie was sixteen years old she became Gary Cooper's leading lady in SERGEANT YORK and Michael Anderson directed "Coop" in his last two films. Both join your host Dick Dinman as they reminisce about one of classic filmdom's greatest stars.
AL JOLSON: "MAMMY'S" BOY: To this day Al Jolson is considered by many to be the greatest entertainer of the twentieth century. Host Dick Dinman is joined by Betty Garrett, whose husband Larry Parks portrayed Jolson in THE JOLSON STORY, as they reveal some surprising insights about this legendary performer.
MITCHUMANIAMARATHON (part one): Was there ever a more colorful superstar than Robert Mitchum? Not according to Dick Dinman's guest Michael Anderson Jr. who co-starred with Mitchum in THE SUNDOWNERS.
MITCHUMANIAMARATHON: (part two): Dick Dinman's guests Jane Russell, Peter Graves, Anne Jeffreys, William Wellman Jr., Karen Sharpe, Stanley Rubin, and Michael Anderson Jr. try to top each other with their funny and sometimes very personal recollections about free-spirited rebel superstar Robert Mitchum.
A FORD IN YOUR FUTURE (part one) : In the first of a three-show tribute to iconic director John Ford, Dick Dinman's guest, director Andrew V. McLaglen, who knew director Ford intimately and professionally from the early 30's until his death, tells some never-before-heard stories about the unpredictable director in a show that features scenes and music from some of the great Ford classics.
A CROSBY CHRISTMAS : Dick Dinman's annual Christmas show tribute to Bing Crosby features an exclusive interview with Bing's widow as well as songs galore and scenes from some Crosby's biggest movie hits.
A WINTER'S TALE : The brilliant comic genius Jonathan Winters returns to DVD CLASSICS CORNER ON THE AIR for the fourth time with new and riotous, as well as poignant, stories about his chaotic life and times.
A FORD IN YOUR FUTURE : (part two) : Contemporary film composer Christopher Caliendo talks about the challenges of scoring the newly-restored Ford silent classics THE IRON HORSE and FOUR SONS as well as the sorry state of the current film music industry.
ELMER BERNSTEIN : CELLULOID MAESTRO : Generous samples of classic Bernstein film music (as well as other legendary cinema composers) abound in Dick Dinman's tribute to the art of film scoring.
A FORD IN YOUR FUTURE (part three) : Award winning producer-director Nick Redman and executive in charge of the 20th Century Fox classics division Richard Ashton weigh in on what it was that made John Ford one of the most revered film directors of all time.
CLARK GABLE: KING OF HOLLYWOOD : Gable co-stars Jane Russell and Audrey Totter share their experiences with Dick Dinman on working and dating the super-star and undisputed king of all the stars Clark Gable.
STANWYCK and LANCASTER: ALWAYS AT THEIR BEST : Stanwyck co-star John Ericson and Lancaster co-star Tony Curtis reveal what qualities made Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster such enduring cinema giants and Chad Everett tells host Dick Dinman about his riotous encounter with Lancaster.
DICK'S PICKS TOP TEN LIST (part one): Dick Dinman's choices for the top ten classic dvd releases of last year.
DICK'S PICKS TOP TEN LIST (part two)
CAPRACORNICOPIA (part one): Dick Dinman's two part tribute to Frank Capra with guest Frank Capra Jr. who, sadly, passed away recently. These two shows, which have been revised somewhat from the original, are repeated in his honor.
CAPRACORNICOPIA (part two)
SPENCER TRACY : GREATEST OF THE GREAT. Dick Dinman's guests are Tracy co-stars John Ericson and Anne Francis who affectionally relate their experiences working with Tracy, and Oscar winner Karl Malden tells Dick his theory about what qualities made Tracy an actor without equal. Also archival insights from Tracy co-stars Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Richard Widmark, Angela Lansbury, Mickey Rooney, Robert Wagner, Lee Marvin and Sidney Poitier as well as scenes from some of Tracy's finest classics.
MAJOR DUNDEE : RESTORATION OF A TROUBLED CLASSIC. An unprecedented restoration (with twelve extra minutes and an entirely new score) of a much-maligned mega-flop is discussed by Dick's guests Michael Anderson Jr. (who was one of the top-billed stars) and Christopher Caliendo (who composed the new MAJOR DUNDEE score). Included are some hilarious revelations about tempestuous director Sam Peckinpah, Charlton Heston and perpetually inebriated co-star Richard Harris.
