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We are sitting down with Gregg, and he is doing his 104 80s Movies tournament. Check out this episode to see who he think is the best 80s Movie. If you want to do your tournament, please contact us, and we will set it up. Here are all the songs in the tournament: TOP GUN (1986)Harlem Nights (1989)DIRTY DANCING (1987)CADDYSHACK (1980)THE LOST BOYS (1987)BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)Coming to America (1988)E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)Wall Street 1987GHOSTBUSTERS (1984)REVENGE OF THE NERDS (1984)STAR WARS: EPISODE V -- THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)SPACEBALLS (1987)SIXTEEN CANDLES (1984)THE LAND BEFORE TIME (1988)THE SHINING (1980)ST. ELMO'S FIRE (1985)RAGING BULL (1980)LABYRINTH (1986)RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989)DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)COMMANDO (1985)THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)FIELD OF DREAMS (1989)THE THING (1982)THE NAKED GUN (1988)DIE HARD (1988)THE KARATE KID (1984)THE TERMINATOR (1984)police academy (1984)BLADE RUNNER (1982)less than zero (1987)RAISING ARIZONA (1987)TOOTSIE (1982)EVIL DEAD 2 (1987)THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985)AIRPLANE! (1980)WHEN HARRY MET SALLY... (1989)PREDATOR (1987)TIME BANDITS (1981)STAND BY ME (1986)LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986)SAY ANYTHING... (1989)THE LITTLE MERMAID (1989)THE GOONIES (1985)PURPLE RAIN (1984)PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES (1987)WARGAMES (1983)SHORT CIRCUIT (1986)DRAGONSLAYER (1981)THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984)STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989)BEVERLY HILLS COP (1984)FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980)THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985)A FISH CALLED WANDA (1988)FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF (1986)FOOTLOOSE (1984)HEATHERS (1989)Breakin' (1984)A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983)INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984)RISKY BUSINESS (1983)Rain Man (1988)A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)REAL GENIUS (1985)ROBOCOP (1987)BIG (1988)BEETLEJUICE (1988)BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (1989)THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984)THE COLOR PURPLE (1985)THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980)WEIRD SCIENCE (1985)GREMLINS (1984)TRON (1982)DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (1985)TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985)STAR WARS: EPISODE VI -- RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983)MYSTIC PIZZA (1988)FULL METAL JACKET (1987)PRETTY IN PINK (1986)BATMAN (1989)the last dragon (1985)TRADING PLACES (1983)FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982)NATIONAL LAMPOON'S Christmas VACATION (1989)ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981)PLATOON (1986)THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987)MAD MAX 2 (1981)REPO MAN (1984)AFTER HOURS (1985)BROADCAST NEWS (1987)WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988)THEY LIVE (1988)VALLEY GIRL (1983)SID & NANCY (1986)INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989)LETHAL WEAPON (1987)SCARFACE (1983)POLTERGEIST (1982)BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mass-debaters/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mass-debaters/support

We are reviewing the social media voted Christmas movie tournament. See what movie came in first place. Here are the movies: JERRY MAGUIRE (1996)FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (2008)WORKING GIRL (1988)How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)NOTTING HILL (1999)THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (1998)It's Complicated (2009)SIXTEEN CANDLES (1984)VALLEY GIRL (1983)HAPPIEST SEASON (2020)LONG SHOT (2019)CLUELESS (1995)WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING (1995)DON JON (2013)THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS & DOGS (1996)BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY (2001)CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (2011)BETTER OFF DEAD (1985)EMMA (1996)MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING (2002)BENNY & JOON (1993)NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST (2008)AS GOOD AS IT GETS (1997)THE BIG SICK (2017)RESULTS (2015)BROADCAST NEWS (1987)BEGINNERS (2010)SAY ANYTHING... (1989)THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN (2005)GROUNDHOG DAY (1993)(500) DAYS OF SUMMER (2009)THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)WEDDING CRASHERS (2005)BULL DURHAM (1988)THE SURE THING (1985)SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (1993)MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING (1997)PRETTY IN PINK (1986)SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE (2003)COMING TO AMERICA (1988)MAGGIE'S PLAN (2015)TIN CUP (1996)TOP FIVE (2014)CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER (2012)ISN'T IT ROMANTIC (2019)DEFINITELY, MAYBE (2008)CHASING AMY (1997)ANNIE HALL (1977)THE BEST MAN HOLIDAY (2013)TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE (2018)10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999)FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL (1994)IN & OUT (1997)ABOUT TIME (2013)ROXANNE (1987)KEEPING THE FAITH (2000)YOU'VE GOT MAIL (1998)THE WEDDING SINGER (1998)PLUS ONE (2019)THE ARTIST (2011)2 DAYS IN PARIS (2007)PALM SPRINGS (2020)EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODY (2017)ENOUGH SAID (2013)HITCH (2005)APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR (2014)BABY BOOM (1987)DAVE (1993)CROSSING DELANCEY (1988)LIFE PARTNERS (2014)FRIENDS WITH KIDS (2011)JUNO (2007)DOC HOLLYWOOD (1991)MANHATTAN (1979)WAITRESS (2007)THE LOVEBIRDS (2020)2 DAYS IN NEW YORK (2012)MOONSTRUCK (1987)KNOCKED UP (2007)BROWN SUGAR (2002)PRETTY WOMAN (1990)ENCHANTED (2007)The Wrong Missy (2020)ABOUT A BOY (2002)MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (1993)ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO (2008)OBVIOUS CHILD (2014)FEVER PITCH (2005)BRIDESMAIDS (2011)L.A. STORY (1991)CRAZY RICH ASIANS (2018)13 GOING ON 30 (2004)STRICTLY BALLROOM (1992)SLIDING DOORS (1998)HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (1986)SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (2012)THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT (1995)LOVE, SIMON (2018)WHEN HARRY MET SALLY... (1989)THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (2010)50 First Dates (2004)SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998)THE BROTHERS (2001)YESTERDAY (2019) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mass-debaters/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mass-debaters/support

