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@fadeoutpod.bsky.social

A podcast examining the final films of Hollywood's brightest lights. Hosted by former video store clerk Rob Kelly. https://fireandwaterpodcast.com/show/fade-out

created July 31, 2023

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Now Playing www.imdb.com/title/tt0040...

2/9/2025, 9:36:13 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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"I'm just as God made me, sir."

2/9/2025, 8:23:18 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every piece of SNL news in the last week has been bad.

2/9/2025, 7:29:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ICYMI: Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman cast member @claudialamb.bsky.social and I discussed the career of the great Norman Lear and his first and last film as director, COLD TURKEY, on the latest episode of FADE OUT!

2/9/2025, 1:14:06 PM | 10 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh I have no intention of stopping!

2/9/2025, 12:32:45 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now Playing www.imdb.com/title/tt0082...

1/9/2025, 7:01:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now Playing www.imdb.com/title/tt0049...

1/9/2025, 5:32:53 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We’ve had a lot of great guests, hope you enjoy.

31/8/2025, 9:20:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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New FADE OUT! Norman Lear’s COLD TURKEY w/guest @claudialamb.bsky.social fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/fo51/

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31/8/2025, 11:12:53 AM | 25 10 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 3:35:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One of my favorite recurring elements of the golden age Aquaman stories were how gleefully he murdered Nazis.

31/8/2025, 3:26:56 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every time I watch THE SHINING I can’t help but notice how well Dick Halloran would have fit in with the Enterprise bridge crew.

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I saw it decades ago, it holds ip beautifully.

31/8/2025, 1:23:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now Playing www.imdb.com/title/tt0085...

31/8/2025, 1:05:33 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now Playing www.imdb.com/title/tt1588...

30/8/2025, 10:55:08 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now Playing www.imdb.com/title/tt5059...

30/8/2025, 1:10:31 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Recording with @claudialamb.bsky.social be like

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29/8/2025, 2:47:58 PM | 8 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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My wife and I have visited two of the four drive-ins near us since moving to Florida, with our dog along for the ride. Always a great time.

29/8/2025, 1:15:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“WHO THE F*CK ORDERS HAWAIIAN?!?”

28/8/2025, 8:42:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This one is my all time favorite www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9fb...

28/8/2025, 8:30:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Let’s get rid of stuff built to go viral so we can get Ben in the Domingo sketches.”

28/8/2025, 8:18:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If Lorne wanted to utterly (please don't) destroy the show, not sure what he'd be doing any different than what he is doing.

28/8/2025, 8:01:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Me too

28/8/2025, 6:27:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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First 30 minutes of SSN 51 Premiere JAJ as Trump Host takes questions from audience 12 minute Domingo piece "Ladies and gentlemen, Morgan Wallen"

28/8/2025, 6:10:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Followed by Morgan Wallen as musical guest

28/8/2025, 6:08:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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First three sketches of SSN 51 Premiere: JAJ as Trump Host takes questions from audience 12 minute Domingo piece

28/8/2025, 6:06:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tom Clancy’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover

28/8/2025, 12:07:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have no idea why I collect these things. I can't play them. They're cumbersome and heavy AF. And yet when I saw a copy of LEAGUES in an antique store yesterday I couldn't grab it fast enough.

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27/8/2025, 8:54:56 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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WHEN IN THE EVER LOVING HELL IS THIS COMING TO FLORIDA? I mean, I know as a state we suck but there are a lot of cinephiles here! www.videoheaven.movie/screenings

27/8/2025, 5:55:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Coming in December from @umbrellaent.bsky.social! 1981's Oscar-winning QUEST FOR FIRE, featuring a commentary track by me! shop.umbrellaent.com.au/products/que...

26/8/2025, 11:56:09 AM | 5 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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The very fun (and slightly naughty) MERMAIDS OF TIBURON, coming soon from VCI Entertainment, featuring a commentary by me! roninflix.com/products/mer...

25/8/2025, 4:04:06 PM | 12 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sharing for reasons

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25/8/2025, 3:58:56 PM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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24/8/2025, 2:46:03 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now Playing www.imdb.com/title/tt2771...

23/8/2025, 11:56:00 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“He lives in Canada. You wouldn’t know him.”

23/8/2025, 5:45:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Exactly! After that I realized ANY movie could be good, and I shouldn’t just dismiss one because it looked old or weird or wasn’t, you know, STAR WARS.

23/8/2025, 1:02:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When I was a 13 or so my Dad came into my room and told me to put on PBS. It was showing STALAG 17. It was old and black and white I had no interest. He insisted it was great and I should check it out. I shrugged and within five minutes I was hooked. I never looked at movies the same way again.

23/8/2025, 12:44:57 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now Playing www.imdb.com/title/tt0044...

23/8/2025, 12:34:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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4/6 youtu.be/Ddh6FBvHFi0?...

22/8/2025, 9:12:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now Playing www.imdb.com/title/tt0047...

21/8/2025, 10:28:49 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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THIS IS LEGALLY BINDING

21/8/2025, 2:31:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's in the middle of this great little neighborhood and I already imagined all sorts of cross promotional ideas with the other stores.

21/8/2025, 1:13:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My wife stumbled across a charming old timey movie theater in a small Florida town yesterday, which only seems to be open a few times during the summer. While I generally always wish I was rich, this was one of those times I REALLY wish I was, so I just buy it and run movies all year long.

21/8/2025, 1:08:17 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The people who would care about this already know, but the piano player in REAR WINDOW is the same guy from Alvin and the Chipmunks.

20/8/2025, 2:36:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love this goofball so much.

