290 – The Front Page (with Roxana Hadadi) (70s Spectacular – 1974)

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

1974 brings us to one of the final films of Billy Wilder, which also reunited a screen duo beloved by both Oscar and audiences, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Vulture writer Roxana Hadadi is back to the show to talk about The Front Page, an oft-adapted farce about newspapermen getting wrapped up in the case of an escaped convict. Most famously retold in a gender swapped version in His Girl Friday, this version stumbles to deliver the best of this director-star trio and missed Oscar’s good graces despite multiple nominations in the decade for Mathau and Lemmon, including Lemmon’s win the previous year.

This episode, we talk about the victory lap made by Francis Ford Coppola with The Godfather Part II and The Conversation both earning Oscar love. We also talk about the film’s apoliticism was atypical of the moment, our love for Ingrid Bergman’s Supporting Actress speech, and the hubbub over the acceptance speech for Best Documentary Feature Hearts and Minds.

Topics also include disaster movies becoming the splashy Hollywood product, The Godfather Part II Supporting Actor nominations, and Anderson Cooper talking about his mom hooking up with Marlon Brando.

Follow Us on Twitter!@Had_Oscar_BuzzJoe: @joereidChris: @chrisvfeilRoxana: @roxana_hadadi

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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 Poohopoeop.
0:37.0	Flash, exclusive. Here's front page news. Jack Lemon and Walter Mathow in the
0:46.0	Comedy School of the Year. The front page. Do I have to do everything myself, get the
0:50.8	story, write the story? Listen, Sackhead, I could blow a better story out of my nose than you can write
0:56.7	Al Williams escaped
0:59.4	it's the jailbreaking your dreams
1:01.8	okay let's have it.
1:03.0	Butten up your overcoat when the wind is free.
1:09.0	Take good.
1:10.0	Carry yourself.
1:11.0	You belong.
1:12.0	Hello and welcome to the This Had Oscar Bus podcast The Only Podcast associating our drama with red coats.
1:18.0	Every week on This Had Oscar Buzz will be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had lofty Academy Award
1:23.7	aspirations, but for some reason or another it all went wrong. The Oscar hopes died and we're here to
1:29.8	perform the autopsy and in the month of May we're celebrating the Oscar era that was the 1970s.
1:36.7	I'm your host Chris File and I'm here as always with the little man in my credenza, Joe Reed.
1:42.3	Chris, you're always comparing me to Austin Penel. man in my credenza, Joe Reed.
1:43.0	Chris, you're always comparing me to Austin Pendleton in some way or another.
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