We did a relay tournament to see what the podcast network thinks is the best Rom-Com of all time. Here are the movies: JERRY MAGUIRE (1996)FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (2008)WORKING GIRL (1988)How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)NOTTING HILL (1999)THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (1998)It's Complicated (2009)SIXTEEN CANDLES (1984)VALLEY GIRL (1983)HAPPIEST SEASON (2020)LONG SHOT (2019)CLUELESS (1995)WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING (1995)DON JON (2013)THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS & DOGS (1996)BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY (2001)CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (2011)BETTER OFF DEAD (1985)EMMA (1996)MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING (2002)BENNY & JOON (1993)NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST (2008)AS GOOD AS IT GETS (1997)THE BIG SICK (2017)RESULTS (2015)BROADCAST NEWS (1987)BEGINNERS (2010)SAY ANYTHING... (1989)THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN (2005)GROUNDHOG DAY (1993)(500) DAYS OF SUMMER (2009)THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)WEDDING CRASHERS (2005)BULL DURHAM (1988)THE SURE THING (1985)SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (1993)MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING (1997)PRETTY IN PINK (1986)SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE (2003)COMING TO AMERICA (1988)MAGGIE'S PLAN (2015)TIN CUP (1996)TOP FIVE (2014)CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER (2012)ISN'T IT ROMANTIC (2019)DEFINITELY, MAYBE (2008)CHASING AMY (1997)ANNIE HALL (1977)THE BEST MAN HOLIDAY (2013)TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE (2018)10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999)FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL (1994)IN & OUT (1997)ABOUT TIME (2013)ROXANNE (1987)KEEPING THE FAITH (2000)YOU'VE GOT MAIL (1998)THE WEDDING SINGER (1998)PLUS ONE (2019)THE ARTIST (2011)2 DAYS IN PARIS (2007)PALM SPRINGS (2020)EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODY (2017)ENOUGH SAID (2013)HITCH (2005)APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR (2014)BABY BOOM (1987)DAVE (1993)CROSSING DELANCEY (1988)LIFE PARTNERS (2014)FRIENDS WITH KIDS (2011)JUNO (2007)DOC HOLLYWOOD (1991)MANHATTAN (1979)WAITRESS (2007)THE LOVEBIRDS (2020)2 DAYS IN NEW YORK (2012)MOONSTRUCK (1987)KNOCKED UP (2007)BROWN SUGAR (2002)PRETTY WOMAN (1990)ENCHANTED (2007)The Wrong Missy (2020)ABOUT A BOY (2002)MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (1993)ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO (2008)OBVIOUS CHILD (2014)FEVER PITCH (2005)BRIDESMAIDS (2011)L.A. STORY (1991)CRAZY RICH ASIANS (2018)13 GOING ON 30 (2004)STRICTLY BALLROOM (1992)SLIDING DOORS (1998)HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (1986)SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (2012)THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT (1995)LOVE, SIMON (2018)WHEN HARRY MET SALLY... (1989)THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (2010)50 First Dates (2004)SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998)THE BROTHERS (2001)YESTERDAY (2019) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mass-debaters/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mass-debaters/support

Paul Solman, a business, economics, and occasional arts reporter for the PBS NewsHour since 1985, is passionate about bridging the political and cultural divides that Americans face – between right and left, rich and poor, rural and urban, and others. He channels some of that passion into helping run a nonprofit called the American Exchange Project – a domestic exchange program where high school students from across the United States travel to spend a week getting to know and living alongside teens from way outside their own bubbles. Last year, Solman reported a segment about the American Exchange Project and other efforts to counter polarization, as part of a series reflecting on what led up to the January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol. But, he argues the TV news format presents major barriers to telling more stories about peace and reconciliation. In this episode, Paul Solman and host Jamil Simon discuss why it's so difficult to tell peace stories on TV news. Also: how economic inequality factors into polarization, and the power of youth programs to promote the mindset that “we're all in this together.” Watch Paul Solman's Reports: Political Polarization Prompts Efforts to Bridge the GapWhy Louisianans blame government, not corporations, for pollution problemsLearn about the American Exchange Project at americanexchangeproject.org. Follow Paul Solman on Twitter @paulsolman.Making Peace Visible is hosted by Jamil Simon and produced by Andrea Muraskin. The associate producer is Faith McClure. The podcast is a project of War Stories Peace Stories. Follow us on Twitter @warstoriespeace.Support our work with a tax-deductible donation. 

Le mois de janvier est celui des bonnes résolutions, et l'alcool n'y fait pas exception. Pour peu que les fêtes aient été bien arrosées, nombre de personnes vont se lancer dans le défi du Dry January, ou janvier sobre, un mois entier sans alcool pour permettre à son corps de prendre un peu de repos. Mais quels sont les bénéfices d'une telle initiative pour la santé et font-ils vraiment une différence sur le long terme ? Décryptage avec Julie Kern dans ce nouvel épisode de la Santé sur Écoute.

Our weekly get together with Jay Truitt and Andrew Henderson takes the normal ebbs and flows of the week with big news about the 4163 page Omnibus Spending bill happening in the middle of the broadcast.

SOUTH Australian broadcast news veteran Jane Doyle signed off for the last time on Thursday night after three decades of dominating television ratings. Australians are about to spend up a storm on Christmas feasts, with tonnes of holiday food to be purchased amid warnings to get in early, with particular products already selling fast. Snake sightings are on the rise in flood-affected river communities, as experts warn highly-venomous reptiles are abandoning their habitats and seeking shelter in residential areas. The Department for Child Protection was aware a 15-year-old mother was the victim of statutory rape as she was trying for a baby with her 17-year-old boyfriend, but did nothing.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, director David Bruckner talks with Jordan about feeling seen by Holly Hunter's character, Jane Craig, in the 1987 classic, BROADCAST NEWS. Directed by James L. Brooks, it's a journalism....satire? rom-com? dramedy?... starring Hunter, Albert Brooks, and William Hurt. It's one of those movies that is so prescient about what news media would become. And for David Bruckner -- whose latest film is this year's HELLRAISER -- saw in it some parallels with what it feels like to be a creator in any medium. Then, Jordan has one quick thing about the new trailer for 65.***With Jordan Crucchiola and David Bruckner 

