Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

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Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

2016

1h 33m

7.3(26 votes)

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Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.

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Frank Zappa

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Theodore Bikel

Rance Muhammitz (archive footage)

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Arlene Francis

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Keith Moon

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Steve Allen

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Jimmy Carl Black

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Pierre Boulez

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Thomas Braden

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Napoleon Murphy Brock

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Paul Carman

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Katie Couric

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Mike Douglas

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George Duke

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Václav Havel

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Angel

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Chuck Ash

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Arthur Barrow

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Adrian Belew

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Tom Brokaw

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Wally Bruner

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Del Casher

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Vinnie Colaiuta

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Connie Chung

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Robin Denselow

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Aynsley Dunbar

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Ensemble Modern

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Roy Estrada

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Bruce Fowler

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Tom Fowler

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Walt Fowler

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Jamie Gangel

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Bunk Gardner

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Tipper Gore

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Judy Gridley

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Robert Hager

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Paula Fickes Hawkins

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Ralph Humphrey

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Johnny Jacobs

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Howard Kaylan

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Mike Keneally

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Martin Lickert

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June Lockhart

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John Lofton

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Ed Mann

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Tommy Mars

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Bobby Martin

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Kurt McGettrick

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Keith Moon

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Kent Nagano

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Janet Neville-Ferguson

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Robert D. Novak

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Lucy Offerall

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Jean-Luc Ponty

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Don Preston

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Gene Rayburn

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Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra

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Peter Rundel

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Soupy Sales

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Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood

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Stanley Siegel

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Jeff Simmons

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Harry Smith

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John Smothers

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Ringo Starr

Larry the Dwarf (archive footage)

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Chester Thompson

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Scott Thunes

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Arthur Dyer Tripp III

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Ian Underwood

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Ruth Underwood

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Mark Volman

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Chad Wackerman

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Denny Walley

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Ray White

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Ike Willis

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Albert Au Wing Kuen

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Peter Wolf

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Gail Zappa

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Allan Zavod

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