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Sewers of Paris: A Strange Kind of Family (Ep 484 - Grey Gardens & Second Life/Tony & Brad)

Tony Maietta and Brad Shreve are the co-hosts on the podcast 2024-09-05 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Bonus Video! Paris is Burning & My So-Called Life

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For this week's bonus video, we're taking a look at the origins of Rickie Vasquez on My So-Called Life -- and how the show took inspiration from the documentary Paris is Burning, as well as from Prince and Jimi Hendrix, to create him. Plus: Some really fine acting by Claire Danes, and a strange Grungus-related my...

Sewers of Paris: I Got Excommunicated (Ep 483 - House of Heat/Koaty & Sumner Blayne)

This week on The Sewers of Paris, I’m chatting with two guests, Koaty and Sumner Blayne. They’re adult performers, they’re a real-life couple, and they’re...

Bonus Video! Unexpected Allies at the Top of the Disney Corporation

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For this week's bonus video, we're taking a look at how the Disney corporation went from being surprisingly debauched in the 1920s ... to pretty intolerant of gays ... to a place that (compared to other companies) was relatively welcoming by the 1990s. So, why did Disney executives start welcoming queer employees -- was it out...

Sewers of Paris: An Angry Phone Call from Faye Dunaway (Ep 482 - Mommie Dearest/A. Ashley Hoff)

My guest this week is A. Ashley Hoff, author of the new book 2024-08-22 16:44:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Bonus videos! The clever tricks hidden in the Little Shop end-of-the-world finale

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For this week's bonus video, we're taking a closer look at the gorgeous (and seldom-seen) original ending of Little Shop of Horrors -- including some especially crafty techniques that turned a slow-moving four-foot robot into a 120-foot-tall monster. We've got overcranked cameras, 3D printing, a puppet in disguise, and my favo...

Sewers of Paris: The Grateful Dead at a Christian College (Ep 481: Grateful Dead/Jason Durant)

My guest this week on the Sewers of Paris podcast is Dr. Jason Durant, a New York based therapist who kicked himself out of the closet with some help from jam bands and a crush on a straight boy. It was discovering The Grateful Dead while ...

Sewers of Paris: What Makes You Stand Out (Ep 480 - The Little Mermaid/Terry Blas)

As you may have heard, I have a new YouTube video coming this weekend about Howard Ashman, the lyricist behind The Little Mermaid among many other works. So for this week’s episode, we’re diving into the Sewers archives to revisit my 2016 interview with artist Terry ...

Bonus Video! All of the amazing actresses who almost played Ursula

You would not BELIEVE some of the actresses they considered for Ursula in The Little Mermaid, and for this week's bonus video we're taking a look at some of the most surprising. Mrs. Garrett from The Facts of Life?!?!?!

Also -- take a gander at Pat Carroll (who eventually landed the role) in this amazing appearance on 2024-08-04 15:25:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Sewers of Paris: A Lonely Dramatic Experience (Ep 479: Who Framed Roger Rabbit/Greg Lockard)

My guest this on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast is Greg Lockard, author of the graphic novels Li...

Matt's So-Cast Pod: Resolutions (with Aaron Berman)

Happy 1995! On this week's podcast, it's a new year and time to make some resolutions ... which will almost immediately be broken. Angela wants to stop being so introspective (although on second thought, maybe not), Patty wants to stop being so suspicio...

Bonus Video! How One Disney Executive Nearly Ruined The Little Mermaid

Hello there! For this week's bonus video, Ollie and I have a story for you about the time Jeffrey Katzenberg nearly ruined The Little Mermaid, and how Howard Ashman fought tooth and nail to stop Disney execs from making one of the worst calls in movie history. Plus! A montage of New Yorkers absolutely HATING New York, as a treat.

Sewers of Paris: Royalties and a Husband (Ep 478 - Let my People Come/Eric Marcus of Making Gay History)

You may have seen that this week’s bonus video is about a bizarre Broadway-ish show called Let My People Come. It’s a musical so strange I...

Matt's So-Cast Pod: So-Called Angels (with H. Alan Scott, Kerri Doherty, Cindy Howes, and Alonso Duralde)

It's Christmas this week on the So-Cast Pod, but the yuletide is not particularly gay for Rickie, who has been cast out of the house and has nowhere to go. Fortunately, a mysterious folk singer appears to watch over him (kind of? A little uncle...

