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Andy Gibb strikes again!

Andy Gibb strikes again!

https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/1970s-pop-star-andy-gibb-gone-but-not-forgotten-is-the-subject-of-a-good-new-biography  REMEMBERING ANDY GIBB ON WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HIS 65th BIRTHDAY Last year we told you about a brand new biography about Andy Gibb. Long-time Forgotten Hits Reader Scott Paton got to know Gibb quite well during his time spent working on Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" radio program ... And he connected me with author Matthew Hild, who had just written this first of its kind biography of Andy ... and was kind enough to send me a copy, which I read immediately, promising to do a review and brief interview after I was done.  (Hild's book had...

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Barbara Payton returns

https://www.budapesttimes.hu/books/doomed-actress-a-femme-fatale-on-screen-and-off/  

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Still Yet MORE Cannon fodder!!

Two-part interview on the Fan2Fan Podcast:  https://fan2fan.libsyn.com/cannon-films-part-1 https://fan2fan.libsyn.com/cannon-films-part-2 Bulletproof Action Podcast guest appearance, discussing Chuck Norris' Cannon career: https://www.bulletproofaction.com/2022/07/19/bulletproof-podcast-episode-71-the-chuck-norris-cannon-countdown/ Interview on the Cult Connections podcast:  https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/95acfa37-c692-4a06-841d-17e0d3e6840f/Cannon.mp3 Guest host on Drive-In Asylum's Saturday Night Double Feature introducing Penitentiary 3 and Hercules:  Part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHCE2nPP8iI Part II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igZ2n59Xx8o Guest on the All-American Spookshow podcast, introducing the movie Hot Chili (1985): https://aaspookshow.podbean.com/e/episode-116-cannon-fodder-hot-chili-1985/

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Mickey Smith, RIP

Mickey Smith, RIP

RIP, Mickey. Your work will live on.   https://news.olemiss.edu/um-community-remembers-pharmacy-administration-pioneer-mickey-smith/

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and yet MORE Cannon Films!

and yet MORE Cannon Films!

Interview on The Cannon Canon podcast about Volume 2: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/austin-trunick-2-the-confrontation/id1508135944?i=1000566777805Mahoning Drive-In Radio guest appearance (The Apple, Death Wish 3):https://anchor.fm/mahoningdrivein/episodes/052---Mahoning-Drive-In-Radio-Cannon-Corner-2---Austin-Trunick-on-THE-APPLE-1980-and-DEATH-WISH-3-1985-e1jkjlk?fbclid=IwAR1dOaBinXTjiXQmQ4MBgHH5jWfeThnjN4VPTI2F0UfifL9n0ZR4d90rhLkThe Iron Sequel guest appearance (Exterminator 2): https://theironsequel.podbean.com/e/episode-40-just-arson-around/Five-Part Interview on B&S About Movies: Part 1 (Cannon's "serious" filmmakers, origins of the books)https://bandsaboutmovies.com/.../interview-with-the.../Part 2 (Ninjas, Cannon's financial missteps of the mid-80s)https://bandsaboutmovies.com/.../interview-with-the.../Part 3 (Tobe Hooper all day long)https://bandsaboutmovies.com/.../interview-with-the.../Part 4 (Van Damme, and Cannon movies aching for better home video releases) https://bandsaboutmovies.com/.../interview-with-the.../Part 5 (Bolero, and some of my favorite unmade Cannon movies)https://bandsaboutmovies.com/.../interview-with-the.../

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