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#619 - A Celebration of Specialness (Patreon)

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2025-04-30 14:57:31
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In the delightful TRUE STORIES (1986), David Byrne offered a whimsical view of the late Reagan era through the lens of a fictional Texas town. We consider the politics - or lack thereof - of Byrne's Warholian gaze on America and Her Problems. PLUS: Checking in Thomas Friedman

"David Byrne on True Stories" by Kory Grow - https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/david-byrne-true-stories-interview-754919/

"David Byrne’s History Of Avoiding Unions Dates Back To The 1980s" by Daniel Marans - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/david-byrne-history-of-union-avoidance_n_647e6c0fe4b0047ed782e1ad

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Michael Mahony

Will, I'm not sure how I feel about you recycling material from Important Cinema Club, but the bit is a lot better when your co-host can be quiet for thirty seconds and let you finish it.

Kainien Morel

An episode that got me thinking a great deal without seeing the film in question; Luke's passionate opening rant about that unique...genre?....of "enthusiast slop" of yesteryear, the dorm poster rendezvous of Tony Soprano, Tony Montana and Al Capone, etc., reminded me of Will (I believe?) noting some of the beautiful but melancholy sweeping shots in Ozu's RECORD OF A TENEMENT GENTLEMEN, his appreciation of their emptiness, and dry lament "Well, they won't be empty for long, will they?". Why melancholy? Well, maybe it has to do with the condition that Tokyo was a lot emptier in 1947 because most of the residential housing had been destroyed by Allied air campaigns and the city would stay "beautifully empty" until a substantial portion of it was rebuilt in the decades that followed. But won't someone think of the beautiful emptiness of rampant postwar housing shortages? Where's the appreciation for empty spaces where homes and shelter used to be? Just a thought. I might pass on TRUE STORIES (I'm not quite as big a fan of Talking Heads, though "Psycho Killer", of course, slaps), but on the subject of John Goodman, I'm surprise that no one in the comments has yet mentioned Danny McBride's THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES, where he shines as the patriarch of a hyper-successful Southern-oriented multinational televangelist empire, Eli Gemstone. It due to have its series finale next week and to borrow Luke's words, "grotesque, ugly, extremely funny"--be prepared to see more of Danny McBride and Walton Goggin's genitals than any average person could reasonably expect--but does it have good politics? I think it might, but I'm curious what you boys would have to say on it. Plus, John Goodman as a frisky evangelical widower? Can you pass on that? Anyway, another good episode. And a belated thank you for recommending RECORD OF A TENEMENT GENTLMEN a few weeks ago.

Robert Denby

There's really no reason to believe in anything, nothing's coming to save us, its done. Was going to listen to this episode but no thanks. No reason to.

Evan Hiltunen

Weekly world news still has some social media presence but it seems pretty lackluster in comparison to the difficult-to-satirize reality we now occupy. Still hitting the same beats as they were 30 years ago, back when the x files made sense as a cultural touchstone too (x files mostly holds up tho)