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Thursday Aug 22, 2019
Ep. 32 - Pumping Iron
Thursday Aug 22, 2019
Thursday Aug 22, 2019
The beefy, glistening (and sometimes cheesy) Pumping Iron might be the most unintentionally homoerotic movie ever made, and it helped make Ah-nuld the star he’s been for over 4 decades.
Just as the movie does, Scoring At The Movies #32 focuses on the rivalry between the Schwarz and his psyche-out victim Lou Ferrigno, a lot of which was ginned up for this documentary/docudrama. The then-reigning Mister Olympia is fond of telling tall tales, but the man clearly always had charisma (our word of the day) coming out every sculpted muscle.
We rekindle the steroids discussion we’ve had in prior episodes (how could that NOT come up in a movie about body-building?) and we even did our own posedown. Wait, that’s not true... or is it? With fabrications like that, maybe we could have been characters in this movie…
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