254. Nancy Allen

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Gilbert and Frank welcome actress Nancy Allen ("Carrie," "Dressed to Kill," "RoboCop") for an engrossing conversation about her 40+ year career in movies, her firsthand experience of Hollywood's "New Wave," her love of film noir and her memories of working with influential directors Hal Ashby, Brian De Palma, Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis. Also, Roger Moore holds court, John Belushi turns on the charm, Gilbert stands in for Sissy Spacek and Nancy sees a (very) rough cut of "Star Wars." PLUS: Remembering Martin Landau! The chaos of "1941"! Abel Ferrara talks turkey! Michael Caine puts on a dress! And Nancy reveals the horrors of "RoboCop 2"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried, this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast with
0:25.7	my co-host Frank Santo Padre and our engineer Frank Ferdarosa. Our guest this week is one of the most
0:34.1	recognized film and TV actresses of the 1970s and 80s and beyond. With dozens of notable credits,
0:44.1	you've seen her in the TV series The Commish, The Outer Limits, touched by an angel,
0:51.7	law-norder SVU and judging Amy, but it's her work and feature films that made her a 1980s screen
1:02.1	icon with memorable roles in the Philadelphia experiment. The last detail, strange invaders,
1:12.5	1941, I want to hold your hand. The buddy system, blow out, dress to kill, robo cop, and out of sight,
1:26.1	and the cost has sissy space extormentor in the horror classic carry. In a prolific career that
1:36.9	span four decades, she's worked with some of the most prominent directors in cinema, including
1:45.1	Steven Spielberg, Hal Ashby, Robert Semeckis, Oliver Hoveon, Steven Sotaberg, and Brian Dupama.
1:58.1	She's even worked with and alongside some of our favorite screen stars and character actors,
2:06.4	including Kirk Douglas, Richard Dreyfus, Michael Cain, Christopher Lee, Martin Landau,
2:16.9	Piper Laurie, Albert Brooks, and Roger Moore, as well as former podcast guests.
2:26.7	Tim Matheson, Dick Miller, Will Jordan, Eddie Decent, and Michael McKean. Hell, she's even shared
2:38.1	the screen with Pat McCormick. Please welcome to the show one of our favorite actresses,
2:47.5	and a woman who says if she could add dinner with any three people in showbiz, she choose
2:55.4	Steven Sonheim, Mel Brooks, and Ethel Merman, the Brunx's own Nancy Allen.
3:05.5	Hi, Gilbert. Hi, Frank. Hi, Nancy. How are you? I warned you the intro was too long.
3:11.6	It was very, very, very long. I feel like I must be so old, and I do have to clear up something
3:19.2	once and for all. Go for it. I have never been on judging Amy. They won't take it off my IMDB.
3:25.4	I don't know who put it on there to begin with. I've seen the show. Never been on it. It's done now.
3:31.9	Tripped up again. Boiled again by IMDB. I hate them. They reported that I was dead once.
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