ESPN2 Cold Pizza

aired March 4, 2004, Part One

Interview begins with a clip from "Savage Sunday")

(laughter all around)

Jay Crawford:  These guys are distracting me.  That was a scene from Starsky & Hutch, the tv show.  You see?  I knew that this was going to get crazy.   I just absolutely knew it.    The tv show aired, of course, from 1975  to 1979.  Now the terrific twosome are back on the big screen.  The movie version opens tomorrow.  It stars Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson.  But, they're just copies.  Joining us now, the original Starsky & Hutch, Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul.  You guys are going to get me in a lot...you already got me in trouble, because Thea comes over here after her last segment and she's yelling at me, "Control your guests," she said.  (Paul and David call her over.)  She yells at me, "Control your guests," like I got anything to do with it.

Paul:  You know, I think we ought to sit Thea between us.  (laughter)

Jay:  How you guys feel about the movie?  You've seen it, I'm sure.  How did you feel about it?

Paul:  Ah, how did we feel about it....we felt great about it, it was very nice.  It's like a compliment, tip of the hat.  It was very cool.

Jay:  David, what about you, did you like it?

David:  Yeah, same.

Paul:  Call, call him Owen (touches David's thigh, both laugh)

Jay:  David, what were the similarities between the series and the movie?

David:  Well ah, I think Paul will agree, I think, maybe he won't.

Paul:  Trick question.

David:  Trick question.  It's still early to think.  I think the biggest..

Paul:  Kick start him.

David:  Yeah.  Um, the film really dwells...dwells on one aspect, one level of the Starsky & Hutch relationship.  It's a, it's a comedic take-off on the show.  In the series we had a chance to do, to explore the relationship on a lot of different levels. 

Jay:  Right.

David:  So there was drama, there was tragedy, there was action, there was comedy, there was ah, farce.  

Jay:  Little of everything.

David:  Little of everything, you know?  And this focused more on the comedic aspects... of the relationship...

Jay: Right

David: ... so that's the, that's the essential difference.

Jay:  Yeah.  What about you, did you see the similarities and differences?

Paul:  (pauses, laughs)

Jay:  Come on, help me out here!

Paul:  He answered the question!

Jay:  He answered the question.  You don't have anything to add to that?

David:  No, he's got no opinions of his own.  (laughter all around)

Paul:  No, I have no opinions about anything.(laughs)

(clip from "Kill Huggy Bear" shown)

Jay:  You know really, I didn't know there was going to be a cameo for you two when I went to see it.  We saw a screening last week. 

Paul:  Yeah, yeah.

Jay:  I was hoping desperately that we would get to see the originals.  And then toward David the end of the movie, there it is, the cameo, the original
Starsky & Hutch on the screen....

David:  Thanks for giving it away  (laughs)

Jay:  With the new ones.....oh, come on, everybody's going to know. Actually, we have a clip of ah,ah, you guys.  Let's take a look.

(short clip of thier cameo shown)

Jay:  Well, what did you think?  Were you happy with the scene?

Paul:  Oh yeah.  We had...the scene was actually ah, longer, there was ah, ah, ,there was a real cool thing that happened, but, two of the characters that were in the scene were taken out of earlier scenes of the movie so they had to,  didn't make any sense for them to come into the end of the movie, so they had to take it out. But it gave David and I a chance to do a little rift together, which we always used to do on the show.  But, ah, be that as it may, it was a lot of fun and ah, everyone was cool.  (looks over at David)  We had a good time. 

Jay:  Was it deja vu, David, going back on the set and seeing the car and the whole bit?

Paul:  What does that mean, deja vu? (both laugh)

David:  Just be quiet.  I'll let you... I'll answer the question.  You don't....

Jay:  He knows what it means, so he can answer the question.

Paul:  It's fancy talk.

David:  It's okay, I'll look after you.  I'll take care of you.  It's all right.

Paul:  You're wearing sandals.

David:  I am wearing sandals.

Paul:  No socks.

David:  Yeah, well that's the way I....

Jay:  It's stylish.  It looks good.

Paul:  (sniffs air)

David:  Um.. let's ah.. yeah, it was great, being on the set......

(Paul tries to get David to laugh.)

David:  Um.... anytime I can go on the set and work with this.... (Paul leans on David to get in his camera shot.. David laughs) Get off of me.

Paul:  (Paul leans on David again)  I want to be in the shot (laughter all around)

Jay:  You guys still look great together, let me just say that.

Paul:  Yeah, we've been dating a long time.  (laughter all around as Paul sits back on his own side of the couch)

Jay:  Paul, did you see any resemblance between you and Ben Stiller.  How'd they do on casting there? 

