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HOT DOG: Passion strong as ever in Squaw
By Justin Broglio

I’ll be honest I’d never actually watched “Hot Dog” in its entirety until last night.

In the early 80s, when Mike Marvin wrote and produced the cult classic, mogul runs, double daffies and Dan O’Callahan ruled the slopes. Lift tickets cost about $20, less than 1,000 people lived on the West Shore of Lake Tahoe and Squaw Valley was the place to be.

“Who knew we’d still be doing this 25 years later,” Jimmy “Kamakaze” Saito says to me as we watch him and the rest of the Rat Pack tear up the ski ballot competition. “It’s amazing the following this movie has and how much enthusiasm people still have for it.”

Enthusiasm is an understatement. Here I am 25 years old, sitting in Bar One dressed in a pink one piece talking to the cast of a movie that helped define the Tahoe lifestyle I’m trying to live and there’s barely room to move. This place is packed to the walls with neon and people are screaming for Squirrel’s red gondola scene. Debbie Dutton (Shannon Tweed’s skier double), who’s still wearing the blue spandex and living in the Valley, just took our photo and Frank Koppala (the one and only Squirrel Murphy) just asked if he’d have to do this again in five more years.

Four hours ago we were racing around Cushing’s Pond with greased wieners in our hands wearing nothing but a pair of “Hot Dog” boxers. When the movie ends we’ll move over to the OVI to dance like no one’s watching while the members of Wonderbread 5 and celebrity judge Scott Gaffeny decide who’s got zee best Harkin Banks sweater and Rudette one piece.

If that’s not enthusiasm for a film that cost less than $3 million and only took 52 days to make I must be doing something wrong.  Click for the full story.

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