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Today's Guest: Robert Crane, who wrote the book Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder, about his his actor dad, "Hogan's Heroes" TV star Bob Crane.
Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Robert Crane, who wrote the book Crane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder, about the murder of actor dad, "Hogan's Heroes" TV star Bob Crane by clicking on the video player above!
Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience that is gonna wanna take the Fifth when today’s show is over… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!
Nazis ain’t funny.
Most of the time.
Two exceptions come immediately to mind, though. One is the Internet subtitling meme based on the 2004 Hitler film Downfall, which has parodied Der Fuhrer endlessly and to great effect. (Watch it below.) ROBERT CRANE podcast excerpt: "My stepmother, Patti, and her son had gone on an X-rated website rant, exposing all of my dad's private photos. I subsequently jumped into the production of the movie Autofocus because I felt someone from Bob Crane's first family had to be involved in the making of this movie; Paul Schrader was going to make it no matter what. It was a good script."
You can LISTEN to this interview with journalist ROBERT CRANE, co-author of CRANE: SEX, CELEBRITY, AND MY FATHER's UNSOLVED MURDER, by clicking the audio player above!
The other was the long-running 1960s sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes,” which was based in a Nazi prisoner of war camp and starred a United Nations’ assortment of sharp-tongued captured soldiers, including a Frenchman, a Brit, an American black man, a backwoods southerner, and an All-American WASP named Colonel Hogan.
Colonel Hogan, a.k.a., former Los Angeles radio disc jockey Bob Crane, was a man who charmed German frauleins and officers alike. In fact, if the show were ever rebooted today, Hogan would probably be shown seducing men, too. His charism