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    Explore "matthau" with insightful episodes like "Episode 75 -- The Bad News Bears", "America's Favorite Dad, Actor Paul Dooley", "Guilt Free Features Ep. #6: Meg Ryan Day!", "Grumpy Old Men (1993)" and "Ep 226 - The Odd Couple (1968) Movie Review" from podcasts like ""Cheapseat Baseball", "Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show", "Guilt Free Features", "Next Level Nerd Movie Podcast" and "I Saw That Years Ago"" and more!

    Episodes (10)

    Episode 75 -- The Bad News Bears

    Episode 75 -- The Bad News Bears

    Welcome to episode 75, where we finally get to Rickey Henderson... just kidding, we're covering the 1976 classic The Bad News Bears, not to ever be mistaken with the 2000's era Billy Bob Thornton-era cluster****.  Walter Matthau pulls together a scrappy group of child rejects to SoCal Little League greatness.  We admire the hardcore 70's nature of the movie, the wide variety of cheap beer, and are touched by the fact that it's an actual movie with an actual plot.  Enjoy it with us!

    America's Favorite Dad, Actor Paul Dooley

    America's Favorite Dad, Actor Paul Dooley

    Beloved actor Paul Dooley dressed up as a clown and juggled his way out of a hardscrabble rural West Virginia childhood and onto the Broadway stage opposite Walter Matthau, and later played “Wimpy” in Robert Altman’s classic film, Popeye.  On the way, he performed comedy in New York’s Greenwich Village Vanguard and watched Lenny Bruce get his start. He sat in on several Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows and later filmed his own memorable comedy stunts on Candid Camera. Paul was an early member of The Second City group and worked with many legends from Buster Keaton to Art Carney.

    While known by millions as America’s most lovable screen dad, Paul was having his own real dad issues from his own father to his kids.

    Guilt Free Features Ep. #6: Meg Ryan Day!

    Guilt Free Features Ep. #6: Meg Ryan Day!

    Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, perhaps no other Hollywood actress was more synonymous with romantic comedies than Meg Ryan. In this episode, Karen and Janet welcome the show’s first guest of the season, the inimitable Justin Donham— actor, stage manager, voiceover artist, and yoga instructor extraordinaire— to discuss two of Ryan’s less critically acclaimed yet well-liked films, I.Q. and Addicted to Love.

    The Bad News Bears Retrospective / Will McKinley

    The Bad News Bears Retrospective / Will McKinley

    An episode that began as an aside to the Rocky episodes grew into a lengthy conversation about how The Bad News Bears demands relevancy in 2018, which grew into an even longer conversation about the Bad News Bears sequels, pre-ordained judgment of said sequels, and the mistreatment of classic cinema in a modern era that prefers to scrub clean the unfortunate realities of prior generations. 

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    CREDITS:

    Talking Heads:

    James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble) - Played baseball into college when his stubborn streak (and a bad elbow) derailed his plans. A kid on his little league team dug himself a hole in right field and sang Christmas carols during the game. 

    Will McKinley (@willmckinley) - writer for Sony’s getTV network and a self-proclaimed Old Movie Weirdo. willmckinley.com

     

    Clips Contained in this Podcast:

    Georges Bizet – Carmen 

    The Bad News Bears (1976) Trailer 

    The Bad News Bears (2005) Trailer 

    The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) Trailer

    The Bad News Bears Go To Japan (1978) Trailer

    Walter Matthau interview on Parkinson One to One

    Selected clips from the The Bad News Bears (1976)

    Selected clip from Fletch (1985)

    Selected clip from The Couch Trip (1988)

     

    Recorded in November 2017 and May 2018. Copyrights are owned by the artists and their labels. Negative dollars are made from this podcast.

     

    DMTAM 28: Waffle House Boys pt. 2

    DMTAM 28: Waffle House Boys pt. 2
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    We bring you the conclusion of my conversation with Mr. Duffy and Drew. We talk about a little bit of everything. Drew gives us background on his life in NC, Mr. Duffy shares stories of fatherhood and baseball. Just a few guys catching up and enjoying some Waffle House. Thanks to Ella Fitzgerald and Brian "Guitar Guy" Haner for the music. Thanks to Jim Gaffigan for the comedic stylings.

    141: Last of the Independents

    141: Last of the Independents

    Movie Meltdown - Episode 141

    Join us this week as we bring you our geek activities and this week's Sofa Theater feature: Charley Varrick. An interesting and under-seen movie directed by Don Siegel that features... a bank robbery, Joe Don Baker, an airplane vs. car chase scene, Joe Don Baker, explosions, Joe Don Baker, great supporting characters, Joe Don Baker, and a slightly disturbing James Bond-like sex scene featuring Walter Matthau?? WTF indeed. Plus we talk to the film's co-star Andrew Robinson about his thoughts on the movie!

    And somewhere before the serious examination of misogyny in film, we discuss…Hatchet, Il Posto, Conan the Destroyer, Harry Dean Stanton, an inspiring educational movie, Olivia D'abo, Norman Fell, Playboy…the wickedest magazine of all, the generations of the suburbs, Wes Craven, Ice Cube’s mom, Rory Gallagher, Super, a little person giving out Halloween candy, keeping you boss’s picture on your nightstand, the first time I saw a full-grown naked woman, Movie Meltdown as therapy, Babysitters Beware, Adam Green, a fake foreign language, a bald girl, Escape from New York, being kind of loose if you’ve got a round bed. The Bicycle Thief, a killa frog, Wilt Chamberlain, the Playboy forums scene, I don’t believe in the Bell Witch, joining with a women, Roper vs. Furley, Music of the Heart, Ernest Borgnine, Fargo, insecure men, James Gunn, Three Stooges German, I’ve got nothing against pictures of naked women, a big build-up to a great letdown, the Playboy’s man’s man fantasy, Reservoir Dogs meets No Country for Old Men and why do women wear thongs?

    Spoiler Alert: Full spoilers revealed for Charley Varrick, so go watch the movie now!!

    “What have I been missing and how much do I not know…about what I’ve not seen?”

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