Forty years ago this evening, a doubleheader at Chicago’s Comiskey Park devolved into a fiery riot when crazed fans stormed the field as part of anti-disco promotional event dubbed Disco Demolition Night. The whole thing was the brainchild of disc jockey Steve Dahl, who dressed up like the general of an anti-disco army and called his followers “The Insane Coho Lips.”
“I hate the taste of piña coladas,” he told newscaster Greg Gumbel on the fateful evening shortly before smashing a disco record against his head. “I’m allergic to gold jewelry,...
“I hate the taste of piña coladas,” he told newscaster Greg Gumbel on the fateful evening shortly before smashing a disco record against his head. “I’m allergic to gold jewelry,...
- 7/12/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Bob Odenkirk just wrapped another masterful season of AMC’s “Better Call Saul,” but before he returns to the Emmy-nominated series next year he’ll appear in an episode on the upcoming sixth season of Comedy Central’s “Drunk History.” The actor revealed during an appearance at PaleyFest NY (via Av Club) that filming the episode got him drunk for the first time in three decades.
“It was scary for me to get drunk,” Odenkirk said. “[Creator Derek Waters] knows. We had a lot of conversations about it. I almost backed out because I haven’t been drunk in a long, long time. Probably over 30 years.”
Odenkirk’s “Drunk History” episode recounts radio host Steve Dahl’s disco demolition in 1979. The event took place at Comiskey Park in Chicago during a doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers. Dahl blew up a crate filled with disco records in between games,...
“It was scary for me to get drunk,” Odenkirk said. “[Creator Derek Waters] knows. We had a lot of conversations about it. I almost backed out because I haven’t been drunk in a long, long time. Probably over 30 years.”
Odenkirk’s “Drunk History” episode recounts radio host Steve Dahl’s disco demolition in 1979. The event took place at Comiskey Park in Chicago during a doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers. Dahl blew up a crate filled with disco records in between games,...
- 10/10/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
HollywoodNews.com: Levi Johnston can’t get away from questions about Bristol and Sarah Palin, but now he’s in an even trickier situation.
Radio personality Steve Dahl recently posed an awkward question to Johnston in regard to the mother of his child and her mother, states RadarOnline.com. Dahl asked Johnston to choose which one was hotter which seemed to cause problems for him.
“I don’t know. Bristol’s probably hotter but Sarah has the money, right?” Johnston commented.
Eventually, he settled on Bristol being the one he would choose.
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Radio personality Steve Dahl recently posed an awkward question to Johnston in regard to the mother of his child and her mother, states RadarOnline.com. Dahl asked Johnston to choose which one was hotter which seemed to cause problems for him.
“I don’t know. Bristol’s probably hotter but Sarah has the money, right?” Johnston commented.
Eventually, he settled on Bristol being the one he would choose.
Who do you think is hotter?
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- 10/1/2011
- by Molly Sullivan
- Hollywoodnews.com
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers? También la lluvia (Even The Rain) Trailer Director, and native Spaniard, Icíar Bollaín certainly has picked someone unique to talk about the Bolivian Cochabamba water...
- 2/5/2011
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
Baseball in the 1970s intertwined more intensely with pop culture and the counterculture than it had before or since. The Pittsburgh Pirates’ Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres while tripping on LSD in 1970. Nine years later, Comiskey Park hosted the infamous “Disco Demolition Derby,” a promotion by Chicago rock-radio DJ Steve Dahl that went badly awry. Nearly double the ballpark’s capacity arrived that day, brandishing Bee Gees and Village People LPs to be destroyed in the middle of a double-header. Then the largely drunk and stoned attendees rioted, destroying the field and forcing the ...
- 5/27/2010
- avclub.com
Gene Siskel and I were like tuning forks. Strike one, and the other would pick up the same frequency. When we were in a group together, we were always intensely aware of one another. Sometimes this took the form of camaraderie, sometimes shared opinions, sometimes hostility. But we were aware. If something happened that we both thought was funny but weren't supposed to, God help us if one caught the other's eye. We almost always thought the same things were funny. That may be the best sign of intellectual communion.
Gene died ten years ago on February 20, 1999. He is in my mind almost every day. I don't want to rehearse the old stories about how we had a love/hate relationship, and how we dealt with television, and how we were both so scared the first time we went on Johnny Carson that, backstage, we couldn't think of the name of a single movie,...
Gene died ten years ago on February 20, 1999. He is in my mind almost every day. I don't want to rehearse the old stories about how we had a love/hate relationship, and how we dealt with television, and how we were both so scared the first time we went on Johnny Carson that, backstage, we couldn't think of the name of a single movie,...
- 2/21/2009
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
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