Get Soft With Dr Snuggles

Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 52 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

For some reason, it’s taken us 52 episodes and two years to get around to doing a Gregory Dark film, which is kind of unforgivable, given the impact he had on the erotic thriller genre. Time to rectify that with his 1992 classic Night Rhythms, in which a smooth talking late night radio host is framed for murder, and has to navigate a crazy underground world of strip joints owned by David Carradine, and lesbian salsa clubs. Our buddy Jaymz from the NBA Straya podcast joins us, and in a neat coincidence two of his favourite movie plot points are late night radio hosts, and bars owned by ex-strippers with a heart of gold. So that’s handy! Also, inspired by the movie, we try out a little sexy whispering ASMR. It goes down better with some members of the cast than others, but if that’s your thing you definitely don’t want to miss this episode.

Plus, we talk about the life and career of the star of the film, Martin Hewitt. He rose to fame in 1981’s Endless Love alongside Brooke Shields - beating 5,000 other hopefuls for the role, including a guy named Tom Cruise - but his star did not exactly continue to rise, and he ended up in less mainstream fare like Killer Party, Two Moon Junction, Carnal Crimes and of course Night Rhythms. So he decided on a career change, and now he’s a certified member of the American Society of Home Inspectors, and a Master California Real Estate Inspection Association Inspector, and runs his own company: Camelot Home Inspection Services! His Yelp reviews are all very positive!

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 51 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

This episode, we look at 1995’s Tina and the Professor. This might be the most obscure film we’ve done. It is almost definitely the weirdest film we’ve done. It’s, effectively, a softcore vanity project: written by, directed by, produced by, and stars a jovial, middle aged, eye-patch wearing maniac named Stan Haze. As the title suggests, it’s about a young woman named Tina (played by Roxanne Blaze, who took the porn world by storm in 1993 then left for more mainstream fare, but actually ended up in this), who falls for her college animal husbandry professor, who is a jovial, middle aged, eye-patch wearing maniac named Gorman Lenox (played by Stan Haze). It is also about Tina fantasising about her roommate, and hunky quarterback Dylan, and kind of also a gross drug dealer named Drexel, but also a little bit about Tina taking a very extreme and disturbing kind of revenge on a girl who tips a Slurpee on her head, and also a lot about the different types of dairy cows and beef cattle and horses and the various diseases each are susceptible to.

We were joined by Matt from Compañeros Radio Network sister shows Movie Melt and Songs on Trial, and also our good bud Avery from For the Story. We got quite drunk recording this one, because we had to. It’s that kind of movie. You’ll understand.

Naturally, we looked at the life and times of Stan Haze. You (very likely) have never heard of Stan Haze, but he had roles in House Party, Alligator, Don't Answer the Phone!, and also episodes of Sanford and Son, Hardcastle and McCormick, Hill Street Blues, and more. But of course we don’t stop there! We went to a special source, who worked with him on an unreleased movie he made after Tina and the Professor called The Magnificent Seven Biker Babes: legendary actress and one of the loveliest people ever to work in film, Honey Lauren! She gave us the inside scoop on Stan, his work methods, his skills as a director, his skills as a financial manager, his horse and llama ranch, and even why he was wearing an eye-patch by the ‘90s! Thanks Honey!

This is the real deal. Maybe our most unmissable episode ever! You’ll find out more about Tina and the Professor and Stan Haze on this episode of Get Soft than anywhere else - that’s our guarantee to you!

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 50 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

We’re continuing with our current big project, an episode by episode look at the story of two siblings, Randy and Kat. See, they were living in a flat, all by themselves, when they got a telegram that informed them of the death of their Aunt Betty, and said they should come and run her hotel. Her Hot Springs Hotel. And so, we’re looking at episodes 4, 5, and 6: Movie People, Corporate Raiders, and Beauty Pageant! There’s some fun to be had, particularly in episode 6, but also episode 4 is by far the worst one of the series, so there’s that as well. To balance it out, we invited our friend Jimmy Ether on to help lighten the mood!

