In this episode:

• Black Friday,
• Regis Philbin’s hip surgery,
• Sammy Sosa turning white,
• Albert Belle chasing trick-or-treaters with a baseball bat,
• a funny web site suggested by listener Joe in KY: www.peopleofwalmart.com (disgusting back photo),
• Joe’s digital art web site,
• Steven Seagal’s upcoming TV show Lawman,
• Dennis Haskins on Twitter,
• Mark-Paul Gosselaar in the Off Broadway play The Understudy,
• Steven Tyler quitting Aerosmith,
• Curb Your Enthusiasm,
• Nicolas Cage going bankrupt,
• a new Vacation movie,
• Robin Williams,
• Chris Elliott on How I Met Your Mother,
• an Eliza Dushku update (Fox cancelling Dollhouse),
• the made-for-TV animated movie TMNT: Turtles Forever,
• Rob’s AT&T and iPhone 3G rant,
• Gus (1976) starring Don Knotts,
• and Oprah Winfrey’s new cable TV network.

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Our big Star Trek (2009) review! (includes spoilers)

In this episode:

• big upcoming summer movies,
• Land of the Lost (2009) starring Will Ferrell,
• Year One (2009) starring Jack Black and Michael Cera,
• our movie review of Role Models (2008) starring Paul Rudd,
• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) starring Dennis Quaid,
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) starring Shia LaBeouf,
• our movie review of Star Trek (2009) starring Chris Pine,
• Greg’s veteran fan perspective and Rob’s newbie perspective,
• Frank from The Overnightscape and his Twitter posts about Star Trek,
• canon vs. reboot,
• Zachary Quinto as Spock,
• the rest of the cast (Chris Pine, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, etc.),
• the annoying shaky camera technique,
• ways J.J. Abrams could’ve included William Shatner in the movie,
• Captain Pike’s wheelchair,
• Star Trek vs. the Star Wars prequels,
• rescuing Romulans,
• Nicholas Cage’s car crash,
• and forgetting the movie Cloverfield (2008).

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Several times during the history of The Paunch Stevenson Show, we’ve joked about Nicholas Cage’s goofy acting style and voice. As recently as episode 107, we goofed on how he has become this sort of cult joke, similar to Steven Seagal or Tom Cruise. How can even his serious films, let alone his horror films, be taken seriously?

Well, here are some photos and videos from two instances, Grindhouse (2007) and The Wicker Man (2006). In the Grindhouse double-feature, Rob Zombie contributed a mock trailer called Werewolf Women of the SS. At the end is a cameo from Mr. Cage, dressed as the infamous 1950s B movie character Dr. Fu Manchu. He starts screaming and yelling and doing this horrible laugh:

The Wicker Man: again, this was supposed to be a horror film? Cage is dressed in a bear costume, stung in the head by thousands of bees, keeps punching women in the face, and finally is set on fire and burned alive:

Here’s an absolutely terrific video remix of clips from The Wicker Man on YouTube, set to Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire:”

There’s also a “comedy” trailer created by a fan. Priceless!

Сувенири

In this episode:

• using Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit,
• celebrity death (Stan Winston),
• Interview with the Vampire (1994) starring Tom Cruise,
• Tom Cruise’s lawyer calling Dr. Drew a Nazi,
• Dr. Phil’s talk show,
• our movie review of Get Smart (2008) starring Steve Carell,
• our movie review of Hancock (2008) starring Will Smith,
• Nicholas Cage as Dr. Fu Manchu in Werewolf Women of the S.S.,
• The Wicker Man (2006) starring Nicholas Cage,
• the upcoming movie Ace Ventura Jr. (2008) starring Josh Flitter,
• Paul Hogan’s tax evasion,
• Yoda Is Your Father (yodaisyourfather.blogspot.com),
• the upcoming movie The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008) starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson,
• Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen starring in an upcoming Sherlock Holmes movie,
• getting Shawn from Branded in the 80s on the show (www.brandedinthe80s.com),
• getting Esteban from Please Save Me Robots on the show (pleasesavemerobots.blogspot.com),
• Wonderland (www.wonderlandblog.com),
• Kevin Federline’s weight gain,
• Degli Martinez accidentally throwing away his $65 million winning lottery ticket,
• Ed Begley, Jr. vs. Bill Nye the Science Guy,
• That Asian Thing playing at the Independent Features Film Festival in NYC on Sunday 7/27/08 (buy tickets – $10 each),
• getting Juliana Hatfield and the Angry Video Game Nerd on the show,
• and Hollywood Is Calling (www.hollywoodiscalling.com).

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