Podcast appearances and mentions of Woody Allen

Hello, Darlings!We have reached the end. We have spent TWO MONTHS watching this show...Do I regret it? Absolutely not (Cappucina!)This is another head scratching episode in which you can never understand really what is going on from one scene to another it's all happening, but nothing is happening.Nevertheless, I get into every random conversation they have from Woody Allen(!) stories to "Baldwinitos" on their pool towels. Oh, and I take the time at the end of the episode to read some completely UNHINGED reviews about the show. Outstanding.Enjoy! Access bonus episodes on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How many celebrities have done some horrible things in the past that we've all forgotten about? That is the theme of this week's episode, and you'd be surprised how many that question applies to.First, Benton tells the tale of Woody Allen's questionable relationship with his former daughter, Soon-Yi Previn. Then, Anna relays the tragic tale of Matthew Broderick and Jennifer Grey's deadly car accident inn Ireland. Finally, the two discuss an episode of Cursed Films, profiling the fatal on set accident during the filming of The Twilight Zone: The Movie. Our TV doc this week is Season 1: Episode 5 of Cursed Films, "The Twilight Zone: The Movie"

Watch this episode on YouTube.This was recorded as part of another show I produce and co-host on YouTube called The Reel Generation Gap. This episode was meant for video so please follow the link here in the show notes, give it a watch, like and subscribe.Cheers!

Adam talks with British writer, director, actor and comedian Richard Ayoade about David Lynch, whether it was easy inventing the compete works of the fictional director and playwright Harauld Hughes, what Richard thought of David Letterman's enthusiasm for him and his work, the weirdness of interviews, the art of putting yourself down, why Orson Welles hated Woody Allen, and why Mick Jones of The Clash made Richard cry.Conversation recorded face-to-face in London on March 19th, 2025Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and conversation editing.Podcast illustration by Helen GreenPRE-ORDER 'I LOVE YOU, BYEEE' by Adam Buxton - 2025NORD VPNEXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee!RELATED LINKS (on Adam's website) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Michael Gershon—legendary Columbia professor and author of The Second Brain—joins us to explain why your intestines might just be running the show. From guinea pig guts that "blew back" to the real reason stress wrecks your digestion, this episode dives deep into the mysterious world of the enteric nervous system. Prepare for gut science, serotonin surprises, and a Woody Allen–esque dose of humor from the father of neurogastroenterology himself. Learn more about Dr. Michael Gershon: https://www.pathology.columbia.edu/profile/michael-d-gershon-md Download Dr. Buck Joffrey's FREE ebook, Living Longer for Busy People: https://ru01tne2.pages.infusionsoft.net/?affiliate=0 Book a FREE longevity coaching consultation with Dr. Buck Joffrey: https://coaching.longevityroadmap.com/

Woody Allen is quoted as saying "80% of success is just showing up" But for many of us, we would prefer not to bother with the mundane boring aspects of living well and go straight to the good bits.  Holidays, parties and getting pats on the back from our colleagues.     To pretend to be authentic often results in humiliation so we do well to find ways to celebrate and enjoy the ordinary.  I came home with flowers for the lovely Sue the other day and she was so grateful, even lovy dovy, but this is because I usually come home with boring stuff, like almost everything she asked me to get from the shops.    

Samantha Harper Macy joined me to discuss watching Perry Mason as a teen with her family; going to Ole Miss with James Meredith; being seen as a racist in Chicago because she is from the south; auditioning with Woody Allen; being shown around the city by strangers; modeling; taking acting classes from Lee Strasberg; hippies; sees Oh! Calcutta and for it; her sketch; meeting her husband, Bill Macy; Oh! Calcutta banned in her home town; Bill guests on All in the Family; Bill gets Maude and Samantha guest stars; her guest starring on Hot L Baltimore leads to Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; working with Victor Killian, Louise Lasser, and Mary Kay Place; playing a hooker on Hill St. Blues; her husband's work in The Jerk, Movers & Shakers, Bad Medicine and The Late Show; working with Robin Williams on Mork & Mindy and Terry Bradshaw and Mel Tillis on a TV pilot; being directed in two films by Hal Ashby; her memoir, Naked in Oh! Calcutta and other Stories; and her play Two Sisters Cafe

Film historian Patrick McGilligan returns to discuss his latest book, Woody Allen: A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham.

Listen to the full episode here: https://www.patreon.com/c/coldpodWe're back with a new recurring guest, Rhea Singh! In this episode we discuss private Instagram accounts, not following people back, Tony Price's post about DJing not being art, the return of fun, Rhea as a Sex and the City character, DJ's taking themselves too seriously, Nick blending drinks behind the booth, happy hour, Cafe Diplomatico, sangria, food poisoning, Bistro 422, viral tweets, iPad DJ's, Cafeteria, doing door, "I know the owner", getting banned from places, faking stamps to get into parties, WEBB, the bleachers at Loveless, the Bowie mouse not being a mouse, cooking live lobsters, Woody Allen, Prince, Lana Del Rey 2016 Walmart-core, milk, showering with your phone, raves vs parties, owning animals as a form of oppression, reverse cancelations, cultural appropriation in food, Wingstop and more!Rhea SinghJosh McIntyreNick Marian----COLD POD

Nous sommes à Hollywood, Los Angeles, en 1958. L'âge d'or du cinéma mais aussi depuis peu, une usine à séries télévisées. Ah ce sont deux choses bien distinctes car la télé c'est de la fiction vite faite, vite consommée, une véritable usine. Et justement, on est occupé à y monter la seconde série créée par un jeune réalisateur répondant au nom de Blake Edwards. On le dit prometteur même si les quelques films qu'il a réalisés pour le cinéma n'ont pas trouvé leur public. Mais bon, il faut qu'il fasse ses armes et justement, cette série policière de la chaîne NBC (pour laquelle entre parenthèses travaille à New York le jeune Woody Allen) semble prometteuse. Ça parle d'un détective avec de forts penchants pour les femmes, l'alcool et le jazz, son nom : Peter Gunn.Ah, s'il est question de jazz, il faut confier la musique à un spécialiste de la bande originale et du jazz : Henry Mancini. Lequel s'exécute mais allez savoir si c'est faute de temps ou de cachet, il faudrait un solide pianiste pour arranger et exécuter ça, vite fait aussi, bien sûr, on est à Hollywood et on a autre chose à faire. Ah oui, et qui ne soit pas trop gourmand non plus.On n'a qu'à demander à Johnny. Johnny Williams, c'est ce pianiste qui joue à gauche à droite, et qui travaille aussi pour les studios Universal. Un gars très cool qui ne fait jamais d'histoires. Parfait ! Johnny, John de son vrai prénom, mais Johnny ça fait plus jazzman pour les engagements dans les clubs, vient en studio pour 40 dollars et en trois heures, il plie le thème de Peter Gunn, sans avoir conscience, évidemment, du destin exceptionnel que va connaître ce morceau qui constitue la collaboration improbable de deux des plus grands compositeurs de l'histoire du cinéma. Oui, qui sait encore aujourd'hui à quoi ressemblait cette série, qui était ce Peter Gunn. Mais tout le monde connaît le morceau et aussi, sait qui est Blake Edwards, qui ne manquera pas de faire appel à Henry Mancini quand il tournera deux ans plus tard Breakfast at Tiffany's et puis encore plus tard La Panthère Rose.Quant à Johnny ? Et ben il va laisser tomber le y, les p'tits concerts de jazz et se consacrer à ses œuvres pour orchestre classique. Car autant il n'a jusqu'ici jamais cru qu'il arriverait à vivre de la composition, c'est vrai il n'y a que jouer du piano pour faire bouillir la marmite, autant grâce à ce Peter Gunn, on va commencer à lui proposer des musiques de film. Et il va ainsi traverser les années 60 à pondre des bandes originales de petits films jusqu'à cet Oscar pour une chanson qu'on a oubliée mais qui lui vaut de passer la vitesse supérieure et de devenir le compositeur attitré de films d'un nouveau genre au début des années 70 : les films catastrophes. Et après un Poséidon, un Tremblement de terre et une Tour infernale, John Williams est contacté par le jeune Steven Spielberg à qui Williams offre la recette ultime : le thème musical, pièce essentielle du scénario … Les Dents de la Mer. De là à ce que Spielberg le recommande à son ami George Lucas, il n'y avait qu'un pas, et 54 nominations aux Oscars plus tard, qui ignore le nom de John Williams ?

