237 – Shanghai Surprise

The only indecent image of Madonna ever taken

Jen and Tim suffer through an ill-starred attempt at an international caper, Shanghai Surprise!

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Life With My Sister Madonna is a delightfully juicy read penned by her late brother, Christopher Ciccone. (And of course she’s hairy, she’s Italian!)

Madonna has denied that Sean Penn physically abused her during their relationship, but rumors still abound regarding an alleged domestic abuse incident in December 1988. The LA Sheriffs have since purged the report from their records, unfortunately.

Listen to George Harrison’s excellent solo album Cloud Nine, which contains some reworked material from the Shanghai Surprise soundtrack.

For more of us roasting Madonna’s atrocious acting, check out our episode on Body of Evidence!

169 – Dick Tracy

Warren Beatty and Madonna in Dick Tracy (1990)

Paul Jay returns to talk with us about Warren Beatty’s greatest love! No, not women— by all evidence it’s Dick Tracy. Also, we are interrupted by a dog.

View one of Beatty’s rights-maintaining Dick Tracy specials, in which he’s interviewed by Leonard Maltin while in character as his favorite comic strip detective.

We’ve talked about Warren a couple of times before on the show— once with beloved recurring guest Sean Morris for Bulworth, and once to inagurate the whole dang podcast with our Ishtar episode!

A small shaggy black dog sleeping on an ottoman. He is very cute.
Moose!

162 – Body of Evidence

Tim and Jen remain in the 90s for a look at a dire courtroom drama leavened with gauzy sex scenes, the 1992 Madonna vehicle Body of Evidence.

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There are no page numbers in Madonna’s book Sex, but it doesn’t take long to flip through on the Internet Archive if you want to see her eating pizza in the nude!

The Mystery Science Theater 3000 writers beat Jen to it with a panoply of fake erotic thriller names during the credits for Outlaw [of Gor], episode 519. A personal favorite: “Murder Most Moist.”

the Julianne Moore face Tim was talking about