On this actual final episode of 2022, we take a look back at our favorite Christmas movie of the decade, Danny DeVito's 1989 film The War of the Roses. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT   Hello, and welcome to The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   Before we get started, yes, I said our previous episode, on Michael Jackson's Thriller, was going to be our last episode of 2022. When I wrote that, and when I said that, I meant it. But then, after publishing that episode, I got to thinking about Christmas, and some of my favorite Christmas movies, and it reminded me I have considering doing an episode about my favorite Christmas movie from the 1980s, and decided to make myself an unintentional liar by coming back one more time.   So, for the final time in 2022, this time for real, I present this new episode of The 80s Movie Podcast. This time, we'll be talking about Danny DeVito's best film as a director, The War of the Roses.   The genesis of War of the Roses was a novel by American author and playwright Warren Adler. After graduating from NYU with a degree in English literature, in a class that included Mario Puzo, the author of The Godfather, and William Styron, who won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Confessions of Nat Turner, Adler paved an interesting road before becoming a novelist. He worked as a journalist at the New York Daily News, before becoming the editor of the Queens Post, an independent weekly newspaper devoted to all things happening in that New York City borough.    He would buy four radio stations and a television station in New York City, before opening his own advertising and public relations firm in Washington D.C.   Adler would create ads for politicians, businesses and communities all across the nation. In fact, it was Warren Adler who would create the name of the DC complex whose name is now synonymous with high crimes: Watergate. In 1974, he would sell the firm, and the stations, after the publication of his first novel, Undertow.   The War of the Roses would be Adler's seventh novel to be published in as many years, and the first of four to be published in 1981 alone. The novel follows Jonathan and Barbara Rose, who, initially, seem to be the perfect couple. He has a thriving career as a lawyer, she is an up-an-coming entrepreneur with an exceptional pâté recipe. Their extravagant home holds a collection of antiquities purchased over the years, and they enjoy their life with their children Evie and Josh. One day, Jonathan suffers what seems to be a heart attack, to which Barbara responds by asking for a divorce. Very quickly, their mutual love turns to a destructive hatred, especially after Jonathan, trying to save his marriage despite his wife's de facto declaration of lost love for her husband, decides to invoke an old state law that allows a husband to remain in his house while in the process of divorce.   The novel became an immediate sensation, but Hollywood had already come knocking on Mr. Adler's door seven months before the book's publication.   Richard D. Zanuck, the son of legendary Fox studio head Daryl Zanuck, and his producing partner David Brown, would purchase the movie rights to the book in September 1980 through their production deal at Fox. The producers, whose credits included The Sting and Jaws, would hire Adler to write the screenplay adaptation of his novel, but they seemingly would let the film rights lapse after two years.    James L. Brooks, the television writer and producer who created The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Taxi, was transitioning to movies, and purchased the movie rights to the book, which he would produce for Polly Platt, the former wife of filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich who had made a name for herself as an art director, costume designer, screenwriter and producer, including as the production designer and on-set sounding board for Brooks on Terms of Endearment.   At the time, Brooks was working at Paramount Pictures, but in 1986, he would end his association with that studio when Fox would offer Brooks the opportunity to create his own production company at the studio, Gracie Films. When the transfer of Brooks' properties from Paramount to Fox was being worked on, it was discovered that Brooks didn't actually own the movie rights to War of the Roses after all.    In fact, Arnon Milchan, an Israeli businessman who had been making a splash in the film industry financing movies like Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy, Ridley Scott's Legend and Terry Gilliam's Brazil, had actually purchased the movie rights to the novel before the Zanuck/Brown option seemingly lapsed, which would require Brooks to enter into a new round of negotiations to secure the rights once and for all. Milchan would sell them to Gracie Films for $300k and a producer credit on the final film.   Once the rights were finally and properly secured, Brooks would hire Michael Neeson, a writer Brooks had worked with on The Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda and Taxi, to write the screenplay. But instead of spending time getting ready to make her directorial debut, Platt instead took a job as the production designer on George Miller's adaptation of John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick. In fact, Miller was so keen on getting Platt involved in his production that he would consider shooting a good portion of the movie in Platt's hometown of Hingham, Massachusetts, although they would eventually spend most of the location shoot in nearby Colhasset, which had more of the historical buildings Miller wanted for the film.   Platt would finish her work on Witches before Brooks would begin shooting his Terms of Endearment follow-up, Broadcast News, on which Polly would serve as an executive producer, but her leaving Brooks for several months to work on someone else's film would begin a fracture between the two that would lead to Platt leaving Gracie Films in a few years.   But not before she helped with the creation of The Tracy Ullman Show, one of the earliest shows on the then-brand new Fox television network, which included a short animated segment each week about a quirky family in a town called Springfield.    The Simpsons.   While Platt was in New England working on Witches, James L. Brooks would visit an old friend, Danny DeVito, who was shooting his feature directing debut, Throw Momma From the Train. DeVito had known about The War of the Roses for years, and really wanted to make it as a director, but knowing how important the project was to Platt, he would defer his interest in the film.    In a July 2020 episode of Karina Longworth's excellent podcast You Must Remember This, Danny DeVito tells Longworth that he only became involved in the film when Brooks told him the project was not going to move forward with Polly Platt.    And sidebar, if you aren't familiar with Polly Platt or her importance to cinema and pop culture, I highly encourage you to listen to Ms. Longworth's entire season about Ms. Platt. Polly Platt was an amazing, complicated woman who deserves a better legacy. Just trust me on this. Please.   Okay, so now were at the end of 1986. Polly Platt was out as the director of The War of the Roses, even if she didn't know she was out at the time.   So what could DeVito bring to the project that Platt could not?   DeVito had just finished his first feature film as a director. And while Momma wasn't a big hit when it was released in December 1987, it was successful enough at the box office, and the film would garner an unlikely Oscar nomination for Anne Ramsay, the actress who played the film's diminutive title character. But more importantly, DeVito could bring in Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, his co-stars on Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile, to play the now Oliver and Barbara Rose. The three actors had had spent years looking for another project unrelated to that other series they could make together. Douglas would sign on to the project before his amazing fall and winter 1987 run, first as the star of the mega-hit Fatal Attraction, and then as the star of Wall Street, which would garner him an Academy Award for Best Actor.   