• Becoming Peter Ivers: A new collection from the “New Wave Theatre” host arrives later this year
• Birdie in the hand for life’s rich demand: Robert Dean Lurie’s “Begin the Begin” covers R.E.M.’s early formative years in Athens, Georgia
• “Other Side with Zabrecky”: A new séance series puts celebrities in contact with the spirit world
• Jane Wiedlin felt weird in Japan in this exclusive excerpt from Drew Fortune’s book “No Encore!”
• A Night Flight Exclusive: “How to Be a New Wave Video Slut,” starring Ann Magnuson as “Fallopia”
• Night Flight’s Stuart S. Shapiro’s inspiring book “Identifi Yourself: A Journey in Fuck You Creative Courage” is a humorous and poetic journey
• Night Flight partners up with Severin Films for more cult, horror, mondo & exploitation films
• Attention “cord cutters” and streaming fanatics: Night Flight Plus has been just been updated!
• Teens high on “the weed rooted in hell” go wild in the midnight movie classic “Reefer Madness”
• “J-Men Forever”: Rock ‘n’ Roll battles Muzak in Proctor & Bergman’s Night Flight cult classic

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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 the early ’80s, Andy Kaufman was all set to star in Orson Welles’ re-make of “Citizen Kane”

  In the early ’80s, Andy Kaufman met the famous film director Orson Welles, a meeting which was to lead to a very interesting film project collaboration: a re-make of Citizen Kane. On June 25, 1982, Orson Welles...

  • Posted April 1, 2018
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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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