The Apes From The Black Lagoon
The Dana Gould Hour
Dana Gould
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2019
⏱️ 159 minutes
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Summary
Our show this month has two in-depth interviews, one about a book, and one about a documentary, about two classic summer movies, specific to the world of special effects makeup.
The book is entitled The Lady From The Black Lagoon and was written by Mallory O'Meara. It tells the story of Millicent Patrick. Millicent worked in the Universal Studios makeup department in the early 1950s. One of the things that Millicent was responsible for was the design of none other than the Creature From The Black Lagoon.
We also have Hollywood makeup legend Thom Burman and William Conlin who are here to talk about their new documentary Making Apes. The movie tells the story of how makeup artist John Chambers, and his apprentice (Thom Burman) revolutionized special effects makeup, and did it in only a couple of months. It's also the story of John Chambers, who, if you saw the film Argo, was the man played by John Goodman. Oh yeah, I forgot, the whole time he did this, he was also secretly working for the CIA.
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| 0:00.0 | A world gone insane, an upside-down civilization cannot be real. a world of madness and terror. |
| 0:19.0 | It's the Dana Gould Hour. |
| 0:24.4 | Summer. Gool-hour. Summer is almost here and that means vacation and sunscreen and going to the movies. |
| 0:35.0 | It also means that I'm out there on the road |
| 0:38.0 | slinging the old comedy hash. |
| 0:42.0 | Fans of my semi-professional level live joke-telling |
| 0:46.5 | extravaganza can see me shaking my fanny in Austin Texas Texas at Cap City Comedy, May 30th to June 2nd. |
| 0:58.0 | And then I rejoin Bobcat Goldthwaite on the third leg the third of three on the show with two heads |
| 1:09.5 | that tour will take us on June 6th to Portland, Oregon at the Aladdin Theater. |
| 1:16.6 | June 7th, we will be in Sacramento, California at Harlows. |
| 1:22.0 | June 8th, we will be in San Francisco, California at the Marines Memorial |
| 1:27.4 | Theater. We're only doing one show in San Francisco and we would like to see all of our Bay Area friends and fans |
| 1:34.8 | there and on June 9th we will be in Englewood Colorado just outside of Denver at |
| 1:40.8 | the Gothic Theater for ticket links and more info as always head |
| 1:46.4 | on over to the live events page at Dana Goold.com. Now our show this month has two interviews, two in-depth interviews that are connected. |
| 2:00.0 | One is about a book and one is about a documentary each dealing with a classic summer movie |
| 2:10.7 | specific to the world of special effects makeup. |
| 2:14.0 | The book is entitled The Lady from the Black Lagoon |
| 2:19.0 | and it is written by Mallory O'Mira. |
| 2:22.0 | The Lady from the Black Lagoon tells the story of Millicent |
| 2:27.3 | Patrick. Millicent worked in the Universal Studios makeup department in the early 1950s. |
| 2:34.0 | And one of the things that Millicent was responsible for |
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