Mais bon dieu, qu'est-ce qu'il lui a pris de vouloir jouer devant un public ? C'est vrai qu'Allan Konigsberg n'a rien pour lui, je veux dire physiquement, pour réussir dans le showbizness des années 50. Et du haut de son mètre 63, il l'a bien compris. Il aurait habité le milieu de la campagne ou des montagnes rocheuses, il aurait pu se rêver acteur ou musicien star, il n'avait aucun modèle sous les yeux dans son quotidien. Mais quand on habite New York, dans un appartement d'une pièce situé juste à côté de la porte électrique d'un immeuble aux multiples étages et qu'à quelques centaines de mètres de là, toutes les stars du théâtre et du cinéma jouent à Broadway, que des dizaines de gars triomphent dans les cafés théâtres de Greenwich Village ou les boîtes chics des grands boulevards, on a des exemples à qui se comparer quand on se tient le matin devant le miroir de la salle de bains.Non, Allen, qui a choisi de transformer son prénom en nom, prenant Woody comme prénom, a trouvé sa voie. Depuis l'adolescence il sait comment faire rire, envoyer une vanne ou imaginer des situations comiques, mais il les fait dire et jouer par d'autres qui le paient très bien pour ça. Ainsi à seize ans, il écrit déjà Sid Caesar, le comique de la radio et de la télé. Seize ans, vous le croyez, ça ? Alors qu'il est toujours à l'école. Sans doute est-ce la raison pour laquelle les cours à l'université ne vont pas l'intéresser. Les années passent. Woody grimpe à la télé, jusqu'au sommet, c'est-à-dire les émissions les plus regardées par l'Amérique comme le Ed Sullivan Show qui révèle les plus grands talents le dimanche soir comme Elvis Presley.Alors qu'est-ce qui lui a pris de laisser germer cette graine tombée dans le terreau de sa créativité d'artiste. En effet, la chaîne NBC qui l'emploie l'envoie dans une boîte très chic où tout coûte un pont, assister au show de l'humoriste du moment : Mort Sahl. Woody serait bien incapable d'expliquer ce qui fait le génie de ce gars mais une chose est sûre : il a foutu sa vie en l'air. Car désormais, Woody veut être lui. Aussi pour la première fois, il écrit un sketch qu'il joue un soir au débotté devant des amis producteurs. Et ils le trouvent très drôle, au point de lui monter un plan de dingue. Oui, ce dimanche soir, une star du stand up demande à la salle comble venue l'applaudir, de rester après le spectacle pour voir un débutant. Et voilà un petit homme qui s'avance, liquéfié de frayeur, vers ce micro dressé au milieu d'une scène qui lui paraît immense. Le silence tombe sur le public avec le dernier applaudissement, il pèse des tonnes sur les épaules de Woody qui balaye du regard ces crânes dont il ne distingue que le contour mais devine dans l'ombre les paires d'yeux posées sur lui, et rien que lui.Après une interminable poignée de secondes, il se lance enfin … et les rires fusent. Si fort, si bruyants que Woody semble rétrécir dans son costume, écrasé par les cascades de rires et les applaudissements. Quelques minutes plus tard, comment est-il arrivé sur cette chaise dans la loge, il ne s'en souvient pas ? Entouré de ses amis qui, il l'ignore encore, vont produire tous ses futurs films. Il écoute les conseils, qui tombent de gauche et de droite, il est dépassé par l'intensité de ce qui lui arrive. Le lendemain, les propositions vont pleuvoir de partout, Woody Allen est né au public ce soir de l'an 1960.

The name may not ring too many bells today, but from the 1960s through the 1990s you just had to turn on your television or (hit up your local comedy record store) and you were sure to run into the work of Sandy Baron who rose from playing the Catskills "borscht belt", to improv and satirical shows (including the US version of "That Was The Week That Was), to becoming a fixture in Vegas, in movies, and on television talk and game shows. In 1984 Sandy was introduced to a new generation of fans with his a role in Broadway Danny Rose, Woody Allen's tribute to shtickmeisters (and struggling agents), then in the 1990s he had a juicy late-career triumph on Seinfeld as Jack Klompus who was a comic antagonist of Jerry's dad. As always find extra cuts below and thanks for sharing our shows. Want more Sandy Baron? We don't usually include other artists in an episode, but how can we fail to give you the whole Lou Rawls classic "A Natural Man" -- with lyrics courtesy of Sandy Baron. https://youtu.be/y9tS0loD3vQ?si=BkE-OA-wTpBUV701 Sandy had one shot at his own sitcom (Hey Landlord!) and it tanked after just one year. Being a great standup comic, Sandy was able to turn his pain to laughs in this routine from shortly after the cancellation. https://youtu.be/jdr0GcxAoQo?si=q-YB2UAcumQDJTdK Woody Allen's Broadway Danny Rose was a love letter to the shtickmeisters of the past (and their sometimes hapless agents). Much of the story is told in flashback during a gathering of comics at the Carnegie Deli -- and Sandy was right in the middle of it. https://youtu.be/mXIM1JXWjm4?si=ZViQ3NSLjeJ4R3-g Longtime fans were delighted when Sandy surfaced in the 1990s playing a pesky rival of Jerry Seinfeld's dad on the classic sitcom Seinfeld. Here are some of of the best "Jack Klompus" moments from the show. https://youtu.be/XLK1eqK2kEo?si=-9LZ0EwUQ1o4BDVw

The author of Woody Allen: A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham talks the director and his legacy. Buy the book here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caroline Aaron is known to theatre, film and television audiences, as well as a published author and playwright.She made her Broadway debut in Robert Altman's "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean,Jimmy Dean" and later appeared in the film. The following Broadway season, she starred in the revival of "The Iceman Cometh". She next starred in Mike Nichols's Broadway smash comedy "Social Security". She returned to Broadway starring in "I Hate Hamlet." She headlined the west coast premiere of Wendy Wasserstein's "The Sisters Rosensweig" and was acknowledged with both a Helen Hayes and Dramalogue Award. Next on Broadway she starred in Woody Allen's comedy "Honeymoon Hotel". She headlined Lincoln Center's award winning play "A Kid Like Jake." She played the title role in "All The Days" at the McCarter Theatre and was named best actress by several newspapers in the New York/New Jersey area. She headlined "Call Waiting" at The. Odyssey theatre which became a hit and was later made into a film available on Amazon Prime.On film Caroline has been in over a hundred films and is frequently in demand from top directors including Woody Allen, the late Mike Nichols, Nora Ephron, Paul Mazursky, and Robert Altman.Favorite film roles include “21 & 22 Jump Street”, “Just Like Heaven", "Nancy Drew", "Surveillance", "Love Comes Lately", "Edward Scissorhands", "Anywhere But Here", The Big Night", and "Bounce" among others. Later this year she will be seen in "Theatre Camp", "Between Two Temples", and "The Fourth Dementia".Television audiences are also familiar with her work as a guest star on hundreds of shows. She has recurred on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Ghosts, Episodes and Transparent. She is best known for her role as Shirley Maisel on the hit Amazon series "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode #171 of the Last Call Trivia Podcast begins with a round of general knowledge questions. Then, you better bee ready for a themed round of The Beehive State Trivia!Round OneThe game starts with a Quotes Trivia question about a famous quip from prolific director Woody Allen.Next, we have a Books Trivia question about a novel that inspired the term for a specific era.The first round concludes with a Places Trivia question that asks the Team to identify the name of the rustic-themed camping resort that opened in 1971 at Walt Disney World.Bonus QuestionToday's Bonus Question is a follow-up to the Places Trivia question from the first round.Round TwoWe're circling the wagons and heading to Utah for today's theme round of “The Beehive State” Trivia!The second round begins with a People Trivia question about the celebration of Pioneer Day in Utah.Next, we have a Sports Trivia question about the NBA's all-time leader in career assists and career steals.Round Two concludes with an Animals Trivia question that asks the Team to name the burrowing rodent that's native to the grasslands of North America based on its five species.Final QuestionWe've reached the Final Question of the game, and today's category of choice is Music. These icons need no introduction!For this Final, the Trivia Team must identify four mononym musicians based on a list of associated clues.Visit lastcalltrivia.com to learn more about hosting your own ultimate Trivia event!