Plus, we look at the life and career of one of the guest stars from episode 4, the great Alan Palmer. He’s best known for two things: his long running one man shows Fabulous Divas of Broadway and Fabulous Divas of Hollywood, and his 10 episode run on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, as Corcus, the Black Ranger from a planet called Aquitar, who was part of the Alien Rangers team drafted to fill in for Earth’s Power Rangers when they were rendered powerless and transformed into children by Master Vile. Seriously, he’s very in demand to speak about the latter. Power Rangers fans are super enthusiastic. He helped us out by doing a little email interview with us, which is definitely the only time anyone has ever bothered him to talk about Hot Springs Hotel. So, thanks Alan!

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 49 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

A while back, we realised we missed watching one of the genre’s all time greats work, so we dug up another Robert Donavan classic: 2001’s Private Call, aka Deviant Desires! Donavan plays Max Diamond, the by-the-books partner to Detective Shane Miller (Miyoko Fujimori, aka Flower), a cop who just can’t let the murder of a sex worker named Jennifer go, and gets suspended for it. But even then she continues investigating, going undercover at a mysterious club named Private Call! It’s an all-star affair: the prolific Brad Bartram is there too, it’s directed by legendary hardcore star/producer/director Melissa Monet, and it’s written by The Power Couple of ‘90s and 2000s softcore, Ed Gorsuch and April White! But does it live up to the hype?

Plus, we talk about the life and career of the great Miyoko Fujimori! She’s done it all: real estate agent, stripper, model actor, author, sex toy designer, pole fitness and AcroYoga instructor, and intimacy choreographer! Also, with a little luck, future guest on an episode of Get Soft!

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 48 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

We’re spaceward bound this episode, checking out Norman J. Warren’s 1979 interstellar softcore comedy Spaced Out! It’s wildly British (written by the guy who went on to create Pie in the Sky, in which Richard Griffiths was a semi-retired copper who also ran a restaurant - classic stuff) though stars an Australian, a Canadian, and a Hungarian as three goofy aliens, who have sequins for eyebrows. Bonus: one of them is the unforgettable Glory Annen, from Felicity! And as is befitting a saucy British comedy of the time, it’s packed with innuendo, has a pretty fair smattering of sexism, but also maybe rejects this and heroises the sensitive, emotionally intelligent lad instead? We try to puzzle that one out.

Plus, we talk about the life and times of the one and only Dr Ava Cadell, who plays alien engineer Partha! She was a refugee of the Hungarian revolution before she was even two years old, and then almost became a nun. But, of course, she didn’t - she became a successful model and actor, and a world renowned Sexologist! Now she runs online sex coach training school Loveology University - good ol’ Love U’! Ava, if you’re reading this, you gotta make letterman jackets. You’ll sell thousands!

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 47 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

It’s time for our next big project, and this time we’re heading to the world of late ‘90s softcore TV, with James Dudelson’s Hot Springs Hotel, and we check out the first three episodes: Money Trouble, Cheerleaders, and Travels with Travis. It’s the story of two siblings, Randy and Kat, living in a flat - all by themselves. Then one day they get a telegram, which tells them that their Aunt Betty had passed away, and they they should come and run her hotel. Her Hot Springs Hotel. Hot Springs Hotel. Once you hear the theme song, you’ll never be able to get it out of your head. Sorry about that.

Plus, we talk about the life and times of its star, the great Samantha Phillips: actor, model, radio talk show host, reality TV host, and film producer! She was in Phantasm II and said she didn’t really get it at the time (understandable, honestly) and also did music videos for everyone from Van Halen and Mötley Crüe to Simply Red and Weird Al! Also: literally has not aged in 25 years.

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 46 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

This week, Anthony from fantastic looking erotic thriller documentary We Kill for Love is our special guest once again, and we check out 1993’s erotic revenge thriller masterpiece, Scorned - starring and directed by the legendary Andrew Stevens. Fun fact: Scorned is the only DTV erotic thriller available on blu-ray at this time. Granted, it’s only available as a very limited release (2 covers with 250 copies each), and only in Germany, but it looks stunning, and as a bonus comes with a 20 page booklet which is entirely in German (so could honestly say anything). The plot is bananas - wife of suicided man tries to take revenge on the guy who got a promotion ahead of him by seducing him, his son and wife - but it’s enormous fun, and stars iconic queen of ‘90s softcore Shannon Tweed! How have we made it 46 episodes without doing either an Andrew Stevens or Shannon Tweed movie?!