Turner had been taking some time off from acting after finishing Peggy Sue Got Married in July 1985, and was pregnant with her daughter Rachel when DeVito approached her about The War of the Roses. Turner was already working on a comedy called Switching Channels, which had to finish shooting by early July 1987, as Turner's pregnancy would be rather visible if shooting lasted any longer. She had also committed to being a featured actor in Body Heat director Lawrence Kasdan's The Accidental Tourist, which would also re-team Turner with William Hurt.    But she would agree to star in The War of the Roses if they could give her some time being a new mom before shooting began.   DeVito and Leeson would continue to work on the script. As there was no character in the novel that would work for the compact actor/director, the two would create a framing device for the story. DeVito would play Gavin D'Amato, a divorce lawyer who was friends with Oliver Rose, who tells the story of Oliver and Barbara Rose to a potential client, played by Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson, as a way of trying to get his client to reconsider splitting with his wife. The character of Gavin D'Amato would take the place of Murray Goldstein in the novel, an overweight former rabbi who would only meet Oliver Rose during the course of the story.   Sean Astin, who had made a splash a few years earlier as the lead in The Goonies, would be cast as the Rose's teenage son Josh, while newcomer Heather Fairfield would get her first major movie role playing the Roses' daughter Evie, who would be renamed Carolyn for the movie.   The other major change DeVito and Leeson would make to the story would be to change the Roses' sitter from a teenager to a fortysomething woman, as they would be able to get German actress Marianne Sägebrecht, who had just found international stardom as the star of Percy Adlon's surprise global hit Baghdad Cafe, to come aboard.   Although the $26m film took place on the East Coast, the scenes not shot on the sound stages at Fox Studios in Los Angeles were filmed in Coupeville, WA, a small town on Whidbey Island, about forty miles north of Seattle, which had never been used as a filming location before.   Filming would begin on Stage 6 on the Fox lot, which was set up as the main living area for the Roses' house, on March 21st, 1989. The production would shoot as much of the film on the soundstages until April 7th, which was the first day they would be allowed to shoot in Coupeville. The evening of April 6th, though, would be spent on the backlot of Universal Studios, which was the only available space in Los Angeles at the time to accommodate shooting a massive, snowy Christmas Eve scene standing in for Cambridge, MA.   Two days after arriving in Coupeville, DeVito would discover a note on his rental car parked at the hotel where the production had its base, stating that thieves had stolen the dailies from the first day of location shooting, and demanded a ransom to have the footage returned. But DeVito was quickly able to find the dailies had not been stolen, and just laughed the note off as a prank.   After several weeks in Washington State, the production would return to Los Angeles to finish the remainder of the set shooting on the Fox Lot, as well as a few additional shots of homes in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hancock Park, standing in suburban Washington D.C. Shooting would finish on July 25th, which would give DeVito and his team less than four and a half months to get the film ready for its planned December 8th release date.   Because the editing team lead by Lynne Klingman had been putting together an assembly cut for DeVito during production, the director was able to screen his first cut of the film for Fox executives in mid-August. That cut would run three hours and four minutes. But that's what an assembly cut is for. You get to see all the stuff you shot put together, and see what you need to whittle down, what you need to move around, and what you need to get rid of completely.   Over the course of the next few months, DeVito and the editors would get the movie down to a tight one hour and fifty six minutes. And unlike many movies then and now, there were very few scenes that needed to be reshot or added in. One shot that would be added after the audiences at several test screenings was horrified at the suggestion that Barbara's pâté may have been made with the family dog. DeVito would later state that he always meant to have a shot of the dog later in the movie, but it was definitely a late addition after the first few test screenings.   The War of the Roses would hold its world premiere at Century Plaza Cinemas in Century City, about a mile from the Fox lot, on December 4th, 1989. It would be a star-studded affair that included DeVito, Turner, and Douglas, who brought his father Kirk along with him, along with Courtney Cox, Olivia Newton-John, Kelly Preston, Mimi Rogers, Christian Slater and Samantha Morton, Oliver Stone, and Jennifer Tilly, followed by a New York City premiere two days later at the Gotham Theatre. The film would open in 1259 theatres on Friday, December 8th, and would be the highest grossing film in the nation, taking in $9.5m, knocking the previous week's #1 film, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, out of the top spot. It would fall to second place in its second week, as Christmas Vacation retook first place, and it would fall to third place during the long Christmas weekend. However, in its fourth week of release, the long New Years weekend, The War of the Roses would retake the top spot for the second and final time. At the end of the year, after 25 days of release, the film had grossed $43.85m, or the equivalent of $105m in 2022 dollars. The film would continue to stay strong for several more weeks, staying in the top ten until mid-February, before ending its run in theatres in the spring with $86.89m.   The reviews were pretty good, with particular praise heaped upon Douglas and Turner's performances as well as DeVito's direction. But, sadly, there would be little awards love for the film.   The Golden Globes would nominate the film for Best Comedy, and both Turner and Douglas for lead comedy performances, and the British Academy would nominate Michael Leeson for his screenplay, but would be completely shut out at the Academy Awards.   I love the movie. It was one of the first movies I bought on Laserdisc back in the early 1990s, and when I call it a box set, I mean it was actually two discs and a four page booklet about the movie not in an album-like slipcover but an actual box. The movie was on the first disc, with roughly an hour on each side, which included a separate audio track for DeVito's commentary and a personal introduction to the film by DeVito, while the second disc featured deleted scenes, theatrical trailers, a copy of the shooting script, production stills, and a gallery of the theatrical posters. For a guy who had spent years building an enviable VHS videotape collection, this was next level stuff most people wouldn't get to experience for nearly another decade.   More than thirty years after Warren Adler published The War of the Roses, he would release a sequel to his novel, entitled The Children of the Roses. Josh and Evie are now adults. Josh is married with two children himself, a boy and a girl, Michael and Emily. Much like his parents' marriage, Josh's marriage to Victoria seems to be picture perfect on the outside, but after their son gets caught up in a caper at his elite private school involving stolen Milky Way bars, Josh finds himself in his own War of the Roses.   Evie, who still copes with her depression by eating, comforts her niece and nephew with loads of food, since to Evie still, food is love, while Michael and Emily decide for themselves that their parents will stay together no matter what.   While the book was not a best seller like the first book, it would still sell quite well, as did almost every one of the other 43 books Adler would write and publish until his passing in 2019 at the age of 91.   Thank you for joining us for this year's Christmas episode of The 80s Movie Podcast. We'll talk again in early 2023, when Episode 98, about Neil Diamond's sole attempt at movie acting, The Jazz Singer, is released.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about The War of the Roses.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