John Cusack dodges bullets in Woody Allen's 'Bullets Over Broadway' while Ang Lee returns to his home country to give us the amazing food movie 'Eat Drink Man Woman'.Connect with us:Never Did It on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@neverdiditpodNever Did It on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/bradgaroon/list/never-did-it-podcast/Brad on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/bradgaroon/Jake on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/jake_ziegler/Never Did It on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/neverdiditpodcast Hosted by Brad Garoon & Jake Ziegler

By Walt HickeyDouble feature today!Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.This week, I spoke to Alissa Wilkinson who is out with the brand new book, We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine.I'm a huge fan of Alissa, she's a phenomenal critic and I thought this topic — what happens when one of the most important American literary figures heads out to Hollywood to work on the most important American medium — is super fascinating. It's a really wonderful book and if you're a longtime Joan Didion fan or simply a future Joan Didion fan, it's a look at a really transformative era of Hollywood and should be a fun read regardless.Alissa can be found at the New York Times, and the book is available wherever books are sold.This interview has been condensed and edited. All right, Alissa, thank you so much for coming on.Yeah, thanks for having me. It's good to be back, wherever we are.Yes, you are the author of We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine. It's a really exciting book. It's a really exciting approach, for a Joan Didion biography and placing her in the current of American mainstream culture for a few years. I guess just backing out, what got you interested in Joan Didion to begin with? When did you first get into her work?Joan Didion and I did not become acquainted, metaphorically, until after I got out of college. I studied Tech and IT in college, and thus didn't read any books, because they don't make you read books in school, or they didn't when I was there. I moved to New York right afterward. I was riding the subway. There were all these ads for this book called The Year of Magical Thinking. It was the year 2005, the book had just come out. The Year of Magical Thinking is Didion's National Book Award-winning memoir about the year after her husband died, suddenly of a heart attack in '03. It's sort of a meditation on grief, but it's not really what that sounds like. If people haven't read it's very Didion. You know, it's not sentimental, it's constantly examining the narratives that she's telling herself about grief.So I just saw these ads on the walls. I was like, what is this book that everybody seems to be reading? I just bought it and read it. And it just so happened that it was right after my father, who was 46 at the time, was diagnosed with a very aggressive leukemia, and then died shortly thereafter, which was shocking, obviously. The closer I get to that age, it feels even more shocking that he was so young. I didn't have any idea how to process that emotion or experience. The book was unexpectedly helpful. But it also introduced me to a writer who I'd never read before, who felt like she was looking at things from a different angle than everyone else.Of course, she had a couple more books come out after that. But I don't remember this distinctly, but probably what happened is I went to some bookstore, The Strand or something, and bought The White Album and Slouching Towards Bethlehem off the front table as everyone does because those books have just been there for decades.From that, I learned more, starting to understand how writing could work. I didn't realize how form and content could interact that way. Over the years, I would review a book by her or about her for one publication or another. Then when I was in graduate school, getting my MFA in nonfiction, I wrote a bit about her because I was going through a moment of not being sure if my husband and I were going to stay in New York or we were going to move to California. They sort of obligate you to go through a goodbye to all that phase if you are contemplating that — her famous essay about leaving New York. And then, we did stay in New York City. But ultimately, that's 20 years of history.Then in 2020, I was having a conversation (that was quite-early pandemic) with my agent about possible books I might write. I had outlined a bunch of books to her. Then she was like, “These all sound like great ideas. But I've always wanted to rep a book on Joan Didion. So I just wanted to put that bug in your ear.” I was like, “Oh, okay. That seems like something I should probably do.”It took a while to find an angle, which wound up being Didion in Hollywood. This is mostly because I realized that a lot of people don't really know her as a Hollywood figure, even though she's a pretty major Hollywood figure for a period of time. The more of her work I read, the more I realized that her work is fruitfully understood as the work of a woman who was profoundly influenced by (and later thinking in terms of Hollywood metaphors) whether she was writing about California or American politics or even grief.So that's the long-winded way of saying I wasn't, you know, acquainted with her work until adulthood, but then it became something that became a guiding light for me as a writer.That's really fascinating. I love it. Because again I think a lot of attention on Didion has been paid since her passing. But this book is really exciting because you came at it from looking at the work as it relates to Hollywood. What was Didion's experience in Hollywood? What would people have seen from it, but also, what is her place there?The directly Hollywood parts of her life start when she's in her 30s. She and her husband — John Gregory Dunn, also a writer and her screenwriting partner — moved from New York City, where they had met and gotten married, to Los Angeles. John's brother, Nick Dunn later became one of the most important early true crime writers at Vanity Fair, believe it or not. But at the time, he was working as a TV producer. He and his wife were there. So they moved to Los Angeles. It was sort of a moment where, you know, it's all well and good to be a journalist and a novelist. If you want to support yourself, Hollywood is where it's at.So they get there at a moment when the business is shifting from these big-budget movies — the Golden Age — to the new Hollywood, where everything is sort of gritty and small and countercultural. That's the moment they arrive. They worked in Hollywood. I mean, they worked literally in Hollywood for many years after that. And then in Hollywood even when they moved back to New York in the '80s as screenwriters still.People sometimes don't realize that they wrote a bunch of produced screenplays. The earliest was The Panic in Needle Park. Obviously, they adapted Didion's novel Play It As It Lays. There are several others, but one that a lot of people don't realize they wrote was the version of A Star is Born that stars Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. It was their idea to shift the Star is Born template from Hollywood entities to rock stars. That was their idea. Of course, when Bradley Cooper made his version, he iterated on that. So their work was as screenwriters but also as figures in the Hollywood scene because they were literary people at the same time that they were screenwriters. They knew all the actors, and they knew all the producers and the executives.John actually wrote, I think, two of the best books ever written on Hollywood decades apart. One called The Studio, where he just roamed around on the Fox backlot. For a year for reasons he couldn't understand, he got access. That was right when the catastrophe that was Dr. Doolittle was coming out. So you get to hear the inside of the studio. Then later, he wrote a book called Monster, which is about their like eight-year long attempt to get their film Up Close and Personal made, which eventually they did. It's a really good look at what the normal Hollywood experience was at the time: which is like: you come up with an idea, but it will only vaguely resemble the final product once all the studios get done with it.So it's, it's really, that's all very interesting. They're threaded through the history of Hollywood in that period. On top of it for the book (I realized as I was working on it) that a lot of Didion's early life is influenced by especially her obsession with John Wayne and also with the bigger mythology of California and the West, a lot of which she sees as framed through Hollywood Westerns.Then in the '80s, she pivoted to political reporting for a long while. If you read her political writing, it is very, very, very much about Hollywood logic seeping into American political culture. There's an essay called “Inside Baseball” about the Dukakis campaign that appears in Political Fictions, her book that was published on September 11, 2001. In that book, she writes about how these political campaigns are directed and set up like a production for the cameras and how that was becoming not just the campaign, but the presidency itself. Of course, she had no use for Ronald Reagan, and everything she writes about him is very damning. But a lot of it was because she saw him as the embodiment of Hollywood logic entering the political sphere and felt like these are two separate things and they need to not be going together.So all of that appeared to me as I was reading. You know, once you see it, you can't unsee it. It just made sense for me to write about it. On top of it, she was still alive when I was writing the proposal and shopping it around. So she actually died two months after we sold the book to my publisher. It meant I was extra grateful for this angle because I knew there'd be a lot more books on her, but I wanted to come at it from an angle that I hadn't seen before. So many people have written about her in Hollywood before, but not quite through this lens.Yeah. What were some things that you discovered in the course of your research? Obviously, she's such an interesting figure, but she's also lived so very publicly that I'm just super interested to find out what are some of the things that you learned? It can be about her, but it can also be the Hollywood system as a whole.Yeah. I mean, I didn't interview her for obvious reasons.Understandable, entirely understandable.Pretty much everyone in her life also is gone with the exception really of Griffin Dunn, who is her nephew, John's nephew, the actor. But other than that, it felt like I needed to look at it through a critical lens. So it meant examining a lot of texts. A lot of Didion's magazine work (which was a huge part of her life) is published in the books that people read like Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album and all the other books. What was interesting to me was discovering (I mean, not “discovering” because other people have read it) that there is some work that's not published and it's mostly her criticism.Most of that criticism was published in the late '50s and the early '60s when she was living in New York City, working at Vogue and trying to make it in the literary scene that was New York at that time, which was a very unique place. I mean, she was writing criticism and essays for both, you know, like National Review and The Nation at the same time, which was just hard to conceive of today. It was something you'd do back then. Yeah, wild stuff.A lot of that criticism was never collected into books. The most interesting is that she'd been working at Vogue for a long time in various positions, but she wound up getting added to the film critic column at Vogue in, '62, I want to say, although I might have that date slightly off. She basically alternated weeks with another critic for a few years, writing that until she started writing in movies proper. It's never a great idea to be a critic and a screenwriter at the same time.Her criticism is fascinating. So briefly, for instance, she shared that column with Pauline Kael. Pauline Kael became well known after she wrote about Bonnie and Clyde. This was prior to that. This is several years prior to that. They also hated each other for a long time afterward, which is funny, because, in some ways, their style is very different but their persona is actually very similar. So I wonder about that.But in any case, even when she wasn't sharing the column with Pauline Kael, it was a literal column in a magazine. So it's like one column of text, she can say barely anything. She was always a bit of a contrarian, but she was actively not interested in the things that were occupying New York critics at the time. Things like the Auteur Theory, what was happening in France, the downtown scene and the Shirley Clark's of the world. She had no use for it. At some point, she accuses Billy Wilder of having really no sense of humor, which is very funny.When you read her criticism, you see a person who is very invested in a classical notion of Hollywood as a place that shows us fantasies that we can indulge in for a while. She talks in her very first column about how she doesn't really need movies to be masterpieces, she just wants them to have moments. When she says moments, she means big swelling things that happen in a movie that make her feel things.It's so opposite, I think, to most people's view of Didion. Most people associate her with this snobbish elitism or something, which I don't think is untrue when we're talking about literature. But for her, the movies were like entertainment, and entering that business was a choice to enter that world. She wasn't attempting to elevate the discourse or something.I just think that's fascinating. She also has some great insights there. But as a film critic, I find myself disagreeing with most of her reviews. But I think that doesn't matter. It was more interesting to see how she conceived of the movies. There is a moment later on, in another piece that I don't think has been republished anywhere from the New York Review of Books, where she writes about the movies of Woody Allen. She hates them. It's right at the point where he's making like Manhattan and Annie Hall, like the good stuff. She just has no use for them. It's one of the funniest pieces. I won't spoil the ending because it's hilarious, and it's in the book.That writing was of huge interest to me and hasn't been republished in books. I was very grateful to get access to it, in part because it is in the archives — the electronic archives of the New York Public Library. But at the time, the library was closed. So I had to call the library and have a librarian get on Zoom with me for like an hour and a half to figure out how I could get in the proverbial back door of the library