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Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Your hosts Dan and Vicky take you on a hot date through movie history. They'll choose a random month, day and year and pick a favorite movie released on or near that date. It could be a love fest, it could get heated or it could turn into a threesome! Take a wild and funny ride in Dan and Vicky's movie time machine. You're invited on their Hot Date!
Episodes
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The Velocity of Gary (Episode 65) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The Velocity of Gary was only director Dan Ireland's second directing assignment. He was primarily a film producer before that, co-founding the Seattle…
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Millions (Episode 64) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Director Danny Boyle (Steve Jobs, Slumdog Millionaire) has said his inspiration for Millions, the only PG rated film in the filmmaker's oeuvre, was to take a…
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The Lady Vanishes (Episode 63) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hitchcock's second to final British film before he returned to the UK in 1972 to make Frenzy, The Lady Vanishes broke UK box office records to become the…
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters (Episode 62) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
In 1954, Japanese film production company Toho was looking to cash in on the monster movie mania inspired by the American film Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. They…
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Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond (Episode 61) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Elia Kazan had meant to direct Tennessee Williams' original screenplay, Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, with Julie Harris as his leading lady back in 1957. But…
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Can't Stop the Movie Music! (Episode 60) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date 60 will be music to your ears -- movie music that is. Dan and Vicky offer their top ten lists for favorite movie soundtracks and scores. A…
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Last Tango In Paris (Episode 59) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Censored and banned around the world for it's frank depiction of the anonymous sexual relationship between a middle age hotel owner and a 19 year old actress…
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Breaking The Waves (Episode 58) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Emily Watson had never acted for the camera before her career making and Oscar nominated turn in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves. The 1996 film was the…
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The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (Episode 57) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
An all star cast populates the tiny fictional island of Gloucester Island, MA in 1966's The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming. Alan Arkin, Carl…
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Right At Your Door (Episode 56) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Snapped up by Roadside Attractions at the Sundance Film Festival for 3 million dollars in 2006, director/writer Chris Gorak's first film and passion project…
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Under The Volcano (Episode 55) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Since the publication of Malcolm Lowry's novel Under The Volcano in 1947, Hollywood had tried in vain to adapt it for the big screen. Artists as varied as…
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The Violent Men (Episode 54) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Prolific Polish American director Rudolph Mate found early success in Hollywood as an acclaimed cinematographer. For five consecutive years, from 1940-44, he…
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Soldier (Episode 53) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
By the time the script for Soldier landed with star Kurt Russell it had been kicking around Hollywood for almost 15 years. Russell, testing his status as a…
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Casino Royale (Episode 52) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Movie producer Charles K. Feldman (A Streetcar Named Desire, What's New Pussycat?) was in a bind with the rights to the first James Bond novel, Ian Fleming's…
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Sahara (Episode 51) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Humphrey Bogart, on loan from his home studio of Warner Brothers, would often show up to the set of Columbia's 1943's war film Sahara hung over and ready for…
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My Bad! - Ten "Bad" Movies We Can't Help But Love (Episode 50) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
What do a killer whale, Lucy Lui, rampaging trucks and crystal skulls have in common? They all appear in the films on our Hot Date top ten lists. For our…
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Highlander (Episode 49) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Australian director Russell Mulcahy had only one previous narrative film credit on his resume, 1985's Razorback, when he landed the gig directing future cult…
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French Connection 2 (Episode 48) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
John Frankenheimer took over directing duties from William Friedkin for the sequel to the Oscar-winning 1971 film The French Connection. He got a reluctant…
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Blackmail (Episode 47) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Alfred Hitchcock ushered in the advent of film sound with 1929's Blackmail, which became England's first talkie. British producers, concerned they were lagging…
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Fail Safe (Episode 46) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
It was an arms race at the 1964 box office between Fail Safe and the similarly themed Dr. Strangelove. Stanley Kubrick pressured Columbia Pictures, the studio…
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Cymbeline (Episode 45) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Michael Almereyda's Cymbeline from 2015 was his second Shakespeare adaptation and his second time working with actor Ethan Hawke. Hawke played the melancholy…
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Danny Deckchair (Episode 44) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Director Jeff Balsmeyer was an American film storyboard artist itching to make his writing and directing debut. His passion project was Danny Deckchair, a…
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Mogambo (Episode 43) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Director John Ford hadn't seen the film Red Dust when he agreed to direct its 1953 remake Mogambo but was intrigued by the challenge of bringing his skills…
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Perfume of the Lady in Black (Episode 42) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
With only a few documentaries and short films on his resume, Francesco Barilli embarked on his first narrative feature, Perfume of the Lady in Black in 1973…
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I Went Down (Episode 41) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Released in Ireland in 1997 and here in the US a year later, I Went Down was one of the most successful Irish films of the year. It's story, about low rent…
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Death Becomes Them: 10 Memorable Death Scenes (Episode 40) - Hot Date With Dan and Vicky
For Episode 40, Dan and Vicky pick their favorite scary, shocking, sad, even funny death scenes from non-horror movies. There are some classics thrown in the…
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Odd Man Out (Episode 39) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
We talk Odd Man Out, the classic 1947 British thriller from Third Man director Carol Reed. It stars James Mason as Johnny McQueen, the leader of an Irish…
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The Boys From Brazil (Episode 38) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Just in time for Halloween, Dan and Vicky discuss the 1978 horror thriller based on the Ira Levin novel, The Boys From Brazil. Notorious death camp doctor…
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Cobra (Episode 37) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The original 2 hour cut of the Sylvester Stallone starrer Cobra was exceedingly violent and bleak, so much so that the MPAA insisted the film be cut to avoid…
