July 1989 Pop Culture: Robert, Reggae & Road House

Jun 14, 2022, 09:00 AM

The pop culture coverage of the July 1989 issue gets into a lot of different areas. The breakup of Johnny Depp's latest engagement? An offensive Guns N' Roses song? Censorship? A surprising amount of Ken Ober? What Now goes there! We also get reviews of Say Anything..., Road House, Boy George, and Julian Lennon, among many others. One To Watch tells us about Alexย Dรฉsert, yet another young actor with a perfectly respectable character-actor career ahead of him. Our features tell us about Robert Downey Jr. (in his second profile in the magazine) and reggae (uh oh, Pam). But what you may remember best about this episode is that it takes you to melon camp -- you're welcome and/or sorry.

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TOPICS

๐ŸŽง It Is July 1989

๐ŸŽง What Now

๐ŸŽง Watch It

๐ŸŽง Listen Up

๐ŸŽง One To Watch

๐ŸŽง Feature: Robert Downey, Jr. Acts Like An Adult

๐ŸŽง Feature: Reggae For Beginners

๐ŸŽง Goodbye For Now

๐ŸŽง Pam Gets The Willem Defoe Apron Photo

NOTES

โš ๏ธ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

๐Ÿ’ƒย "Dirty Dancing star Jennifer Grey says Johnny Depp was 'so beautiful' it was 'inhuman' when they were engaged in the late 1980s" at Insider.com

๐Ÿ•บย "Dirty Dancing star Jennifer Grey claims ex-fiancรฉ Johnny Depp was 'crazy jealous and paranoid'" at The Independent

๐Ÿฅ€ย "Let's Talk About Guns N' Roses' 'One in a Million'" at MetalSucks.com

๐Ÿ–ย The Saturday Night Live sketch "Nude Beach" on YouTube

๐Ÿšงย Willem Dafoe in Streets Of Fire

๐Ÿ“ปย Say Anything... on HBO Max

๐Ÿ’˜ย Loverboy on Tubi

๐Ÿปโ€โ„๏ธย Road House on Showtime Anytime

๐Ÿงย "Just For a Minute, Let's Talk About Yahoo Serious" on Talkhouse.com

๐ŸŽฉย The Boy George album High Hat on Wikipedia

๐Ÿ˜‡ย Julian Lennon's "Now You're In Heaven" video on YouTube

๐Ÿชถย The White Feather Foundation

๐Ÿ’‹ย Kiss The Ground on Netflix

๐ŸŒ…ย Julian Lennon's YA graphic novel The Morning Tribe at SimonAndSchuster.com

๐Ÿ“šย Julian Lennon's children's books, at his website

๐Ÿ‰ย John Mellencamp on Us magazine's March 1992 list of "The 10 Sexiest Bachelors"

๐ŸŽงย The July 1989 mixtape on Spotify

๐ŸŽ™ย "Alex Dรฉsert takes over for Hank Azarian voicing Carl on The Simpsons" at CNN.com

๐Ÿ“…ย Robert Downey Jr. in the March 1988 Pop Culture episode of Listen To Sassy

๐Ÿ™ย Robert Downey Jr. at Beliefnet.com

๐Ÿ“ทย Robert Downey Jr.'s 2020 pro-Chris Pratt post on Instagram

๐Ÿ’‰ย Robert Downey Jr. on Addiction at IAmSober.com

๐ŸŽžย That's Adequate on Wikipedia

๐ŸŽฌย The trailer for That's Adequate on YouTube

๐Ÿ—ฃย "Iyaric" on Wikipedia