to get access while the library wasn't open.That's magnificent. That's such a cool way to go to the archives because some stuff just hasn't been published. If it wasn't digitized, then it's not digitized. That's incredible.Yeah, it's there, but you can barely print them off because they're in PDFs. They're like scanned images that are super high res, so the printer just dies when you try to print them. It's all very fascinating. I hope it gets republished at some point because I think there's enough interest in her work that it's fascinating to see this other aspect of her taste and her persona.It's really interesting that she seems to have wanted to meet the medium where it is, right? She wasn't trying to literary-up Hollywood. I mean, LA can be a bit of a friction. It's not exactly a literary town in the way that some East Coast metropolises can be. It is interesting that she was enamored by the movies. Do you want to speak about what things were like for her when she moved out?Yeah, it is funny because, at the same time, the first two movies that they wrote and produced are The Panic in Needle Park, which is probably the most new Hollywood movie you can imagine. It's about addicts at Needle Park, which is actually right where the 72nd Street subway stop is on the Upper West Side. If people have been there, it's hard to imagine. But that was apparently where they all sat around, and there were a lot of needles. It's apparently the first movie supposedly where someone shoots up live on camera.So it was the '70s. That's amazing.Yes, and it launched Al Pacino's film career! Yeah, it's wild. You watch it and you're just like, “How is this coming from the woman who's about all this arty farty stuff in the movies.” And Play It As It Lays has a very similar, almost avant-garde vibe to it. It's very, very interesting. You see it later on in the work that they made.A key thing to remember about them (and something I didn't realize before I started researching the book)was that Didion and Dunn were novelists who worked in journalism because everybody did. They wrote movies, according to them (you can only go off of what they said. A lot of it is John writing these jaunty articles. He's a very funny writer) because “we had tuition and a mortgage. This is how you pay for it.”This comes up later on, they needed to keep their WGA insurance because John had heart trouble. The best way to have health insurance was to remain in the Writers Guild. Remaining in the Writers Guild means you had to have a certain amount of work produced through union means. They were big union supporters. For them this was not, this was very strictly not an auteurist undertaking. This was not like, “Oh, I'm gonna go write these amazing screenplays that give my concept of the world to the audience.” It's not like Bonnie and Clyding going on here. It's very like, “We wrote these based on some stories that we thought would be cool.”I like that a lot. Like the idea that A Star is Born was like a pot boiler. That's really delightful.Completely. It was totally taken away from them by Streisand and John Peters at some point. But they were like, “Yeah, I mean, you know, it happens. We still got paid.”Yeah, if it can happen to Superman, it can happen to you.It happens to everybody, you know, don't get too precious about it. The important thing is did your novel come out and was it supported by its publisher?So just tracing some of their arcs in Hollywood. Obviously, Didion's one of the most influential writers of her generation, there's a very rich literary tradition. Where do we see her footprint, her imprint in Hollywood? What are some of the ways that we can see her register in Hollywood, or reverberate outside of it?In the business itself, I don't know that she was influential directly. What we see is on the outside of it. So a lot of people were friends. She was like a famous hostess, famous hostess. The New York Public Library archives are set to open at the end of March, of Didion and Dunn's work, which was like completely incidental to my publication date. I just got lucky. There's a bunch of screenplays in there that they worked on that weren't produced. There's also her cookbooks, and I'm very excited to go through those and see that. So you might meet somebody there.Her account of what the vibe was when the Manson murders occurred, which is published in her essay The White Album, is still the one people talk about, even though there are a lot of different ways to come at it. That's how we think about the Manson murders: through her lens. Later on, when she's not writing directly about Hollywood anymore (and not really writing in Hollywood as much) but instead is writing about the headlines, about news events, about sensationalism in the news, she becomes a great media critic. We start to see her taking the things that she learned (having been around Hollywood people, having been on movie sets, having seen how the sausage is made) and she starts writing about politics. In that age, it is Hollywood's logic that you perform for the TV. We have the debates suddenly becoming televised, the conventions becoming televised, we start to see candidates who seem specifically groomed to win because they look good on TV. They're starting to win and rule the day.She writes about Newt Gingrich. Of course, Gingrich was the first politician to figure out how to harness C-SPAN to his own ends — the fact that there were TV cameras on the congressional floor. So she's writing about all of this stuff at a time when you can see other people writing about it. I mean, Neil Postman famously writes about it. But the way Didion does it is always very pegged to reviewing somebody's book, or she's thinking about a particular event, or she's been on the campaign plane or something like that. Like she's been on the inside, but with an outsider's eye.That also crops up in, for instance, her essays. “Sentimental Journeys” is one of her most famous ones. That one's about the case of the Central Park Five, and the jogger who was murdered. Of course, now, we're many decades out from that, and the convictions were vacated. We know about coerced confessions. Also Donald Trump arrives in the middle of that whole thing.But she's actually not interested in the guilt or innocence question, because a lot of people were writing about that. She's interested in how the city of New York and the nation perform themselves for themselves, seeing themselves through the long lens of a movie and telling themselves stories about themselves. You see this over and over in her writing, no matter what she's writing about. I think once she moved away from writing about the business so much, she became very interested in how Hollywood logic had taken over American public life writ large.That's fascinating. Like, again, she spends time in the industry, then basically she can only see it through that lens. Of course, Michael Dukakis in a tank is trying to be a set piece, of course in front of the Berlin Wall, you're finally doing set decoration rather than doing it outside of a brick wall somewhere. You mentioned the New York thing in Performing New York. I have lived in the city for over a decade now. The dumbest thing is when the mayor gets to wear the silly jacket whenever there's a snowstorm that says “Mr. Mayor.” It's all an act in so many ways. I guess that political choreography had to come from somewhere, and it seems like she was documenting a lot of that initial rise.Yeah, I think she really saw it. The question I would ask her, if I could, is how cognizant she was that she kept doing that. As someone who's written for a long time, you don't always recognize that you have the one thing you write about all the time. Other people then bring it up to you and you're like, “Oh, I guess you're right.” Even when you move into her grief memoir phase, which is how I think about the last few original works that she published, she uses movie logic constantly in those.I mean, The Year of Magical Thinking is a cyclical book, she goes over the same events over and over. But if you actually look at the language she's using, she talks about running the tape back, she talks about the edit, she talks about all these things as if she's running her own life through how a movie would tell a story. Maybe she knew very deliberately. She's not a person who does things just haphazardly, but it has the feeling of being so baked into her psyche at this point that she would never even think of trying to escape it.Fascinating.Yeah, that idea that you don't know what you are potentially doing, I've thought about that. I don't know what mine is. But either way. It's such a cool way to look at it. On a certain level, she pretty much succeeded at that, though, right? I think that when people think about Joan Didion, they think about a life that freshens up a movie, right? Like, it workedVery much, yeah. I'm gonna be really curious to see what happens over the next 10 years or so. I've been thinking about figures like Sylvia Plath or women with larger-than-life iconography and reputation and how there's a constant need to relook at their legacies and reinvent and rethink and reimagine them. There's a lot in the life of Didion that I think remains to be explored. I'm really curious to see where people go with it, especially with the opening of these archives and new personal information making its way into the world.Yeah, even just your ability to break some of those stories that have been locked away in archives out sounds like a really exciting addition to the scholarship. Just backing out a little bit, we live in a moment in which the relationship between pop culture and political life is fairly directly intertwined. Setting aside the steel-plated elephant in the room, you and I are friendly because we bonded over this idea that movies really are consequential. Coming out of this book and coming out of reporting on it, what are some of the relevances for today in particular?Yeah, I mean, a lot more than I thought, I guess, five years ago. I started work on the book at the end of Trump One, and it's coming out at the beginning of Trump Two, and there was this period in the middle of a slightly different vibe. But even then I watch TikTok or whatever. You see people talk about “main character energy” or the “vibe shift” or all of romanticizing your life. I would have loved to read a Didion essay on the way that young people sort of view themselves through the logic of the screens they have lived on and the way that has shaped America for a long time.I should confirm this, I don't think she wrote about Obama, or if she did, it was only a little bit. So her political writing ends in George W. Bush's era. I think there's one piece on Obama, and then she's writing about other things. It's just interesting to think about how her ideas of what has happened to political culture in America have seeped into the present day.I think the Hollywood logic, the cinematic logic has given way to reality TV logic. That's very much the logic of the Trump world, right? Still performing for cameras, but the cameras have shifted. The way that we want things from the cameras has shifted, too. Reality TV is a lot about creating moments of drama where they may or may not actually exist and bombarding you with them. I think that's a lot of what we see and what we feel now. I have to imagine she would think about it that way.There is one interesting essay that I feel has only recently been talked about. It's at the beginning of my book, too. It was in a documentary, and Gia Tolentino wrote about it recently. It's this essay she wrote in 2000 about Martha Stewart and about Martha Stewart's website. It feels like the 2000s was like, “What is this website thing? Why are people so into it?” But really, it's an essay about parasocial relationships that people develop (with women in particular) who they invent stories around and how those stories correspond to greater American archetypes. It's a really interesting essay, not least because I think it's an essay also about people's parasocial relationships with Joan Didion.So the rise of her celebrity in the 21st century, where people know who she is and carry around a tote bag, but don't really know what they're getting themselves into is very interesting to me. I think it is also something she thought about quite a bit, while also consciously courting it.Yeah, I mean, that makes a ton of sense. For someone who was so adept at using cinematic language to describe her own life with every living being having a camera directly next to them at all times. It seems like we are very much living in a world that she had at least put a lot of thought into, even if the technology wasn't around for her to specifically address it.Yes, completely.On that note, where can folks find the book? Where can folks find you? What's the elevator pitch for why they ought to check this out? Joan Didion superfan or just rather novice?Exactly! I think this book is not just for the fans, let me put it that way. Certainly, I think anyone who considers themselves a Didion fan will have a lot to enjoy here. The stuff you didn't know, hadn't read or just a new way to think through her cultural impact. But also, this is really a book that's as much for people who are just interested in thinking about the world we live in today a little critically. It's certainly a biography of American political culture as much as it is of Didion. There's a great deal of Hollywood history in there as well. Thinking about that sweep of the American century and change is what the book is doing. It's very, very, very informed by what I do in my day job as a movie critic at The New York Times. Thinking about what movies mean, what do they tell us about ourselves? I think this is what this book does. I have been told it's very fun to read. So I'm happy about that. It's not ponderous at all, which is good. It's also not that long.It comes out March 11th from Live Right, which is a Norton imprint. There will be an audiobook at the end of May that I am reading, which I'm excited about. And I'll be on tour for a large amount of March on the East Coast. Then in California, there's a virtual date, and there's a good chance I'll be popping up elsewhere all year, too. Those updates will be on my social feeds, which are all @alissawilkinson on whatever platform except X, which is fine because I don't really post there anymore.Alyssa, thank you so much for coming on.Thank you so much.Edited by Crystal Wang.If you have anything you'd like to see in this Sunday special, shoot me an email. Comment below! Thanks for reading, and thanks so much for supporting Numlock.Thank you so much for becoming a paid subscriber! Send links to me on Twitter at @WaltHickey or email me with numbers, tips or feedback at walt@numlock.news. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.numlock.com/subscribe

