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Two pop culture fans spend an hour making the case that Josie and the Pussycats deserved better in 2001.
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In this episode
- Why Josie and the Pussycats became a cult classic worth revisiting
- How the film connects to Can't Hardly Wait, Zoolander, and Romy and Michele
- A fresh look at the movie's satirical edge and what it got right
- Where Pearl Harbor fits into the spring 2001 cultural moment
About this episode
Welcome to your party! Can't you just Pretend to Be Nice and jump on the bandwagon? Enjoy this Pussy-chat, which is longer than 3 Small Words, but worth every subliminal minute! Mark welcomes movie lover, pop culture enthusiast, and podcaster Kevin Jones to Spin Around and celebrate 25 years of the cult classic movie Josie and the Pussycats. They praise the connections the movie has to Can't Hardly Wait, Romy & Michele, Zoolander, and more. Plus, another spring 2001 film, Pearl Harbor, gets a shout-out. Happy Pride, backdoor lovers!
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About Release Date Rewind
Movie nerd, filmmaker, and anniversary celebrator Mark J. Parker brings a friend on each episode to discuss movies (and sometimes TV shows) that are hitting milestone anniversaries of release that month. Think 20th anniversary, 25th, 30th, 40th, 50th, you get it!
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