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19/8/2025, 8:36:12 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You find the oddest things in IMDB trivia. You’ll never guess what project this was “trivia” for.

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19/8/2025, 8:32:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bob Dylan, WORLD GONE WRONG liner notes, 1993 "what's essentially true is virtual reality. technology to wipe out truth is now available. not everybody can afford it but it's available. when the cost comes down look out!" "before the insane world of entertainment exploded in our faces"

19/8/2025, 6:04:55 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am simultaneously getting kinder to the people like and more casually dismissive of the people I don't.

19/8/2025, 1:15:30 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now Playing www.imdb.com/title/tt0057...

19/8/2025, 1:05:59 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Saw one of my favorite films, David Lean's SUMMERTIME, on the big screen yesterday. Such a beautiful movie, man do I want to see Venice sometime!

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18/8/2025, 7:35:50 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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17/8/2025, 4:31:28 PM | 12 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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MAGA should totally do this en masse to Own the Libs. I would be SO OWNED.

14/8/2025, 7:22:12 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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While not a cop, he is an officious a-hole in AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, as well. John Landis really liked casting him in these kinds of roles!

14/8/2025, 1:29:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now Playing www.imdb.com/title/tt0071...

13/8/2025, 10:07:31 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Scuffle

13/8/2025, 8:33:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or, if you did want to go the HUGE GUY route, Jason Segel.

13/8/2025, 8:15:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I would have enjoyed watching Seth Rogan beat some Nazis to death with a bat with THAT LAUGH going the whole time.

13/8/2025, 8:10:00 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"I've been shot twice."

13/8/2025, 6:52:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She never babysat me again. Me being a little rat may have ended a promising side hustle.

13/8/2025, 6:23:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When I was 11 or so, I begged my cousin dba babysitter to let me watch this on cable. She initially said no, then finally gave in. I got terrified, so much so my parents noticed it when they got home, and my cousin got in trouble. Sorry about that, Dawn!

13/8/2025, 6:16:53 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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These people are so insecure they need their own “elites” to keep telling them they are right in their idiocy.

13/8/2025, 3:40:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cultural illiterates creating content for other cultural illiterates.

13/8/2025, 3:04:21 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Got a letter printed in there once!

13/8/2025, 1:11:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Old women with stringy hair in basements.

12/8/2025, 9:46:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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7/11 youtu.be/oZlpLwWeKvA

12/8/2025, 7:23:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When I was a kid reading THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS over and over I would imagine what a movie version of this would look like and cast George Carlin as the ancient Green Arrow.

12/8/2025, 4:15:50 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I discovered it during my video store clerking days in the 90s and I've watched it at least once a year since.

12/8/2025, 3:14:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My love of I, CLAUDIUS is long and deep. Always glad to find someone else appreciates it like I do!

12/8/2025, 2:53:47 PM | 15 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well that was an experience. www.imdb.com/title/tt2658...

12/8/2025, 1:52:55 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now Playing www.imdb.com/title/tt0057...

9/8/2025, 6:17:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The book purposely keeps Larry out of the main action for most of it; we only really get glimpses of him via Maugham, which the 1946 movie replicates. The 1984 version doesn't have SM in it all, making Larry the main character. An understandable choice by the filmmakers, but IMO not as effective.

8/8/2025, 5:59:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is my favorite book of all time. I like both movie versions, despite their flaws. The 1946 version adheres more closely to the book, which in many ways is inherently uncinematic.

8/8/2025, 4:26:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now Playing www.imdb.com/title/tt0055...

7/8/2025, 9:33:05 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had a LDR with someone who lived there. I would go to visit her occasionally, and all her and her friends did was go to the casinos and gamble their money away. Oh, and there were scorpions.

7/8/2025, 6:57:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I saw this doc in the theater and never forgot it. Absolutely criminal it’s not on Blu and OOP on DVD. youtu.be/FVns3k-NGAo?...

7/8/2025, 12:58:40 AM | 8 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had a friend at work who routinely came up with pithy, short, and utterly accurate nicknames for our coworkers. I told him I didn’t ever want to hear what mine was.

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Now Playing www.imdb.com/title/tt0040...

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I need to see this movie. Please do not mock me during this difficult time.

6/8/2025, 3:23:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When. Can. I. See. This.

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GWS. When I'm sick, that's all I want to do.

5/8/2025, 5:49:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They come from Subterranea! I saw it in a movie!

5/8/2025, 4:00:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Finally, a video store in my house!

5/8/2025, 1:16:32 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now Playing www.imdb.com/title/tt9619...

4/8/2025, 11:20:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Post someone who looks good in a hat

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Now Playing www.imdb.com/title/tt0024...

4/8/2025, 9:18:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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11/19 youtu.be/vj6QawF-Q9w?...

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When I worked at Borders (2006-2011), the Christian section was filled with books by former Hollywood "elites" whose careers had gone belly up, and were now writing hardcover books ($24.95 SRP) breathlessly dishing to their new right wing fans just how awful that Hollyweird place really was.

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My birthday is in August, mid month. That would work for me.

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Now Playing www.imdb.com/title/tt0042...

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My wife and I went to see @danagould.bsky.social at Sidesplitters in Tampa tonight. Not only was he hilarious as expected, but we got to chat with him after the show and geek out over old movies. An absolutely fantastic evening, see him if you can!

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Now Playing www.imdb.com/title/tt0185...

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Now Playing www.imdb.com/title/tt0066...

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4/8 youtu.be/Ud1T9R6vy2s?...

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“This Hitchcock guy is kinda schmaltzy…”

31/7/2025, 11:35:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view