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John Pierson introduces SPLIT SCREEN Season Eight
Episode 1
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Split Screen: S8-E1 THE SIMPSONS in Korea
Episode 2
Meet Al Kaplon, umpire turned filmmaker on the set of an X-FILES baseball episode; lady fetish wrestler Deena Zarra shows off some moves and discusses wrestling, and beating, Andy Kaufman; did you know THE SIMPSONS was animated in Seoul, Korea? Come along as Doug Stone and PH O’Brien pay the anim...
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29:26Episode 3
Split Screen: S8-E2 Godzilla Revealed
Episode 3
A visit with Japanese actor Haruo Nakajima, better known as the original Godzilla; T. J. and Beth Larson take a look at the filmmaking juggernaut that is Billy Graham Ministries; Maggie Hadleigh-West’s profile on Karen Riposo and her multiracial children’s performing arts program featuring Jacob ...
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28:14Episode 4
Split Screen: S8-E3 The Fabulous Stains
Episode 4
Hanging out with a hard-core unit of Civil War reenactors down South; the story behind the cult masterpiece LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS; “How to Read a Movie Poster,” the hidden truth revealed! Original airdate 05/24/1999
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Split Screen: S8-E4 Waiting for STAR WARS
Episode 5
Meet Robert Cartagena, a.k.a. Red Leader, for a look at the serious business of waiting in line for the new STAR WARS; experts weigh in on the realism of FBI procedures in the movies; bull rider Barry Tubb heads out west to the Taos Talking Pictures Fest where first prize is a $5,000 land grant. ...
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Split Screen: S8-E5 Tinseltown and Vaudeville
Episode 6
Brian Flemming, Keythe Farley, and his wife Ann go for the gold at Tinseltown, an interactive dinner experience in Orange County; visit Palm Springs Follies, a true vaudevillian revue; free-form radio station WFMU in Jersey City, NJ, reveals their vault of buried treasure, not only on vinyl but a...
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Split Screen: S8-E6 Projections: Walter Bernstein
Episode 7
Of all Projections interviews, Walter Bernstein’s tales are the stuff of a grand movie adventure. From WW2 hero/correspondent to Hollywood Blacklist in five years, both his script for THE FRONT and memoir INSIDE OUT illuminate that era, while FAIL SAFE captures the nail-biting fear of nuclear ann...