August 1988 Pop Culture: Lou Diamond Phillips, Guest Critics & Baby River Phoenix

Jun 15, 2021, 09:00 AM

The pop culture coverage in the August 1988 issue is a bit slighter than we're used to, allowing us to get into nearly every bit of it. What Now tells us to get hype for The Fly II, Haunted Summer, and The Prince Of Pennsylvania, also mentioning in passing a comedy called Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, shrug. It also gets into John Stamos's new haircut, a Europe member's birthday, the unreleased Jon Cryer/Penelope Spheeris movie Dudes, the Amnesty International tour, and the dearth of women in heavy metal. Outside pop culture, we learn about "the crack" in the Sassy Glossary, and hunt down photos of the River Phoenix poster that the previous owners of our magazine copies obviously ripped out before selling them to us. To mix it up, the magazine gets a bevy of young stars it's recently interviewed, or about to -- including Alex Winter (twice), Paul Hipp, Alan Boyce, Johnny Depp, Annabeth Gish, and more -- to serve as guest critics in Watch It and Listen Up. And finally, Christina does yeoman's work in her write-around profile of an unavailable Lou Diamond Phillips. We hope YOU are available to listen!

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TOPICS

๐ŸŽง It Is August 1988

๐ŸŽง In Our Lives

๐ŸŽง What Now: The Fly II + Haunted Summer

๐ŸŽง What Now: Prince Of Pennsylvania

๐ŸŽง What Now: Free Pee-wee + John Stamos's Hair

๐ŸŽง What Now: Dudes

๐ŸŽง What Now: Debbie Gibson

๐ŸŽง What Now: Female Heavy Metal Stars

๐ŸŽง What Now: Amnesty International Concerts

๐ŸŽง What Now: The Crack

๐ŸŽง What Now: River Phoenix Poster

๐ŸŽง Watch It: The Year My Voice Broke

๐ŸŽง Watch It: The Blob

๐ŸŽง Watch It: Willow

๐ŸŽง Listen Up: Boogie Down Productions

๐ŸŽง Listen Up: Iggy Pop

๐ŸŽง Listen Up: Sam Phillips + Thomas Dolby

๐ŸŽง One To Watch: Rodney Harvey

๐ŸŽง Feature: Lou Diamond Phillips: Donโ€™t Sit Home Waiting For His Call

๐ŸŽง Goodbye For Now

NOTES

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

๐Ÿขย Die Hard on Hulu

๐Ÿชฐย The Fly II clip 1

๐Ÿชฐย The Fly II clip 2

๐Ÿ‘ปย Haunted Summer on YouTube

๐Ÿคดย The Prince Of Pennsylvania on YouTube

๐ŸŽธย Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure on HBO Max

๐Ÿง‘๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿฆฑย John Stamos before his 1988 haircut

๐Ÿ’‡๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธย John Stamos after his 1988 haircut

๐Ÿ™†โ€โ™‚๏ธย Dudes screenwriter Randall Jahnson on IMDb

๐ŸŽžย Dudes on IMDbTV

๐Ÿ–ผย The Dudes poster Pam had

๐Ÿ“บย "Nickelodeon Cuts Ties With iCarly Creator Dan Schneider After Alleged Abusive Behavior" at Huffpost

๐ŸŽคย The Linda Lindas

๐ŸŽงย Big Joanie

โ˜˜๏ธย "Who will set us free of the bogus Irishness of craic?" at The Irish Times

โ„น๏ธย Craic on Wikipedia

๐Ÿ‘ฆ๐Ÿผย The Year My Voice Broke trailer on YouTube

๐Ÿฆ ย The Blob (1988) on YouTube

โš”๏ธย Willow on Disney Plus

๐ŸŽถย Pam's August 1988 playlist on Spotify

๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿปโ€๐ŸŽคย "Iggy Pop on David Bowie: 'He Resurrected Me'" at The New York Times

๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ชย "Why David Bowie and Iggy Pop chose Berlin over Los Angeles" at Far Out

๐Ÿฉธย Mixed Blood on YouTube

๐Ÿ—บย Five Corners on DailyMotion

๐Ÿ’ƒย Salsa on YouTube

๐Ÿ“ย Spike Of Bensonhurst on Facebook

๐ŸŽผย Chet Baker: Let's Get Lost on YouTube

๐Ÿ“บย Rodney Harvey on The Outsiders TV show Wiki

๐Ÿ‘€ย The Outsiders TV show on YouTube

โœ๏ธย Pam's autographed copy of The Outsiders

๐Ÿ“ฐย Rodney Harvey on Wikipedia

๐Ÿชฆย "The Curse Of Idaho" at Empire.com

๐Ÿ™ƒย Disorganized Crime on YouTube

๐Ÿ”ย Julie Cypher on Wikipedia

๐Ÿ’Žย Lou Diamond Phillips on Wikipedia

๐Ÿˆย Lou Diamond Phillips with his cats

๐Ÿ”ซย Young Guns on IMDbTV

๐Ÿช–ย "Interview With Lou Diamond Phillips, Author Of The Tinderbox: Soldier Of Indira" on DeadDarlings.com

๐ŸงŠย Tara's review of The Cube on Primetimer.com