Paul:  Ben is great.  Ben plays the role really well.  He's ah, he studied it.  He really got into it.   And ah, ah... ah..... you know, yeah, he does.

There's a similarity, there.  I wonder if he'll look like me when he gets to be my age? (laughs as he jokes about it)

Jay: Sure.  He's probably watching right now saying, you know what?  That's what I'm going to look like when I get older.   

Paul:  Oh geez....(laughter)

Jay:  David, what about you?  Owen Wilson, did he nail you?  There's the comparison there (comparison picture of the four of them shown)

David:  Well, you know,  I don't think he tried to nail me.  I think he's bringing his own sort of personality of his own...his own idea of the character.  I mean, that's what acting's about, isn't it? 
Jay:  Yeah.

David:  Not about playing me, it's about playing Hutch.

Jay:  Sure.

David:  So he marches to his own drummer, in that one.

Jay:  Yeah.

David:  I think he's really good.

Jay:  Seventies babies will remember the hit song, I do, ah "Don't Give Up On Us Baby".  Owen actually sings the song in the movie......You have to see this...

Paul:  No, that was me.  That was me. That was me singing the song.

Jay:  That was you dubbed in.  Take a look.....

(clip of Owen singing "Don't Give Up On Us Baby")

David:  (laughs)  That's a very funny sequence there.

Jay:  You know what?  He plays the role well, but boy, he can't sing.

David:  No, well, I don't think that was the intention there....

Paul:  Awe....nah, he can sing.  I thought he was very cute, very sweet. Very nice kid.

David: (sing a little)  Don't Throw Up On Me, Baby"

Jay:  Yeah, that's about what it came at that point. Well, the scene, I won't give away what happens in the scene.   You guys are already mad at me. You think I spoiled it because I talked about your cameo.  I can't have you on without talking about your cameo.

Paul:  What sign are you?

Jay:  I'm a cancer. 

Paul: No, David. (as he looks at David)

Jay:  Is that a problem? 

Paul:  I don't know!  (Paul and David laugh)

Jay:  I don't know what that means.  I don't know why you want to know. Did you ever think that after 30 years after the series that this thing would make it to the big screen?

David:  Ah, no,.. of course not.  No.  Um...we didn't even think it was going to be a hit.  We didn't think it was going to take off......

Paul:  We never thought it'd be...

Jay:  Oh, the show itself, you didn't? 

Paul:  No, we never thought... I never,.. I never did the series. I never did the ah, the ah, ah, pilot with an eye to it being a series.

Jay:  Really?

David:  Neither one of us did, really.

Jay:  So, you were surprised by the success the first time around?

Paul:  Oh yeah.  You always are.  Comes out of left field. 

Jay:  Yeah, you never know.

David:  And you know, to think that was 30 years ago!

Jay:  It's amazing.

David:  You know what I mean?  So...

Paul:  I was four.  How old were you?

David:  Things were a lot different then than they are now.  (Paul's grinning at him)  Boy, that's a pretty obvious thing to say, isn't it? They're a lot different then than they are now!  (David smiles and laughs)

Paul:  I got that one.

David:  (laughing)  I got that one nailed! 

Jay:  The series was fantastic and for those of us that grew up in that decade, it was part of our childhood.  I wanted to have a car that had the snap on siren that you could pull out of the window just because of that show.  And speaking of the car, we're going to have more on the car tomorrow.  But ah, the first season of the original Starsky & Hutch is available now on DVD.

(buzzer sounds...end of interview, LOL))

Jay:  Guys, thanks a lot!

Sears Half-time Report GUY: It's half-time Sears Report. I'm Capt. Dobey..I'm just kidding. Huggy Bear has just said...(goes over to Paul & David as they quickly turn to see)

I got you! I got you! (falls into Paul's lap)

Paul: You listen to me, you listen to me boy.

Sears Guy: Oh..oh!

Paul: (holding onto guy) You're not going anywhere!

David: He looks like Howard Cosell, right there.

Jay. (shouting into camera) All Hell is breaking loose!

David: Howard Cosell, right there.

Sears Guy: Kit Hoover, what's your sign?

Kit: I'm a Leo!

Paul: (pounding the couch seat between he and David) Kit, sit down here, come on, sit down here!

(Kit runs over and sits between them.)

Paul: Oh my goodness. (he puts his arm around her waist)

Kit: WOW, you've got quite a grip there!

Paul: Oh, man, Wow !

(laughing all around)

Paul: Now were interviewing!

Kit: Lordy, lordy!

Kit (I've got "fat rolls".

Paul: (whispers to her, nicely) You don't have fat rolls!

Kit: Thea, come over here!

Paul: Thea get over here! Let's go, come on!