SEEING RED : A SKELTON IN YOUR CLOSET. Red Skelton was one of the greatest comic geniuses of the twentieth century and three of his beautiful and talented leading ladies (Arlene Dahl, Ann Rutherford and Betty Garrett) regale host Dick Dinman with their hilarious, touching and sometimes physically painful experiences working with this totally unpredictable master clown.
PRODUCED BY JOHN WAYNE. John Wayne's production company was responsible for some of the screen's most memorable efforts and Dick Dinman's guests Karen Sharpe who, after being introduced in Wayne's THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY was subsequently placed under exclusive contract to Wayne, and William Wellman Jr. whose father directed five Wayne-produced films, reveal the inside story about what went on during the filming of these popular screen successes.
UP IN THE AIR WITH "AIRPLANE" Dick Dinman salutes the 25th Anniversary of one of the funniest films ever made with two of AIRPLANE'S stars Robert Hays and Peter Graves.
STEVE McQUEEN : REBEL WITH A CAUSE Dick Dinman and his Oscar-winning guest Karl Malden pay tribute to Steve McQueen who was one of the most iconic screen legends of the 60's and 70's.
Dick Dinman's DVD CLASSICS CORNER ON THE AIR is proud to present a four part tribute to Franz Waxman, the only Golden Age composer to win two consecutive Oscars. Dick's guest is his son, producer John Waxman, who shares some poignant, humorous, and always compelling stories about his father's experiences during his legendary three decade plus career. Included in these shows will be generous samplings of twenty-seven Waxman scores, some of which have never been released commercially in any home audio format.
PART ONE Seven year old child prodigy, THE BLUE ANGEL, Nazi brutality, escape to Paris and the United States, THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, the early days at Universal and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the great MGM scores, introduction to David O. Selznick and Alfred Hitchcock, the first Oscar nomination.
PART TWO REBECCA, SUSPICION, moving over to Warner Brothers, a revealing and unexpected portrait of studio head Jack L. Warner, the great Waxman-Warner years, free at last, first Oscar win for Billy Wilder's SUNSET BLVD, never-before-released unused SUNSET BLVD music, director George Stevens complains about Waxman's score for A PLACE IN THE SUN, second consecutive Oscar win for A PLACE IN THE SUN, Waxman score for NIGHT AND THE CITY replaced in Britain.
PART THREE Hitchcock dislikes Waxman's REAR WINDOW score, the great Twentieth Century Fox scores, back to Warner's with THE SILVER CHALICE, reunion with Billy Wilder for THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS, Steven Spielberg loves Waxman's SPIRIT score, a controversial PEYTON PLACE.
PART FOUR Jack Warner livid over Waxman's initial score for NUN'S STORY, BELOVED INFIDEL, ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN, Bernard Herrmann calls Waxman's score for TARAS BULBA (which almost didn't happen!) "the score of a lifetime", a SUNSET BLVD finale.
FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS! IT'S BETTE DAVIS' HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY! (part one) Dick Dinman and distinguished columnist, film historian, author, raconteur and Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne in a centennial tribute to that star of stars Bette Davis. Special guest appearance by Joan Leslie whom Davis called "The nicest girl on the Warner lot."
FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS! IT'S BETTE DAVIS' HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY! (part two) The Bette Davis centennial celebration continues as Dick Dinman pairs up with two time Best Actress Oscar nominee Gena Rowlands who, in addition to co-starring with Davis, was also one of her closest friends, though their relationship began on a decidedly chilly note.
FRANK SINATRA: A TRIBUTE TO THE (ACTING) CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD Dick Dinman's guests Turner Classics Movies host Robert Osborne and three-time Best Actress Oscar nominee and two-time Sinatra leading lady Eleanor Parker (in a very rare and exclusive interview) focus on Sinatra the actor and offer some revealing and occasionally critical insights about Sinatra's dramatic abilities.
A CONVERSATION WITH ROBERT OSBORNE Dick Dinman's guest is noted author, columnist, and Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne as they discuss the dramatically increased popularity of the Golden Age cinema classics as well as some major never Oscar-nominated stars whose work has always been taken for granted.
THE PRESENT: CINERAMA IN YOUR LIVING ROOM! They said it couldn't be done but Warner Home Video's new Blu-ray dvd version of HOW THE WEST WAS WON makes video history by reproducing the stupendous three-panel Cinerama ultra-widescreen process for home exhibition and perfecting a technology that finally eliminates the "join lines" and unifies the images into a superb home viewing experience that actually captures the essence of the production's initial exclusive reserved seat theatrical exhibitions. Dick Dinman's guest, senior vice president in charge of Warner Home Video's classic catalogue George Feltenstein, reveals how this incredible feat was accomplished and gives us a sneak preview of upcoming classic Blu-ray releases.