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Paint Your Wagon (Episode 36) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Dan and Vicky look at the 1969 musical Paint Your Wagon starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg and Ray Walston. To adapt his own Broadway show for…
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Three Colors: White (Episode 35) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
On Hot Date 35, Dan and Vicky discuss 1994's White, the middle film in the Three Colors trilogy from late Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski. Zbigniew…
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12 Angry Men (Episode 34) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Star Henry Fonda was looking for a movie project that would give him the rush of a stage performance. He found it in 12 Angry Men. A TV version was broadcast…
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Resurrection (Episode 33) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Dan and Vicky discuss the hard to find 1980 film Resurrection starring Ellen Burstyn and Eva Le Gallienne in Oscar nominated roles and Sam Shepard, Lois Smith…
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Then She Found Me (Episode 32) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
For her feature film directorial debut, actress/producer Helen Hunt chose this adaptation of the Elinor Lipman novel, Then She Found Me. It took 10 years to…
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Angel Face (Episode 31) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Dan and Vicky tackle noir again with the classic Otto Preminger film Angel Face. The film was a very troubled production and our hosts give us a little…
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Wonder Women: 10 Favorite Female Performances (Episode 30) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Another ten Hot Date episodes down can only mean it's time once again for Dan and Vicky to make a top ten list. This time our hosts decide to pick their…
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Forbidden World (Episode 29) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Dan and Vicky tackle their first bona fide B movie with the Roger Corman produced Alien rip-off Forbidden World from 1982. The movie began life under the title…
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The Premature Burial (Episode 28) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
After a dispute over royalties for his two previous Edgar Allen Poe film adaptations, producer/director Roger Corman and American International Pictures…
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Network (Episode 27) - Hot Date With Dan and Vicky
Semi-retired and living in the Caribbean, actor Peter Finch initially resisted starring in Network and director Sidney Lumet was equally hesitant to have a…
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Breaking Away (Episode 26) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
It took British director Peter Yates and Yugoslavian screenwriter Steve Tesich, born Stojan Tešić, to tell the quintessential American coming of age story…
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The Loneliest Planet (Episode 25) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
On Hot Date 25, Dan and Vicky cover as much ground as the protagonists do in the 2012 film The Loneliest Planet. In addition to their thoughts on the film…
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True Romance (Episode 24) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
A year after making his acclaimed directorial debut with Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino saw the very first script he every wrote make it to the big screen…
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Carnal Knowledge (Episode 23) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Coming off the successes of The Graduate and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, director Mike Nichols could have done anything he wanted. He chose to reunite…
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Doctor Detroit (Episode 22) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The summer of 1983 was poised to be the season that SNL alum Dan Aykroyd broke out as a movie star with no less than three movies coming out in as many months…
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Rope (Episode 21) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
For his first attempt at a Technicolor film and his first collaboration with James Stewart, Alfred Hitchcock chose to adapt the British stage play Rope's End…
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"The Aliens Are Coming!" Top Ten (Episode 20) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Keeping with tradition, Dan and Vicky pull together a top ten movie list to commemorate ten episodes completed. Episode 20 is out of this world - literally -…
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Dead Ringer (Episode 19) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
It was a battle-ax royale at the box office in early 1964. The Joan Crawford film Strait- Jacket had come out exactly a month before but it was this Bette…
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Training Day (Episode 18) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Part of then 31 year old Ethan Hawke's audition for Training Day was a series of casting sessions with star Denzel Washington. It was after one of those reads…
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The Last Station (Episode 17) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Is it a 2010 or a 2009 release? Things get confusing on Dan and Vicky's 17th Hot Date. They chose a random date in January of 2010, usually a deadly month for…
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Pi (Episode 16) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream) came up with a unique strategy for funding and staffing his debut feature Pi. He approached family…
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Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (Episode 15) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Steve McQueen, David Soul and Sam Elliott were all attached to the car chase classic Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry when it was to be a direct adaptation of the novel…
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Georgy Girl (Episode 14) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
It seems incongruous that producers would have originally wanted Vanessa Redgrave for the title role in 1966's Georgy Girl because sister Lynn seemed an…
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The Long, Hot Summer (Episode 13) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
It took three William Faulkner stories to make the sultry, southern classic film The Long, Hot Summer and one difficult movie icon to almost unmake it…
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Zack and Miri Make A Porno (Episode 12) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
2008's Zack and Miri Make A Porno was Kevin Smith's most expensive, most high profile film at the time so a lot was riding on it's success. Could Seth Rogen…
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Happy Birthday To Me (Episode 11) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Melissa Sue Anderson was eager to break out of the house that Michael Landon built when she signed on for 1981's slasher Happy Birthday to Me. She was still…
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Director Hot Ten (Episode 10) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Hot Date is in celebration mode! Dan and Vicky have reached episode ten and want to shake things up and do something special for our loyal listeners. Instead…
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After The Thin Man (Episode 9) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
After the success of the The Thin Man in 1934, MGM was eager to get stars William Powell and Myrna Loy back in front of the cameras for a sequel. It took two…
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Dead Alive (Episode 8) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Before he became the official film adapter of all things J.R.R Tolkein, Peter Jackson was a young monster movie enthusiast and animator creating kitschy…
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Impact (Episode 7) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Impact: The force with which two lives come together. Sometimes for good, sometimes for evil. Dan and Vicky come together and it's ALL for the good as they…
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Nuts (Episode 6) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
Barbra Streisand is a force to be reckoned with. Two time Oscar winner, multi Grammy, Golden Globe and Emmy winner. The woman even has several Peabodys! So…