From spiking her childhood lemonade stand drinks with vodka to launching Netflix's first talk show, Chelsea Handler has always had an entrepreneurial instinct. Case in point: the comedian's new book, “I'll Have What She's Having” is her sixth to top the New York Times best-seller list.  Chelsea joined Kara onstage at SXSW to share her juiciest stories from the book (including the joke that made Woody Allen literally spit out his desert), offer her unfiltered takes on President Trump and Elon Musk, break down the problem with men, and reveal how she became a “father” to her ex-boyfriend's three daughters. Questions? Comments? Email us at on@voxmedia.com or find us on Bluesky, Instagram, and TikTok @onwithkaraswisher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Comedians Mark Bailey and Mike Miller talk funny about the nerdiest instrument in school bands to play, the saxophone trap, Mark's school band stories courtesy of Mr. Buda, how to be first string clarinet without being in the first string, and remembering Steve Allen and Frank Zappa. Brought to you by Nagoyaradio.com, Nagoyacomedy.com, and stand up comic Mark Bailey.

On the heels of Annie Hall, which catapulted Woody Allen from the role of a beloved thinking-man's clown to the highest echelons of cinema, the writer/director/star made Interiors, an excellent film which nonetheless baffled even his most ardent fans. He came back to comedy with 1979's Manhattan, the beginning of a string of 35 films in 35 years, all written and directed by Allen, and all pushing beyond the slapstick sight gags that originally made him a star. Embroiled in a scandal since 1992, Woody Allen has increasingly found himself canceled despite being the most honored screenwriter of all time and possessing an unparalleled track record among writer/directors of quality and productivity. Our young film lovers never knew a time when Allen's career wasn't synonymous with scandal. How does that color their reaction to this 46-year-old critical and commercial hit, which aims dead center at the Allen controversy due to its storyline centering around the then 42-year-old star's relationship with a 17-year-old high school student? You won't want to miss the young panel's reaction to this film, a perfect bellwether of profound cultural changes since the 1970s. Hosts: Mark Netter & David Tausik  Panelists:  Guy Lewis, Kylee LaRue & Steven Renteria An ElectraCast Production Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEoEGW4Hb9w Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_(1979_film) IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079522/ Ebert Review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-manhattan-1979 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Diving into stories and lessons on two of the four cardinal virtues--justice and courage-----Sources:Lives of the Stoics - Ryan Holiday Meditations - Marcus Aurelius Letters from a Stoic - SenecaDicourses - Epictetus-----5:20 - Zeno: embarrassment 8:45 - Cicero: your fears are fears13:00 - Winston Churchill: your capacity is great 14:45 - Charles Lindbergh: build courage 16:55 - Woody Allen: the hardest step18:30 - George Norris: it inspires23:30 - Publius Rufus: knowing vs doing27:20 - Muhammud Ali: don't compromise 31:25 - Helvidius Priscus: accept your roles34:05 - Matthew McConaughey: do less-----You can check stay connected below:Greatness FilesBook: Chasing Greatness: Timeless Stories on the Pursuit of Excellence  ApparelInstagramX

Capítulo 262, vigésimo segundo de la séptima temporada de Audiolibros y Relatos, tu podcast literalmente literario. En el capítulo de hoy toca echarse unas buenas risas y es que te vuelvo a traer, por octava vez ya, al gran e inigualable Woody Allen. Narrado por Xavi Villanueva !Nuevo episodio! Ya puedes disfrutar de La época nefanda en que vivimos. WOODY ALLEN en ABISMOfm.

