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84: A Thousand Clowns (1965)
Roddy Flynn and Kari Ginsburg join Patrick one last time for to see if the power of Barbara Harris can redeem Herb Gardner after Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? From 1965, it's the Library of Congress preserved A Thousand Clowns!
Roddy Flynn and Kari Ginsburg join Patrick one last time for to see if the power of Barbara Harris can redeem Herb Gardner after Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? From 1965, it's the Library of Congress preserved A Thousand Clowns!
83.1: A Doonesbury Special (1977)
Happy Thanksgiving! And what better way to celebrate than this 1977 ABC Thanksgiving special based on the incredibly popular comic strip co-starring Barbara Harris? Kenny Neal joins us to prove there is NO better way. None. None. At. All.
Happy Thanksgiving! And what better way to celebrate than this 1977 ABC Thanksgiving special based on the incredibly popular comic strip co-starring Barbara Harris? Kenny Neal joins us to prove there is NO better way. None. None. At. All.
The Special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeHUg4H514o
83. Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin’ So Sad (1967)
You've heard Austin Pendleton talk about the play on The Original Cast. Now hear Logan Culwell-Block and Sophie Schulman talk about it with Patrick on this podcast! And we swear we watched it. We absolutely swear we did.
You've heard Austin Pendleton talk about the play on The Original Cast. Now hear Logan Culwell-Block and Sophie Schulman talk about it with Patrick on this podcast! And we swear we watched it. We absolutely swear we did.
82.1: Movie Movie (1978) / Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) / Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
It all begins with an idea.
Patrick reviews three movies with decreasingly smaller amounts of screen time for Barbara Harris. One of which we maybe should've done on the show. Or maybe not.
Movie Movie (1978) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJasKZlaIcA
82: Plaza Suite (1971)
It all begins with an idea.
Join Patrick and farce/door-slamming experts Casey Erin Clark and Charlene V. Smith to discuss this Neil Simon classic(?) with Walter Matthau dealing with three women and I'm sure isn't sexist at all. From 1971, it's Plaza Suite!
Photo of the recent Broadway revival: https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/PlazaSuite0676r-1-1.jpg?w=1000&h=562&crop=1&resize=910%2C511
81: The War Between Men and Women (1972)
It all begins with an idea.
Playwright Serena Berman and director Jake Beckhard are here representing their sexes in this spirited discussion about a movie that almost wants to have something to say about The Battle of the Sexes.
80: Mixed Company (1974)
It all begins with an idea.
Professional Internet parents Jay & Kimberly Schmidt (pReview'd & Broadwaysted!) join Patrick for the 1974 motion picture that solved racism, the Vietnam War, and our relationship with Native Americans. From the writer/director of The Seven Little Foys and Yours, Mine, and Ours comes another big family comedy: it's Mixed Company!
79: Nice Girls Don’t Explode (1987)
It all begins with an idea.
Kari Ginsburg of Uproar Coaching and Chris Klimek of Smithsonian Magazine's There's More to That podcast are here to this movie that has a real problem holding our attention. But Sharon in the Chat is on tangent control, so you're in good hands. From 1987 it's Nice Girls Don't Explode!
78.1: The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1974)
It all begins with an idea.
I switched up the movies for July because there simply wasn't enough Barbara Harris. But I thought I'd bring you my thoughts on this quirky 70s comedy/mystery all the same.
You can watch The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery on YouTube for free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMY8G4IdU28
78: Nashville (1975)
It all begins with an idea.
It's one of Patrick's favorite movies with 2 of Patick's favorite people. Lauren Halvorsen and Kenny Neal reuniting after their Bugsy Malone triumph of many years ago to see if Barbara Harris can hold her own again TWENTY-THREE (23) other characters in Robert Altman's sprawling, plotless, vibes-centric epic: N A S H V I L L E.
77: Family Plot (1976)
It all begins with an idea.
The dream team of Patrick O’Neill and Rob W. Schneider that held your hand through Barbra in For Pete’s Sake is back! This time is Barbara and Hitch in what would turn out to be the grand master’s final film: 1976’s Family Plot. We talk about great directors, great actors, and (eventually) the state of arts education in the U.S. because that’s what we always end up talking about.
76: Freaky Friday (1976)
Aaron J. Albano (Aladdin on Broadway) and Marc Bonnani (YouTube's Broadway by Ghostlight) join Patrick for the original parent/kid body-swapping movie that has become such a classic it's been remade 3 times: Freaky Friday (1976)!
75: The North Avenue Irregulars (1979)
Disney’s late-70s true story comedy caper with a plot that basically boils down to “Women! Am I right?” gets the full treatment from Patrick, Robbie Rozelle, and Vince Gatton who saw this movie in the theater FOUR TIMES as a child!
74: The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)
Capitol Hill's Roddy Flynn and the Kennedy Center's Eleni Hagen join Patrick for this political drama to find out if Barbara Harris the best part of a movie co-starring Alan Alda, 3-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep, 2-time Oscar winner Melvyn Douglas, and Rip Torn who has a big scene where he's "reading."
73: Second-Hand Hearts (1980)
Paul and Erika from the That Aged Well podcast are here for a movie that hasn't aged well but (in its defense) wasn't good to begin with. Is Barbara Harris the best part of Second Hand Hearts (1981)?
72.1: Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Beth Amann and Kari Ginsburg are here to kick off The Original Cast at the Movies's new theme: THE YEAR OF BARBARA (HARRIS)! We'll be covering 13 Barbara Harris films starting with this Academy Award-nominated comedy(?) from Francis Ford Coppola Peggy Sue Got Married featuring Ms Harris in one of her many "mother" roles. The question is: Is Barbara Harris the best part of this movie?
71: For Pete’s Sake (1974)
This film was not designed to support the deep and earnest discussion about arts education and the concept of stardom that it inspired in Patrick O'Neill, Robert W. Schneider, & Patrick (your host). But it did. And here it is.
70: The Main Event (1979)
83.333333334% of the way through our list and the movies are not getting better. Has Patrick reached his breaking point? Did Casey Erin Clark chose wisely? Will Chris Klimek praise this movie's boxing? The answers . . . . right now: no, yes, and not as little as you'd think.
69: Up the Sandbox (1972)
Put on your “it was the 70s” hat, because Amanda Zeitler and Robbie Rozelle are here to wrestle with this experimental(?), feminist(?), Barbra(!) film about being a mother, Fidel Castro, and feminism(?).