Splash (1984) w. J.V. Hampton-VanSant
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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"The Statue is a gift from French citizens and has come to symbolize hope for naked women everywhere.” We talk Spash and ask what mermaids represent with the fabulous J.V. Hampton-VanSant.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello you and welcome to you are good at feelings podcast about movies today we're talking |
| 0:13.8 | about splash we're talking about it with the great JV Hampton Van Zant who's been on |
| 0:17.7 | our show many times before and we hope we'll come on our show many times again we love |
| 0:22.3 | JV on this show. I'm one of your hosts Alex Steed I will soon be joined by my Marvelist |
| 0:28.4 | co-host Sarah Marshall before we get into anything else Los Angeles friends I just want to let |
| 0:34.0 | you know we will be having a you are good live event on September 7th and another on September 8th |
| 0:41.6 | we're going to be talking about the movie's roadhouse on September 7th and single white female |
| 0:47.6 | on September 8th we'll be talking about those movies with our great friend Woody Stix |
| 0:52.9 | the first part of the evening will be a you are good live with Sarah with Woody with me |
| 0:58.0 | and the second part will be this event that Woody and I have had in the past this stage show called |
| 1:02.5 | steady bad luckers in which we talk about people who just can't catch a break throughout history |
| 1:07.8 | people who are glamorous people who are not so glamorous it sounds uh maybe depressing it's not |
| 1:14.4 | we find it very fun we talk about the humanity we talk about why these people appeal it's very |
| 1:19.5 | funny there's a slide element I think you'll like it you can come for you are good and just do |
| 1:24.2 | you are good or you can stay for steady bad luckers it's your choice but all the information is |
| 1:29.1 | linked in the show notes it'll be at this effort theater that's on Melrose it's super fun a great |
| 1:34.4 | little spot and if this works we'll do more you are good live shows again September 7th in |
| 1:40.7 | September 8th anyway what splash about splash is a 1984 American romantic fantasy comedy film |
| 1:47.7 | directed by Ron Howard the screenplay is by Lowell Gantz, Babalu Mandel and Bruce J Friedman |
| 1:56.6 | the story is by Friedman and producer Brian Grazer the film stars Tom Hanks Darrell Hannah |
| 2:02.0 | John Candy and Eugene Levy the plot involves a young man who falls in love with a mysterious woman |
| 2:09.2 | who is secretly a mermaid thank you wikipedia.org love that description |
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