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Awards Chatter

Frankie Avalon

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

At the TCM Classic Film Festival, the legendary star of late '50s/'60s rock 'n' roll and beach movies reflects on his path from trumpeter to teen idol, his experiences off screen and on with Annette Funicello and what his life is like today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode of Awards Chatter is brought to you by Netflix, presenting Beef.

0:04.4

Nominated for 13 Emmy Awards including outstanding limited or anthology series,

0:08.8

CBS Mornings calls Beef the most powerful piece of art I've seen in many years.

0:13.4

From Emmy-nominated writer and director Lee Sung-jin, and starring nominees,

0:17.5

lead actor Steven Young, and lead actress Ali Wong, Roger Ebert.com calls Steven Young

0:22.9

one of the best actors of his generation.

0:25.2

And the Atlantic raves, Ali Wong has never been funnier or more heartbreaking.

0:30.1

Beef, the year's best limited series, is all the rage.

0:43.3

Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 488th episode of The Hollywood Reporter's

0:47.6

Awards Chatter Podcast, I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and my guest today was one of the biggest

0:52.7

rock and roll stars and movie stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

0:58.4

Indeed, he was a teen idol who the Los Angeles Times has described as the Justin Timberlake of his day.

1:05.7

On the music side of the ledger, he had 31 singles that made the charts,

1:09.8

seven that cracked the top 10, and two, Venus and Y, both from 1959, that reached number one.

1:18.5

Meanwhile, on the film side, he and one-time Mickey Mouse Club mascot here,

1:22.8

Annette Funicello, were teamed by Samuel Z. R. Koff's American International Pictures

1:28.2

in seven beach movies, 1963's Beach Party, 1964's Muscle Beach Party,

1:35.0

Bikini Beach, and Pajama Party, 1965's Beach Blanket Bingo,

1:39.9

and how to stuff a wild bikini, and 1987's Back to the Beach.

1:44.9

All of which cost only a little, grossed a lot,

1:48.2

and made the two of them, in the words of Vanity Fair,

1:51.2

as inseparable a screen duo in the public's eye as Fred and Ginger, or Tracy and Hepburn.

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