Episode Thirty-Eight
Episode 38: Cheerleading cheers, Twilight Zone, shout-outs, the real reason we hate Mel Gibson, movies, lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs, CD Mix #3 alternate tracks 11-15.
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Woody Allen will forever get some credit for the cello in the marching band scene. Absolutely the best thing he ever did. Still cracks me up, but I also agree with the ick factor on his still being pared up with young girls. Bleh.
Another song about cannibalism: "I Eat Cannibal" -- Total Coehlo.
Happy January!
Allow me to go on record as being a big fan of Polanski's early movies, including the two you mentioned. And I love How Green Was My Valley, but I'm a sucker for John Ford getting all sentimental like that with family. And Maureen O'Hara was sa-mokin'.
The Great Dictator was the reason I was just a bit disappointed in To Be Or Not To Be. It's the kind of sharp anti-Nazi satire I expected from a comedy, not a maudlin tragedy. And the ending left me cold.
More exceptions to the great songwriter/bad singer rule: Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson. Stevie wrote just about all his own hits and Smokey wrote for himself and others at Motown: My Guy (for Mary Wells), The Way You Do The Things You Do, My Girl (all for the Temps), and the most excellent First I Look At The Purse for the Contours.
RIP Yvonne DeCarlo. If you haven't seen Criss Cross, with Yvonne and Burt Lancaster and Dan Duryea, it's a must-see.
Did I actually call you guys hypocrites? I don't think I did--just suggested you were being hypocritical. There's a difference in my mind. And if I did call you hypocrites? I meant it in the best possible way! :)
You know I'm your guys' biggest fan!!
Also: your explanation about why you won't see Mr. Sugar Tits' movies makes sense now. It just sounded like it was about the anti-Jew thing of his, as opposed to you guys thinking his movies suck. I don't care for the movies he's acted in (though the first two Lethal Weapons were fun and of course the first two Mad Max movies are great) but I do think he's a good director, as I have said. I think it's fine that you guys like Chinatown. Generally, I can separate the films from the filmmakers, though not always.
My father-in-law actually sued Clint Eastwood because his Mission Ranch restaurant didn't have handicapped accessible bathrooms. Clint was so mad he went to capital hill and testified against "special interest bottomfeeders" and shit-talked my father-in-law *by name*. Talk about surreal--watching Dirty Harry badmouth your F-I-L on C-SPAN. I mean, saying this guy is a bottomfeeder is insulting a man who's dedicated his life to fighting for disabled rights. So, we don't watch Clint Eastwood movies around our apartment anymore. :)
However, I do agree that Eastwood can make a good movie--but the guy's a dick. Add some ramps and bigger bathroom stalls, you asshole! Or do you like having a guy in a wheelchair peeing himself in your restaurant?
Oh yeah--Joe Biden! I don't know if you guys remember back in the 1980s (or was it the 90s?) Biden ran for President in the Democratic primary and got in big, BIG trouble for lifting from famous people's speeches. As I recall, he even lifted from a speech JFK gave. I remember we were all astounded that he thought no one would notice the word-for-word similarities between his speeches and the speeches of other, more famous people.
Say, when are you guys going to have another guest? And I don't remember you guys talking about how your Christmasses went.
And yes, I was very nearly dead with the flu. :) Still have a cough, believe it or not. :(
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