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The Chris Gaines Special Offers a Fascinatingly Cringy Look at a Flop of Legendary Proportions

One of you kind souls paid me to experience a fascinatingly awkward 1999 NBC special where Garth Brooks does a terrible job of promoting his ill-fated alter-ego, Australia-born pouty rocker/blue eyed soulman Chris Gaines.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 18, 2025Garth Brooks, Chris Gaines, vanity project, self-indulgence, television special, TV, Television

Shards From the Fractured Mirror: Best Worst Movie, Clerks III, My Life's in Turnaround, The Shadow of the Vampire and Stardust Memories

In the latest round up of movies about filmmaking I cover a quintet of films featured in my upcoming book The Fractured Mirror