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Front Row Classics is proud to welcome Nancy Olson Livingston this week. Ms. Livingston sits down with Brandon to discuss her remarkable life as told in her upcoming memoir, "A Front Row Seat: An Intimate Look at Broadway, Hollywood, and the Age of Glamour". The book chronicles her life, career and marriages to Alan Jay Lerner and Alan Livingston. Her life reads like a road map to the arts and politics of the 20th Century. Ms. Livingston tells Brandon many amazing stories regarding encounters with such figures as William Holden, John Wayne, JFK, Walt Disney and The Beatles.

"A Front Row Seat: An Intimate Look at Broadway, Hollywood, and the Age of Glamour" will be available later this month wherever books are sold from University Press of Kentucky.

Nancy Olson Livingston was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Sunset Boulevard (1950). She has appeared in several films, including Union Station (1950), Battle Cry (1955), Pollyanna (1960), The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), and Airport 1975 (1974). She has also starred in three plays on Broadway: Tunnel of Love, Send Me No Flowers, and Mary, Mary, and guest-starred in a number of television shows. She lives in Beverly Hills, California.

The Freeling family is living in a cookie cutter community in California, when strange happenings begin to occur. Furniture starts moving on it's own, kids magically get shuffled across the room, trees start to attack children, and eventually the children's bedroom closet swallows up the baby of the family, Carol Anne. As Carol Anne goes missing in the house and the happenings in the house grow clearly more sinister, the family decides to reach out to the fine folks in the Conjuring. These para-psychologists soon learn that this entity haunting the Freeling's is beyond their skillset, so they call in the big-little guns. While the family continues to search for Carol Anne, Tangina, the sweet southern medium wrecking ball, ready to dance with a Poltergeist. The family along with Tangina come up with a plan to pull Carol Anne free from the other side with the power of a mother's love. The family saves Carol Anne, Tangina declares this house is clean, and then we learn….its totally not. The evil entity cast out one last paranormal attack on the family to get the life force of Carol Anne. The Freeling's escape and learn the construction company that designed this neighborhood moved a cemetery before building, only they moved the graves, but they didn't move the bodies. Why?! WHY?! The family escapes and stays at an old school Holiday Inn.

Featuring: Erin McCabe, Ryan Lootens, & Jay Hoffman

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Michael, Sam, and their mother are moving in with their grandpa in Santa Cruz after leaving the uber-progressive Phoenix. Michael, brooding with teen angst and wistful hair flips falls for a mystery girl who pals around with a group of leather-clad hair metal hoodlums. As he eyes the girl, his younger brother Sam turns out to be the coolest guy in the Santa Cruz comic shop, where he meets the Frog brothers, who nerdily express their belief that Santa Cruz is filled with vampires. As Sam and Michael's stories converge on the titular Lost Boys, their mother is a dating a local business owner, and huge dork, Max. Soon, Michael, as well as mystery girl Star have been turned into vampires, but one only reaches their full vampire status after their first kill. While these two fight their instinctual urge, Sam and the Frog Brothers come up with a plan to kill the original vampire in order to break the vampiric curse put upon Michael and Star. The real question is, can the gang find the grand count of Santa Cruz or will our teenage romantics fulfill their immortal destiny?

Listen in as we talk about how all the elements line up for this never grow up vampire flick.

Featuring: Jay Hoffman, Ryan Lootens, & Steve Sykes

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We begin in the chilled landscape of Antarctica where a man is shooting at a dog from a helicopter, as the dog is soon moving into an American research base. The men on the American base do what any freedom loving American would do in this situation…they take the dog's side. Once the deranged gunman is eliminated, the Americans welcome the dog to the team and peacefully go back to work like nothing weird just happened. Soon enough, big friendly dog turn into big slimey monster! Luckily, Mac had the flamethrower at the ready. Soon we realize that…there…was a reason they were shooting at the dog. Shocked? Me too. Anyways Wilford Brimley, Mr. Dia Beetus himself, discovers that the dog is actually this thing that turns into living creatures and mimicks them to take over and spread like a virus thing. He has a total meltdown after his 1982 super computer with some pretty advanced software determines this thing would take over the world in no time if it reaches the mainland. He starts destroying stuff, and one by one each member of the crew starts morphing into monsters and McReady turns into Poiroit with a flamethrower. Once The Thing has morphed everyone into a super monster, Mac burns the whole base down and he and Childs are left…are they themselves or are they….The Thing? Join us as we break down what makes this John Carpenter cult classic so amazing.

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We conclude this year's MonsterCast with one of the most unique thrillers to ever come out of Hollywood. 1955's "The Night of the Hunter" remains as frightening and dream-like as it was upon release. Brandon & Eric welcome back Jay Hoffman to discuss Charles Laughton's only outing as director. The hosts praise the sinister performance of Robert Mitchum as Reverend Harry Powell. They also highlight the wonderful contributions of Lillian Gish and Shelley Winters. The central themes of good vs evil, men & women and religion are also touched upon in the episode.

For this Halloween the Super GG Radio team played through the Resident Evil remaster. Released in 2002 on the Nintendo Gamecube, the re-release of the original classic is a mix of old game controls and more modern-day visuals that is a good entry point into this seminal horror series.

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Games Discussed:

• Resident Evil (2002)

Music Credits:

Introduction: I Got A Story by DJ Quads

Intermission:Chill Jazzy Lofi Hip Hop by DJ Quads

End Credits: Show Me by DJ Quads

Mixed by Joel DeWitte

Edited by Joel DeWitte

Were you scared of the chimney sweeps in Mary Poppins or of becoming a monkey boy like in Jumanji? Jacqueline and Meghan discuss some of the movies or tv shows that weren't supposed to be scary but ended up as nightmare fuel. Titles include: Chitty Chitty Bang, Bang, Return to Oz, The Brave Little Toaster, The Witches, The Neverending Story, and many more.

#MonsterCast roles on with the latest episode of #FullDisclosure. Flashback host Ryan Lootens is joined by fellow franchise super-fan and host of our brother podcast After The Hype Bryan Dressel to talk about the conclusion of an era in #HalloweenEnds. Does the final chapter of the Miichael Myers saga deliver? You'll have to listen to find out! #FRN #NPR

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Larry is once again joined by Nicole and Gideon for one of their favorite horror movies, Willy's Wonderland starring Nicolas Cage as a silent touch guy who takes on janitorial duties at a Satanic Showbiz Pizza called Willy's Wonderland where the animatronics are hiding a dark secret. Is he locked in there with them, or are they locked in there with him?

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