Kelsi and Trey are joined by writer Haley Mlotek to explore James L. Brooks' Broadcast News for its 35th anniversary. We talk about whether or not Holly Hunter gave the best performance ever and whether the love triangle with Albert Brooks and William Hurt is romantic or more of a psychological horror!You can find Haley Mlotek's work hereHow 'Broadcast News' Predicted Journalism As We Know ItSend requests, questions, and thoughts to our email: extracreditspod@gmail.comPlease rate and review us on your podcast platform!Apple PodcastsSpotifyFollow our Tik Tok: The Extra CreditsFollow our Instagram: @extracreditspodFollow our Letterboxd: The Extra CreditsFollow our Twitter: @theextracredits

In this episode, in honor of last week's review of She Said, Jeff and Shanna count down their favorite journalist movies. In the next episode of The Movie Lovers: 2022 Round-Up. Jeff and Shanna's annual cram of movie reviews in prep for the end of the year. Show Notes • Opening and Introduction • Film Faves: Journalism Movies (0:01:11) • Where You Can Find Us and Ending (0:29:23) Our Fave Journalism Movies: 12. Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) 11. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016) 10. His Girl Friday (1940) – Prime 9. Zodiac (2007) 8. Network (1976) 7. Citizenfour (2014) 6. The French Dispatch (2021) – Hulu, HBO Max 5. The Post (2018) 4. Almost Famous (2000) 3. Spotlight (2015) – HBO Max 2. All the President's Men (1976) – HBO Max 1. Broadcast News (1987)

GGACP celebrates the birthday (December 6) of writer, producer, director and loyal "Amazing Colossal Podcast" fan Judd Apatow with this ENCORE of an interview from 2015. In this episode, Judd shares stories about everyone from Jack Benny to Albert Brooks to Jack Nicholson to legendary character actor Norman Lloyd. Also, Judd writes the Grammys for Garry Shandling, gets a letter from Andy Kaufman, "stalks" Steve Martin and pitches a movie idea to the Rolling Stones. PLUS: Lorenzo Music! The voices of Mel Blanc! The brilliance of "Broadcast News"! Gilbert wishes Lon Chaney, Jr. well! And "The Last Days in Fred Silverman's Bunker"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are sitting down with Harvey, and he is doing his very own 104 80s Movies tournament. Check out this episode to see what he think is the best movie from the 80s movie. If you want to do your own tournament, please contact us, and we will set it up. Here are all the movies in the tournament: TOP GUN (1986)Harlem Nights (1989)DIRTY DANCING (1987)CADDYSHACK (1980)THE LOST BOYS (1987)BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)Coming to America (1988)E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)Wall Street 1987GHOSTBUSTERS (1984)REVENGE OF THE NERDS (1984)STAR WARS: EPISODE V -- THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)SPACEBALLS (1987)SIXTEEN CANDLES (1984)THE LAND BEFORE TIME (1988)THE SHINING (1980)ST. ELMO'S FIRE (1985)RAGING BULL (1980)LABYRINTH (1986)RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989)DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)COMMANDO (1985)THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)FIELD OF DREAMS (1989)THE THING (1982)THE NAKED GUN (1988)DIE HARD (1988)THE KARATE KID (1984)THE TERMINATOR (1984)police academy (1984)BLADE RUNNER (1982)less than zero (1987)RAISING ARIZONA (1987)TOOTSIE (1982)EVIL DEAD 2 (1987)THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985)AIRPLANE! (1980)WHEN HARRY MET SALLY... (1989)PREDATOR (1987)TIME BANDITS (1981)STAND BY ME (1986)LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986)SAY ANYTHING... (1989)THE LITTLE MERMAID (1989)THE GOONIES (1985)PURPLE RAIN (1984)PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES (1987)WARGAMES (1983)SHORT CIRCUIT (1986)DRAGONSLAYER (1981)THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984)STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989)BEVERLY HILLS COP (1984)FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980)THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985)A FISH CALLED WANDA (1988)FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF (1986)FOOTLOOSE (1984)HEATHERS (1989)Breakin' (1984)A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983)INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984)RISKY BUSINESS (1983)Rain Man (1988)A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)REAL GENIUS (1985)ROBOCOP (1987)BIG (1988)BEETLEJUICE (1988)BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (1989)THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984)THE COLOR PURPLE (1985)THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980)WEIRD SCIENCE (1985)GREMLINS (1984)TRON (1982)DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (1985)TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985)STAR WARS: EPISODE VI -- RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983)MYSTIC PIZZA (1988)FULL METAL JACKET (1987)PRETTY IN PINK (1986)BATMAN (1989)the last dragon (1985)TRADING PLACES (1983)FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982)NATIONAL LAMPOON'S Christmas VACATION (1989)ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981)PLATOON (1986)THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987)MAD MAX 2 (1981)REPO MAN (1984)AFTER HOURS (1985)BROADCAST NEWS (1987)WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988)THEY LIVE (1988)VALLEY GIRL (1983)SID & NANCY (1986)INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989)LETHAL WEAPON (1987)SCARFACE (1983)POLTERGEIST (1982)BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mass-debaters/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mass-debaters/support

Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from a given decade, and for what could be the last time they'll be focusing on 1980 – 1989. 'OMG shut up about Aaron Sorkin, Matt!' - you, listening to this, probably. No, but for real, it's a nice episode!

We are sitting down with Jeremy from the Maniacal Music Musings Podcast, and he is doing his very own 104 Comedy movies tournament. Check out this episode to see what he think is the best movie from the Comedy movie. If you want to do your own tournament, please contact us, and we will set it up. Here are all the movies in the tournament: SCARY MOVIE (2000) surf ninjas (1993) spies like us (1985) HOUSE PARTY (1990) CLUE (1985) Dazed and Confused (1993) SPY (2015) AIRPLANE! (1980) BEETLEJUICE (1988) MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY (2001) Major Payne (1995) THE SCHOOL OF ROCK (2003) LEGALLY BLONDE (2001) Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996) THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) Dogma (1999) AMERICAN PIE (1999) Undercover Brother (2002) a low down dirty shame (1994) A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (1992) THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS (1988) GROUNDHOG DAY (1993) GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM (1987) THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN (2005) better off dead (1985) TOP FIVE (2014) WHEN HARRY MET SALLY... (1989) CRAZY RICH ASIANS (2018) HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE (2004) BLAZING SADDLES (1974) NAPOLEON DYNAMITE (2004) NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE (1978) BROADCAST NEWS (1987) THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984) TOOTSIE (1982) BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (1989) BEST IN SHOW (2000) 21 JUMP STREET (2012) THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT (1994) THE JERK (1979) MEAN GIRLS (2004) Wedding Crashers (2005) SPACEBALLS (1987) COMING TO AMERICA (1988) SISTER ACT (1992) THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980) STEP BROTHERS (2008) THE NAKED GUN (1988) i'm gonna git you sucka (1988) SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004) National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) Booty Call (1997) GALAXY QUEST (1999) BRIDESMAIDS (2011) HAPPY GILMORE (1996) TRADING PLACES (1983) MEET THE PARENTS (2000) SUPER TROOPERS (2001) GIRLS TRIP (2017) ZOOLANDER (2001) LIFE (1999) white chicks (2004) WAYNE'S WORLD (1992) CLUELESS (1995) FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982) RAISING ARIZONA (1987) TOMMY BOY (1995) Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) death becomes her (1992) The Waterboy (1998) Harlem Nights (1989) CADDYSHACK (1980) the happytime murders (2018) TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE (2004) IDIOCRACY (2006) ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE (1994) BEVERLY HILLS COP (1984) BARBERSHOP (2002) OFFICE SPACE (1999) The Wood (1999) Little Shop of Horrors (1986) sausage party (2016) BIG (1988) Role Models (2008) FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF (1986) CLERKS (1994) THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (1998) PITCH PERFECT (2012) BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN (2006) MRS. DOUBTFIRE (1993) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) DUMB & DUMBER (1994) FRIDAY (1995) AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY (1997) SUPERBAD (2007) GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) pineapple express (2008) ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY (2004) THE HANGOVER (2009) A FISH CALLED WANDA (1988) ELF (2003) PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES (1987) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mass-debaters/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mass-debaters/support

“Republican Poetry”We're back from our very long and random hiatus this week, chatting (sans Derek!) with Iowa journalist Lyz Lenz, author behind the famed substack Men Yell At Me. Please join us as we break down her weekend where she watches Broadcast News for the first time, cries, cuts her bangs, and finds herself having to listen to the poet laureate of Iowa. Plus, Hilary talks about being a sex positive dog mom, figuring out a shoe fits, and going to a traveling pumpkin patch in Brighton Beach. For more of Lyz's work, please follow her on Twitter and find her books Belabored and God Land at a bookstore near you! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cartoonsbyhilary.substack.com/subscribe

Access this entire 81 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus episodes) by becoming a Junk Filter patron: https://www.patreon.com/posts/108-holly-hunter-73420058 Comedy writer Ursula Lawrence (Drunk History, Adam Ruins Everything) returns to the pod for a show about the great actor Holly Hunter, with a look at the two classic movies she made to launch her big-screen career in 1987, Raising Arizona and Broadcast News, as well as one of her best performances in Michael Ritchie's 1993 small-screen satire for HBO, The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom. Along the way we discuss why Nicolas Cage only worked once with the Coen Bros, how Broadcast News is just as prescient about the future of news media as Network was, our shared love of Albert Brooks, and we marvel at the incredible Emmy-winning performance Hunter gives as Wanda Holloway in Cheerleader-Murdering Mom, a postmodern comedy about true crime and tabloid culture more people should know about. Patrons of the Junk Filter podcast can access additional exclusive episodes every month: some of our notable previous guests include Jared Yates Sexton, David Roth, Will Sloan, Bryan Quinby and Sooz Kempner. More to come! Sign up at https://www.patreon.com/junkfilter Follow Ursula Lawrence on Twitter. Trailer for Raising Arizona (Joel Coen, 1987) Trailer for Broadcast News (James L. Brooks, 1987) The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (Michael Ritchie, 1993) is currently available to watch for free on YouTube (but the last 15 minutes of the film are heavily pixelated)

Dana and Tom are joined by first-time guest, Shane Rogers (Host, Midnight Facts for Insomniacs podcast), to discuss the state of journalism with Broadcast News (1987): directed and written by James L. Brooks, starring Holly Hunter, William Hurt, and Albert Brooks. Plot Summary: A highly strung and emotional news producer, Jane Craig (Holly Hunter) works for a network news office in Washington D.C. When the network hires a great looking, but intellectually novice reporter, Tom Grunick (William Hurt), she finds herself conflicted between her attraction to him and her revulsion in his being the epitome of everything she hates about TV news--the mindless, unintelligent, pretty anchors of today. At the same time, Jane's friend and reporter, Aaron Altman (Albert Brooks), whose intelligence is only overshadowed by his lack of TV presence, mars the situation with his conflicting feelings for her. You can now follow us on Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok (@gmoatpodcast) or find our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100081916827044 (Greatest Movie of All-Time Podcast). For more on the episode, go to: https://www.ronnyduncanstudios.com/post/broadcast-news-1987 (https://www.ronnyduncanstudios.com/post/broadcast-news-1987) For the entire rankings list so far, go to: https://www.ronnyduncanstudios.com/post/greatest-movie-of-all-time-list (https://www.ronnyduncanstudios.com/post/greatest-movie-of-all-time-list)

Danielle and Millie discuss BROADCAST NEWS (1987) and LÉON MORIN, PRIEST (1961), the sexual nature of confessionals, himbos in the workplace, and the wrestler who does the X over his crotch. Plus, they are joined by the wonderful Scott Youngbauer and Peter Lozano from the podcast Movies That Made Us Gay, to discuss a spooky season-themed FMK. To see a full ISWYD movie list, check out our Letterboxd here:https://letterboxd.com/isawwhatyoudid/films/diary/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We are talking about the results of the fan-voted top 104 Comedy movies. We asked people to vote round by round and reseeded each round so the high seed will always play the low seed. The 104 lists came from a Rotten Tomatoes list, with other movies sprinkled in that we thought should be in. I hope you enjoy this, and here are the 104 Movie movies in this tournament: SCARY MOVIE (2000)surf ninjas (1993)spies like us (1985)HOUSE PARTY (1990)CLUE (1985)Dazed and Confused (1993)SPY (2015)AIRPLANE! (1980)BEETLEJUICE (1988)MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975)BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY (2001)Major Payne (1995)THE SCHOOL OF ROCK (2003)LEGALLY BLONDE (2001)Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998)Dogma (1999)AMERICAN PIE (1999)Undercover Brother (2002)a low down dirty shame (1994)A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (1992)THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS (1988)GROUNDHOG DAY (1993)GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM (1987)THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN (2005)better off dead (1985)TOP FIVE (2014)WHEN HARRY MET SALLY... (1989)CRAZY RICH ASIANS (2018)HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE (2004)BLAZING SADDLES (1974)NAPOLEON DYNAMITE (2004)NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE (1978)BROADCAST NEWS (1987)THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984)TOOTSIE (1982)BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (1989)BEST IN SHOW (2000)21 JUMP STREET (2012)THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT (1994)THE JERK (1979)MEAN GIRLS (2004)Wedding Crashers (2005)SPACEBALLS (1987)COMING TO AMERICA (1988)SISTER ACT (1992)THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980)STEP BROTHERS (2008)THE NAKED GUN (1988)i'm gonna git you sucka (1988)SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004)National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)Booty Call (1997)GALAXY QUEST (1999)BRIDESMAIDS (2011)HAPPY GILMORE (1996)TRADING PLACES (1983)MEET THE PARENTS (2000)SUPER TROOPERS (2001)GIRLS TRIP (2017)ZOOLANDER (2001)LIFE (1999)white chicks (2004)WAYNE'S WORLD (1992)CLUELESS (1995)FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982)RAISING ARIZONA (1987)TOMMY BOY (1995)Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)death becomes her (1992)The Waterboy (1998)Harlem Nights (1989)CADDYSHACK (1980)the happytime murders (2018)TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE (2004)IDIOCRACY (2006)ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE (1994)BEVERLY HILLS COP (1984)BARBERSHOP (2002)OFFICE SPACE (1999)The Wood (1999)Little Shop of Horrors (1986)sausage party (2016)BIG (1988)Role Models (2008)FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF (1986)CLERKS (1994)THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (1998)PITCH PERFECT (2012)BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN (2006)MRS. DOUBTFIRE (1993)Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)DUMB & DUMBER (1994)FRIDAY (1995)AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY (1997)SUPERBAD (2007)GHOSTBUSTERS (1984)pineapple express (2008)ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY (2004)THE HANGOVER (2009)A FISH CALLED WANDA (1988)ELF (2003)PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES (1987) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mass-debaters/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mass-debaters/support

Three Thousand Years of Longing. Adnan with a SHOCKING first wish if he got three from a genie. The Mummy vs Bedazzled. Adnan is joined by ACC Network producer, USC film grad and fellow cinephile Claire Atkins to talk movies and traveling. Broadcast News. Classic sweating scenes in movies. The Harry Styles acting drama. Are the Marvel movies in a lull? The Big Chill. The most nervous Adnan has been on TV. Is anyone excited about Avatar? What's going on with Tom Hanks? Adnan and Claire's limited fake John Skipper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three Thousand Years of Longing. Adnan with a SHOCKING first wish if he got three from a genie. The Mummy vs Bedazzled. Adnan is joined by ACC Network producer, USC film grad and fellow cinephile Claire Atkins to talk movies and traveling. Broadcast News. Classic sweating scenes in movies. The Harry Styles acting drama. Are the Marvel movies in a lull? The Big Chill. The most nervous Adnan has been on TV. Is anyone excited about Avatar? What's going on with Tom Hanks? Adnan and Claire's limited fake John Skipper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Jim is joined by BanterFlix's own Joe Mc Elroy as they chat about Jordon Peele's  Nope and James L. Brooks's Broadcast News.Aaron Flanagan from The Comic Book Guystells us everything you need to know about the character of She-Hulk as the new series has recently started to screen on Disney + This week's big podcast questions?How have you dealt with the heat?Have you ever had an encounter with a monkey?These important questions and more are asked throughout this episode.Email us your answers at info@banterflix.comShow TimingsMovie News - 00:03:11She-Hulk  'Comic Book 101' - 00:14:12Nope Review - 00:31:06Broadcast News Review - 00:55:24

In his new book, From Hollywood with Love, critic Scott Meslow lays out two ways to tell if a given movie is a rom-com. First, his own definition: “A romantic comedy is a movie where (1) the central plot is focused on at least one romantic love story; and (2) the goal is to make you laugh at least as much as the goal is to make you cry.” And then, The Donald Petrie Test, named for the director of some rom-coms, like Mystic Pizza and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, but also some edge cases, like Miss Congeniality and Grumpy Old Men: “If you removed the love story from this [comedy], would you still have a movie? If the answer is no, it's a romantic comedy. […] If the answer is yes, it's a comedy with a romantic subplot.” So those are the litmus tests. Now, does that make Broadcast News a rom-com, or no? What about Annie Hall? Or something like Grosse Pointe Blank? How about His Girl Friday? Or even, actually, Love Actually? This hour, a deconstruction — and celebration — of the romantic comedy. Some favorite rom-coms from some of the people on this show: Illeana DouglasTheodora Goes Wild (1936)Bringing Up Baby (1938)Ninotchka (1939)Too Many Husbands (1940)The More the Merrier (1943)Christmas in Connecticut (1945)Cluny Brown (1946)Pillow Talk (1959)The Apartment (1960)What's Up, Doc? (1972)Foul Play (1978)Arthur (1981) David EdelsteinTrouble in Paradise (1932)The Awful Truth (1937)Ninotchka (1939)Midnight (1939)The Lady Eve (1941)His Girl Friday (1940)The Philadelphia Story (1940)The Shop Around the Corner (1940)Cluny Brown (1946) Scott Meslow's five recommended under-seen rom-coms from the past decade Populaire (2012)A zippy, ultra-stylish French rom-com about the romance between a dapper boss and his secretary, set amid the long-forgotten craze for competitive speed typing. Sleeping with Other People (2015)Alison Brie and Jason Sudeikis are at the peak of their charms in this witty rom-com about two friends who reunite years after losing their virginities to each other — the rare rom-com to get the balance of raunchy and sweet just right. Man Up (2015)Ignore the lame title — this rom-com, in which Lake Bell plays an unlucky-in-love woman who pretends to be a man's blind date, is pure, fizzy fun (and is also the only rom-com I've seen to borrow a plot point from The Silence of the Lambs). Destination Wedding (2018)Other critics weren't as high on this extremely stripped down rom-com, in which Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves snark their way through a wedding they'd both prefer not to be attending — but in a genre in which so many characters have “negative” qualities that are actually just adorable, I appreciated this movie's deliberately sour tone. Plus One (2019)A delightfully unapologetic throwback to the genre's '90s heyday, but with a modern touch, as two platonic friends (Jack Quaid and Maya Erskine) agree to be each other's plus-ones for a packed wedding season before realizing they may actually have a spark after all. Colin's 5 (or 6) favorite rom-coms Heaven Can Wait (1978)I realize this is assailable on the basis of Julie Christie not being an especially memorable character and getting less screen time than, say, Jack Warden. Warren Beatty is so vain, he probably thinks this movie is about him, and he's sort of right. But it is very nearly perfect and enriched by an amazing ensemble of supporting players. Silver Linings Playbook (2012)I surprised myself by ranking SLP this high, but I love the frank and funny handling of mental illness and its indistinguishability from being an Eagles fan. I've seen it quite a few times, and I invariably cry at the end. I love what J-Law does with her part, and Chris Tucker and John Ortiz are standouts among the fine supporting cast. Shout out to Kevin Lowry for his work as dolly grip on the “A” camera. The Lady Eve (1941) / Intolerable Cruelty (2003)These are both “rom-cons” involving grifts by a femme fatale who is usually a few steps ahead of the male lead. Barbara Stanwyck actually generates more sexual heat than the smoldering Catherine Zeta-Jones. She was still doing that 42 years later, hitting on a rain-streaked, bare-chested priest played by Richard Chamberlain in The Thorn Birds. But I do love Intolerable Cruelty. I think it's the only Coen brothers rom-com and definitely an homage to the '30s and '40s. Say Anything (1989)I loved John Cusack during this period. A few years later, I was seeing a psychotherapist who looked exactly like him. It was distracting. I've learned that Cusack didn't really see himself as a romcom person and even pushed back against the iconic boombox scene. That has something to do with why this movie works so well. Bringing Up Baby (1938)Grant. Hepburn. Two leopards. Thirty pounds of sirloin. What's not to love? GUESTS: Illeana Douglas: A movie and television star David Edelstein: America's Greatest Living Film Critic Scott Meslow: The author of From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode! Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe and Cat Pastor contributed to this show.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sometimes we sing and dance around the house in our underwear. Doesn't make us Madonna. This week on the show, the life and career of acting genius Joan Cusack! From Working Girl to Toy Story, from Broadcast News to School of Rock, My Blue Heaven to In & Out, we cover it all and confess our undying love to her!  If you have any questions/comments/suggestions for the show, follow us on twitter @TheMixedReviews, like us on Facebook, e-mail us at reviewsmixed@gmail.com, visit our Instagram or TikTok for extra content, or stop by our shop and pick up some podcast merchandise! Don't forget to subscribe to us on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Spotify, Podchaser, Audible, or Google. 

This episode was recorded June 26th, 2022. Seth Landman forgot to post it, but here it is. We had Natalie on, and we discussed, among other things, The Notebook (Nick Cassavetes, 2004), Broadcast News (James L. Brooks, 1987), and Rudy (David Anspaugh, 1993). Intro Music: "Hale Makame," 1930, Unknown author / Public domain Outro Music: "Fool Me Some More," 1930, Gus Arnheim / Public domain --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/whatsyourdungeon/support

We are talking about the results of the fan-voted top 104 80s movies. We asked people to vote round by round and reseeded each round so the high seed will always play the low seed. The 104 lists came from a Rotten Tomatoes list, with other movies sprinkled in that we thought should be in. I hope you enjoy this, and here are the 104 80s movies in this tournament: TOP GUN (1986)Harlem Nights (1989)DIRTY DANCING (1987)CADDYSHACK (1980)THE LOST BOYS (1987)BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)Coming to America (1988)E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)Wall Street 1987GHOSTBUSTERS (1984)REVENGE OF THE NERDS (1984)STAR WARS: EPISODE V -- THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)SPACEBALLS (1987)SIXTEEN CANDLES (1984)THE LAND BEFORE TIME (1988)THE SHINING (1980)ST. ELMO'S FIRE (1985)RAGING BULL (1980)LABYRINTH (1986)RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989)DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)COMMANDO (1985)THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)FIELD OF DREAMS (1989)THE THING (1982)THE NAKED GUN (1988)DIE HARD (1988)THE KARATE KID (1984)THE TERMINATOR (1984)police academy (1984)BLADE RUNNER (1982)less than zero (1987)RAISING ARIZONA (1987)TOOTSIE (1982)EVIL DEAD 2 (1987)THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985)AIRPLANE! (1980)WHEN HARRY MET SALLY... (1989)PREDATOR (1987)TIME BANDITS (1981)STAND BY ME (1986)LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986)SAY ANYTHING... (1989)THE LITTLE MERMAID (1989)THE GOONIES (1985)PURPLE RAIN (1984)PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES (1987)WARGAMES (1983)SHORT CIRCUIT (1986)DRAGONSLAYER (1981)THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984)STEEL MAGNOLIAS (1989)BEVERLY HILLS COP (1984)FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980)THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985)A FISH CALLED WANDA (1988)FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF (1986)FOOTLOOSE (1984)HEATHERS (1989)Breakin' (1984)A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983)INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984)RISKY BUSINESS (1983)Rain Man (1988)A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)REAL GENIUS (1985)ROBOCOP (1987)BIG (1988)BEETLEJUICE (1988)BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (1989)THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984)THE COLOR PURPLE (1985)THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980)WEIRD SCIENCE (1985)GREMLINS (1984)TRON (1982)DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (1985)TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985)STAR WARS: EPISODE VI -- RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983)MYSTIC PIZZA (1988)FULL METAL JACKET (1987)PRETTY IN PINK (1986)BATMAN (1989)the last dragon (1985)TRADING PLACES (1983)FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982)NATIONAL LAMPOON'S Christmas VACATION (1989)ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981)PLATOON (1986)THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987)MAD MAX 2 (1981)REPO MAN (1984)AFTER HOURS (1985)BROADCAST NEWS (1987)WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988)THEY LIVE (1988)VALLEY GIRL (1983)SID & NANCY (1986)INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989)LETHAL WEAPON (1987)SCARFACE (1983)POLTERGEIST (1982)BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mass-debaters/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mass-debaters/support