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From: Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-09 (Wednesday)
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 04:30:42 -0400
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In article <vt8nfp$37po3$1@dont-email.me>, arthur@alum.calberkeley.org wrote:
> On 4/10/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

>> What did you watch?
>
>Hollywood Demons (HBOMax) - "Dark Side of the Power Rangers" - Episode 3 
>of this documentary series.  This episode is the reason I even took 
>notice of this series, it focused on "The Power Rangers."  I was a 
>little older when the show came out, but still enjoyed watching it as a 
>teenager.  I've only ever heard horror stories from the cast about 
>making this show, and this documentary was no different.  I had 
>forgotten they shot the pilot with a different "Yellow Ranger."  They 
>interviewed her about the pilot.  She said they were in the middle of 
>some dessert in heat when one of the stuntmen in a rubber swimsuit had 
>heat stroke.  She said the guy was on the ground flopping around and she 
>insisted they stop filming and get the guy an ambulance.  But the 
>producers refused to stop filming and offered $100 for anyone to take 
>off the costume and put it on so they could keep filming, and someone 
>took the $100, took the costume off the man, and left the guy there 
>still shaking, but now in the his socks and underwear, and they kept 
>filming.
>
>And that's not even close to the most shocking story they told in the 
>documentary.  There were so many shady things happened on that show. 
>Giving them contracts to sign, but telling them they had to sing almost 
>immediately with no time to let an agent review it first.  The terms of 
>the contracts had the actors working for almost nothing while signing 
>away their likeness.  Keep in mind, Power Rangers is a mutlibillion 
>dollar franchise.  They were putting the actors faces on products, 
>selling the products, and not giving the actors any of the money.  It 
>was a non union show which had its' own list of horrors they put the 
>actors through.  One of the actors said Disney bought the show, then it 
>went union and suddenly they cared if they got hurt or not and they 
>brought in stuntmen to the dangerous scenes.
>
>Then there were all the deaths, suicides, murder.  The murder they 
>talked about could be it's own documentary.  A lot of this fans of the 
>show will already know about, but it was still an interesting watch and 
>had several things I wasn't already aware of, in particular details 
>surrounding the suicide of Jason David Frank, who was the most popular 
>ranger.

Shit! I didn't realize there was so much behind-the-scenes stuff going on 
with that show!

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