Thea runs over and sits next to David.

(Lot's of excited cross talking,)

PART TWO. Outside the studio with

"The Car", March 5, 2004

Jay: Welcome back to Cold Pizza/

Paul: (Pats Jay's head) Here's our good boy! Oh my God, what do you have on your head? (shakes it off his hand and then wipes it on David's jacket) Jesus!

Jay: I use to watch "Starsky & Hutch", can't go on TV without the hair spray.

David: (Pats Jay's head and wipes it on Paul)

Jay:We're here with Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul, two of the stars, THE stars of the ah, televisin show "Starsky & Hutch" from the seventies, of course, now it's been made into a movie. The other star of the show was the 1974 red Gran Torino.

Guys, thanks for making it back for the second staright day on Cold Pizza.

Paul: Here we are, it's

David: well, we just love cold pizza, we're back.

Jay: Did seeing this car bring back any memories?

David: Yea, throwing up!

Jay: Did you get sick driving this thing?

David: No, I just never liked, ah, this car.

Paul: He always hated to drive, he always had to drive on this side (passenger) and then always ended up in my lap when I took a turn!

David: My one job was this stupid thing (holding the mars light and then putting it on the top,) that's all I ever did!

Jay: That's the coolest job going.

David: I had to take this out and put it up there, that's all I ever did amd O had to tolerate him driving this tank.

Paul: (nods)

David: Talk about undercover, right, here they come guys! Look at that.

Jay: I always thought that was odd. You were guys, you guys were undercover in a big white striped tomato. How did that work?

(clip shown)

Paul: It was obvious! It was rediculous, made no sense. But you know, it looked cool, people liked the car.

Jay: it really did. Did you like driving it? It became the trademark of the show. was it fun driving it?

Paul: Well, ya, you got to park the car on the sidewalk.

Jay: Exactly. it had a lot of horsepower too. How many times did you wreck the car?

Paul: Well, I'll put it to you this way, the crew used to put down 5 and 10 dollar bills uunder rocks and beer cans whnever I had to drive up cause we were always betting on where I'd end up.

Jay: Very nice. It's, we're gonna take a tour guys, if I can, of the thing. You guys, sort of tell me what you have in this thing, ah, it's equipped with an 8-track tape player, is that right?

Paul: Ah, which way you going?

Jay: I;m sitting here, come in, open the door.

Paul: Can you open the door?

David: Open the door!

Paul ( to David) OPEN the door! Climb in, come one, get in your seat.

David: I'm not going to get in my seat.

Paul: Get into your seat! (David finally gets in)

Jay: Come on in. This is your official seat, btw, so you should feel comfortable and there's your light. This has the 8-track in it from Starsky & Hutch.

David: Paul! Don't leave me alone!

Jay: No, come on in here Paul. I hope you don;t mind that I'm sitting behind the wheel of your car?

Paul: No, no, I think you look great there.

Jay: What do you think of my Starsky & Hutch shirt? Am I pulling off the wardrobe?

Paul: I think it's ah, I don't know what to say about that shirt!

Jay: So, you use to do the light? Was that your primary function?

David: That was it!

Paul: That was his only job.

Jay: That was it huh?

David: That was it and to put up, ah, with him, that's it, that's all I had to do.

Jay: Paul, how does it drive? How was the ride? Smooth?

Paul: Well, I think the one they used ion the movie was probably great. This one was a big pig..

Jay: A pig?

Paul:..a big hog. Big, heavey, suspension was really all over the place.

(clip of car driving shown)

David: They built up the lower end on this...

Paul: Yeah, yeah.

David:... in this thing.

Paul: Ford asked me to say this!

David: But I had an old, ah, tub. A brown car.

Jay: Right.

David: My car would, ah, out drive this one.

Jay: No kidding!

Jay: Paul, with your permission, I'd like to crank it over.

Paul: Go ahead, go for it!

Jay: OK, let's start this sucker up. I need to say as I do it that the mobvie is in theaters everywhere, and that the soundtrack is out Tuesday.

(a real police siren goes off just as the car starts up!)

Paul: WOO!

David: Memories of rumble.

Paul: Turn the siren off, will you!

Jay: That's got a nice sound to it.

Paul: Good pipes!

Jay: Very nice, Paul, David, good luck with the movie. Thank you so much.

David: Not at all.

Paul: Thank you, you're welcome.

(shaking hands. Paul closes the door with David still in the car!)

Paul: See ya later!

Jay: It's great, we love it.

Paul: Happy trails!

(David waves up at Paul)

CUT!

A great, relaxed interview with lots of laughter especially when Paul messes up his hair and continuously shouts out Trump's now famous "You're fired! " I hope you have had the opportunity to see it.

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