This week, Air Mail Co-Editor Alessandra Stanley explains how Trump has replaced D.E.I. with his own brand of affirmative action. Something you might call L.O.O.—loyalty, obsequiousness, and obedience. Then, everyone knows Annie Hall as one of the great movies of the past 50 years. But Alex Belth reveals how Woody Allen's 1977 love story was considered a total fiasco when he first edited it and how the director and his team reconceived the movie in the cutting room. And finally, as the founders of MGM, Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg were among the most consequential figures in the history of Hollywood, and Sam Wasson joins us from L.A. to discuss their role in creating movies as we know them today. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rosebud is thrilled to present to you one of the truly great Hollywood actresses of her generation: Sigourney Weaver. Known for her groundbreaking performances as Ripley in Ridley Scott's Alien movies, Sigourney redefined what women could do in the movies. Sigourney talks to Gyles about her fascinating parents - her father, Pat Weaver, was a leading US television executive who pioneered morning television, and her mother, the English actress Elizabeth Inglis. She tells Gyles how she came by her name, and about her first kiss, and how she struggled to get used to her height. She talks about beginning acting at Stanford and later Yale, and how her confidence was knocked by her Yale tutors. She talks about working with Woody Allen and on the set of Alien. Halfway through the show, Sigourney and Gyles are joined by a special guest - an Oscar-winning British actress who Sigourney has loved since she was a child. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to today's episode with special guest, the incredibly talented Fred Melamed. Fred has had a remarkable career spanning decades, from his early work as a renowned voiceover artist to becoming one of Hollywood's most celebrated character actors. Known for his unforgettable performances in films like A Serious Man, Hail, Caesar!, and Shiva Baby, Fred has also had a long-standing collaboration with Woody Allen, appearing in seven of his films, including Radio Days, Husbands and Wives, and Crimes and Misdemeanors. On television, Fred has brought to life memorable characters like Bruce Ben-Bacharach in Lady Dynamite, Gumbald in Adventure Time, and Arthur Hart in WandaVision, earning him recognition as one of the greatest character actors working today. Plus, he's a proud father of twin sons whom he speaks about in length. Join us as we dive into Fred's storied career, his experiences with some of the biggest names in film and TV, his Jewishness, on being adopted and what it's like balancing fatherhood with life in the spotlight.

Welcome to today's episode with special guest, the incredibly talented Fred Melamed. Fred has had a remarkable career spanning decades, from his early work as a renowned voiceover artist to becoming one of Hollywood's most celebrated character actors. Known for his unforgettable performances in films like A Serious Man, Hail, Caesar!, and Shiva Baby, Fred has also had a long-standing collaboration with Woody Allen, appearing in seven of his films, including Radio Days, Husbands and Wives, and Crimes and Misdemeanors. On television, Fred has brought to life memorable characters like Bruce Ben-Bacharach in Lady Dynamite, Gumbald in Adventure Time, and Arthur Hart in WandaVision, earning him recognition as one of the greatest character actors working today. Plus, he's a proud father of twin sons whom he speaks about in length. Join us as we dive into Fred's storied career, his experiences with some of the biggest names in film and TV, his Jewishness, on being adopted and what it's like balancing fatherhood with life in the spotlight.

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"The heart wants what it wants," said Woody Allen. At least the famous director had enough shame to pretend that it was his heart, and not another body part, that was leading him. The question before Christians today is, Will we join our society in obeying our instincts, like animals; or will we stand apart? Will we obey a higher calling? Will we model for the world the proper use of God's gift of sexuality? Here's Jim to open the sermon, Living Among the Peculiar. Listen to Right Start Radio every Monday through Friday on WCVX 1160AM (Cincinnati, OH) at 9:30am, WHKC 91.5FM (Columbus, OH) at 5:00pm, WRFD 880AM (Columbus, OH) at 9:00am. Right Start can also be heard on One Christian Radio 107.7FM & 87.6FM in New Plymouth, New Zealand. You can purchase a copy of this message, unsegmented for broadcasting and in its entirety, for $7 on a single CD by calling +1 (800) 984-2313, and of course you can always listen online or download the message for free. RS02182025_0.mp3Scripture References: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12

