Talk:Talk Radio (film)/Archive 1

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Trivia
Barry's murder is not depicted or even suggested in the original play.

This is because Oliver Stone, for whatever reason, combined elements of the play by Eric Bogosian and Tad Savinar about a talkshow host in Clevelend OH and elements of the real life and murder of Boulder CO talk show host Alan Berg to create a screenplay about a talkshow host in Dallas TX. Talk Radio the play was never intended to be the Alan Berg story and the movie isn't even a docudrama of the Alan Berg story. Talk Radio is a play about talk radio media in general and stands universally untied to a specific time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Naaman Brown (talk • contribs) 14:34, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Correct Boulder to Denver CO. The Alan Berg murder is not part of the play and Bogosian does not present Champlaign as Berg even if the character may have been inspired by Berg. The murder by The Order is added in the movie version, which led me at one time to refer to Talk Radio as a docudrama of the life and death of Berg, which the play is not. Naaman Brown (talk) 14:43, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Problem Sentence
This sentence appears in the article:


 * He was a former suit salesman who got his rise to fame by his guest shot on the Jeff Fisher radio show, then the boss gives him his own show.

'''There seems to be two problems here: one is that the sentence changes tense in the middle, and the other is that using both "was" and "former" is redundant.

I would recommend changing it to:


 * A former suit salesman, Champlain gets his rise to fame when the boss of the Jeff Fisher show, after seeing his guest appearance, gives him his own show.

'''If someone can confirm that this is correct, please incorporate it into the article. Thank-you'''

It might be more readable if this where made into two sentences.

--VegKilla 22:15, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

How about...

Champlain's rise to fame ocurred by happenstance when he made a guest appearance on the Jeff Fisher show. Fisher's boss saw the guest spot, offered Champlain his own show, and his days selling suits were over.


 * That sounds too much like a line from a novel... if you're an aspiring novelist, Wikipedia isn't the place to practice. Besides, I seriously doubt that "happenstance" is a real word anyway.  Even if it is, it doesn't belong in a wikipedia article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by MaxVolume (talk • contribs) 17:15, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

In Popular Culture
The article currently says "the telephone beeps at the end form the basis of the 1996 Spacehog song In the Meantime." It seems, according to this page, that statement ought to be either expanded or omitted, depending on whether anyone can find a source that says Spacehog was inspired to use the Penguin Cafe Orchestra song after seeing Talk Radio, and not after hearing it somewhere else. If there is citation, expand it; if not, omit it. Byslexic (talk) 05:02, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Since Byslexic's comment above, someone apparently added that "the telephone beeps. . . form the basis of. . . the 1986 Penguin Cafe Orchestra song Telephone and Rubber Band." This statement is ludicrous; how could a film released in 1988 be sampled for a song released in 1986? "Telephone and Rubber Band" was used in the film, and is listed in the credits. I have removed this statement, as well as the claim about Spacehog. As Byslexic suggested, if there is a link between Talk Radio and Spacehog's use of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra sample, feel free to add that part back. 71.207.175.74 (talk) 21:12, 7 February 2011 (UTC)