Movie Meltdown
· Season 1 · Episode 8 · Latest episodeNell Campbell - Unsung Cinema
This episode we welcome Nell Campbell. Actress, singer, dancer, entrepreneur… Little Nell is a pop culture icon that has lived an amazing life. And she’s spent so much of her time talking about playing Columbia in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, this time we mix things up and discuss her early career, as well as some of the other films she’s been in over the years. And all before we round things out discussing George Sluizer’s 1988 film The Vanishing.
And while we each continue to do our own thing, we also delve into… Federico Fellini, Roger Daltrey’s torso, Jules et Jim, Jubilee, Phyllis from The Office, tap dancing, 400 blows, Satyajit Ray, Shock Treatment, kindness is everything, Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, The Golden Egg, Summer of Secrets, Akira Kurosawa, Richard O'Brien, selling a milkshake at the right soda fountain in Hollywood, Jim Sharman, the shadow cast, Ken Russell, he kept looking at me with two different pairs of spectacles, Lisztomania, Ringo Starr paying for lunch, François Truffaut, science fiction, Derek Jarman, French new wave cinema and making out with Adam Ant.
And while we each continue to do our own thing, we also delve into… Federico Fellini, Roger Daltrey’s torso, Jules et Jim, Jubilee, Phyllis from The Office, tap dancing, 400 blows, Satyajit Ray, Shock Treatment, kindness is everything, Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, The Golden Egg, Summer of Secrets, Akira Kurosawa, Richard O'Brien, selling a milkshake at the right soda fountain in Hollywood, Jim Sharman, the shadow cast, Ken Russell, he kept looking at me with two different pairs of spectacles, Lisztomania, Ringo Starr paying for lunch, François Truffaut, science fiction, Derek Jarman, French new wave cinema and making out with Adam Ant.
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