Louis sits down in the Spotify studio with Irish actor, writer, and director Sharon Horgan. Sharon discusses her colourful years squatting in London, the fine line between comedy and tragedy, and FaceTiming with Bono while filming Bad Sisters 2. She also spills the beans about almost starring in a Woody Allen film…  Warnings: Strong language.      ⁠Links/Attachments:   TV Show: ‘Bad Sisters' (2022-2025) - AppleTV+  https://tv.apple.com/gb/show/bad-sisters/umc.cmc.14kr4vv65unannh7doqgvlh20   Film: Home Alone (1990)  https://youtu.be/jEDaVHmw7r4?si=rfeHfnepM2T1YCCQ    TV Show: ‘Catastrophe' (2015-2019) - Channel 4   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sKQ6ilBGGE   TV Show: ‘Pulling' (2006-2009) - BBC  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgHKlCM-7Wk&t=4s   TV Show: ‘Modern Love' (2019) - Amazon  https://youtu.be/2zSuD79TU3w?si=opqU542-inqGMY_d&t=244    Short Film: The Week Before Christmas (2012) - Sky  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueKfgCrFuek   TV Show: ‘Divorce' (2016-2019) - HBO  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGadA8rJBek   TV Show: ‘The Larry Sanders Show' (1992-1998) - HBO  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG1YlnrQAnM   TV Show: ‘The Pilot Show' (2004) - Channel 4  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MueLNwbFWEU   ‘Woody Allen warns against ‘witch hunt' post-Weinstein' - Variety https://variety.com/2017/film/news/woody-allen-harvey-weinstein-1202590319/  Film: Husbands and Wives (1992)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2daA2-OwXbE   Film: Housewife of the Year (2024)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0OGXGAHaWs   TV Show: ‘Motherland' (2016-2022) https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p05j1jkp/motherland   TV Show: ‘Amandaland' (2025) https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0024pyy/amandaland       Credits:  Producer: Millie Chu   Assistant Producer: Emilia Gill  Production Manager: Francesca Bassett   Music: Miguel D'Oliveira   Audio Mixer: Tom Guest  Video Mixer: Scott Edwards   Shownotes compiled by Maisie Williams  Executive Producer: Arron Fellows       A Mindhouse Production for Spotify   www.mindhouse.co.uk     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Passing the Dutchie 'pon the left-hand side, we sift through this week's events, rants and theories which absorbingly include … … that Drake v Kendrick Lamar beef in full! … was Bowie only as good as his collaborators? … Kingmaker, Toploader, Feeder, Slayer, Longdancer, Widowmaker …. has there ever been a good band with a name ending ‘-er'? …… seeing the Jam at the Hope & Anchor. … John Lennon was not a working-class hero. Bob Marley shot no sheriffs. Joe Strummer's daddy wasn't a bankrobber. Starship patently never built any cities on rock and roll. Monstrous rock and roll untruths exposed!  … why Film Star Good-Looking is different from Rock Star Good-Looking. … one glove, a swan dress, comedy specs, a snake, a bat …. Pop stars with a cartoonable signature. … Woody Allen, Lisa Kudrow, Scarlett Johansson and the Kanye West clip that was never sanctioned.  … JD Salinger, Scott Joplin, Thomas Pynchon, Banksy – people whose voices we've never heard. … the gripes of Taylor Swift. … ‘An Interminable Appetite For Spite' and other album titles in waiting. … and Buffy Sainte-Marie and the perils of misrepresentation. Plus birthday guest Chris Lintott remembers seeing Bowie as a mime artist.Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Passing the Dutchie 'pon the left-hand side, we sift through this week's events, rants and theories which absorbingly include … … that Drake v Kendrick Lamar beef in full! … was Bowie only as good as his collaborators? … Kingmaker, Toploader, Feeder, Slayer, Longdancer, Widowmaker …. has there ever been a good band with a name ending ‘-er'? …… seeing the Jam at the Hope & Anchor. … John Lennon was not a working-class hero. Bob Marley shot no sheriffs. Joe Strummer's daddy wasn't a bankrobber. Starship patently never built any cities on rock and roll. Monstrous rock and roll untruths exposed!  … why Film Star Good-Looking is different from Rock Star Good-Looking. … one glove, a swan dress, comedy specs, a snake, a bat …. Pop stars with a cartoonable signature. … Woody Allen, Lisa Kudrow, Scarlett Johansson and the Kanye West clip that was never sanctioned.  … JD Salinger, Scott Joplin, Thomas Pynchon, Banksy – people whose voices we've never heard. … the gripes of Taylor Swift. … ‘An Interminable Appetite For Spite' and other album titles in waiting. … and Buffy Sainte-Marie and the perils of misrepresentation. Plus birthday guest Chris Lintott remembers seeing Bowie as a mime artist.Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Passing the Dutchie 'pon the left-hand side, we sift through this week's events, rants and theories which absorbingly include … … that Drake v Kendrick Lamar beef in full! … was Bowie only as good as his collaborators? … Kingmaker, Toploader, Feeder, Slayer, Longdancer, Widowmaker …. has there ever been a good band with a name ending ‘-er'? …… seeing the Jam at the Hope & Anchor. … John Lennon was not a working-class hero. Bob Marley shot no sheriffs. Joe Strummer's daddy wasn't a bankrobber. Starship patently never built any cities on rock and roll. Monstrous rock and roll untruths exposed!  … why Film Star Good-Looking is different from Rock Star Good-Looking. … one glove, a swan dress, comedy specs, a snake, a bat …. Pop stars with a cartoonable signature. … Woody Allen, Lisa Kudrow, Scarlett Johansson and the Kanye West clip that was never sanctioned.  … JD Salinger, Scott Joplin, Thomas Pynchon, Banksy – people whose voices we've never heard. … the gripes of Taylor Swift. … ‘An Interminable Appetite For Spite' and other album titles in waiting. … and Buffy Sainte-Marie and the perils of misrepresentation. Plus birthday guest Chris Lintott remembers seeing Bowie as a mime artist.Find out more about how to help us to keep the conversation going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It was a long distance laugh fest with Tim and Doug zooming in from the road in Asheville with exclusive coverage of Jimmy Fallon's bad Tonight Show vibes, Vic's music news with Kid Rock and Woody Allen and a great opportunity for you to find the Foghat. Watch or listen to another hour of today's show with some Bill Maher iPod revelations, a rare Double Dopp' O' The Mornin' and lots more with OFFICE HOURS+. Join now at patreon.com/officehourslive with a FREE seven-day trial. Go see Tim on tour and at Tim Fest 2 in Austin! Get tickets at timheidecker.com/live Find everything Office Hours including the merch store at officialofficehours.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Send us a textA young, expectant wife must figure out how to stop her husband's late night podcast binge habit before he harms himself or his family. On Episode 655 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss the South Korean film, Sleep from director Jason Yu! We also talk about some of our favorite movies that involve sleep/dreams/nightmares as part of the plot, reminisce about obscure 70s and 80s toys, and have a chat about Satanic Panic. So grab your sleeping pills to keep you awake, call the family Shaman, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!Stuff we talk about: Legendary bitching, Satanic Panic, Twisted Sister, Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson, Dungeons and Dragons, Don “Balloon” Knotts, Three's Company, Clyde's Car Crusher, the gas shortage of the 70s, MaXXXine, Vortex, Gaspar Noe, technicolor dreamf*ck, Dario Argento, Dune Part One and Two, “Haley's Comet” Pontiac Firebird, Alex Bregman, Boston Red Sox, you down with OBP?, Wrestlemania, Mike Tyson, Bruno Sammartino, Bob Backlund, The Machinist, Paranormal Activity, Sleepwalkers, Doctor Sleep, Nightmare on Elm St., Richard Lynch, Bad Dreams, E.G. Daily, Dean Cameron, Dream Scenario, In Dreams, What Dreams May Come, Inception, Woody Allen's Sleeper, Dreamscape, Come True, Sandman, Flatliners, The Nightmare, Room 237, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Insidious, The Cell, Poltergeist III, The Fallen, The Fall, Rosemary's Baby, Mean Street Posse, Jack Black, Kyle Gass, Snoop, Al Snow, Sleep, Jason Yu, shooting fish in a barrel, sexy-time straps, Korean Fred Willard, Se7en, Bong Joon-ho, The Host, Parasite, Lee Sun-kyun, Jung Yu-mi, Natasia Demetriou, David Lynch's Dune, G.I. Joe figures, Sci-Fi epics, Dr. Dune, Zod Bless You, Denis Villeneuve, Chekhov's Pomeranian, Owen Hart, Timestalker, Alice Lowe, Armchair Cowboy, and The Jeff Jarrett Rorschach Test.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradioJoin our Discord Community: discord.trickortreatradio.comSend Email/Voicemail: mailto:podcast@trickortreatradio.comVisit our website: http://trickortreatradio.comStart your own podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=386Use our Amazon link: http://amzn.to/2CTdZzKFB Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/trickortreatradioTwitter: http://twitter.com/TrickTreatRadioFacebook: http://facebook.com/TrickOrTreatRadioYouTube: http://youtube.com/TrickOrTreatRadioInstagram: http://instagram.com/TrickorTreatRadioSupport the show

Erik Childress & Peter Sobczynski bring you this week's physical media roundup which includes a great upgrade for the family involving a cat and a mouse. Horror fans get some 4K upgrades from four different decades. Film Noir gets several different takes including through the mind of Woody Allen. A legendary black filmmaker championed over the years by Sergio Mims gets his whole collection. There are early appearances by Sam Elliott, Sean Penn and John Cusack along with a reappraisal of a current Oscar contender. A more positive reappraisal has been happening for years with a Shane Black film now in 4K and Peter takes us down the rabbit hole of the time Jean-Luc Godard made a Shakespeare adaptation for Cannon Films. 0:00 – Intro 3:09 - Criterion (King Lear) 17:26 - Warner Archive (Tom and Jerry: The Complete CinemaScope Collection) 21:31 – Warner Bros. (The Nice Guys 4K) 30:18 - Kino (Oscar Micheaux: The Complete Collection, Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXIII (Rope of Sand / Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye / Never Love a Stranger), Play It Again Sam, Hot Pursuit) 57:11 - Fun City (Lifeguard, Racing with the Moon) 1:08:50 - Universal (Conclave 4K) 1:13:42 - Arrow (Alice Sweet Alice 4K) 1:22:52 - Shout Factory (Galaxy of Terror 4K, Ghosts of Mars 4K, The Last Voyage of the Demeter 4K) 1:35:21 – New Blu-ray Announcements

GGACP bids a fond farewell to late Broadway, TV and film actor Tony Roberts with this ENCORE of an interview from 2017. In this episode, Tony stops by the studio to weigh in on a wide range of topics, including the intensity of Al Pacino, the minimalism of Robert Mitchum, the eccentricities of Jerome Robbins and the professionalism of Sidney Lumet. Also: Tony runs lines with Edward G. Robinson, takes flight with Mary Poppins, plays the ponies with Mickey Rooney and treads the boards with Abe Vigoda. PLUS: Everett Sloane! “Amityville 3-D”! Woody Allen hits the beach! Tony's mom dates Uncle Miltie! And Sydney Greenstreet meets…Sydney Greenstreet! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Director:  Woody Allen Producer:  Charles H. Joffe Screenplay:  Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman Photography:  Gordon Willis Music:  N/A Cast:  Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Shelley Duvall Rotten Tomatoes:  Critics: 97%/Audience: 92%

Send us a textIn recognition of Ken's Birthday today, we've prepared a BLOCKBUSTER of an edition! Well, we think so anyway.As our government careens further into idiocy, and we further become a world-wide laughingstock, we provide proof as to why this is an accurate assessment of The United States in 2025. Perhaps the best example of this is illustrated in their own words by "Youknowwho", Tommy Tubberville and Patrick Mahomes this week. And we'll let you decide if the fictional President of the fictional nation of San Marcos in the 1971 Woody Allen film, "Bananas" was channeling a certain future real-life leader.Minyard.minyardpodcast@gmail.comMusic by David Horton

Mo Fry Pasic has never seen Vicky Cristina Barcelona, but she rewrote it and we read her script! A patented "how long into the episode could this script be?" episode from Never Seen It. We read Mo's script, talk Woody Allen, and more! Premiere of a new game! Plus some What's in the Box'd! Kyle and Mo are joined by Catherine McCafferty! Go see Kyle in New York / Brooklyn on April 5 at Union Hall! Doing his show 'Hard to Say.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on another encore edition of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we are talking to Susannah Mars, daughter of actor and comedian Kenneth Mars. Of course you know Kenneth Mars from his many film roles including Young Frankenstein, What's Up Doc, The Producers, Radio Days & The Parallex View and many more classic films. What you may not know and we learn from talking to Susannah was that her grandfather was a comic and radio personality named Sonny Mars who released one very tidy LP & that later in life, her father became known for voice over work in tons of animated movies and shows, none bigger than that as King Trident in Disney's The Little Mermaid.  Susannah also lets us in on what it was like growing up with her cerebral but wacky father. We hear about his lunches with fellow actors and comedians like The Partridge Family's Dave Madden which then somehow led us to reach out to another guest, Denise Gaultier after hearing about her father's somewhat ribald drawings he made for Susannah at those lunches. We also hear about Susannah's singing career, her documentary film, Mourning Has Broken & how she starred in an ABC after school special with Kristy McNichol & so much more. There is so much love and respect and genuine familial memories about growing up with a father it's hard not to empathize with her years after his passing. He made funny voices, she got to watch her dad on stage in St. louis at the Muny Theater and how the cult comedy show Fernwood 2 Night still connects with her & her dads fans. Please take a listen to the latest episode of the Rarified Heir Podcast and enjoy our chat with Susannah Mars. Everyone has a story.

