Special Report: John Michael McCarthy Interview

The Projection Booth

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

4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Our story takes us to Memphis where Mike White is hot on the trail of John Michael McCarthy... a so-called "filmmaker" that trades in skin and sin, making lurid movies like The Sore Losers, Teenage Tupelo, Superstarlet A.D., and so much more.

White gets every filthy detail about JMM's rap sheet and his new book filled with depravity and available via Fantagraphics: https://www.fantagraphics.com/products/teenage-tupelo

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.0	Shut it off.
0:23.6	Turn it off.
0:27.6	I first came to this planet in 1954 to kill beatness.
0:43.3	It's me to take care of 12.
0:46.3	That's not enough!
0:47.3	Blackie is an immortal from the killer's frequency.
0:50.3	It was to take 12 lives.
0:52.3	That had only killed nine when there's a lot of time when he ran out.
0:56.0	The shame that he's lived with for over 42 years.
0:59.0	Until now.
1:01.0	I've come back to finish the kill.
1:03.0	I want you to help you finish the peel.
1:08.0	There's always that long drive home after a prison day.
1:13.6	And what's the first sign of humanity I see?
1:17.6	What's the hippie?
1:18.6	What is it like a beatnik or something?
1:20.6	Imagine someone who doesn't believe in more, taking it back.
1:24.6	Let's smoke some grass and start a revolution.
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