Bonus Video! The Weird Broadway Saga of "Let My People Come"

Picture it: New York, 1974, and you're going out on the town for a night of classy theatrical delights ... at a new off-Broadway show called Let My People Come. This was an absolutely real, actual show that became an unlikely hit, and also touched off a years-long controversy (but not for the reasons you might expect).

Join me for...

Sewers of Paris: What Feels Euphoric to Me (Ep 477: JP Karliak/X-Men '97)

Returning to The Sewers of Paris this week is voice actor JP Karliak — you heard him as the voice of Morph on X-Men '97, but h...

Matt's So-Cast Pod: On The Wagon (with Aaron Berman)

This week on the podcast: We've reached episode 14, in which Rayanne is one month sober -- but alas, she's starting to get a little fidgety. Can Angela and Rickie keep her from slipping back into old habits? Especially now that Angela has her hands full...

Bonus Video! Howard Ashman's lost & forgotten projects

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For this week's bonus video, we're taking a look at some of Howard Ashman's more obscure projects -- a fun ode to a cow; some songs rescued from Little Shops' cutting room floor; and an impossibly weird number written for Garfield, Alf, the Chipmunks, Tigger, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Here are full versions o...

Sewers of Paris: The Performance of Sex (Ep 476: Gay Porn/Christopher Rice)

This week I’m chatting with Christopher Rice, a returning guest who’s just published a fourth book in his steamy “Sapphire Cove” series. This latest ...

Bonus video! Some of my archive discoveries in LA

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I'm in Los Angeles this week, combing through various film and TV archives, and I've found some fun tidbits for upcoming videos. A few highlights: A bizarre misunderstanding of queer fashion from the 1960s; an invitation to a gay ashram; and what appears to be a true crime magazine that's really secretly a magazine for BDSM en...

Hollywood Pride (Ep 475: Queer Hollywood History/Alonso Duralde)

My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris is Alonso Duralde, author of the new book Hollywood Pride, ...

Matt's So-Cast Pod: Pressure (with the 80s TV Ladies)

On the podcast this week: No longer content with the boiler room assignations, this week Jordan's nagging Angela to explore more a more carnal pastime, but she's not sure she's ready -- so she borrows an erotic VHS tape from Sharon, and before long ever...

Bonus video! The scrappy little theater that saved Disney

You've probably never heard of the Workshop of the Player's Art, but this grungy little 99-seat theater had a colossal impact on American culture -- and helped save Disney animation in the 90s. In this week's bonus video I want to tell you about how a bunch of scrappy theater kids managed to turn a failing fire-trap into a cultural institution, ...

The Best of The Sewers of Paris: Science Fiction

Apologies for this week's episode coming a day late! I'm just catching up between Pride events and a power outage that halted editing for a bit. But here's the latest Sewers of Paris, continuing the monthlong Pride specials with excerpts from s...

Matt's So-Cast Pod: Self-Esteem (with Sam Pirie)

On the podcast this week, we're back from our little summer vacation and ready to tackle some saucy secrets. Angela's sneaking off to the boiler room with Jordan for make-out sessions, but that sneaking is starting to take a toll. Meanwhile Graham is the star...

Bonus video! The Plant that ate (Off) Broadway

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For this week's bonus video, we're heading back in time to a scrappy little off-off Broadway theater where a frustrated lyricist named Howard Ashman has decided he's going to make a musical out of the weirdest material imaginable: A schlocky B-movie about a killer plant from space. It seemed like a terrible idea, but it wound ...

The Best of The Sewers of Paris: Comic Books

This week, I’m continuing the monthlong Pride special, bringing you excerpts from some of the very best Sewers of Paris conversations I’ve had over the last nine years.

This week, we’re talking comics books. We’ll start with a conversation with writer Andrew Wheeler, whose tales of adventure and intrigue stand in shar...

Bonus Video! The Little Mermaid's Humble Origins in a Broadway Flop

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I just got back from my big trip to New York & Toronto and boy are my arms tired. I got a TON of great research done in some performing arts archives, and I'll share some highlights with you here: The original flyer for Little Shop of Horrors, a picture of Lucille Ball getting eaten by a plant, and also the song ...

The Best of The Sewers of Paris: Musicals!

On this week's Sewers of Paris, I’m continuing the monthlong Pride special, bringing you excerpts from some of the very best conversations I’ve had over the last nine years. On this episode, we’re talking musicals — a roundup of conversations about songs on stage and on screen. We’ll start with a conversation about Pippin<...