Feb 06 2025 95 mins 2
We are celebrating The Golden Girls and Disco! The masterful creative output of the 70s and 80s continues to inform and inspire! Diving deep to illuminate this point are coffee table book couple, Jim Colucci and Frank DeCaro.
Jim’s book, Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind The Lanai is packed with hundreds of exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes and never-before-revealed stories, more than two hundred rare photos, Golden Girls sets, fashion, memorable quotes and more.
Jim tells us about The Rule of Four, led by Blanche, Rose, Dorothy and Sophia that’s become a sitcom template. He shares the secret formula to Golden Girls’ success. Great writing x phenomenal performances. We address what fueled the Betty/Bea personality clash, and we learn how Maude, Soap and a skit promoting NBC's new 1984 programming sparked the conception of a show about women of a certain age that changed friendships, social norms, and how we view cheesecake, forever.
Frank's book, Disco: Music, Movies, and Mania under the Mirror Ball, is a comprehensive guide to the queer, club music that became a dance sensation, a fashion craze and a mainstream lifestyle.
Gay men and black women created the driving rhythms of Disco music and dancing, but white men, like the Bee Gees and Travolta, carried it on a shimmering wave through middle America.
Studio 54's denizens were draped in skimpy haute couture while the masses were obsessed with themed merchandise, examples of which have become iconic pieces of modern kitsch.
We also hear about Frank and Jim's meet-cute, Jim's first journalism assignment at a mobbed (never pardon our puns) Soprano's casting call, and the conversation doesn't end until it reaches its logical conclusion: the Nancy Walker factor.
In recommendations --
Weezy: The movie Dreamin’ Wild on Hulu
Fritz: The documentary, Ladies And Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music on Peacock
Path Points of Interest:
Jim Colucci
Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind The Lanai
Jim Colucci Amazon Author Page
Frank Decaro Show Facebook Group
Disco: Music, Movies, and Mania under the Mirror Ball
Frank Decaro Amazon Author Page
