288 – Up the Sandbox (with Jordan Hoffman) (70s Spectacular – 1972)

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

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🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

The 70s Spectacular is dancing as fast as it can! And we’re spinning right into 1972 with one of the decade’s biggest stars, the one and only Barbra Streisand, and joining us is one of her superfans, writer Jordan Hoffman. This year saw the first films of First Artists, a production company that intended to give more power to stars to create their passion projects the studios wouldn’t touch. Streisand’s first effort with the company was Up the Sandbox, a timely satire that cast the legend as a housewife faced with a third pregnancy, who retreats into her wild and often politically charged fantasies. Indifference from audiences and the industry made this one of Streisand’s rare flops.

This episode, we talk about our love for Barbra and this legendary Oscar year that pit Cabaret against The Godfather. We also talk about the film’s bizarre fantasy sequences, how it exists as a product of a specific moment in time, and cinematographer Gordon Willis’ shockingly slim Oscar history.

Topics also include Paul Zindel books, Harry And Walter Go To New York, and Shelley Winters in The Poseidon Adventure.

Follow Us on Twitter!@Had_Oscar_BuzzJoe: @joereidChris: @chrisvfeilJordan: @jhoffman

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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	Mill and Hack and Chris. I'm from Canada water.
0:25.0	I'm from Canada water. Dick Pooh,
0:35.0	Pooh! I cook I saw, I saw, I squeezey, I spent hours waiting in line for sale on baby sandwich
0:46.0	just to save a few pennies.
0:47.4	I have one kid who likes a cicillion pizza, a husband who likes me Apollo pizza, one who likes
0:50.7	Western all the skills, one who hates raisins, and one who's afraid of the wind.
0:54.4	I'm an errand boy, a coke, a dishwasher, a toilet scrubber, a diaper changer, a cockroach gotcha,
0:59.4	and you said to be hopping if I did more.
1:01.2	I think you're crazy.
1:02.4	And you want to hear something even more
1:03.4	crazy?
1:04.4	I am happy.
1:05.4	Hello and welcome to the This Head Oscar Buzz podcast, the only podcast that thinks the
1:09.7	sexual revolution certainly has gone too far. Every week on this head Oscar Buzz,
1:14.0	we'll be talking about a different movie that once upon the time had lofty Academy Award
1:18.0	aspirations, but for some reason or another it all went wrong.
1:20.0	The Oscar Hopes died, and we are usually here to perform the autopsy of a more modern movie.
1:25.2	But this May all month we are diving into the Oscar Buzz of the 1970s.
1:30.4	It is our This had Oscar Buzz 70 spectacular our May mini series. I'm your host Joe Reed. I'm here as always with my kitchen fairy Chris file. Hello Chris
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