March 1988 Pop Culture: Mack, Mallory & Iron Lad

Feb 09, 2021, 10:00 AM

After flicking through Mackenzie Astin, Keith Coogan (yes, again), Married To The Mob, Tom Cruise, and more (Glemby) in What Now, it's on to the reviews. How do we vibe with the star ratings given to Rick Astley, Madonna, and R.E.M. -- of course -- in Listen Up? What about Moonstruck and September in Watch It? Then, once we revisit Charlie Schlatter, our very first One To Watch, it's on to the pop culture features. Christina and an Iain Blair tag-team to profile a circa-Less Than Zero Robert Downey Jr. Then John Elder pervs all over poor Justine Bateman. Dig out your copy of Kick: we Need You (to listen to our latest podcast) Tonight.

QUICK LINKS

πŸ—’ Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on ListenToSassy.com

πŸ–ΌοΈ View select scans from this issue in this episode's Visual Aids

☎️ Call The Hotline! Leave your questions, comments and Sassy stories on the hotline at 720-SASSY-GO or record directly on our site

🐦 @ListenToSassy on Twitter

πŸ“· @ListenToSassy on Instagram

πŸ§‘β€πŸ’» Visit our website ListenToSassy.com

JOIN THE LTS CLUB AND GET THE GOODIES

πŸ“– Full cover-to-cover magazine PDFs

πŸ’¬ Chat with us and your fellow listeners on Discord

🐣 Get episodes earlier than the general public

πŸ‘€ Monthly watch-alongs of Sassy-era movies and TV specials

🚫 Ad free episodes with chapter markers

πŸ‘š Merch discounts and free stickers

🀩 Join the Listen To Sassy Club today!

TOPICS

🎧 Hello, It's March 1988

🎧 What Now: Up Close With Mackenzie Astin

🎧 What Now: Cieth Coogan Count

🎧 What Now: Bumping Into Married To The Mob and Tom Cruise

🎧 What Now: And Now A Word From Glemby

🎧 What Now: Sassy Launch Party

🎧 What Now: Fury Of Bubbles, etc.

🎧 Listen Up: Inxs

🎧 Listen Up: R.E.M.

🎧 Listen Up: Cindy Lee Berryhill

🎧 Listen Up: Eurythmics

🎧 Listen Up: Rick Astley

🎧 Listen Up: Madonna

🎧 Watch It: Moonstruck

🎧 Watch It: Anna

🎧 Watch It: Good Morning, Vietnam

🎧 Watch It: September

🎧 One To Watch: Charlie Schlatter

🎧 Robert Downey, Jr. Is A Little Weird, But We Like Him

🎧 This Girl [Justine Bateman] Has Touched Michael J. Fox, Scott Valentine and Jason Bateman...What’s She Got That You Don’t?

🎧 Goodbye For Now

NOTES

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

🎸 @nahalidabarbie's viral tweet about MTV's current schedule

🎒 Up Close With Mackenzie Astin

πŸ„β€β™‚οΈΒ Under The Boardwalk (the release title of Wipe Out) on Amazon Prime

πŸ”«Β The Married To The Mob poster

πŸ”«Β Married To The Mob on MaxGo

πŸ’‡πŸ»β€β™€οΈΒ The story of Glemby

πŸ–₯Β Brian Evans's website

🐦 Brian Evans on Twitter

πŸŽ™Β Trailer for the Michael Hutchence documentary, Mystify, on YouTube

πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸŽ€Β Madonna A to Z, by Mark Blankenship and Sarah D. Bunting

🎧 Pam's March 1988 Mixtape

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡ΏΒ The Anna trailer on YouTube

πŸ†Β Sally Kirkland's Golden Globe win on YouTube

πŸ“ΊΒ The pilot of the Ferris Bueller TV series on YouTube

πŸ“·Β Charlie Schlatter on Instagram

πŸ₯Β Schlatter on his chronic myeloid leukemia

πŸ“ΈΒ Firooz Zahedi, who shot the Robert Downey Jr. portrait

πŸ“ΈΒ Zahedi's other portraits

πŸ”Β The Pulp Fiction poster, which Zahedi shot

πŸ’‰Β "The star who came back from the depths" (The Guardian, August 23, 2008)

πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈΒ "A history of male journalists fetishizing their female subjects, in 8 profiles" (Vox, July 25, 2016)

πŸ€¦πŸΌβ€β™€οΈΒ Rachel Axler's New Yorker essay satirizing this tendency

🐦 Justine Bateman on Twitter

πŸ“·Β Justine Bateman on Instagram

πŸ’»Β Justine Bateman's website

🎬 Fake Famous on HBO Max

πŸ“¬Β Tara's talking about Postcards From The Edge on the Quaid In Full podcast

πŸ“–Β Here For It, by R. Eric Thomas

πŸ–₯Β R. Eric Thomas's website

πŸ—½Β The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast