I’m Ken Plume, and soon you’ll be listening to “A Bit Of A Chat” with me, Ken Plume.
In this episode, I have a chat with actor Janet Varney, about soup, brick sick, placebo effects, sleep, jokes, bodily rejections, jar jar binks, Last Eels, sandwich moats, meat ravines, puppy power, hipster games, Domino Hustler, salons, ApprovOwls, SketchFest, Albert Brooks, and heroes.
Hope you enjoy…
Download “A Bit of a Chat with Ken Plume & Janet Varney“:
[audio:http://traffic.libsyn.com/bitofachat/bit_of_a_chat-janet_varney.mp3]
SUBSCRIBE
Subscribe to this Podcast via iTunes##
Drop Ken a line HERE.
##
You can also find more of my interviews by clicking HERE.
It’s impossible – Impossible, I say! – that John Hughes’s 
Following the Krang’s takeover of New York City, the Turtles take refuge in April O’Neill’s family cabin in the woods in 
Shazam! Taking an Andy Griffith Show fan-favorite character and putting him in the military proved comic gold in the long-running spin-off 
The epic arc of Avatar Korra comes to an end in 
The passing of Robin Williams adds a poignancy to 
The modern stone age family meets the modern stone age pastime in 
They’re not my cup of pixie dust, but I know plenty of my friends’ kids adore the denizens of Pixie Hollow, and for them, there’s delight in the arrival of their latest animated adventure, 
Help your preschooler learn the basics with the 3-disc 
While many a college professor has probably done the same, 
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon return to their largely improvised hyper-reality selves in Michael Winterbottom’s 
Despite a shaky start and a network that doesn’t seem to know what to do with it, 
Fill the increasingly chilly hours during your December lock-in by partaking of a pair of Comedy Central shows ready for bingeing – 
Taken as a slick B movie, the adaptation of Joe Hill’s pulpy morality horror 
The Warner Archive continues to be a refuge for the studio’s often-overlooked animated fare, with brand new high definition releases for 
While purists may grumble with some alterations to the plot, none of that affects the thoroughly enjoyable soundtrack to Disney’s adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s 
It may be a bit soft-focus, but there’s something certainly uplifting in 
The Beeb has kids covered this season with the 
If, like me, you were onboard and hooked by the early days of Nick At Nite, a horse is a horse, of course, but there’s no horse as famous as 
Dysfunction has rarely been as enjoyably watchable as in 
It’s not often you see a romantic comedy centered around a pair of leads in the twilight of their lives, but 
If nothing else, the sixth season of 
Watching the Michael Bay-produced 
Glen Morgan was part of the key creative team on The X-Files, and he brings that supernatural sensibility to the BBC’s eerie paranormal thriller 
Listen, as far as charming little family flicks go, 
History buffs who want to pass the long family gathering hours watching documentaries instead can dive into the History Channel’s massive 20-disc 
Holiday viewing has reached its crass nadir with the arrival of 
I’m sure I’m not the only Turtle fan baffled that we have yet to see a Blu-Ray release of the show’s first season, but Nick is pretty clockwork with their single-disc releases, the latest of which is 
In the pre-Star Wars days of 1975, director Alejandro Jodorowsky attempted to realize a ridiculously ambitious and deeply heady feature-film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic Dune, featuring the music of Pink Floyd and designed by the likes of H.R. Giger and Moebius. And it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. Now, the tale of this aborted film is presented in the brilliant documentary 
The banality of evil is certainly present in the smirking, small town bank president face of Donald Rumsfeld as he glibly defends his awful legacy in Errol Morris’s grimly compelling documentary 
It’s still not the equal of the beautifully executed Avatar, but there’s still plenty to recommend as its follow-up finds firm footing in 
New to high-def, there’s an old school charm to 1959’s 
It’s an overly-lavish spectacle that certainly befits its Vegas venue, but there’s no denying that 
Johnny Depp’s string of cinematic bad luck continues with the unfortunately inert sci-fi thriller 
The folks at Mill Creek should make a lot of guilty pleasure-seekers happy with their latest batch of Sony catalogue high definition releases, which brings to Blu 
Nickelodeon has a nifty little batch of releases sure to fill those seemingly endless summer days for the kids in your life, starting with a pair of releases from an old favorite – 
Far from an “Oh” face, much of Lars Von Trier’s 
When one of your chief blurbs comes from Telemundo, you know you’re in for a mindless bit of action fluff, and that’s exactly what the Arnold Schwarzenegger pic 
Michael McKean channels a bit of his Spinal Tap alter ego as a famous rocker helped in his search for a new band by Elmo and Abby in 
This week’s soundtrack round-up brings Michael Giacchino’s score for 