THE FUTURE: THREE DIMENSION IN YOUR LIVING ROOM! George Feltenstein returns to regale Dick Dinman with a prediction that the three dimension process will be an integral part of your home theater experience in the not-so-distant future. Includes audio clips from nine three dimension classics in which Randolph Scott, Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, Richard Carlson, Arlene Dahl and Fernando Lamas extol the virtues of this "new" cinematic thrill. Special added feature: Errol Flynn out west!
THE POWERS OF POWER Dick Dinman and his guest Tyrone Power Jr. in a riveting and revealing profile of Twentieth Century Fox's greatest Golden Age superstar Tyrone Power, in a show that includes a generous sampling of scenes and music from some of Power's greatest films.
RANDY RIDES AGAIN Legendary western star Randolph Scott is saluted along with the director of six of Scott's finest cinema classics Budd Boetticher. Dick Dinman's guests are Michael Dante who costarred with Scott in a Boetticher directed western and has some great stories to tell, as well as Senior Vice President In Charge Of Restoration for Sony Pictures Entertainment Grover Crisp who describes the arduous and time-consuming process it took to bring the Scott-Boetticher cinema milestones to home video in such phenomenal shape.
DVD CLASSICS CORNER ON THE AIR SALUTES THE FINEST FILM COLLECTION OF 2008: The "Dick's Pick's" of the year is the remarkable coffee table worthy MURNAU, BORZAGE AND FOX COLLECTION which features 12 films from two directors whose magically romantic, erotic and visually extravagant styles were integral in the development of modern movies. Dick Dinman's guests are executive music producer Nick Redman and composer/conductor Christopher Caliendo who composed the scores for two of these masterpieces as well as the full-length documentary included with this awesome collection.
KNOW THE SCORE: THE CLASSIC MUSIC O20th CENTURY FOX. Dick Dinman's returning guest, writer, producer and film music scholar Nick Redman discusses the remarkable (and too often unheralded) "isolated score" option exclusive to many recent 20th Century Fox classic home video releases with generous samples from the scores of THE SAND PEBBLES, PLANET OF THE APES, CAPTAIN FROM CASTILLE, GARDEN OF EVIL and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL.
DICK DINMAN'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION FOR ERNEST BORGNINE. Hale and hearty 92 year old Oscar, Golden Globes, and Emmy-winning screen legend Ernest Borgnine celebrates his birthday with Dick Dinman and regales us with his affectionate remembrances of Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, William Holden, Bette Davis, Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy and many other of filmdom's greats with whom he shared the screen during the course of his unparalleled fifty-two year career.
CHUCK AMUCK! PART 1 Dick Dinman pays tribute to legendary Looney Tunes animation director Chuck Jones with Jones' talented daughter Linda Jones Clough as they focus on the qualities that made his contributions to the field of animation so unique and beloved as well as offer a preview of the new Turner Classic Movies documentary CHUCK JONES: MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD.
CHUCK AMUCK! PART 2 CHUCK AMUCK! (Part Two) Dick Dinman's tribute to Chuck Jones concludes with his guest Peggy Stern who produced the enchanting and memorable documentary CHUCK JONES: MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD.
QUO VADIS, ROBERT TAYLOR, HOLLYWOOD AND COMMUNISM: To commemorate the release of the magnificent Blu-ray dvd of one of the finest Biblical extravaganzas of all time Dick Dinman and guest Linda J. Alexander, the author of the highly acclaimed book ROBERT TAYLOR: RELUCTANT WITNESS, HOLLYWOOD AND COMMUNISM, reveal the true and never before told facts about how Taylor was forced to testify before the House of Un-American Activities and subsequently suffered at the hands of those ignorant about what really transpired during this incident at the inception of the dark days of the Hollywood blacklist. SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION: NATALIE WOOD COLLECTION.
A WEALTH OF WELLMAN: A WEALTH OF WELLMAN 1: (Part One) As six of director William Wellman's most controversial and banned-for-decades classics are now finally released in the new FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD COLLECTION (Volume Three) Dick Dinman and returning guest William Wellman Jr. expose the fiery artistic sensibilities and turbulent life experiences of one of the most tempestuous super-talents in cinema history.
A WEALTH OF WELLMAN: A WEALTH OF WELLMAN: (Part Two) More colorful revelations about the passionately productive director William Wellman with Dick Dinman's guest William Wellman Jr.
