286 – Something for Everyone (with Chris Schleicher!) (70s Spectacular – 1970)

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

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🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

It’s time to kick off our May miniseries – the This Had Oscar Buzz: 70s Spectacular! For 1970, television writer Chris Schleicher joins us for a forgotten tale of wealth, deception, and Bavarian castles. The directorial debut of stage legend Hal Prince (and with a screenplay by his frequent collaborator Hugh Wheeler, from the novel The Cook by Harry Kressing), Something for Everyone starred a pre-Cabaret Michael York as a young man who weasel’s his way into the good graces of a wealthy family in order to claim their family castle. As the family matriarch, Angela Lansbury earned a Golden Globe nomination that didn’t translate to Oscar.

This episode, we talk about the 1970 Oscar year dominated by controversy surrounding George C. Scott’s rejection of Oscar pomp and circumstance and this film’s very obvious similarities to Saltburn. We also talk about Lansbury’s Oscar and Tony run preceding the film, Michael York as canonical cinematic bisexual, and Prince’s directorial failure adapting A Little Night Music.

Topics also include “It Goes Like It Goes,” the supporting actresses of Five Easy Pieces, and our disdain for Love Story.

Follow Us on Twitter!@Had_Oscar_BuzzJoe: @joereidChris: @chrisvfeilChris Schleicher: @cschleichsrun

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0:00.0	The right house.
0:03.0	I didn't get nominated.
0:15.0	Mill and Hack.
0:17.0	And we talked to Mill and Hack and friends. I'm from Canada water.
0:25.0	I'm from Canada water. Dick Poopop.
0:35.0	Poop. Such display my dear one hopes you are not overextending yourself.
0:48.0	Ah silly old bitch.
0:59.0	Compared to them, the Macbeth's were just plain folks.
1:05.0	And the Borges were a nice Italian family.
1:09.3	Angela Lansbury, Michael York. Something for everyone.
1:14.0	everyone.
1:15.0	Hello and welcome to the This Head Oscar Buzz podcast, the only podcast that will make you
1:18.3	sing karaoke even though your throat shouldn't.
1:21.2	Every week on this head Oscar Buzz, we'll be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had lofty Academy Award aspirations, but for some reason another it all went wrong. The Oscar hopes died and we are here to perform the autopsy and this May all month we are diving into the
1:35.2	Oscar Buzz of the 1970s so we are kicking that off today and get ready because we've got a good one.
1:45.0	We've got a busy month ahead.
1:46.0	We got a doozy to start with.
1:48.0	So I'm your host Joe Reed.
1:50.0	I'm here as always with my silly old bitch of a friend Chris file hello Chris so glad my
1:54.8	introductory joke had nothing to do with Nazi paraphernalia. Yeah you're clear
2:01.8	you're clear on that one.
2:04.7	Without further ado, because I get very nervous when we keep the guests not talking.
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