Showing posts with label Dum-Dum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dum-Dum. Show all posts

Sunday, October 4, 2020

Episode 44. Opening clip: “Super Argo and the Faceless Giants.” 2007 Louisville Dum-Dum discussion of local chapters of the Burroughs Bibliophiles. James G Huckenpƶhler talks about the National Capital Panthans. Bill Ross also talks about the benefits of forming a local Burroughs group.

Saturday, August 29, 2020

Episode 41. Trailer for “Tarzan and the Great River.” Will Pepe make friends with old Baron? Can Tarzan escape the crocodiles? Can the lady doctor save the village with her medicine? Clip from the Tarzan Filmation cartoon series from the 1970s. The 2007 Burroughs Bibiophiles Achievement Award was introduced by Laurence Dunn at the Dum-Dum in Louisville: John Tyner. “This is totally unexpected,” John says. Elmo chats with ERB fan Don Gray. A soundbite from Bobby Williams' “They call me Tarzan.”

Saturday, August 8, 2020

Episode 40 Opening Bit: Carson Napier calls OnStar for directions to Mars. Elmo interviews ERB artist Richard Hescox, who says his favorite Carson cover that he illustrated was Escape on Venus. Later, Hescox is presented with a Golden Lion award and speaks during the 2007 Dum -Dum banquet in Louisville, Kentucky. “I probably would not have been an illustrator were it not for my love of Edgar Rice Burroughs,” he says. Hescox describes his lifelong love of Burroughs and how he came to do the Venus covers.




Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Episode 39. Opening Bit: Jane Goodall observes the 2007 Dum-Dum proceedings in Louisville, Kentucky. A talk by Sky “Apeman” Brower during that Dum-Dum. He discusses how fans rallied around Gordon Scott during the final months of his life. Sky reads a letter from Eve “Jane 1958” Brent addressed to fans at the convention. He also conveys comments about Gordon from Elaine Hollingsworth, who played Angie in “Tarzan's Greatest Adventure.”

Sunday, July 19, 2020

Episode 38 Opening clip from the 2007 Flash Gordon TV series, which Elmo hated. Then a clip from the 1930s radio serial, which Elmo loved. From the 2007 Dum-Dum, a talk by Mike Chapman about the Herman Brix/Bruce Bennett Tarzan movie/serial, “Tarzan and the Green Goddess.” Mike wrote the Bennett biography, “Please don't call me Tarzan.” Lots of details about his conversations with Bennett. “Going down to Guatemala was a life changing experience,” Bruce told Mike, referring to his Tarzan movie.

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Episode 37. George McWhorter and Mike Conran give Tarzan yells. Dedication of the Bob Hyde ERB collection at the University of Louisville during the 2007 Dum-Dum by Bob's son, John Clayton Hyde. “My father's life passion has made for some interesting times.”

Saturday, May 16, 2020

Episode 33. Opening song clip: “Tarzan, my Tarzan” from a Bollywood movie. Longtime ERB fan Jim Thompson is a guest on Dateline Jasoom. He talks about his father's love of Burroughs and how that was passed down to him. We talk about Gordon Scott, who had just died at the time of this 2007 interview. “Gordon Scott has always been my favorite movie Tarzan,” Jim says. And this: “Burroughs was not just a diversion, Burroughs was a moral compass.”

Saturday, April 4, 2020

Episode 28. Opening bit: The BBC reports that the orphaned son of Lord and Lady Greystoke has been found. (Laurence Dunn and Jerry Spannraft.) Della's favorite author is Otis Adelbert Kline, which causes Elmo to blow a circuit. A clip from the 1994 Dum-Dum features Sam Moskowitz speaking about the alleged “feud” between ERB and Kline. Guillermo del Toro appears on Jimmy Kimmel to talk about a Tarzan movie project (which never happened.) A clip from Stiiv Ryan's Trek Tune, “Agonizer”

Saturday, December 21, 2019

Episode 14 From the 2006 ECOF convention in Rockville, Maryland. Interviews with fans Steve Wadding and Robert Jones. Shirley LeBeau says hi. George McWhorter opens banquet with a Tarzan yell. Speakers: Laurence Dunn, Dorothy D.J. “Usha” Howell, Mike Conran, Jim Thompson, and Alan Hanson, winner of the 2006 Golden Lion award, and John Tyner. Elmo announces the formation of the Chicago Muckers.

Saturday, October 26, 2019

Episode 6. Andy “Jason Gridley” Nunez: Why Elmo Lincoln didn't get the speaking role of Tarzan in “Tarzan the Ape Man.” Steve “Ghak the Hairy One” Wadding promotes the 2006 ECOF convention in Rockville, Maryland. Bit: A preview of the dinner speaker for a 2006 Burroughs convention. Real news about that convention, which would be held in 2006 in Maryland, in an interview with Bill Ross of the National Capital Panthans, a chapter of the Burroughs Bibliophiles. “It's a great place to meet and become friends with people who share your interest,” Bill says. A chat with Bill Hillman, curator of erbzine.com, about what conventions are like. He recalls the “fight to the death” he and Bob “Tarak” Woodley had with Johnny Weissmuller's knife at the 1999 Dum-Dum in Tarzana. More details on plans for the Tarzan on Broadway production.