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All posts by Michael Dare

About Michael Dare

You may know Michael Dare as film critic and journalist for the LA Weekly, LA Times, Billboard, Interview, and the National Lampoon. Turns out he also studied with Lee Strasberg, jammed with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, went to Disneyland with Eugene Ionesco, and got Timothy Leary for a birthday present. He was the Playboy Advisor on the Playboy Channel, wrote for Steven Spielberg's Animaniacs, and Scott Bakula played him in a CBS movie-of-the-week about his misadventures in Hollywood called The Bachelor's Baby. He was John Cassavetes' dialogue coach on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, has a close-up in Up in Smoke, sang the news on KROQ, and is responsible for one of the biggest April Fools Day pranks of all time. The only reason we believe one word of this is he has actual photographic evidence, thousands of warped Polaroids that are finally seeing the light of day.

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  In 1977, Prince appeared on “The Gong Show,” but no one has ever talked about the episode, until now

  We were astonished to find out recently that our contributor Michael Dare saw Prince performing at a live taping of TV’s “The Gong Show” in the summer of 1977, but the episode never aired and hasn’t even...

  • Posted April 1, 2017
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  Back to The Source: Michael Dare remembers the only hip cult-based vegetarian restaurant on the Sunset Strip

  The Source has been in the news a little bit lately, ever since director Todd Haynes told Indiewire he is “conceiving a limited series based on events that really occurred in the early ’70s in L.A. based...

  • Posted January 29, 2016
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  “At Sunset” revisited: Remembering a private dinner at the underground after-hours club

  We’ve posted about the early 80s underground nightclub next door to the Whisky on the Sunset Strip, called At Sunset, a few times before — check out this raw footage from inside the club, shot by Russell...

  • Posted January 4, 2016
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  “Let’s do the ‘Time Warp’ again!”: HBO is showing “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” tonight

  Tonight, September 26, 2015, the HBO cable network will be airing the 1975 film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, as well as streaming the musical comedy horror flick on its HBO Go and HBO Now platforms (it...

  • Posted September 26, 2015
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  Flowcharts: Michael Dare’s lone contribution to National Lampoon, February 1991

  Below, we have the tangled flowchart to stand-up comedy success that appeared in the February 1991 issue of National Lampoon, for their “The Humor Issue.” It created by Night Flight contributor Michael Dare, who says, “Though they’ve...

  • Posted September 22, 2015
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  The Life and Death of Captain Preemo: Bob Woodward vs. John Belushi and Me

  This week we’re remembering the enduring comic influence of the National Lampoon — on Friday, September 25th, Douglas Tirola’s new documentary Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story Of The National Lampoon will be released by Magnolia Pictures...

  • Posted September 22, 2015
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  “Turkish Wizard of Oz”: Michael Dare tells us about the movie that changed his life

  Michael Dare — who has previously shared with Night Flight a few of his fun memories, about the short-lived TV show “The Top” that starred his friend Andy Kaufman, and about the Firesign Theatre‘s early recordings, for...

  • Posted August 11, 2015
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  Remembering the Firesign Theatre’s Phil Austin: regnaD kciN, gnol oS

  Once again we need to pause here at Night Flight to remember someone influential and important in our lives, in this case Phil Austin, the co-founder of the Firesign Theatre comedy troupe, who died last week at...

  • Posted June 25, 2015
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