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The Whole Shebang: The Minute-by-Minute Velvet Goldmine Podcast

Take a minute-by-minute journey into the glittery heart of the greatest (and only) glam rock movie of the 1990s, Velvet Goldmine. Who killed Brian Slade? What's with the Oscar Wilde obsession? Why did Bowie sue? Couldn't they afford sturdier trousers for Ewan McGregor? These, and many more questions will be answered by your hard-rocking hosts, Mike Grasso and Jenny Anckorn as we take on... THE WHOLE SHEBANG!
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Take a minute-by-minute journey into the glittery heart of the greatest (and only) glam rock movie of the 1990s, Velvet Goldmine.

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Dec 2, 2016

In Minute 105 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny and Mike take dueling interpretations of the grand chandelier that appears at the end of this minute and use it as an excuse to talk about two of their favorite movies, Jenny gets into why she hates Close Encounters’s characters, then we get back to the set decoration and the statuary figures, and then we use the excuse of Maxwell Demon’s downfall and the UFO’s presence to talk about Oscar Wilde’s downfall, disgraced artists, and the continuing appeal of disgraced artists’ art and how some people will still work with disgraced artists despite the ignominy.

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Dec 1, 2016

In Minute 104 of The Whole Shebang, Jenny and Mike begin their look at Maxwell Demon’s swan song, “Tumbling Down” by Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, Alan Parsons’s involvement as producer, Maxwell Demon’s visual presentation in this sequence as an amalgamation of Maxwell and Brian Slade himself, the broken theater setting of this sequence, how the scenery reminds us of the dichotomy of Maxwell Demon as fusion and Apollonian and Dionysian, how Steve Harley reacted to the use of “Tumbling Down,” and how Todd Haynes as an American had to actively seek out British culture in the form of glam, and how American culture doesn’t require that kind of work from British fans.

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