Today we welcome Sex Therapist Dr. Roger Libby Roger is a marriage and relationship counselor who is an internationally recognized sexologist, social psychologist, sociologist and an AASECT-certified sex therapist with two practice offices in Seattle, and in Poulsbo (Kitsap County), Washington. The B.I.STANDER Podcast is a conversational podcast unique to Bainbridge Island and Seattle Washington, that covers the Arts, Society & Culture told through Human Interest stories. The intent is to introduce interesting people, ideas, and conversations. We are not perfect and that's OK! Thank you for your support! The B.I.Stander Podcast is a listener supported show, please consider subscribing.   BE A FRIEND OF PODCASTVILLE AND TELL A FRIEND  The BISTANDER Podcast! Blue Canary Auto NOW ALSO in Bremerton! Sound Reprographics Tideland Magazine Song "Fly on the Wall by LeRoy Bell and available at:  Tower Records! Additional sound effects by: https://www.zapsplat.com/ Support the Show on PATREON "Be a friend, tell a friend!"

13-year-old Madeline Soto was found dead after a weeklong search. Her mother's boyfriend has been arrested in connection to her death. Jennifer, the child's mother admits she knew her boyfriend slept with her daughter and feared a "Woody Allen" situation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Here she is bois, here she is world, here's June! We are here with Oscar-nominee June Squibb. You Might Know Her From Thelma, Nebraska, About Schmidt, The Humans, Hubie Halloween, In & Out, Girls, Inside Out 2, and Broadway productions of Gypsy and Waitress. We were delighted to talk to 95-year-old June about her role in the action-dramedy Thelma for which she absolutely deserves an Oscar nomination. From fearlessly driving a scooter to charming the late Richard Roundtree, June opened up about her very first “lead role” and the difference in being number one on the callsheet. We also got the intel on her time as a replacement for Electra in the original (yes, original) Broadway production of Gypsy opposite Ethel Merman, returning to Broadway in a gender-reversed casting as Josie in Waitress, her rapport with director Alexander Payne (who she had to audition for AGAIN for role in Nebraska), and her upcoming lead role in Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut Eleanor the Great. This one will go down in the books for sure. Please go stream Thelma right after you listen! Patreon: www.patreon.com/youmightknowherfrom Follow us on social media: @youmightknowherfrom || @damianbellino || @rodemanne Discussed this week: Deh-ME Moore but DE-mee Lovato Demi Moore's name is Demetria Pam Anderson's comeback is so smart (Broadway, book, documentary, no makeup on red carpet, prestige film). She is 57 June's first starring film role is in 2024's Thelma available to stream on Hulu and Disney+ now Richard Roundtree's last film role (wears clothes so well) June did her own stunts but hasn't yet received Tom Cruise's coconut cake Headlining Eleanor the Great, directed by Scarlett Johansson (releasing 2025) Thelma written and directed by Josh Margolin Replaced in the original Broadway production of Gypsy with Ethel Merman (as Electra) and later went on the national tour with her Was auditioning for La Plume de ma Tante when the Gypsy stage manager came in and requested she audition to replace Chotzi Foley (original Electra) Only other Rose she saw was  Tyne Daly in Gypsy on Broadway in 1988 Juliet Taylor was Woody Allen's casting director and she helped get her work Was in the off-Broadway production of The Boy Friend  (produced by Gus Schirmer Jr) Returned to Broaday in 2018 to replace in Waitress as ‘Josie' thanks to Jessie Nelson Patti LuPone did her midnight cabaret show at Les Mouches after her performances at Evita Plays Bruce Dern's wife in Alexander Payne's 2013 film, Nebraska  In & Out took forever to film since there were 3 different opinions of how the movie should go (Director: Frank Oz, Producer: Scott Rudin, and Star: Kevin Kline) Debbie Reynolds does a very odd Barbra Streisand impression and a great Meryl Streep Played an aging Broadway star in season 5 episode of Glee opposite her now friend, Chris Colfer Blood drinking leprechaun with glaucoma in anthology series, American Horror Stories Saw the nightclub act of the great Dorothy Loudon Worked at Upstairs at the Downstairs Every shirt June Squibb wears in Hubie Halloween  

Ep. 446: Primer ‘Nadie Sabe Nada' de 2025 que hemos perpetrado con ahínco. Dicen que si algo funciona no lo toques y eso es lo que hacen Andreu Buenafuente y Berto Romero: no salirse del guion de lo que es el ‘Nadie' por muy nuevo año que sea.Todo sigue en absoluta normalidad: Berto baila como Dua Lipa, ensalzamos aún más la figura del actor Eduard Fernández, se destapa la leyenda urbana de que Aretha Franklin vivía en Barcelona, dicen que también Ron Wood, escuchamos las vivécdotas de los encuentros de Andreu con Woody Allen y se reivindica que el programa necesita ya una línea de juegos de mesa para las personas cárnicas.CITA: «Tengo una edad de cuando mi madre decía que era muy mayor» Andreu Buenafuente

Explore the dualities of morality, fate, and human frailty in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Woody Allen's masterful blend of dark comedy and philosophical drama. To close out 2024 and our Patreon-requested series, Mike White welcomes Andras Jones and Keith Gordon for a spirited discussion of this haunting tale. With Martin Landau and Allen himself leading parallel storylines—one of an ophthalmologist spiraling into ethical darkness, the other of a struggling documentarian chasing unrequited love—the film weaves an intricate tapestry of guilt, ambition, and existential reckoning. Along the way, a blind rabbi offers wisdom (and serves as a poignant metaphor) as the characters navigate their moral crossroads.  The episode features an interview with Woody Allen's friend and biographer Eric Lax who describes Allen's process and the evolution of Crimes and Misdemeanors. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support.

Jesse Eisenberg (A Real Pain, The Social Network, Now You See Me) is an Oscar-nominated actor, writer, and producer. Jesse joins the Armchair Expert to discuss not being cool enough to smoke, receiving a cease and desist letter as a kid from Woody Allen, and how community theater was his outlet for being an incredibly anxious child. Jesse and Dax discuss their saddest film wardrobe experiences, the Parmesan cheese version of Cyrano, and where movie roles rank on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Jesse explains the very strange economy of promoting a movie, the Freudian breakdown of his characters in A Real Pain, and the solace of writing.Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free by joining Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/armchair-expert-with-dax-shepard/ now.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.comA few of the issues stumbled over: The complicated ethics of revenge against a corporation. Yet more evidence that we don't live in the real world. On old creeps like Woody Allen, Cormac McCarthy, and me. And more!Here's the article about Cormac McCarthy I mentioned and the response from The Guardian.Intro music “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Ran…

Bill and legendary comedian Paul Reiser go deep on all things comedy, from the early days at comedy clubs like Catch a Rising Star and the Improv, the terrible pay of early comedy, the difference between being “club funny” and what works on television, Richard Belzer, Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, and the New York comedy scene, Paul's experience with Woody Allen, the tension between performing “works in progress” versus polished final sets, the concept of soul mates, hiring young comedy writers, and the importance of spotting talent and the subtle spark that differentiates a promising writer or comedian from the rest. Go to https//www.oneskin.co to get started today with 15% OFF using code RANDOM, today! Reverse hair loss with @iRestorelaser and get $625 off with the code RANDOM at https://www.irestorelaser.com/RANDOM #irestorepod Go to https://www.Ziprecruiter.com/RANDOM to give it a try for FREE! Go to https://www.HeatHolders.com and use the code RANDOM to save 15% OFF through Cyber Monday! Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to https://www.RocketMoney.com/RANDOM Follow Club Random on IG: @ClubRandomPodcast Follow Bill on IG: @BillMaher Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/ClubRandom Watch Club Random on YouTube: https://bit.ly/ClubRandomYouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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