True Romance (Episode 24) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky

A year after making his acclaimed directorial debut with Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino saw the very first script he every wrote make it to the big screen in a major Hollywood way.  Jam-packed with big stars and directed by hot shot Tony Scott, 1993's True Romance seemed destined for greatness but ultimately fell short at the box office.  Audiences were more in the mood, it seems, for the repressed entanglements in Scorsese's Age of Innocence than for the red hot, go-for-broke love between Patricia Arquette's Alabama and Christian Slater's Clarence.  Deemed too talky by some and too violent by others, True Romance ended up barely breaking even. Dan and Vicky take the film for a spin and find many reasons why it's now considered a bona fide cult classic.  They also get into the political mess that is Donald Trump, Dan 's newest off-Broadway show (Locusts Have No Kings, www.intartheatre.org), the glory that is Channing Tatum's dance moves, and all their recent watches from The Ruins to The Humans.   Who says there can't be True Romance on a Hot Date.  Check out Episode 24 - Whoomp, There it Is!