Special Report: Du-BEAT-e-o (1984)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 152 minutes

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Summary

On this special episode we’re looking at the 1984 film from director Alan Sacks, Du-Beat-E-O. It’s a movie as unusual as its name. It’s the multi-layered story of a director -- the titular Du Beat E O played by Ray Sharkey -- who is given a chore to put together a film about the band The Runaways. At the same time we hear a postmortem of the film as we’re watching it unfold courtesy of a running fictive director’s commentary.

Adam Spiegelman (Proudly Resents) and Heather Drain (Mondo Heather) join Mike to discuss the history of the show as well as one of its participants -- El Duce of The Mentors. Interviews include co-writer Mark Sheffler, musician Mark Wheaton, and director Alan Sacks.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:11.2	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime. People pay good money to see this movie. When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the
0:22.7	projection booth. Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:26.6	Turn it off.
0:32.1	Turn it off.
0:48.5	Can it off? Can you turn up sound, please?
0:50.1	Glad you're getting to see you too.
0:51.8	Okay, roll it.
0:53.5	I always wanted to say that.
1:00.0	You know, man, I would really dig to be able to go back to the neighborhood, man.
1:03.1	To do the things I used to do when I was just a kid.
1:05.6	I mean, like it was a groove then, you know what I mean?
1:11.4	I mean, I really would like to return to all the things like stickball and wringolivio.
1:12.3	Can you make it a little lower?
1:13.4	That's Ray.
1:15.3	That's me.
1:16.2	That's me with a gun.
1:18.2	Oh, man.
1:20.3	It was a groom in those days, you know?
1:21.0	That's me, too.
1:22.2	I did that in school.
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