GLORIOUS BLACK AND WHITE: Converting a color film (NICKELODEON) to black and white may seem like a strange idea to some but this marvelous restoration proves conclusively that certain films benefit spectacularly when released in this process. Grover Crisp, Sony Pictures Entertainment senior vice president of asset management, film restoration and digital mastering, explains to host Dick Dinman why and how this unusual task was accomplished and discusses the latest Sony Blu-ray releases.
TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY: Turner Classic Movies master of ceremonies Robert Osborne and senior vice president of programming Charles Tabesh celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the one and only Turner Classic Movies with host Dick Dinman.
THE WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION: Dick Dinman's guest George Feltenstein, senior vice president in charge of Warner Home Video's classic catalogue, opens the curtain to reveal an exciting new milestone in dvd history which will make hundreds of pristine never-before-released cinema classics available to classic movie fans at their beck and call.
ELEANOR PARKER'S INTERRUPTED MELODY: The frequently requested Oscar winning true life musical drama INTERRUPTED MELODY is finally available from the Warner Archive Collection and Dick Dinman's guest is it's three time best actress Oscar nominated star Eleanor Parker who explains in detail the incredible challenges she faced in her Oscar nominated portrayal of Marjorie Lawrence whose illustrious operatic career was sideswiped by polio. ADDED ATTRACTION: Dick Dinman goes WESTBOUND with Randolph Scott's co-star Michael Dante.
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (Part One) : Only director George Stevens could transfer this extraordinary portrayal of humanity set during one of history's most inhumane periods into a motion picture of such singular power and everlasting relevance in which Dick Dinman's guest Millie Perkins brilliantly portrays the insightful 13-year-old biographer of her family's two-year hiding from the Nazi's murderous aggression in an Amsterdam attic.
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (Part Two) : Dick Dinman's guest Diane Baker began her distinguished film career with a stunningly sensitive and deeply felt portrayal as Anne Frank's sister in this George Stevens masterwork and discusses the challenges inherent in bringing this poignant true story to the screen with such uncompromisingly authentic detail and shattering effect.
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (Part Three) : Dick Dinman and his multi-talented guest George Stevens Jr. discuss the challenges inherent in bringing THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK to the screen as well as the unique qualities that made producer-director George Stevens Sr. a universally revered filmmaker for the ages.
SAYING GOODBYE TO KARL MALDEN : Dick Dinman's bittersweet send-off to Oscar and Emmy winning character star Karl Malden who will always remain one of his very favorite guests.
KIRK DOUGLAS'S FAVORITE FILM : Dick Dinman's distinguished guest two-time Best Actress Oscar nominee Gena Rowlands returns to the show and chimes in with her opinion of Kirk Douglas' choice for the best film he ever made as do Kirk's son Michael Douglas and producer-director Steven Spielberg.
ELEANOR PARKER'S FAVORITE (AND LEAST FAVORITE!) LEADING MAN : Three time Best Actress Oscar nominee Eleanor Parker's scores of leading men included Gable, Flynn (twice), Bogart, Sinatra (twice), Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, Heston, MacMurray, and many others of equal prominence and she returns to the show to reveal to Dick Dinman her choice for favorite leading man (and to address rumors that they were intimately involved) and in blistering no-holds-barred terms reveals the identity of a leading male co-star she despised and why. In a surprise conclusion the subject of her ire tells Dick Dinman his side of the story.
THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD IN BLU (Part One): In a show dedicated to the magnificence of the new 70th Anniversary Blu-ray release of THE WIZARD OF OZ Emmy Award winning OZ documentarian/producer John Fricke tells host Dick Dinman fascinating true facts about what it took to bring this once in a lifetime masterpiece to the screen.
THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD IN BLU (Part Two): The first OZ director fired! The Tin Man hospitalized in critical condition! The first Wicked Witch leaves OZ in a huff! (Or, as Groucho Marx would say: "A minute and a huff!"). "Over The Rainbow" almost cut from the film! The second Wicked Witch badly burned! Emmy Award winning OZ producer/documentarian John Fricke returns and shares with host Dick Dinman the trials and tribulations it took to create this incredibly risky masterwork.
THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD IN BLU (Part Three): Dick Dinman's returning guest is Warner Home Video Senior Vice President of Theatrical and Classic Catalogue Marketing pioneer George Feltenstein who discusses how he and his talented restoration wizards were able to create a new OZ Blu-ray release that visually and audibly surpasses even the original Technicolor release prints.
