This week, Clarence tests Joey and Megan’s knowledge of film trivia and more with his new Oscar quiz! Plus, we cover a few random topics in a light news week.
Today, we’re kicking back, putting our feet up, and taking it easy. We’re talking about a few random topics in both TV and film worlds. Literally the day after Glenn Close lost her 7th Oscar bid, the film version of Sunset Boulevard was announced to start filming in October. Will 8 be the magic number? Then, somehow we missed the news that the creative team behind The Greatest Showman is exploring a sequel. What the heck will that look like? Then on the TV front, Megan tells us about the controversial Michael Jackson HBO documentary Leaving Neverland. Plus more!
Then, Clarence unleashes his latest quiz on Joey and Megan. This potentially-too-challenging quiz jumps off from last week’s 91st Annual Academy Awards.
We close our podcast, as always, with the Flash Forward to the media we’re most anticipating in the upcoming week.
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I can’t wait to listen to this. I didn’t do as well with my Oscar predictions this year (a paltry 17) but hope for better next year. I even read Woman in the Window in preparation for Amy Adams’ movie with Julianne Moore and Gary Oldman. I love it but shouldn’t have read to the end because then I spoiled the movie for myself. Hope you guys are well. Sorry I haven’t commented as much; I am in the thick of the school year with my standardized test one month away. Sigh.
Whenever I can, I follow a suggestion I really like – – watch the movie before reading the book. Novels are invariably better than the movies, so this way you can judge the movie on its own merits.
I know that you’re right, but I lack the self-control. As soon as one Oscar season is over, I want to immerse myself in another one, and often the only way to do that is read a novel that an upcoming Oscar film is based on. For example, I read “Woman in the Window” this year and “If Beale Street Could Talk,” The Revenant,” “Brooklyn,” and “War Machine” among others because they were listed in early Oscar predictions. I’m weird. Haha. One thing I wish I had done was stop reading “Woman in the Window” slightly before the end so that I missed spoiling the movie. I didn’t tell my husband how it ended so at least he could enjoy being surprised. It’s great that he supports my weird love of Oscars, even going to movies that he’s not really interested in, to say the least, and listening to the Oscar buzz almost 12 months a year. Today I even told him that another movie website has a directors tournament based on March Madness and asked him who he thought the number one seeds were.
Julie (and anyone else who’s interested!):
Let’s make a list of the most intriguing adaptations due to premiere this year.
We’ll see about doing a series of posts where an informal “Awards Daily Readers Circle” can get together and talk about the source material for upcoming movies.
We’ve planned to do this before but it never got off the ground. Maybe we’ve been waiting for someone like Julie to motivate us.
I’ll seed this proposal with 5 or 6 of the most obvious titles:
The Irishman (I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (Hulu series)
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Little Women
YAY! This is so cool. I would be more than happy to reread and discuss I Heard You Paint Houses or Woman in the Window… or maybe give Where’d You Go, Bernadette another shot. I started reading but gave up. This is neat that my post could be a catalyst for this. I am such an inspirational figure. 🙂
I loved Where’d You Go, Bernadette. You should give it another shot.
Maybe I will read it over spring break (March 23-31). We only have 40-some days in our school year. I’ve enjoyed it, but still—YAY!
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