Naturally, instead of talking about the careers of either of those two legends, we talk about the life and times of its writer, Barry Avrich. This was Avrich’s one dip into the erotic thriller genre, but he’s a big name in the world of Canadian advertising, and also a big name in the world of biographical documentaries (particularly Canadian-focused ones). He also wrote a 400 page autobiography, although weirdly he doesn’t mention Scorned once in it.

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 45 of Get Soft, your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

It's the finale of Get Soft’s Bikini Summer Summer, as we take on 1997’s Bikini Summer III: South Beach Heat! This time the action moves from LA across to Miami, and the plot goes from oddly ambitious in the last one to what might charitably be described as threadbare. Jamie, a makeup artist for a bikini contest, ends up competing, even though she insists she’s more interested in painting than posing and doesn’t have the body for it anyway. Given Jamie is played by actual former bikini model Heather Elizabeth Parkhurst, you can probably guess where it’s going. What you might not have seen coming is the scummy undercurrent of homophobia (through what is honestly a very offensive caricature) and uncomfortable sexism (although probably the sexism might be sort of expected, who knows). It’s a weird one, but if you start watching a series you simply cannot not watch every film. It’s the law.

Also, everyone’s favourite, Jim Ether joins us, and for some reason this episode is 2 and a half hours long. It’s not entirely clear why.

And, we look at the life and career of star and associate producer Heather Elizabeth Parkhurst! She was in Sherman Oaks, she was a member of the Swedish Bikini Team, and she had guest spots on a bunch of TV shows ranging from fondly remembered (Married...with Children, Get a Life, The George Carlin Show) to barely remembered (Top of the Heap, Rachel Gunn R.N., That Was Then). Also she was the titular Lisa in the video for Pauly Shore’s hit (?) single Lisa Lisa in 1991. We listen to it. It’s worse than you remember.

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 44 of Get Soft, your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

Get Soft’s Bikini Summer Summer continues, with the second film in the series, which is very reasonably titled Bikini Summer II. Does it follow on from the first Bikini Summer in any way? No it does not, but it is based on a story by and directed by the one and only Jeff Conaway! This is his one and only directorial effort, and it is also spellbindingly weird. It’s all about a homeless troubadour played by Robert Miano, who teaches a couple of rich girls about the important things in life: friendship and selflessness. So it’s kind of a heartwarming anti-capitalist tale, but also there’s weird sketch comedy moments, and also numerous comedy BDSM moments, and a lot of singing and a rock concert at the end. Where do the bikinis fit in? They kind of don’t. It confused the heck out of everyone, that’s for dang sure.

Of course, we talk about the life and times of the legend himself, Jeff Conaway. We talk a lot about Jeff Conaway, but there’s a lot to say about him, so that makes sense. We talk about the big hits, the not so big hits, the leaner years in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, and we talk about his numerous musical projects, most of which are truly awesome. He had a single in 1979 that you have to check out: it’s called City Boy and it’s a straight up killer jam.

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 43 of Get Soft, your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

For various reasons, we inadvertently took a month and a half break, but never fear - we’re back, and we’re going straight into a hugely innovative series of special episodes! So here’s the deal: it’s summer down under, and we’re going to do the three movies in the Bikini Summer series! Incredible, right? Right. This time we’re joined by a bunch of antipodean special guests (including Jaymz from NBA 'Straya podcast, and Josh from the band Househats), and we check out where it all began, back in 1991, with the first film in the series. David Millbern (from Midnight Confessions!) is there, and so is Hollywood body double superstar Shelley Michelle, and also porn star Missy Warner, who seems to turn up in a lot of these films. In this entry, some friends have to try and save a beach from greedy developers by staging a bikini contest. And...that’s kind of it, really.

Also, we check out the life and times of Katherine Victor, who is in the film for literally a minute, so that proved kind of a controversial choice. She has a long and storied career though - working repeatedly with Jerry Warren against her better judgement, most notable in The Wild World of Batwoman, but also as an animation continuity checker, with legends like Friz Freleng, Ralph Bakshi and Don Bluth, and on that one Chipmunks movie where they raced the Chipettes around the world in hot air balloons. You know the one.

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