OZ AND ENDS: In addition to sharing final fascinating facts about the creation of the astounding new Blu-ray release of THE WIZARD OF OZ, home video pioneer George Feltenstein tantalizes host Dick Dinman with previews of the Blu-ray releases of GONE WITH THE WIND and Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST as well as other upcoming and current classic Blu-ray, standard dvd, and Warner Archive releases and reveals for the first time, in a DVD CLASSICS CORNER ON THE AIR exclusive, the name of an iconic and groundbreaking cinema classic currently being prepared for a 2011 Blu-ray debut.
A FULLER FILM EXPERIENCE: Samuel Fuller's widow Christa Lang Fuller, Fuller star Michael Dante and host Dick Dinman salute the tumultuous life and cinematic legacy of the defiantly maverick writer-director whose brilliant works are now on display in Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's new dvd release THE SAMUEL FULLER COLLECTION.
A CASTLE OF COLUMBIA NOIR: Host Dick Dinman and guest Rita Belda (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Technical Specialist, Film Restoration and Asset Management) salute Sony's dvd releases of THE WILLIAM CASTLE COLLECTION and THE COLUMBIA PICTURES FILM NOIR COLLECTION (#1) as they trade hilarious true stories about the outrageous stunts Castle would pull in order to ballyhoo his classic horror films after which they explore the dark depths of the classic film noir genre.
I'M DREAMING OF A BLU CHRISTMAS: A full show "Dick's Picks" program as your host Dick Dinman chooses the following Blu-ray releases as the perfect holiday gifts for classic film lovers feeling Blu: Paramount's IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, VCI Entertainment's A CHRISTMAS CAROL, 20th Century Fox's MIRACLE ON 34th STREET, and Warner's QUO VADIS, THE WIZARD OF OZ and GONE WITH THE WIND.
MIRACLE ON 34th STREET (Part One): As a holiday gift to his cherished listeners and to commemorate the Blu-ray release of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment's MIRACLE ON 34th STREET your host Dick Dinman presents and narrates a gem from his own private public domain collection: the rarely heard radio version of MIRACLE ON 34th STREET with Maureen O'Hara, John Payne and Edmund Gwenn in his Oscar winning role of Kris Kringle recreating their original roles in this charming holiday classic.
MIRACLE ON 34th STREET (Part Two): Conclusion of the radio version of MIRACLE ON 34th STREET.
Lorenzo has always been a "BIG" Monkees fan and when WMPG began planning for a Fall 2008 Film Series he suggested us presenting the Monkee's cult psychedelic classic movie Head. Everyone thought this was a great idea and Lorenzo contacted Monkee Historian Andrew Sandoval to participate in the presentation by being interviewed live via the phone before the screening. This 19 minute interview was heard live by the theater audience. This a recording of the interview!
Click here for Andrew Sandoval interview!.
On Thursday October 8, 2009 we presented the seventh edition of WMPG's Radio Open Mic. It was in front of a live audience, at the University of Southern Maine Portland Woodbury Campus Center Amphitheater and broadcast live on WMPG. It was a great show with more than twenty participants. We recorded it so if you missed it click here to hear the entire show.
Click to hear recording of Radio Open Mic 2009!
Us Folk host Chris Darling has said in interviews that he was a regular
listener of my old 'MPG show Emotionally Bankrupt and Morally in Debt.
I, in turn, am a big fan of him and his program. So when Chris needed a
Christmas Eve sub and I had the day off work, I figured it was fate and
offered my services. But I didn't want to just play CDs when Chris has
on incredible live performers on week after week. I love the open mic
concept in clubs but have never heard it done on the radio, so I asked
Chris, he OK'd it, and Program Director Dave Bunker helped me make it a
reality Thanks also to show producer Christina Truesdale and engineer
Rick Alderette for giving up a piece of their Christmas Eve Day, and the
performers who took the chance. This is how it began...flash forward to December '06 and Lorenzo was hosting Radio Open Mic 3 and this was such a success that WMPG couldn't wait another year to bring it back. For its
first Spring edition, ROM4 aired on Memorial Day,
Monday, May 28 in South by Southwest's usual time
slot, 8:30-10:30AM (thanks, Lincoln!). Host Lorenzo Raffa presented for two hours of unscripted,
off-the-cuff performances by local musicians, comics
and whoever else shows up at the studio, as well as
MP3s sent to radioopenmic@yahoo.com.
Download features from various years here:
Eleven USM media studies students have been taking a university class at WMPG
called Audio Production 1. The students are learning the art of radio and have
learned how to produce music and interview programs. To get their work out into
the community they created a pod cast called "Local Ricochet"
that features eleven daily installments of their recent public affairs interviews.