287 – Harold and Maude (with Katie Walsh) (70s Spectacular – 1971)

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

The 70s Spectacular continues with critic and podcaster Katie Walsh joining us to discuss 1971 and Hal Ashby. After making his directorial debut with The Landlord after a career as an editor (including an Oscar win for In the Heat of the Night), Ashby returned to the director’s chair for what might be the film that became his signature. Harold and Maude cast recent comedy breakthrough Bud Cort as a death-obsessed, disaffected youth who falls for a free spirit who just so happens to be 60 years older, played by recent Oscar winner Ruth Gordon.

This episode, we talk about Ashby’s prolific career in the 1970s, where Harold and Maude would be his only film without Oscar nominations. We also talk about Gordon’s three screenwriting Oscar nominations with her partner, Vivian Pickles’ underpraised performance as Harold’s mother, and the musical contributions of Cat Stevens.

Topics also include T-Mobile ads, the secret hotness of Norma Rae, and Charlie Chaplin’s honorary Oscar win.

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0:00.0	Oh, wrong house.
0:02.0	wrong.
0:03.0	The right house.
0:05.0	Oh, wrong house.
0:07.0	Oh, wrong house.
0:12.0	No, the right house. I didn't get nominated.
0:15.0	Mill and Heck and print. I'm from Canada water.
0:25.0	I'm from Canada water. Dick Poopopoeop.
0:37.0	All around us living thing? What sense in borders and nations and patriotism?
0:48.5	I am above morality. Take a chance,, hurt even for play as well as you.
0:57.0	Hmm. I haven't lived.
1:01.0	I've died a few times.
1:05.0	Oh Harold, everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves.
1:10.0	Can't let the world judge you too much.
1:13.0	Hello and welcome to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast, The Only Podcast,
1:17.0	Literally playing a game of Fuck Mary Kill, so that we can take over a Bavarian castle.
1:22.0	Every week on this had Oscar Buzz,
1:23.7	we'll be talking about a different movie
1:25.2	that once upon a time had a lofty Academy Award aspirations,
1:29.1	but for some reason or another, it all went wrong.
1:32.4	The Oscar hopes died and were here to perform the autopsy
1:35.6	and in the month of May we'll be celebrating the Oscar era that was the 1970s.
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