"Everything I've done, I've done for you. I move the stars for no one."
-- Jareth the Goblin King, Labyrinth
It is happening again...My amazing co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Ghostwood: The Twin Peaks Podcast! This time, we pay tribute to the passing of Lenny Von Dohlen and and continue our retrospective of Twin Peaks Actors in Other Films by discussing Labyrinth, the 1986 musical fantasy film directed by Jim Henson, starring David Bowie as Jareth the Goblin King, Jennifer Connelly as Sarah Williams, and Christopher Malcolm as Robert Williams!
LET'S ROCK
In this episode, Xan and I discuss things like my still not having a car, baby stealing being a heartwarming idea for a kid's movie, our debate about whether Sarah is a horrible person, some trivia about David Bowie's eye colors, David Bowie's son Duncan Jones, David Bowie playing the Elephant Man, Maurice Sendak's Outside Over There, the script credit going to Monty Python actor Terry Jones, a Spaulding Gray anecdote, Labyrinth's box office failure contributing to why Jim Henson stepped away from directing, the passing of Lenny Von Dohlen, Xan's love of Lenny Von Dohlen's problematic Harold Smith, Xan getting to see Sarah's elaborate dress, my surprise at seeing a CGI owl in a 1986 movie, Gates McFadden originally being offered the role of Sarah's stepmother, the Star Wars documentary Elstree 1976, the Hogwarts reference in Labyrinth, Jennifer Connelly being one of the Patron Saints of Geek Girls in the 1980s, Christopher Malcolm as Justin on Absolutely Fabulous, Xan's parents not paying any attention to what she was listening to while she was growing up, Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book by Terry Jones, Hoggle reluctantly giving Sarah a hallucinogenic peach, the Bog of Eternal Stench, Sarah resisting the Junk Lady's trap of staying in her bedroom forever, Sarah finally remembering the line "You have no power over me", Xan getting a new pair of kittens, my upcoming story for DC Comics in their DC's Terrors Through Time 2022 Halloween anthology, doing a second David Warner movie, and more!
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Be sure to come back in two weeks, as Xan and I pay tribute to the late David Warner and continue our retrospective of Twin Peaks Actors in Other Films by discussing Time Bandits, the 1981 fantasy adventure film directed by Terry Gilliam, starring David Warner as Evil, Craig Warnock as Kevin, Sean Connery as Agamemnon, and John Cleese as Robin Hood!
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