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Chapter 1: What interesting curses are explored in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What is the story behind the curse of Brunswick Springs?
So after Belushi passed, it went back into turnaround.
Yeah.
spent a few more years getting kicked around, and then Sam Kinison, the great comedian, signed on in 1988, and they actually started filming, right? I think they got eight days into it. Okay. Did you know, real quick, Sam Kinison was a fire and brimstone itinerant preacher? Yeah. I did not know that he started out like that. It makes sense. I can totally see it, but wow.
So, yeah, they filmed eight days' worth of this movie, and I guess... Sam Kinison hadn't really read the script because after that point, he was like, hey, I really want some more say in like what the script rewrites are going to do. And the studio was like, we're not really happy about that. And Kinison was like, oh, yeah, well, I'm going to deliver a terrible performance.
And the studio said, oh, yeah, well, we're going to sue you. And they did. They filed a lawsuit against him. Yeah, it got pretty ugly. So production was obviously halted. And it was still sort of in being contested when Sam Kinison, very sadly, died in a car wreck in 1992 at age 38. Okay. All right. That's a little weird so far. Two actors who tried to play it took have died young.
But surely that doesn't mean anything, right? No. Curses aren't real. No. Although it is real, because if you continue on just a few more years, it took the script claimed more lives. That's right. In 1996, screenwriter Michael O'Donohue, who I believe was an SNL guy. Yes. The original scriptwriter, I looked him up. I can't remember his name now. Maybe it was Todd Carroll or something.
He was a National Lampoon guy. Right. And maybe Michael O'Donohue was too. So it was kind of in that world. Long way of saying he took over, did some rewrites, and recruited none other than the great, great John Candy, And very sadly, we all know what happened to John Candy. He passed away at the age of 43 of a heart attack. And O'Donohue also died of a cerebral hemorrhage at 58.
So that was a double curse. And this is the point where I can remind everybody to go out and watch the John Candy documentary because it is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Okay, good. Thank you for that. One other thing about that, John Candy and Michael O'Donohue died the same year in 1996, which was also the same year that they decided to make this movie. Was that not clear? No. Okay.
So that was, I mean, that to me, that's like, that's very surprising. Okay. I'm also, you guys, I'm not this really this credulous, but it is very interesting to me. Okay.
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Chapter 3: How did the curse of Atuk affect Hollywood?
I be seeing it, but I'm like, man, I still got like so much more to do. Like Prince, he dropped like 30 albums. We dropped like five right now. That's the rate we got to be going.
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I directed one of Nas' early videos. Which one? One Love. Wow. I literally filmed in his apartment in Queensbridge. His moms were still up in that apartment. Noms was just beginning to take off. His pops used to live near me in Harlem. His dad introduced him to a whole lot of, you know, conscious stuff, and he made a young prodigy.
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Keith Giamonka seemed like a mild-mannered suburban dad, but secretly, he became someone else, a master of disguise who went on a crime spree.
At the time, did it seem like a crazy idea?
It seemed very crazy, but I felt so desperate that I felt it was the quickest, easiest way out.
Did you allow yourself to think about how it could go wrong and what that might look like?
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