With lockdown keeping us inside, we cover a ton of movies with in-depth discussions of a quartet you'll probably never see again: Some Like It Hot Tootsie Children of Men The Iron Giant
Show Rundown
Intros and Yay or Nay: 0:00 - 15:05
Some Like It Hot: 15:05 - 28:15
Tootsie: 28:15 - 46:15
BeauChamps Battle SciFi, Children of Men: 46:15 - 1:00:08
BeauChamps Battle SciFi, The Iron Giant: 1:00:08 - 1:05:37
A Trip to the Moon: 1:05:38 - 1:10:45
Next week’s BeauChamps round 4 battle, Inside Llewyn Davis vs Adaptation: 1:10:45 - 1:15:38
Beau enjoyed:
Truth Be Told (on Apple TV)
Beau did not enjoy:
Once Upon a Time in the West
Roma (on Netflix)
Jess enjoyed:
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead (on HBO Now)
Roll Red Roll (on Netflix)
93 Days (on Netflix)
Jess did not enjoy:
Downhill Racer (on Amazon Prime)
Spenser Confidential (on Netflix)
Avanti
Jon enjoyed:
The Shawshank Redemption
This Is Spinal Tap
Jon did not enjoy:
Big Trouble in Little China
In the Mouth of Madness
Here are a couple of links and stories also mentioned on the episode:
Some info on the Hitchcock/Truffaut book
The amazing book Conversations with Wilder
Some more on the censorship of the era of Some Like It Hot: The film was released without a seal of approval from the MPAA. The Legion of Decency did not give it its most negative rating, a C for "condemned", but the group did say the film was "morally objectionable."
Dustin Hoffman's AFI interview about Tootsie
A great NY Times profile on Elaine May
Check out "It Might Be You (the Theme from Tootsie)"
Not kidding, Shooter McGavin is in Grease 2. He's the "Where does the pollen go?" guy