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The Walter Paisley Movie House celebrates cult movies and the people who make them. Featuring interviews with the famous and obscure directors, writers, actors, and anyone else who helped to bring the world movies that are so unique that we they live on in the basement screening rooms of those who love them.
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Monday Jan 30, 2023
Monday Jan 30, 2023
Stairway to Stardom is a vital piece of media that made the rounds on the underground VHS scene in the late 80s and early 90s, and it would have been lost to the ages without today's guest. Mitch Friedman, along with his friend Doug Miller, tracked down the creator and host of the NYC public access oddity, Frank Masi. Masi gave them complete access to the handful of shows he still had, having lost many earlier episodes by taping over them with new ones to save money. Mitch digitized the lot and made them available on YouTube. Since that time, what was an underground cult favorite has found new life on the web.
Today, Mitch and I talk about the quest to find these tapes and the many, many characters that could only have come from NYC who appeared on this completely unique talent show.
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