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Episode 5 of TGTPTU’s Season 18 Déjà View breaks from its coverage of Mark Wahlberg’s run of 2000s remakes to celebrate All Hallows’ Eve (and former cohost Jack’s b-day, Hi, Jack! (and, yes, we know after your countless on-air admonitions not to say this at an airport)) with a special double-sized ep covering SUSPIRIA (1977) and SUSPIRIA (2018). And happy special occasion to us all at TGTPTU as we celebrate our 250th episode!

The original 1970’s Italian Suspiria was directed and cowritten by Dario Argento, starring Jessica Harper as Suzy Bannion, an American dance student who goes to Germany to learn dance at a prestigious academy only to learn its origins of and ongoing management by witches, or so we’ll have to assume, not having our resident Italian giallo expert and horror aficionado Erik Van Der Wolf on this very special episode. Instead, the TGTPTU gents are joined by a real-life American international student of dance who’s attended European institutions Annabel for insight into the seedy world of the occult/Europe/choreography (strikethrough as appropriate). The 2018 Amazon Suspiria was directed by pod fav Luca Guadagnino, known at the time for Call Me By Your Name and subsequently for Challengers and Bones and All, and stars Dakota Johnson as Suzy Bannion, copy and paste from preceding on her whole deal. The remake also boasts Tilda Swinton in at least three roles in the film.

This ep, guest Annabel and hosts Ken, Tom, and Ryan explore the great unanswered question: How long does it takes following your last trick before you can be considered an ex-prostitute? Also, auteur director, star, editor, Nevadan, writer, producer, and architect Neil Breen returns to wreak revenge for TPTGTU’s canceled season meant to cover his then six feature films; Ryan requests that Ken pick a lane; Thomas cribs Erik Van Der Wolf’s notes on Argento’s production on Suspiria; and Ken explains both the Goodfellas Rule and the Sean Young Bladerunner Test to the younger generation before admitting that he finds staying alive embarrassing.

Happy Halloween to all who celebrate.

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GTPTU’s Season 18 Déjà View doubles down on its Off-the-Marks with Episode 4’s coverage of the Monahan-penned, Wyatt-directed, Marky Mark-starring THE GAMBLER (2014).

Originally offered to Scorsese, then to Todd Phillips, the roulette ball of the remake came to rest on director Rupert Wyatt after his successful relaunching of the Planet of the Apes franchise. In the same year the multi-tabling Mark Wahlberg would buddy up to a semi-truck robot refugee leader in Transformers: Age of Extinction, the Bostonian also stepped into (and maybe onto) the shoes of one of his idols James Caan in playing an updated version of the latter’s Axel Freed. Renamed Jim Bennett and relocated from NYC to LA, the titular Gambler maintains the original’s occupation (literature professor), background (scion with estranged father), and driving force and resolution (gambling debt owed to bookie and using a student athlete to fix a college basketball game) and still somehow goes bust.

For audiophiles and other eagle-eared listeners, host and episode editor Ken this week replaces former cohosts Jack and Squeaky Chair with the detracting sounds of paper notes; for stylists and trichophiliacs, host Thomas bags on Wahlberg’s hair; and for diagnosticians, host Ryan’s unresolved on whether his recent illness was from COVID or a Wahlberg allergy. And for those of you who like perfume ads and criminal variety, boy howdy do the TGTPTU boys have a perfect gambling den for you.

As these first two re-Marks have seemingly taken a toll on Ryan’s health, TGTPTU will take a break next week from Wahlberg remakes to cover a horror movie and its remake. What, a classic horror movie has had a remake? Indeed! Surely such a clue shall narrow the field.

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Kenny Rogers fans, hold your horses. We know you’re chomping at the bit, but this week as Episode 3 of Season 18 Déjà View’s remake season, we’re covering a stallion of a different color, that being the James Caan-starring, sex-pest written, Czech-born Brit directed Seventies classic THE GAMBLER (1974).

Semiautobiographical and originally drafted as a novel, James Toback’s first produced work follows the downward spiral of Axel Freed (Caan), its titular gambler, as a bad night’s debt has him burn bridges with his mother, girlfriend, idolized furniture baron grandfather, bookie bestie, and all-star student athlete as the literature professor spirals to a 1970’s cinematic freeze-frame ending. Small roles filled by the big soled shoes of Paul Savino (Bruce Willis character’s dad in Moonlighting) as the bookie; Burt Young (Rocky’s brother-in-law Paulie in the Rocky franchise) as a collector for a loan shark; M. Emmet Walsh (the uncle in The Odd Life of Timothy Green) as a rando gambler at a bar in Las Vegas; and James Woods (Meryl Streep’s artist husband in NBC’s 1978 Holocaust: The Story of the Family Weiss miniseries) as a bank clerk when Professor Freed convinces his doctor-mom to pay off his debt.

This week host Kenny not Rogers recites standup bits from The Monkey (aka London Lee), host “I am Ryan” learns that not all female doctors are nurses, and host Thomas makes sure Mission Impossible lore and Quentin Tarantino enter the chat.

Next week The Gambler gets a new vibe and face with an emaciated Mark Wahlberg.

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